UnSummit » Toby http://unsummit.org An unconference on technology + marketing Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:21:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 How to turn your self-hosted Wordpress blog into a totally rocking Content Management System (CMS) – Notes from our session http://unsummit.org/2009/03/how-to-turn-your-self-hosted-wordpress-blog-into-a-totally-rocking-content-management-system-cms-notes-from-our-session/ http://unsummit.org/2009/03/how-to-turn-your-self-hosted-wordpress-blog-into-a-totally-rocking-content-management-system-cms-notes-from-our-session/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:12:16 +0000 Toby http://unsummit.polymerstudios.com/?p=139

Thanks to y’all for attending the Wordpress session on Saturday!  If you have any questions, please email me at toby [at] themightymo.com, Tweet me @TobyCryns, or visit The Mighty Mo! Design Co. on the web.

My main point of the discussion was to let y’all know how easy it is to do fun stuff with Wordpress and to hopefully motivate you to explore the software further.  I have had a ball designing themes for Wordpress and making said themes do summersaults, and I hope can find some enjoyment in that as well!  :)

Some of the plugins we talked about include:

  • Podpress (podcasting plugin used on Minnov8)
  • WP Shopping Cart (see it in action at cryns.com)
  • NextGEN FlashViewer (great for photo slideshow management)
  • All in One SEO Pack
  • flickrRSS
  • Twitter widget
  • Role Manager

Other great plugins include:

  • CForms II (see it in action here)
  • Subscribe2 (see it in action here)
  • Ozh’ Click Counter (track file downloads and clicks)
  • Viper’s Video Quicktags (a must-have if you embed lots of video in your blog posts)
  • WP Page Numbers
  • My Page Order (order your pages)

Please let me know if you have any questions, suggestions, etc.

Thanks again for helping make the session valuable for me.  I learned a lot from our discussion, and I hope you did, too!

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unified brand across the web (website, myspace, etc.)
have content interact with each other across online spaces

Self-maintaining:
Bring in tagged photos from Flickr
Have users generate content
Create a business-branded Flickr tag
Bring video feeds into website
can I bring in a twitter feed by hashtag?

Audience:
People who are looking to book meeting space, dinners, concerts, etc.
People at the Convention Center, downtown, library

KEEPER ITEMS:
Logo in top left of home page
Pub photos
Newsletter sign-up
Photos of menu items
Hours and location
Can we get a feed of the music calendar?
Quiz Bowl
Quiz Bowl question submission/contest?
Quiz Bowl Facebook app?
Banquet Page information
Event sign-up form
Google map and directions
List of reasons to come to Kieran’s?
Jamieson thing
“Do the Town Parking” program

Strategies:
Facebook
Flickr
Google Calendar
Have users generate content (use Flickr tags and Twitter hashtags)
Google Calendar Facebook app
Link Twitter with Facebook status message
Flickr Facebook app (Twitterbook)

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