Recently I watched a TED talk by Lorrie Faith Cranor entitled “What’s wrong with your pa$$w0rd?”(see below). In it, she discusses her research, based on studying 1,000’s of real passwords. While her TED talk doesn’t directly relate to WordPress, it should make you pause and reassess your password for WordPress. Brute Force Attacks A Brute...Continue reading
In the land of social media, Facebook is the Goliath. As of March 2014, it had more than 1.28 billion monthly active users (up from 1.15 billion last fall). This is head and shoulders above sites like Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, LinkedIn, and the rest. So What’s A Business To Do? Before we get into specific...
You’ve finally realized that you need a website for your business, non-profit, or personal use. The question now becomes, what do I do and how do I do it. We’ve all been using the web long enough to know what makes a good web site. That list of criteria is probably subconscious. The list here...Continue reading
Recently I was confronted with the question of whether a small local business needs a website. They were going to just set up a FaceBook page and maybe a Twitter account. They wanted to know why they should spend $100’s or $1000’s on a website when they could set up these social media sites for...Continue reading
Why Your Website Should Be Just As Convincing As Your Elevator Pitch Most successful business people can give you their elevator pitch without much thought. It’s practiced and polished. It is also concise, between 30 and 60 seconds. How’s yours? When you look at your elevator pitch, it should have these four key elements. 1....Continue reading