When: Friday, February 13, 2009 ● Time: 8 AM -  10:00 AM

 Location: Eggspectation Restaurant

923 Ellsworth Dr. ,Silver Spring, MD 20910

The Eggspectation location provides the perfect setting with a private room, large flat screen TV and of course an all wireless environment. Bring your appetite! Limited seating for the first 15 people, pls.RSVP on first come basis. We will take walk-ins.

Cost: A donation of $79* for this 2 hours workshop. If you funds are tight but you need the training now, please bring a referral of someone that you think would be empowered by the knowledge. See below what to bring to the workshop.

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HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT DUE DEC.19, 2009

This Workshop is Sponsored by The Urban Progressive Foundation, a project of a 501(c)(3) non-profit, charitable organization. Donations for this workshop will go to support the assist the underserved communities in the metropolitan area (elderly, minorities, disabled and rural) who need to Transition to Digital Television by Febl 17, 2008

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WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing, open source blogging platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress, an user-friendly platform, makes it easy for anyone to set up, manage and maintain a website, blog or content management system. WordPress is supported by a community of developers that are constantly improving the usability of the software.  Thousands of themes and plugins have been developed to expand the software and enhance site management and design.

What You Will Learn from this Workshop:

• Decide between setting up a self-hosted or hosted WordPress blog
• Use WordPress as a hosted-solution
• Set up and use static pages
• Create posts and upload images, audio and video
• Find WordPress plugins and themes
  Use the widget function to sidebar management
• Use a FTP client to upload files
  Maintain and upgrade a WordPress blog
• Track visitors, improve SEO and set up a RSS feed
  
   

WordPress TRAINER

Terri Holley, MS CPCC

Terri Holley, founded Creative Blog Solutions to help entrepreneurs leverage the marketing power of blogging, social media and Web 2.0.

Terri Holley, MS CPCC, is a Certified Life/Business Coach (ACC) social media strategist and owner/ founder of Creative Blog Solutions. An established entrepreneur and small business owner, Terri discovered the benefits of social media after implementing an online marketing plan to promote her coaching practice.

After sharing her success stories and offering peer-to-peer consulting, Terri founded Creative Blog Solutions to help entrepreneurs leverage the marketing power of blogging, social media and Web 2.0. Terri brings a boatload of creativity, energy and passion to her work.

A proud graduate from the world-renowned Coaches Training Institute, Terri’s social media skills are grounded in co-active and conversational marketing. Her approach uses a unique mix of coaching and social media strategies to help businesses cultivate strong relationships via powerful, co-active and engaging online mediums. A trained health educator and wellness practitioner, Terri especially enjoys working with entrepreneurs in the health, fitness and wellness industry. In addition to running Creative Blog Solutions, Terri currently authors two blogs, both of which have excellent search engine rankings and substantial traffic. Her blogs have received press coverage and have several inbound links from prominent sites on the internet.