November WordPress Meetup

November 3, 2010

Another great night of WordPress goodies. Alex Hill of Bailey Hill Media talked about how he and his company use WordPress to create political sites. Some good information about not only WordPress techniques but also how to deal with politicos. This topic was followed up with a discussion of a few of the highlights of [...]

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Time for another meetup of the Austin Podcasting Meetup

November 1, 2010

I’ve decided that the topic of podcasting is just too limited for me to conduct monthly meetings on the topic. I’ve also decided that I’ll redesign the meetup to include related topics like blogs and blogging, videos and youTube creations, social media, and maybe even distantly related topics like mind mapping. Mostly likely the meetup [...]

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Having a Blog Doesn’t Make You a Blogger

November 1, 2010

With much fanfare, he obtained a domain name, WordPress software and a web host.  He installed the software at the domain named on his web host, flexed his fingers way out at the end of his extended arms and created his first blog – 150 words of mediocre drivel about what was in store for [...]

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Tech Tools for Creating Information Sites (from Eben Pagan)

June 11, 2010

Last night, two of Eben’s staff presented an outline of the 12 classes to be presented on the topic of Tech Tools.  They include such things as setting up your blog (which I already know), doing an online survey (which I have done but not too effectively), creating a website (which I have done many [...]

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Creating and Marketing Information Products (helped by Eben Pagan)

June 9, 2010

Just signed up and started the Guru Blueprint program with Eben Pagan. This course will teach me how to create and market information products. Since I don’t have a real product at the moment, I decided to go where my passion is and work on a World of Warcraft (WoW) concept. I will create an [...]

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Is Tai Chi New Media? If not, why am I exploring it? (Thoughts of an aging dragon)

May 26, 2010

Exploring things is fun. Two days ago, I was in a meetup with friends Wayne Key, Katie Raver, and new friend Mary Charron. We were discussing ways of improving our respective meetups. Wayne does a thing on 7 habits, Katie is a meetup organizer expert, Mary makes her own wine with someone else’s grapes, and [...]

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Write, Blog, Podcast About What You Know and Love

May 18, 2010

What do THEY say about things? THEY say “write about what you know or love”.  What I really know and love these days are WordPress, blogs, podcasting, meetups, and the World of Warcraft (WoW). What I need to do is determine how to tie them together in such a manner as to interest you folks [...]

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The Many Faces of WordPress

April 30, 2010

During the years, I’ve conducted many SIGs (Special Interest Groups). Today, we seem to be calling them ‘meetups’. One thing all them had in common (aside from me) is that attendees with a wide range of experience and knowledge about the meeting topic made it difficult to present information that would keep all of them [...]

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iPads. Ready for Prime Time? A Social Media Examination Event

April 26, 2010

I attended the Social Media Breakfast in Austin, Texas on April 26th, 2010 where the topic centered around the newly released Apple iPad. The meetup, hosted by Bryan Person was at Mandola’s Restuarant at 4700 Guadalupe with a beginning social period followed by a discussion led by Jon Lebkowsky.

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So You Want to Learn WordPress?

April 19, 2010

So you want to learn WordPress? It is as easy to do as learning to ride a bike or drive a car or cook breakfast or… well, you get the idea. Probably none of the tasks just mentioned were initially that easy to do but after lots of practice and a few bruises, burns, cuts, [...]

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