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Scheduling posts in WordPress

June 12th, 2010  |  Published in How to video, Quick Tips

If you’re going on holiday and the person feeding the cat looks askance when you ask them to keep the website ticking along as well, you might find it useful to know you can schedule blog posts to automatically publish in the future. It’s a very simple setting in the publishing dashboard, but easy to miss if you don’t know it’s possible.

The full how-to is here and video below.

Videos for beginners – start a Facebook page or a Ning network

April 10th, 2010  |  Published in How to video, Step By Step Guides

The following videos have been developed for use in Talk About Local training sessions. Although there are loads of brilliant how-to videos out there which we often use, we thought there was still a need for very simple videos that people could refer to as they got started on their hyperlocal sites. They take you through the development of my model site, Mythical City. Hopefully they are easy to follow with a bit of hands-on help if people get stuck.

It would be great to get your feedback on any ways these videos can be improved as you use them and any requests for further tutorials.

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Videos for beginners – create links and maps

April 10th, 2010  |  Published in How to video, Step By Step Guides

The following videos have been developed for use in Talk About Local training sessions. Although there are loads of brilliant how-to videos out there which we often use, we thought there was still a need for very simple videos that people could refer to as they got started on their hyperlocal sites. They take you through the development of my model site, Mythical City. Hopefully they are easy to follow with a bit of hands-on help if people get stuck.

It would be great to get your feedback on any ways these videos can be improved as you use them and any requests for further tutorials.

Read the rest of this entry »

Videos for beginners – adding nice things to your site

April 10th, 2010  |  Published in How to video, Step By Step Guides

The following videos have been developed for use in Talk About Local training sessions. Although there are loads of brilliant how-to videos out there which we often use, we thought there was still a need for very simple videos that people could refer to as they got started on their hyperlocal sites. They take you through the development of my model site, Mythical City. Hopefully they are easy to follow with a bit of hands-on help if people get stuck.

It would be great to get your feedback on any ways these videos can be improved as you use them and any requests for further tutorials.

Read the rest of this entry »

Videos for beginners – WordPress

April 10th, 2010  |  Published in How to video, Step By Step Guides

The following videos have been developed for use in Talk About Local training sessions. Although there are loads of brilliant how-to videos out there which we often use, we thought there was still a need for very simple videos that people could refer to as they got started on their hyperlocal sites. They take you through the development of my model site, Mythical City. Hopefully they are easy to follow with a bit of hands-on help if people get stuck.

It would be great to get your feedback on any ways these videos can be improved as you use them and any requests for further tutorials.

Read the rest of this entry »