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PDX WordPress Meetups in November 2012
The next Portland WordPress Meetup group sessions are:
Monday, November 12, 2012
Scaling Digital Trends
For advanced WordPress users. Brandon Clark of Digital Trends will discuss how to scale WordPress for enterprise sites.
Monday, November 26, 2012
What’s Coming in WordPress 3.5
For all levels of WordPress. WordPress 3.5 is due soon and this is a chance to see what’s coming out with the next big release of WordPress.
You can get more details and information on their official site, Portland WordPress Meetup.
The PDX WordPress Meetup group meets the fourth Monday of every month for presentations and Q&A on all aspects of WordPress. The group recently added a second monthly meeting for more experienced WordPress users wishing to dive deeper under the hood.
All meetings are start at 6:30 and are held at the U.S. Bancorp Tower Conference Rooms, 111 SW 5th Avenue, Portland, Oregon. The conference rooms are on the north end of the building near the security desk.
While the meetings are free, an RSVP with Portland WordPress Meetups is required so they can provide enough seats.
WordPress Featured on Wall Street Journal Business International
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Matt Mullenweg of Automattic, WordPress.com, the self-hosted version of WordPress, was featured today on the Wall Street Journal Business talking about the fact that WordPress now supports 14% of all websites in the world, approximately 1 in 6 globally.
Click to view video on Wall Street Journal site.
In my own research on WordPress stats, 25% of all websites are published with WordPress, though this is based upon the statistic that more than half of these are on WordPress.com, where people come and go and set up test sites on a regular basis and abandon them, so Matt’s number may represent a more accurate number of active sites.
Matt Mullenweg and Toni Schneider were interviewed by Forbes in September talking about the impact of 60 million websites running WordPress. They also covered how WordPress makes money and why there is not WordPress “office” for their employees scattered around the world.
I discuss this in a little more detail in “WordPress Featured in Wall Street Journal” on Lorelle on WordPress.
WordPress PDX Meetup October 29, 2012
The next Portland WordPress Meetup is October 29, 6:30PM, at the US Bancorps Bldg. in downtown Portland. Aaron Hockley, noted photographer and WordPress expert will be covering “Supercharge Your WordPress.”
Aaron spoke at my last WordPress class at Clark College and is the founder of WordCamp Portland (PDX), an annual WordPress event in Portland.
I highly recommend attendance.
For those already familiar with the code, WordPress Themes, and Plugins, a second meeting will be Tuesday, October 16 at 6:30PM at the US Bancorps Bldg, and be focused totally on the code and developer issues. See Peer Code Review for more details.
WordPress Introduction Course at Clark College Continuing Education October 16, 2012
Starting October 16, 2012, I’m presenting the Introduction to WordPress at Clark College Corporate and Continuing Education in Vancouver, Washington.
The CTEC 280 Clark College WordPress Introduction course continues as a four credit course. This is the college level course for WordPress users wanting to learn how WordPress works and how to use it better for half the price and no degree credits or college registration required.
REGISTER:
Clark College Corporate and Continuing Education
The Introduction to WordPress
6-8PM October 16 – December 6
Columbia Tech Center in Vancouver, Washington
$299 Item # F257
Register: Online or call (360) 992-2939
The Clark College Corporate and Continuing Education program, The Introduction to WordPress, is a slightly scaled down version of the full credit course. It is a thirty hour course designed for anyone looking to learn how to use WordPress for a personal or business website. It covers the basics on how to use the WordPress platform including installation, content management, configuration, SEO, and user experience strategies. The course also covers more advanced areas including WordPress Themes, Plugins, and advanced settings. No prerequisites are required, though familiarity with web browsers and web pages in general is highly recommended.
The Clark College CTEC 280 WordPress Introduction course will be offered Winter Quarter. If you are interested in the course as part of a degree or business education course, contact Reesa McAllister, CTEC offices, at 360-992-2456 to learn how to register and/or get on the waiting list for the class announcement.
Lorelle VanFossen at Clark College 30 Clicks Talking Podcasting
The 30 Clicks program at Clark College is a lunch-time presentation on the web and web and mobile technologies. It’s free to the public and students to bring their lunch into the library and learn more about how the modern world is working on the web. Topics include social media, web publishing, marketing, resume building, and multimedia.
Today, I’m tackling the art of podcasting with a examples of podcasts and tips and techniques on podcasting.
I’ve put the slideshow in a PDF Handout on Podcasting.
The following are links you should know about for podcasting.
