Outside the Box – Perspectives, News, & Notions

Answering whether you should hire internal web or information technology professionals or hire external or consulting firms.

Why should everyone be taking a strong cybersecurity stance? With the ever growing technology, people don’t see something physical they tend to forget that it needs to be secured. When you walk into a bank, you can physically see the security that is protecting your assets. With IT, people have a tendency to forget about their server that might be

Battle of the Chili Puns Switchbox celebrated our 100th Annual Chili Cook Off in October! We were able to gather some of our remote employees to come in for a couple of days and get our Columbus area team together to battle it out for the best chili! And what does the team love more than good food, competing against

How to make your business more efficient and creating systems within to save time and money.

How to make your business smarter and more efficient “The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” Bill Gates As you read in our first in the series of Business Automation blog

How to make your business smarter and more efficient “The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” Bill Gates What exactly is business automation? Business automation is taking tasks within your business

HR & Cyber Security, Basics You Should Know As a department in your company, Human Resources has a lot of responsibilities, not to mention access to confidential information for your employees. This makes it all the more important to make sure that you are taking the right precautions to protect you and your employees’ information. Here are just a few

The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium came to us looking to develop a website dedicated to blogging that would showcase all four of their zoo properties, including The Wilds, Zoombezi Bay, and Safari Golf Club. Aptly named The Watering Hole, the blog website needed one centralized website to communicate about events, news, and provide educational content to their visitors, but with each zoo

JSON has been around for many years but we still get lots of questions about it.  This is a brief introduction.

If you have ever struggled with building a sitemap to present to a client or your marketing team there are two great tools that we use fairly frequently.  The first is Slickplan.com which is a great sitemap building tool.  It allows you to quickly create a hierarchical list view of pages.  It also provides extra features such as adding comments, color coding, creating versions and many more features.

Software development is often overlooks as an exciting career.  We are constantly amazed at how many developers get stuck in the same project for years on end and hardly ever have any variety in their day to day experience.  We’d like to share what one of our staff members did in a single week.