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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Tribes? Mastermind Groups? Meetups?

April 14, 2010

Back in the day, we called a group of people meeting to discuss a common topic Special Interest Groups (SIGs).  At least when I was president of the local PC User Group, that’s what we called them. Of course, that was before the advent of the Internet and multitudinous marketing and get-rich-quick schemes.  Things were [...]

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Today’s Topic? Podcasting

March 12, 2010

I’m really getting into creating podcasts. I recently assumed leadership of the Austin Podcasters meetup and presented an demonstration of how to use Audacity, an open source multitrack audio editor/recorder to that group. Joining me was John Mayo, a veteran podcaster with  over 370 episodes of his podcast, ComicBookPage.

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Create a Web Presence with blogs, podcasts, and social media

March 2, 2010

Many of us would like to create a website with good content, a faithful following, and who knows, maybe make some money. Yet in the face of millions of blogs, how can we ever hope to attract and keep loyal listeners?

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BSC Bloggers United Network – 1st Meeting

February 26, 2010

The meeting was conducted from 2-4PM on Friday at the Business Success Center (the BSC in the group name) with attendees representing many parts of the business world – finance, art, consulting, training, etc. Nine people showed up and discussed their blogs, blogging efforts, and asked very interesting questions. This not be an attempt at [...]

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MEETUPS – PODCASTING – EXPLORING NEW MEDIA: THESIS THEME

February 2, 2010

EXPLORINGNEWMEDIA.COM PODCASTING MEETUP EXPLORING NEW MEDIA – THESIS THEME Interested in attending either of these meetings? Give me a comment below or an email at lindsey@exploringnewmedia.com

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Thesis Theme at the Exploring New Media February Meetup

February 1, 2010

On February 18th, at 2pm, I will be talking about my experiences with Thesis Theme. If you would like to attend this meeting, leave your contact information as a comment to this post and I will contact you. I am creating the Pro Comedy Training web site now for Dr. Dan French using Thesis Theme.  [...]

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Struggling Entrepreneur and Emerging Podcaster

February 1, 2010

I had the good fortune today to be interviewed by Fred Castaneda, podcaster extraordinaire for his website/blog The Struggling Entrepreneur.  Fred has been interviewing entrepreneurs for a number of years and I feel honored to be included in this group of highly successful, highly motivated  people. Of course, my interview may have been caused by [...]

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