Rise and Shine: Your Dose Of Business Tech Inspiration

00:18:02

Can LibreOffice Replace Microsoft Office? (2026/778)

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2026/10/07

Looking for an alternative to the subscription based M365 Office?LibreOffice is a free, open source office suite that's worth considering if you're looking for an alternative to Microsoft Office for your business. Lots of features but is it compatible enough with Microsoft Office to do the job?There's more to that decision than whether it can open a Word document or an Excel spreadsheet. The features you rely on and the way your tools work together deserve a look before you commit to a

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00:20:54

Automate Your Business: Do You Know What That Takes?...

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2026/10/04

When someone says “just automate it”, do you know what you’re agreeing to? Business automation can save you time, but there’s more to the decision than the work you’d like it to take off your hands.Advancements in tech, including AI, has made the idea of connecting your tools and automating your workflows even more appealing. The benefits are worth considering, along with the work and decisions behind getting the result you want.That word “just” leaves some questions unanswered:✅ How much is

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00:19:06

What Protects Your WordPress Site Beyond Updates?...

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2026/10/01

There’s more to protecting your WordPress website than keeping it updated. Your login habits can leave opportunities for an attacker, while your hosting provider’s security controls can limit how far an attack reaches.A recently patched WordPress vulnerability called Click-To-Shell could allow access to the actual server. Understanding how it worked helps answer:✅ Whether your login habits are leaving your site vulnerable➡️ What a security plugin should provide you⚡ What you might need to do after a

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00:07:56

How Do You Use Facebook’s Sharing Debugger? (2026/775)

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2026/09/29

You’ve fixed an image on your website, shared the page again, and Facebook is still showing the old one. The Facebook Sharing Debugger can help you find out what Facebook sees when it reads your page.Charly walks through a real page to show you:✅ Why changing an image on your website may leave the Facebook preview unchanged.➡️ What the debugger can reveal about the page you're trying to share.⚡ How to check the preview Facebook will use before you share the link again.If you share pages from

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00:54:43

How Can Small Businesses Compete Without Discounting?...

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2026/09/29

A small hardware store facing a new Bunnings across the road went on to have the biggest two years of its owner’s career. It didn't try to win by lowering its prices, the owner changed the game.Direct response marketer John Dwyer joins Charly to share practical campaigns that helped smaller businesses attract leads and compete without discounting:✅ A value-added incentive gave customers a reason to choose the local hardware store over Bunnings➡️ A Facebook contest generated 917 leads for a water

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00:07:47

Can Your Systems Recover When Work Goes Wrong?...

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2026/09/27

A system can handle routine work every day and still leave your business struggling when something goes wrong.A duplicate payment, an unusual refund or a failed connection between systems can interrupt the usual process. That’s when you find out how much your technology can help your team recover:✅ Why routine success can give you a false sense of reliability.➡️ What staff need to know before they can finish interrupted work.⚡ Why a single exception may take longer to fix than the original

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00:18:26

Can Trusted Website Code Turn Against Your Visitors?...

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2026/09/24

Your website can be secure, fully updated and working exactly as expected, while code from a trusted supplier puts your visitors at risk.That’s what happened when an exposed API key allowed Brevo, the service behind marketing forms, website tracking and customer chat on more than 100,000 websites, to be compromised. Visitors loaded the attackers’ code directly into their browsers, and anyone logged into WordPress as an administrator faced an additional risk.Charly discusses the compromise and what

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00:10:00

Is AI Searching For What You Actually Asked? (2026/772)

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2026/09/22

Do you use your AI Chat as a glorified search engine? Many of us do because it's an effective way to collate data and analyse it. What happens when you ask for information, your AI "interprets" the request differently and presents you with a confident answer?That's what Charly discusses in todays episode.✅ A confident answer can still be answering the wrong question➡️ The shortlist may have been narrowed before you ever see it⚡ Checking what the AI searched for can be as important

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00:17:05

Who Can Help When Tech Support Goes in Circles?...

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2026/09/20

Business systems are complex and when something goes wrong, trying to work out what it is and how to fix can be an exercise in futility. It becomes even more frustrating when there are multiple providers involved and each say their system is working correctly.Todays episode discusses that and asks four questions:✅ Why is it so difficult to identify where the problem sits? ➡️ What do you need to do? ⚡ How can you get out of the cycle? ⭐ What can the business do while the underlying problem is being

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00:22:40

How Did a Genuine Government Email Expose Customer...

