Digital Business Consultant & Wordpress Consultant
Late last week Facebook was attacked – this exposed nearly 50 million user accounts.
Make your account more secure now.
You should change your password as a good security measure anyway, but also set up two-factor authentication.
Google Authenticator works on Android and iPhones.
It is also essential to add a backup – just follow the prompts after two-factor authentication is turned on.
Passwords are an ongoing nightmare for most people: we have so many, and the paradox is – if you can remember them they are not secure enough, and if they are secure enough you can’t remember them!
Do you:
Password managers to the rescue!
With a password manager you remember ONE password (or pass-phrase), then let the password manager generate new random 40 or so character passwords for you.
They are extremely easy to setup and use.
I use, as my main pass-phrase, a few made-up words from my childhood. It’s over 20 characters but very easy for me to remember.
I use Roboform (affiliate link) for various reasons. It is very similar to most of the others, I just like it best.
One of my favourite features is that it can fill in most forms with one click – this is an amazing time-saver.
Making video calls and sharing screens is extremely handy. Luckily there are plenty of apps that can do that for you.
The original software was Skype, but that has been overtaken by other better software.
The best known is Zoom:
My favourite for small groups and ease of use is Appear.in
If you already use Slack, it has great video and screen-sharing capabilities. I talk about slack here
Another product in this area is UseLoom. This is one of my all time favourites.
Basically with this extension in your Chrome browser, you can make a screen-sharing video and send it to someone quicker than you can type the same information.
I use it often if I have a problem with a program and am having trouble convincing the tech person that my problems exists!
So I just record with Loom exactly what my issue is, then send the loom video to them.
I also use it for short training videos, for example, in a WordPress website there are some tasks you only do every couple of months, and, of course, everyone forgets after that amount of time. So I do a quick personalised loom video of that exact task; then it’s there for my client to access each time they need to do this task.
Wellness Wanderers was great fun to build, but challenging to design – the clients (Katie Callaghan and Tony Annesley) are healers commencing on a journey around Australia (and beyond!).
They had so many plans and ideas that I found it difficult to get them focused and I was unsure of the best way to help them prioritise all their amazing ideas.
They also have many different offerings in their business (travel, gardening, cooking, food and several modalities of alternative healing), so the challenge was to have the website as multi-faceted as Tony and Katie are.
In cases like this, I work closely with the excellent Business Growth Coach, Val Cozens
After a few sessions with Val, they came back to me much more focused and totally clear on their goals, which made it much easier for Katie, Tony and I to visualise the website.
We went through numerous iterations before they and I were satisfied with the website.
Like a lot of business owners, they weren’t particularly internet-literate, so part of the journey included training in, not only the use of WordPress website administration but also in Evernote, LastPass, Trello and Google Docs.
We have included a photo gallery which is fed directly from their Instagram account.
This means they just take a photo and text on Instagram, and … magically the photo appears on their website.
