Where Brian Rouley (mousehelp(at)rouzell.com) Says...
Here’s a short and sweet – Twitter tweet – on how to create a moment on Twitter.
For everyone who wants to make a Moment – starting today you can! Creators everywhere can now tell stories with Tweets. pic.twitter.com/ZJtNBoTPWf
— Twitter (@Twitter) September 28, 2016
Let’s see how this goes. I’ve used ITTT for sharing, let’s see how JetPack does it.
This post should show up on Fb, Tw, and Google+ – have a look.
That may sound funny, but sometimes you have to say it that way. If you just say networking, it could mean at least a few other things to technical people, or social media enthusiasts, or to people who don’t meet new people face-to-face. English has so many ambiguities!
What I’m talking about, more specifically, is the networking you do where you show up to meetings that are prearranged and attended by basically the same group of people every time. For me, this is a combination of groups. Sunrise Marketing on Tuesday, Desert Networking Professionals on Wednesday, Toastmasters Thursday, and I’m invited to another networking group on Friday mornings. These are all morning meetings. And, that’s a lot of time to commit to being with people on a regular basis. Taken in total, it has the potential to consume around six to ten hours per week of what might otherwise be productive time.
While I could go on about the number of clients, and the new business I’ve been able to find through this method, I would rather focus on the wonderful personal and professional connections I’ve made. In the end, one drives the other. People who know me, like me, trust me – those who have met me via the “networking with people” approach, are far more likely to send referrals and people they know to me for the services I provide.
Original post: Published on: Jan 22, 2014
Updated April 9, 2017.
Image source: https://stixproject.github.io/documentation/idioms/maec-malware/
An article I posted on Facebook a few years back led me to Ars Technica, where I found this report. Where they are simultaneously lauding Microsoft’s Windows 10 and detailing how this bug works, they cite reports by McAfee and FireEye.
Quoting the article on McAfee:
We strongly suggest Office users take the following actions to protect or mitigate against this zero-day attack before Microsoft issues an official patch. We notified the Microsoft Security Response Center as soon as we found the suspicious samples, and we will continue to work with them to protect Office users.
- Do not open any Office files obtained from untrusted locations.
- According to our tests, this active attack cannot bypass the Office Protected View, so we suggest everyone ensure that Office Protected View is enabled.
Here is a link to the full article. Question for you techies, Will McAfee ever live down its reputation? Now that Intel owns this security software, is it legit?
And from the post on FireEye:
FireEye email and network products detect the malicious documents as: Malware.Binary.Rtf.
Attack Scenario
The attack involves a threat actor emailing a Microsoft Word document to a targeted user with an embedded OLE2link object. When the user opens the document, winword.exe issues a HTTP request to a remote server to retrieve a malicious .hta file, which appears as a fake RTF file. The Microsoft HTA application loads and executes the malicious script. In both observed documents the malicious script terminated the winword.exe process, downloaded additional payload(s), and loaded a decoy document for the user to see. The original winword.exe process is terminated in order to hide a user prompt generated by the OLE2link.
The vulnerability is bypassing most mitigations; however, as noted above, FireEye email and network products detect the malicious documents. Microsoft Office users are recommended to apply the patch as soon as it is available.
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Where does one begin with applying SEO techniques? Is SEO a noun, a verb, a person? I’ve heard the term used in so many ways!
What it is is an acronym, which stands for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Even that expansion does little to enhance one’s understanding. We are NOT optimizing search engines. We optimize the content on your site so the search engines can understand the value of your web pages and provide links to same for people searching for the topic of your pages. Does that help? You tell me.
OK, enough on that. Let’s move on. How I do SEO is quite simple. I look for key words and phrases (and images) on your pages, then build links to other pages based on those words and phrases. For example, if your site is all about, let’s say, pet care, you might have pages on training, grooming, feeding, or perhaps even pet-sitting or boarding pets. There are five potential targets for new links, and if you have a page that discusses each of those topics, links to those pages would be created for those words and phrases on the home page.
