Showing posts with label Security and Permissions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Security and Permissions. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Setting up a new Administrator for your blog

This article shows you how to set up someone else (ie another Google account) as an administrator for your blog.

What is a blog administrator 

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Monday, November 25, 2013

Letting other people write in your blog

This article describes the ways that you can allow other people to write and publish on your blog.  It looks at and the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.

Comments vs blog-posts, the case for team-blogs


There are two foremost ways to facilitate content can be plunk into your blog: Explanation and posts.

Blogger is designed, around the goal to facilitate preliminary discussions around modern topics are happening by you, and plunk into posts.  

Saturday, October 5, 2013

rule for identifying spam links in phishing emails



This article is about email phishing, and spam-links in emails: how you can recognize them and what to do about them.

Understanding Spam vs Phishing

Most frequent know could you repeat that? Regular spam is. Phishing is a more sophisticated type of spam, which combines in rank so as to the spammer knows (or guesses) with traditional spam techniques. Often phishing emails are addressed unequivocally to you, and offer a "product" or "service" so as to you might persuasively care for. For instance, they might offer to organize a security difficult with your on-line banking (just as soon as you allow finished to their website and prearranged them your real on-line banking details).

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

What happens to your blog if your Google account becomes inactive?

This article describes Google's Inactive Account Manager, a new tool that gives you control over what happens to your Google account if you don't log on to it for a period of time.



Cute picture:   Gone Fishing or Gone for Good?
Ages ago, I read a thought-provoking article on ProBlogger about making a "blogging will". His main aim was to ensure that his family could access his business assets (ie his blogs etc) if something untoward happened to him.

Monday, September 16, 2013

How to keep your Blogger password safe

This QuickTip introduces a useful post about password management from Google.



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Giving computer or password-management advice to people who don't have lot of expereince with IT or online services has always been challenging: there is a lot of background information that needs to be understood before it all starts to make sense. 

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Giving another Google account control over your blog

This article is about changing the ownership of your Blogger blog.   As well as looking at how to make the changes inside Blogger, it also looks at some other issues you may need to think about (eg comment moderation, items outside Blogger, advertising).


Blogs and Google Accounts

Each blog is "owned" by at least one Google account.   This administrator account can do anything in the blog:  write posts, set up new authors, change the template, add new formatting rules, delete posts - or the entire blog, moderate comments, etc etc etc.