Sinead's Blog

Hello everyone!👋 Welcome back to my eight & final blog.😆   Today, we are going to explore the area of cybersecurity👮 for small businesses.   Cybersecurity is the process of reducing the risk of a cyber-attack. Its main function is to protect the devices, services and hard drives that organisations use from theft, damage or viruses. Keeping a small business protected from cyber-attacks is very important. A cyber security incident can have many negative impacts for a business. These include data breaches, loss of clients, lost productivity, brand reputation and many more. An interesting stat that I read the other day stated that 60% of small businesses that suffer from a cyberattack shut down within six months after the incident.😲💥 This highlights how important it is for a small business to focus on cybersecurity. Here are some cybersecurity tips for a small business:💡 1.       Train employees in the area of cybersecurity. ...

  Hello and Welcome Back to another one of my blogs.😛   This week we are looking at SEO for Small Businesses and how this can help them compete with big brands online. Online marketing techniques can be very expensive💸 for small businesses. A technique which will allow a small business to stay competitive and have low costs is Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).   So what is SEO, I hear you ask👂. SEO is a technique that improves a business’s visibility online. The main aim is for your website 🕸to appear as close as possible to the top of a search page. If a small business can manage their SEO effectively, they improve their chances of being seen and more people accessing their website. SEO can have many benefits ➕for a small business. These include: ·        Increased web traffic ·         Better online visibility ·         Improved user experience ·   ...

  Hello and Welcome Back!😀   Today we are looking at the evolution of internet technologies.💻   The internet is very important. I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t be able to survive without the internet today.😁 Over the last few years internet technologies have been consistently evolving which is what has made them as useful and as valuable as they are now. The internet has come along way since it was first launched. To understand this evolution and change in internet technologies we are going to split it into the three categories These are Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0.   Web 1.0  🕸 Known as the read only web and is the original internet technology. Everything we do today was built off it. Web 1.0 was very simple, and you could only read and view content. Interaction was not a thing. Examples of Web 1.0 are static websites and personal sites. Web 2.0 🕸 The next step in the evolution of internet technologies. It is known as the soci...