OK, new example: See the phrase above that says, “SEO is quite simple?” I’ve highlighted that phrase and I’ve linked it to another post on this site. When search engines send their spiders to crawl the web, they will find that link and add it to their list of pages that discuss that topic. If I do this same thing in enough places, eventually, my content should rise in the ranking on the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). Yes, I just did the same thing for SERPs. By the way, that “spiders” link above takes you to my original experiment on ranking mousehelp at the top of the SERPs.
Maybe you are wondering about how we factor Social Media into all of this? Well, this post is just one example. Now, I’ll go share a link to this post on Facebook (in two places), then it goes to Twitter and then…. This is a subject for another post, another day, perhaps.
Update: 2018/01/19 – It seems I’ll have to work on alignment of images to text on this page. I’m sure there’s a plugin that will help me to do that! In the meantime, sorry for the strange view…
Let’s just look at them, left to right, shall we? My Chrome browser has over 40 of these added to it, so I’m just going to discuss those I use most often. You can get extensions that do all kinds of cool things – a couple I haven’t covered here include the ability to record a webinar and another that allows you to capture all images from a website. Handy stuff to have available at the push of a button, would you agree?
That first one is Print Friendly & PDF. I use that to remove the noise from articles where I just want the text. It allows you to download a PDF file that satisfies a minimalist approach. As the name implies, it can also save you some ink or toner and page count on your printer.
Print Friendly & PDF
ColorZilla
Next is ColorZilla and that little eyedropper allows you to take a sample of a color from any webpage. It copies the hex code to your clipboard, so you can use it to color whatever it is you are working on, like backgrounds, fonts, etc. It’s extremely useful when you are trying to match color schemes to colors in images.
MightyText – click the image to see the web page. If you are like me, you may struggle a bit to get exactly the text you want into your little smartphone SMS window. With MightText, I’m using my PC to send text, images, website links, whatever…. It is, as the name suggests, one mighty little plugin!
MightText
HubSpot Sales email tracking
The best feature of this plugin from HubSpot is the instant notification you get when someone opens your email message. Now you know they are probably available and you can follow up with a phone call. Of course, some email platforms allow you to turn on notification, but there’s no guarantee you’ll receive that message. So far, this little tool has been very helpful by allowing me to track email messages sent to clients.
That little green circle with the arrow in it is Grammarly and I’m using the free version. It pops up a message as soon as you misspell anything. This is very handy for me, as I like to think I’m as clear as possible with every word of every sentence. It also checks your punctuation and syntax, so if I add a comma or don’t finish a question with a question mark, it questions the intent of my content!
Grammarly
Hint: It’s not automatic. Too bad Microsoft didn’t buy Yahoo! Way back when, in 2008….
For now, here’s what you’ll need to know to get it set up the right way in Outlook 2016.
Don’t even try to choose Auto setup…. Check that box at the bottom left and click, Next >
On the POP and IMAP screen, add your name and server details, as shown below. Copy and paste your email address, as it is also your User Name in line 6. Then, click “More Settings…” at the bottom.
On the Outgoing Server tab, check the box next to, My outgoing server….
On the Advanced tab, choose SSL from both drop-down menus and double-check the port numbers are as shown here.
Image source: https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo
If you have the time and motivation, you may be able to
avoid the cost of hiring an SEO consultant or agency.
Post good content, with appropriate links!
Something I mentioned in answer to a question about hacked websites and hacked Gmail this morning, while I thought it relatively new, has (now that I think about it….) been around for many years! By that, I mean decades. Way back when, before the Internet was known to so many people, we had really cool two-factor authentication services up and running at Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, in Sunnyvale, CA.
So, enough with the history, already….
Today, you can find many purveyors of this security feature. Below, I’ve included links to two articles on Google’s offering and two articles on Apple’s versions. Enjoy!
Another LifeHacker Article on TFA
Two-factor authentication for Apple ID
And, one more, from Apple….
Security How-To: Enable two-factor authentication on iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan
