WordPress is one of the most popular blogging tools available, yet many people don’t know is that it is a powerful Content Management System (CMS) that can be used for more than just blogging. With WordPress you can build a blog, a website, or both. It will rank higher on Google than a non-WP site and you won’t be held hostage by your webmaster.

Net Ingenuity produces effective, findable websites and uses the Web and social media in ways that compel others to work with our clients. Content is clarified, organized and presented eloquently, with the right words, appropriate style and proper grammar. We design custom themes for WordPress and provide WordPress coaching.

Watch a FREE Detailed Demonstration of a Custom WordPress Installation

How to:

• Install WordPress via SimpleScripts (and describe how to install WordPress manually)
• Create pages
• Create subpages
• Write posts
• Arrange your blog posts in categories
• Manage comments in WordPress
• Find or create a WordPress theme
• Change the theme of your WordPress site
• Install WordPress plugins
• Protect WordPress from spam
• Optimize WordPress for search engines – SEO

And how to make the content on your website compelling.

Watch a Recorded Talk and WordPress Demo Now

Watch online presentation from a meeting of the Austin Adobe User Group, where Karen Kreps, president and main muse of Net Ingenuity, presented: “Why and How To Build Your Website with WordPress: Learn to take control of your own website.”

These are the slides she used to introduce the topic, before performing an installation of WordPress and configuring the site.

Some fifty people came to the North Village Branch of the Austin Public Library on May 11, 2010 for the presentation, and others watched online via Adobe Connect.

Use this link to watch an abridged version of this presentation (~85 mins).
http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/p10811269/

On March 28, 2012, Karen Kreps presented a free demo of how to create an effective website using WordPress,  as part of R.I.S.E. at the North Village Library, as pictured below.

If you find this recording useful, please post a comment about it here and share it with your friends.

Brigid Shea for Austin Mayor

Vote May 12th in Austin’s Election!

You’ve heard of the Arab Spring, get ready for the Austin Spring! Social media can help spread the word about the challenge for the position of Austin Mayor in 2012.

In early April, I got the go-ahead from the campaign manager of Brigid Shea for Mayor to rebuild the website brigidsheaformayor.com in WordPress. The site had originally been built using an archaic and hard-to-manage Content Management System from a Seattle-based company BlueUtopia. In three days, working with my colleague Joel Greenberg, we got a local webhost, GreenHostIT.com to donate server space, I built a custom WordPress theme and we ported all the content that had been put on the site into the new WordPress site. Now we are busy adding new content, making clear what are Brigid’s positions on many issues, and encouraging everyone in Austin to use Social Media to turn out a record-breaking number of voters for Brigid Shea to become Austin Mayor. Joel is working full-time on the campaign and I am working part time on it. It’s very exciting. If you’d like to help in this effort, please visit Brigid’s website, volunteer, donate and endorse. You, too, even get a badge, like you see on the top of this post, to put on your own website. Send email to techvolunteer@brigidsheaformayor.com to help with the website, content strategy, photo editing, video editing, posting to YouTube.com and more.

Here are just some of the reasons why I will vote for Brigid Shea to be Mayor of Austin and why I hope you will join me in supporting her:

• We need to give citizen interests more power than special interests. Brigid has proposed major ethics reforms to severely limit the amount lobbyists and their firms can give to city council candidates.
• Under Lee Leffingwell, the City Council has been more concerned with making big development deals than with maintaining the quality of life and affordability for the people who live here. Stop giving away unnecessary incentives like those to the Formula One race track outside the city and luxury hotels downtown.
• The city uses less water than it did ten years ago, but our water rates have doubled and are set to rise another 19%.
• Electric rates are are expected to rise 20%. Property taxes have gone up. Traffic is up. City fees have gone up. But for many people our quality of life has gone down.
• Brigid believes that the protecting the environment is crucial to the economic health of the city.

Leffingwell’s first campaign report showed that 43% of his total campaign donations came from just 11 bundlers, representing lobbyist and city contractor interests. Brigid Shea said, “Just 60 days after announcing my candidacy, I’ve raised almost $100,000 from over 465 people. My contributions show that the people of Austin want City Hall to work for them, not just for the deep-pocketed insiders who are funding the incumbent’s race.”

Please help to spread the word to your friends and associates so we have an extraordinary turnout at the polls. Early voting is April 30-May 8 and Election Day is May 12.

http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/06/technology/ internet_explorer_market_share/index.htm?hpt=T2

It is presented by Amber Case, a Cyborg Anthropologist and User Experience Designer from Portland, Oregon. She studies the interaction between humans and computers and how our relationship with information is changing the way cultures think, act, and understand their worlds.

I had the opportunity to show an advanced copy to a principal of Gowalla, an Austin start up mentioned in the article, and he proposed that we powwow to discuss how his company’s technology could be used to find a transportation solutions.

And recently, I found out that CapMetro is partnering with http://carshareaustin.org/. And in Paris, an electric vehicle-sharing system for 3000 cars will be in effect by September.

It’s happening.  Download The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Austin to learn more.

Just Tell Me What To Do – Easy Marketing Tips for Small Business

I recently attended a SEO/SEM Meetup where Tony Emerson of Apogee Results gave this informative presentation. He generously shared his slides: