Are Your Friends Real? 10 Ways To Thwart Facebook Fakers

FEBRUARY 2013: Do you know how delicious your Facebook profile is to cyber crooks hungry for personal information? It’s like an all-you-can-eat data buffet — that’s free!  You tell your Facebook friends where you live and work, which school you went to, who your friends are, where you sunbathed on your last vacation, your pets’ …

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Is That Shortened URL Legit? Here’s How To Find Out

FEBRUARY 2013: How can you tell if a shortened URL link will send you someplace scary? Expand before you leap!  Shortened URLs are redirects from original web pages. If a web page has a long or confusing address, you can assign it a shorted URL using a shortening service like Bitly.com or goo.gl (Google’s URL …

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3 Ways Technology Breaks Make You MORE Productive, Not Less

FEBRUARY 2013: Nobody likes working with computers and devices more than us frogs, but if you want to keep leaping along at an awesome pace, you need to take a break from technology sometimes. Your brain will thank you, your sense of accomplishment will thank you and, yes, your boss will thank you, too. Productivity …

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3 Steps To Protect Yourself From Malicious QR Codes

JANUARY 2013: From ads to business cards to billboards, QR Codes — short for Quick Response Codes — are those little black-and-white designs you’ve seen popping up all over our communal pond. They’re 2D barcodes and, once decoded by a smartphone app called a QR Reader, they lead you someplace like a webpage or a …

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Gartner’s Predictions For Business IT Users: 11 Issues for 2013

JANUARY 2013: If you’re like most IT-savvy business pros, when Gartner predicts something big, you hop to attention. Gartner is considered the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company — it has 1,280 research analysts and 12,000 clients internationally, so it’s pretty good at making informed guesses about IT trends. In this batch of …

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Look, No Hands! How To Search Google By Voice

JANUARY 2013: Did you know you can search Google without typing in what you’re looking for? Just speak your search queries, whichever device you happen to be using — smartphone, tablet, desktop or laptop. It’s frogtastically fast and convenient … and it could be the most useful tool for bad spellers since spell check. Either download the app for your smartphone or follow these …

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5 Handy Apps To Help You Manage The Holidays

DECEMBER 2012: Apps make almost everything easier and more convenient….so why not your holiday tasks, too? Here are five of our favorite apps to help you leap over the chaos and into the really fun part of the holidays:   1) Find the cheapest price: ShopSavvy 6 (Free. Android, iPhone/iPad, Windows.) You found it! The …

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An Extraordinary Honor

Claire Yum Arnold, CEO

Claire Lewis (Yum) Arnold

Co-Founder and Executive Chair

Buzz around the Pond

Junior Achievement (JA) of Georgia is transforming students’ futures through financial literacy, career readiness, and entrepreneurship. On February 21st, JA will honor outstanding leaders who embody that mission.

We’re thrilled that Leapfrog’s co‑founder and Executive Chair, Yum Arnold, will be inducted as a laureate into the JA Atlanta Business Hall of Fame. We’re proud to celebrate her impact and JA’s incredible work across Georgia!