1. Jeffrey G. Allen Hands-On with Wordpress

2. Set up a free blog at Wordpress.com Tour the Dashboard Gravatar- What is it and why do you want one? Themes and Plugins – Free vs. Premium Understand the differences between free and hosted Wordpress How to develop a content strategy for your blog Agenda

3. Getting Started Set Up Your Blog

4. Blog Address Short is better Easy to remember and spell Don’t mix letters and numbers Example: Bad: cooking4fun.wordpress.com Good: cookingforfun.wordpress.com “Heard It On the Radio”

5. Username Something meaningful only to you At least 4 characters long Mixture of letters and numbers

6. Password 6-8 characters long Mixture of upper and lower case letters, numbers, & special characters Not specific to you or your family

7. Email Address Must be a valid email address that you can get to at any time e.g. hotmail.com, gmail.com, yahoo.com etc. Blog Activation link sent here Password reset emails sent here Comment Notifications sent here

8. What is it, and why do I want one? Gravatar

9. Gravatar Acronym meaning Globally Recognized Avatar http://en.gravatar.com/ Uses Wordpress.com login and password Change as often as you like Generally something that identifies you (logo, headshot, etc.)

10. Free vs. Premium Themes & Plugins

11. Themes “Look and Feel” Allow you to easily change the look of your blog May include editable features (background, header image, widget ready, etc.) Premium Themes often include special features not found in free themes

12. Plugins Expand the functionality of Wordpress Examples: Tweet-Meme button Search Engine Optimization Video Embed Version dependent

13. Understanding The Differences Free vs. Hosted

14. Free Hosted Limited themes and plugins Limit of 35 private users Limited Storage Must use PollDaddy polls Unlimited themes and plugins Unlimited private users Limited by the size of your server space Can choose which poll to sue Free vs. Hosted Wordpress

15. An Introduction Content Strategy

16. Content Strategy

17. Content Strategy