Podcasting Articles, Tips, and Techniques
- Podcast 298 : Recording a Google Hangout with Camtasia (video) | Blog : Martin Bailey Photography
- Getting HTML5 Audio tag and flash fallback to work nicely with all browsers – Code
- How to Choose a Podcast Host: Compare Hosting Services for MP3 Audio and Video Podcasts
- Guide to Video Podcasting | Laurier Library
- MediaElement.js – HTML5 video player and audio player with Flash and Silverlight shims
- Building a Custom HTML5 Audio Player with jQuery « Neutron Creations
- How To Video Podcast Using Google Plus Hangouts
- Recording a Skype Call for a Podcast for Free* (Mac) | New Media Center
- How To Get Crystal Clear Screen Recordings On YouTube | Web Video Secrets Podcast – WebVideoUniversity.com
- How to Set Up a Live Stream Podcast for HD | eHow.com
- Effective Podcast Tips
- Choosing a Format for Your Podcast
- How to Podcast
- How to Make a Video Podcast
- Podcasting Software (Publishing)
- Audacity Setup for Podcasting | Nosillacast
- Top 5 Pieces of Free Podcasting Software | Richard Farrar’s Blog
- On HTML5 audio formats – AAC and Ogg – Scirra.com
- Simple guide to editing in Audacity – Steeple
- Recording a podcast – Steeple
Podcasting Audio Editing Software
- Audacity (Windows) Free Audio Editor
- GarageBand
- Aviary.com’s Myna Online Audio Editor
- CamStudio – Free Screen Recording Software
- CallGraph Free Skype Recorder
- Pamela for Skype
- Wavosaur Free Audio Editor
Podcast Hosting for Audio
- libsyn
- PodBean
- CC Publisher for Archive.org publishing
- PodOmatic
- Quick Blogcast – GoDaddy.com
- Hipcast
Podcast Hosting for Video
Welcome to Introduction to WordPress Spring 2012
Welcome to the second “Introduction to WordPress” class at Clark College this spring, the second ever in the world. The first course was a resounding success with no students failing nor dropping the class. Amazing. You can read more about it
Introduction to WordPress is focused on the core features and functionality of WordPress right out of the box – specifically out of the WordPress.com box. We’ll explore the full features of WordPress and WordPress.com and concentrate on content building and strategies. The extra features that come with free WordPress.com blogs are based upon popular WordPress Themes and Plugins, giving us experience using the extensible and customization features available for the self-hosted version of WordPress.
If time allows, we’ll work our way towards some basic WordPress development, planning website layouts and content support for a variety of business needs.
I’ve summed up most of what you will learn in this Introduction to WordPress course in WordPress Credit Course at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington.
You will learn:
- What is WordPress?
- How to setup a WordPress.com blog.
- Categories, tags, and content organization and navigation.
- Web publishing with the visual editor, HTML editor, QuickPress/PressThis, mobile, and alternative publishing tools.
- Publishing multimedia with WordPress.
- Content development and management.
- Introduction to basic core site customization (header art, widgets, etc.).
- Introduction to dynamic web page generation.
- Introduction to dynamic web design.
- Introduction to WordPress Themes.
- How to use Post Format Types.
- Comments and spam management.
- Multiple users and authors (permissions/authorities).
- Managing multiple contributors.
- Basic analytics and statistics with WordPress.com Stats.
- WordPress and SEO.
- Introduction to WordPress hybrid sites.
- How to create and manage custom menus.
- WordPress Widget functionality and customization.
- Understanding WordPress interactivity through trackbacks, pingbacks, and pings.
- WordPress feed management, integration, and customization.
- Integration of social media to and from WordPress.
- Managing a private or restricted access WordPress site.
- Introduction to WordPress Plugins.
- WordPress installation options.
- Troubleshooting WordPress.
- Introduction to WordPress development for employers and clients.
The program is fairly flexible based upon student abilities and learning process. We will explained into more technical aspects in WordPress as much as time permits.
The class requires are competency with computers and web browsers, as well as basic writing skills. See Class Requirements below for details. It is highly recommended that you have HTML Fundamentals and Introduction to PHP if you wish to pursue WordPress towards a career. Check with Clark College’s course catalog and counselors for more information on the various programs you will need for a WordPress and web practitioner degree program.
Be ready to:
- Create your own blog.
- Have something to say and share on your blog, enough for ten weeks.
- Use social media networks (Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and Google+).
- Interact with fellow students.
- Interact with fellow bloggers.
Introduction to WordPress Class Featured on Blog Herald
In Clark College Offering WordPress Development Classes on The Blog Herald, author James Johnson describes our class as possibly not necessary.
In the meantime while I applaud Clark College for realizing the importance of content management system design and implementation, the truth is the WordPress Codex is more then capable of teaching even a non-programmer how to fully work with a barebones framework to create vastly interesting WordPress pages without paying by the credit hour.
Do you think a WordPress class is a good idea or would you rather learn from the Codex?
As students of the first WordPress college course, how about you have your say. Head to the Blog Herald article and let them know if you think a WordPress class is important. Tell them why you choose to take it, and how learning in a college course is different than learning from the WordPress Codex.
Thanks!
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