From Firesheep comes FireShepherd and a Facebook Bonus

January 30, 2011

I wrote a blog post last week about the dangers of a new Firefox browser extension called Firesheep.  My good buddy Lee (aka @JustaSunGod on Twitter) immediately brought to my attention a program that was created to render Firesheep unusable by flooding the local Wi-Fi network with packets designed to turn off Firesheep.  The program [...]

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Tuesday Tech Tips

January 24, 2011

Lots going on behind the scenes at InfoBox these days but I didn’t want to go too long between Tech Tips posts.  Let’s jump right in, shall we? Not an Apple Fanboy/Fangirl/Fandog/Fanperson?  Android not your cup of tea?  Still have a tech crush on RIM but dying to get your hands on one of them [...]

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Firesheep: You Need To Read This

January 23, 2011

Pay attention my fellow readers.  I know many of you travel or spend time in coffee shops and access free Wi-Fi hotspots but there is a danger lurking out there.   Developer Eric Butler has created a Firefox extension called Firesheep. This free Firefox extension collects cookies that have been broadcast over an unprotected Wi-Fi network [...]

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From the Archives-How to Steal Time for Social Media

December 28, 2010

I’m tied up for a week or so but didn’t want you all to think I forgot all about this wealth of information I call the InfoBox Blog.  So…I rooted around in the archives and found this lovely gem from earlier this year.  I checked and you know all the information is still totally accurate, [...]

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Special Thursday Tech Tips: Art Tech Tips

December 9, 2010

Today’s Tech Tips is a another guest post from Travis Phillips.  His last post was a hit and I guess he has the Tech Tips blog post bug.  Who am I to say no to a fab guest post. Here’s a Tuesday (scratch that … Thursday) Tech Tips, or, er … Art Tips submission for [...]

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Tuesday Tech Tips-BlackBerry Edition

November 30, 2010

My partner in HR Technology crime, Steve Boese, harassed nicely asked me recently to do an all BlackBerry Tech Tips. I took pity on him and his iPhone wanna-be BlackBerry Storm and so here we are.  I scoured high and low for some awesome BlackBerry Tech Tips. Okay okay I scoured the CrackBerry.com and TUAW.com [...]

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Tuesday Tech Tips

November 15, 2010

My how time flies.  I’ve been locked up inside the home office working 24×7 on a project instead of providing you with Tuesday Tech Tips.  Oh well.  As the song says:  I never promised you a rose garden. Once again the guilt has won out and I found some great new tips for you. I [...]

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Tuesday Tech Tips

October 18, 2010

Hello my loyal Tech Tips readers.  I know it’s been a few weeks since the last Tech Tips post but that darn day job keeps getting in the way. Did you miss the Tech Tips? Wait, don’t answer that. My fragile blogger persona doesn’t want to hear the truth.  Well enough about my issues, let’s [...]

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HR Technology Conference 2010 – Still about the Tweeps

October 4, 2010

Last year at this time, I was eagerly preparing for the 2009 HR Technology conference as an attendee.  I was excited to finally meet many of the people I had been conversing with on Twitter.  In fact my first blog post after the conference was about the tweeps instead of about the conference.  Boy did [...]

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Diversity in Recruiting

September 15, 2010

I was following the tweets from the Social Recruiting Summit when I came across this profound tweet from @ewmonster: Such amazing insight in less that 140 characters that I felt compelled to share it with you all. Oh and if you want to follow all the tweets from the Social Recruiting Summit you can follow [...]

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