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2026/09/17

Revolut handed approximately 680 customers’ personal information to a bad actor after receiving requests from a compromised Italian government account that appeared lawful.It appears the company wasn’t hacked, and the emails passed the checks designed to confirm where they came from. Today's episode discusses:✅ Why Revolut handed the information over➡️ The legal and regulatory environment that set the incident up⚡ What it means for the security and privacy of information businesses are required

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00:18:44

How Do You Handle A Delete My Data Request? (2026/769)

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2026/09/15

WordPress website holds about them, do you know what to do?WordPress has built-in privacy tools for handling these requests, including confirming who's making the request before you hand over or erase their information. In this walkthrough, you'll see the process from both sides:✅ What the person requesting their data sees➡️ How WordPress confirms the request before you action it⚡ What information WordPress includes in the personal data export⭐ What happens to their information after the

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00:15:42

How Much Is “Give It a Minute” Costing Your Business?...

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2026/09/13

Recurring technology problems don't always bring a business to a complete stop but they can cause interruptions that end up costing the business.You may not even recognise that it's happening but you'll find yourself saying things like “Give it a minute” or “It always does this” multiple times a week, if not a day. When you do, you're likely:✅ Repeating tasks because of lost work.➡️ Using workarounds that end up becoming “standard practice”.⚡ Finding errors and delays that affect

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00:19:05

Does Your Business Know Which Systems It Depends On?...

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2026/09/10

You can’t include a system in a security and access review if you don’t know your business is using it.An enquiry reaches your CRM, a payment appears in your accounting system or a document moves into the right folder. You see the result, but do you know what’s making it happen and who controls the account behind it?Everything may work perfectly until you need to change something, recover access or deal with a security problem. That’s when you may discover:✅ The account was created in someone else’s

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00:10:34

How Do You Filter A Zoho Shared Mailbox? (2026/766)

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2026/09/08

In Episode 739, I show you how to use Filters / Rules for Zoho Mail.A viewer asked whether Zoho Mail allows filters to be set on a shared mailbox. The short answer is, it does but the functionality is more limited than a full inbox and the settings aren't in an obvious place.Shared mailboxes have their own controls, permissions and tags and this episode walks through how you can find them. I cover:✅ The user settings needed to access this feature➡️ Where to actually find the setting for filters⚡

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00:20:23

How Do Business Owners Assess Technology Risk?...

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2026/09/06

How can business owners make informed technology decisions if they cannot personally understand or verify everything their business relies on?This is a question every business owner should ask, because of the Trust Gap. That's the gap between what you can verify and what you have to trust exists across every part of a business.In today's episode, Charly explores:✅ The importance of a tool a Business might only use once or twice a year.➡️ Why understanding what a system does for the business

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00:23:49

How Do Supply Chain Problems Reach Your Business?...

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2026/09/03

What do arsenic in beer, faulty computer chips and a supply chain attack have in common? A problem can reach you through a product you trust, from a supplier you’ve never heard of.An AFP investigation prompted Charly to look at how far back these problems go:✅ A brewery’s ingredients brought something nobody ordered into the beer.➡️ IBM found itself dealing with a problem in Intel’s chips.⚡ Shared software can carry one compromise into many different products.⭐ Being careful still leaves a place for

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00:11:09

How Do You Set Up Branded Email With Cloudflare?...

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2026/09/01

Starting a business and want an email address on your own domain without setting up your full email system yet?Cloudflare Email Routing gives you a useful and inexpensive place to start.Today, Charly shares how to create a branded business email address and have anything sent to it forwarded to an inbox you already use:➡️ Why you would use Cloudflare Email Routing✅ Set up Cloudflare Email Routing for your domain⚡ What to consider when using this option.If you're getting a new business off the

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00:54:36

How Does AI Search Change Your Website? With Jenna...

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2026/08/30

AI search is changing how customers find businesses but it doesn’t make your website less important, it just changes how you use it Jenna Hannon, founder of Hatter, joins Charly to explain what the move from SEO to Answer Engine Optimisation means for your content and your leads.Their conversation covers things like:✅ Customer questions matter more than keyword density on a page on your site➡️ AI recommendations may reach buyers without sending every visitor to your site and what that really means

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00:17:28

Should You Replace Your Software With AI? (2026/762)

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2026/08/30

Running AI locally can keep private information on your own computer instead of sending it to an AI provider. That privacy advantage sounds straightforward until another application exposes your AI to the Internet and allows a malicious website to take control and leave poisoned instructions behind.Cyera Research achieved exactly that in a proof of concept involving Ollama and third-party AI agent software. There’s a lot to take away from this episode:✅ How local AI can be compromised➡️ What AI

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00:19:13

Does Local AI Keep Your Information Private? (2026/761)

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2026/08/27

Running AI locally can keep private information on your own computer instead of sending it to an AI provider. That privacy advantage sounds straightforward until another application exposes your AI to the Internet and allows a malicious website to take control and leave poisoned instructions behind.Cyera Research achieved exactly that in a proof of concept involving Ollama and third-party AI agent software. There’s a lot to take away from this episode:✅ How local AI can be compromised➡️ What AI

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