eBower Blog

HR’s Two-Way Street

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Hiring people is hard, perhaps one of the most difficult things a company can do. But if you have high expectations of your candidates, you need to understand that they will have high expectations of your company. If you want results from your metrics, start promising benefits in return.

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HubSpot Stealth Form Capture

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One of HubSpot’s strengths is that you can use HubSpot forms to gather data. It will do things like track where a user came from, you can use it to track the status of various comments and requests that come through, and you can use it to push data from your application into HubSpot for processing. But this isn’t as easy as you’d think when the data isn’t submitted through an ordinary form or has potentially sensitive information.

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Intro to Email Signing

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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol harkens from another era, with all of the security acumen 1980 could muster. It’s a fundamentally broken protocol but it’s nearly impossible to wholesale replace, so we keep adding bandages to it in hopes we can fix an initially bad assumption.

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Osano Free Tier

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Privacy and cookie consent are all the rage as lawyers pretend to have an understanding of how the Internet works and try to write laws about it using ridiculous terms like “right to be forgotten” no matter how technically infeasible they are. Luckily, companies like Osano can help you navigate the changing world.

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Pendo Free

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Pendo is a service that integrates into a web application to gather data about how your product is being used. It’s vital to product teams to figure out who’s returning, who’s leaving, and what features are the most sticky.

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HubSpot’s Free Tier

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HubSpot is a really nice marketing tool that has grown into functional sales and support roles, but their free tier is somewhat crippled for real-world use

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Slack’s Free Tier

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Slack is how businesses talk to each other, learning how it works is a great skill to acquire.

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Google Workspace

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Not free, but a cheap way to learn the fundamentals of administering an organization.

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Cockroach Labs Database

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A no-hassle database solution with a generous free tier.

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CloudFlare’s Free Service

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An overview of CloudFlare’s free service and how you can use it to learn how CloudFlare operates.

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Raspberry Pi Chromecast Remote

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The original Chromecast did not allow pausing without digging out the original phone that initiated the cast, this project has a goal of enabling a hardware pushbutton to play/pause the content being streamed by the Chromecast.

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