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Quick WordPress tips with Amanda Blum at WordPress Providence Meetup’s 101 training day

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

WordPress tips & such from Amanda Blum brought to you by WordPress Providence Meetup. This free class was sold-out within days, Twitter hashtag = #WPPVD.

WordPress 101 tips

  • Pages = static
  • Categories = topics
  • Tags = subcategories or micro-categories
  • Callouts and quoteboxes add fun graphic elements within the WYSIWYG window
  • To limit the  of posts that are shown at once, go to ->Reading settings “blog pages show at most”

Links and media

  • Host video on YoutTube and pull into your blog  –> also good for SEO since YouTube is #2 search engine
  • When setting up links in WordPress, ignore “class” dropdown
  • Go to Gravatar.com to have a photo associated with your email and thus your comments & it’s free
  • “Sharing settings” in wordpress 3.0 enables for socialmedia sharing
  • Links in sidebar can include images, very underutilized

Comments & moderating

  • Privacy settings, pick first option for “site visibility” to be found by search engines
  • In Google search “bad word list” to include on comment blacklist
  • Use “discussion settings” to help moderate and discourage spam
  • RSS feeds save time, don’t have to log into sites, just have them come to you
  • Links in sidebar can include images, very underutilized

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Tips for building communities from Matthew Mamet of EditMe, presented at our first Newport Interactive Marketers event

Friday, May 21st, 2010

Tips for building communities from Matthew Mamet of EditMe

Perhaps you’re not super-familiar with Wikis, but you’ve at least heard of Wikipedia, no?

Brainstorm about how you can harness the power of a Wiki, where you can share concepts, photos, history, and invite members of your community to edit and elaborate on them. Similar to a blog, in some ways, but so much more interactive.

Before we get to the highlights
1. Thanks so much to the 20 designers, marketers, SEOs, writers, project managers, business development specialists, and sailboat dealers who joined us in Newport RI for Newport Interactive Marketers last night!
Stay tuned for details about our monthly tips & cocktails nights.

2. Extra special thanks to Matthew Mamet from EditMe offering a simple an affordable website and community platform

Web 2.0 is all about interaction, a Wiki enables multiple people to collaborate online
Communities aren’t just about text anymore: think video, images, multimedia

Tips for building communities

  • Don’t get caught up in infrastructure
  • Start small and work on gathering your people
  • Want someone to feel like they stumbled across something great
  • Try to enable conversations
  • Want to be like a good host, want people to initiate posts and comments on their own


When your community is established

  • What’s happening in the community that you didn’t expect? Encourage it!
  • Do whatever it takes to get the rubbing sticks to become a fire
  • Controversy isn’t always bad
  • If someone or a topic is a wallflower, as manager you need shift from creating to encouraging others to create


Watch out for spammers & jerks

  • It’s a sign of success although it’s discouraging
  • Ask them to guestpost or take over a section
  • Moderate: Be willing to kick someone out


Watch for signs of impending doom

  • Pages not updated for 3 months
  • Visitors haven’t been there in 6 weeks


Once the community is dead, it won’t revive: a la Friendster

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