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Archive for the 'Workshops & Seminars' Category

Community Media Workshop Presentation

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

SEO For Success at Community Media Workshop was a full-house with participants ranging from large companies to small non-profits and back again. Community Media Workshop did a great write-up of the three hour seminar on their site and included a video interview with one of the participants.
Here’s what one of the participants had [...]

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The Arts & Business Council of Chicago Workshop went really well with sixty participants representing arts and non-profit organizations all over the greater Chicagoland area in attendance. The presentation covered strategies and production tips for managing your online presence, including website improvements, content updates and social media techniques as well as tools like WordTracker, Website [...]

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AEP Digital Publishing Summit

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Many thanks to the Association of Educational Publishers for asking me to give a workshop at their annual summit. Fast, Cheap and Under Control was a three hour session that covered the basics of  setting up, populating and promoting a blog using WordPress with a variety of plug-ins and social media tools. The AEP folks covered [...]

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WordCamp Chicago 2009

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

   
Tim Frick – Mightybytes
Originally uploaded by LisaSabin-Wilson
WordCamp Chicago was a sold out show. Many kudos to organizers Lisa Sabin-Wilson and Brian Gardner for putting on such a great event. The closing session from WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg was worth the price of admission alone.
At right is a pic from Lisa Sabin-Wilson’s Flickr photostream of [...]

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CMS/Blogging Class

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

  The class I am teaching with Whit Nelson on blogs and content management systems (CMS) will make its inaugural run at Ascend Training on January 8-9, 2009. The two-day class will cover a variety of blog and CMS-related topics, including software options, RSS feeds, case studies, social media, custom templates, and so on. Hands-on exercises [...]

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