Recently, it became clear to me that I was not walking the talk.  That as a marketer, I was using excuses like: “I spend my days marketing others” and “I am very fortunate that I get so many referrals, so I don’t need to be marketing myself.”  But then, it occurred to me I couldn’t ask other folks to be investing their time to doing email marketing, blogging and social media, if I was putting it on the back burner, myself.
I understand how hard it is to find time, and …

Editor’s Note: The video of the Blogging for Biz panel is now available at WordPress.TV – it is also added to the end of this post.
I had a great time at WordCamp Boulder.  Beth J. Hayden – of BloggingWithBeth.com – and Jim Turner – of OneByOneMedia.com – shared the Blogging for Business Panel with me (Bethany Siegler of UniqueThink).  I heard there was video of it, so I won’t repeat much of what was discussed.  And once I find it, I’ll link to it.  In the meantime, I did want …

University of Colorado at Boulder’s Marketing and Creative Services department has partnered with Bethany Siegler of UniqueThink, to offer her WordPress: Managing Content training to select clients. The department will continue its focus on communications planning, web site design, development and usability, while utilizing Bethany’s experience for training clients to maintain content on their sites using the WordPress platform.
Bethany looks forward to working with CU.  She has been doing a similar presentation at Boulder Digital Arts (BDA), which is for the general public.
The next public workshop at BDA is:
Tuesday, …

Update 10/28/099:  This class has been rescheduled, due to snow.  It is now being held on Wed, November 4th.  Same time, same place.

I am doing a Free Workshop (lecture style) on Why to Use WordPress.ORG to build your complete website.
WORDPRESS WEBSITES: How to get a cost-effective, easy to maintain website
NEW DATE: Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Westminster Public Library, College Hill, 6-7:30 p.m.
3705 West 112th Avenue
Westminster, CO  80031
Here’s the link to Google Maps
Call 303-404-5104 to register for this FREE program.
You need to RSVP – there is limited room, so make sure you …

Learn how, and why, to use WordPress for your complete web solution.  Set up and create sites (as well as blogs) using WordPress.org:
Getting Started with WordPress – For Content Creators
Date(s):
Monday, July 06, 2009 | 6pm – 9pm For description and more info, click here
Getting Started with WordPress – Web Developers
Date(s):
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 | 6pm – 9pm For description and more info, click here
Location:
BDA Studio
2510 47th Street, Suite 202, Boulder, CO  80301
Registration and more info available at BoulderDigitalArts.com

OK, many of you have been asking us to do this, and …

I spoke at the Denver Coach Federation, last night.  My presentation was called It’s A Blog. It’s A Website. It’s a Marketing Tool…It’s WordPress!
I told everyone I’d give them my slide presentation on why to use WordPress to build your site and blog.  So, here it is in two forms.  One is as a pdf and the other as a slide show.
Whether you were at the event last night or not, feel free to enjoy an introduction to WordPress.  Either download the It’s WordPress pdf or simply view the slide …

OK, I know, I am a WordPress Dork, but really, this thing just keeps getting better and better!
I must admit, when I heard about 2.8, I didn’t expect much. After all, WordPress 2.7.1 did such a great job that I wasn’t missing much, other than the theme uploader. And, with Vladimir Prelovac’s Theme Test Drive plugin, I didn’t even miss that!
So what could WordPress 2.8 have that I’d need? Well watch the video and you’ll see.

If you haven’t watched the video yet, and you are still reading …

One of my clients who does a lot with videos, Freddy at Atomic Tango, shared this info with me and I had to share it with all of you.
As you’ll see from the video below, WordPress.com is getting into the video hosting business.  What does that mean?  Well, if it means what I believe it does, it means these things:

You can now host a video at WordPress.com directly – you don’t have to host your own videos somewhere else and then embed them into your own site
As Freddy points …

OK, I am trying out a new tool – which is Free and available to anyone looking to do a slide show.
It’s from http://www.slideshare.net/ and you can create your own page there, just like I did. Then set up a Powerpoint presentation. Mine is below, it is one I did a few months ago on Dhyan Atkinson’s Wed Afternoon Teleclass.
My presentation was called It’s A Blog, It’s A Website, It’s A Marketing Tool…It’s Wordpress. It talks about using WordPress as both your blog and your complete website.
Its WordPress …

Below is a list of Must-Have WordPress plugins:
I will be updating this page with more info, but wanted to get it up and running now, so you can get these plugins up and running now:
Akismet: Spam Filter for your blog comments – here is what they have to say:
Who can? You have better things to do with your life than deal with the underbelly of the internet. Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so …