sacramento wordpress meetup 092111

WordPressDinnertime Workshop

Sacramento WordPress MeetupSept. 21, 2011

Thursday, September 22, 11

Who Am I• Founder | Editor-in-Chief @ HicksNewMedia

• THE Tech Scoop | INFOtainment News | THE News Pundit | THE Personal Cloud

• Sr. Solutions Architect @ StrataScale

• Working With WordPress Since 2008

• Original co-organizer of Meetup

• Twitter: @jameshicks

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Room PollUsing WordPress

• 0 - 1 year

• 1 - 2 years

• 3 + years

Comfort Level

• Novice

• Intermediate

• Advanced

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Why We Do This “Blogging Thing”

•Tell A Story•Share A Story•Track Engagement•Earn $$

It’s all about the Story

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Content Creation = Easy Part

Content Distribution = Not As Easy

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Tips and Plugins To Help Get The

Most Impact From Your

Blogging Efforts

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Tell a Story• Current Stable Version: 3.2.1

Zemanta• Contextual suggestions of links |

pictures | related content | SEO tags

WordPress

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Tell a Story• Internal linking to related content• GREAT visual animation effect• Ability to monetize

nrelate - Flyout

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• What’s trending on your site

• Ability to monetize

• Customizable

Tell a Storynrelate - Most Popular

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• Similar functionality to Flyout• Positioned directly below post• Ability to monetize

Tell a Storynrelate - Related Content

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• Seamless, customizable display of key content• Various layouts, various skin/theme options

Tell a StorySlideDeck Pro

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Share a Story

•Engagement tracking

•Social media sharing

•User moderation

•Gamification

Livefyre Realtime Comments

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Easy Social Media platform sharingAll “major” platforms available

Ability to email post

Share a Story1-click Retweet/Share/Like

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•Automate and Schedule Tweets From Multiple Accounts•Hashtag Support

Share a StoryWordTwit Pro

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Share a Story

•Cross-platform•Multi Identity

•Browser versions (Chrome)•Ability to Schedule Updates

HootSuite | TweetDeck

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Real-time site analytics“spy mode”

Track

“BigBoard”Global MapMobile app

Chartbeat | Clicky Analytics

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TextBannerPaid ReviewMultiple Payment OptionsCoupon Codes

EarnOIOpublisher Ad Management

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Onsite Configurable banner ads

EarnKomoona Ads

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James Hicksjames@hicksnewmedia.com

@jameshicks

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WordCamp Sacramento

Thursday, September 22, 11