Hosting vs. Hosts Smackdown

Looking for a new host or having a problem with your current hosting provider?

There are so many hosting companies out there it’s not worth the worry.

Tell us about your good and bad experiences.

 

Birmingham Wordcamp is right around the corner

With WordCamp Birmingham so close to our meeting date we will forgo the meeting this month.

There are already 11 speakers and of course Matt Mullenweg will be the keynote speaker.

http://wordcampbirmingham.org/schedule/

This is a Saturday and Sunday event (September 26 & 27th). I’m looking for a hotel that will be close to both venues and think I can get a room discount with 10 or more rooms.

I urge everyone to attend this event. Saturday will be the big day with an 8am registration:
so get there early.

August Meeting MashingUp

Mashup Night!

We will connect with 2 blog networks that will propagate your posts to your profile and to friends in your network.

You will need ftp access to your site and/or access to – edit or widgets on your site.
So bring your laptop/netbook.

Connect to MSN/Bing
Will Bing over take Google? I don’t thinks so, not this year anyway. But it will be an important aspect to any seo work because of it’s new relationship with Yahoo.

We will make a direct connection with our WordPress site and Bing that will almost guarantee an indexing (not a positioning). We will add a plugin for this. You will also be able to duplicate this process with Google as well.

What you will need:
WordPress 2.7+ or 2.8+ on your host
a hotmail or msn email account

We have a lot of work cut out for us so get their early if you need extra time.

Look forward to seeing you all there.

June Meeting: Plugins Thinking outside the box

This meeting will be about how to find the write plugin that’s safe & secure and installing. OK there may also be a top 10 list, but the idea is finding plugins that will compliment your site.

I would like everyone to talk and give a demo of their top 1 or 2 plugins or widgets.

There are over 4,000 plugins and widgets:

How do you choose the right one for you?

Which ones are the standard you want on every site?

How can you optimize them for your site?

Date: June 30th 7:00 pm
Location: Caribou Coffee
3487 Northside Pkwy NW
Atlanta, GA, 30327
(404) 846-9777
map

LinkedIn with WordPress

Here’s a nice little app that syncs your WordPress site into your LinkedIn account.

April Meeting- Social and Website Modeling

Date: April 28th 7:00pm
Location: 1009 Marietta St NW Atlanta, GA 30318 (404) 815-9886 map

Octane

Where do you get your inspiration? Who are your favorite Web designers?

I’m be looking at the members comments and will make some decissions about future meetings. Please feel free to leave a comment if there is something specific you would like.

This is what I have so far:

• May Get your WordPress Site-blog up and working.
• June: Finding the right Plugins
• July: Working with Themes

Looking forward to seeing you soon.

waleska

ultrasound engineer

to learn how to use wordpress more effectively

Meeting agenda for Dec 6th

Announcements

Main agenda

1. Getting started with 2.7
   1. Open or login into WordPress.com
   2. Register at atlwpug.wordpress.com/
   3. Review and become familiar with navigation
   4. Create a Bio page in Members Category list:
      • Something about yourself
      • Your main site
      • picture
      • where you network, twitter, facebook linkedin etc

Jack Kennard

Jack

I’m the Web designer among other things at Williamsburg-American Express
and trying to start my own Web business.

You can find me at:

Personal site
twitter.com/javajoba
http://www.linkedin.com/in/javajoba
MyBlogLog
BlogCatalog
Flickr

FaceBook

First meeting

Date: October 18th at 3:15
Location: Vinnings Library 4290 Paces Ferry Rd NW
Atlanta, GA 30339 map

The first meeting will be about organizing the group and how we will network and redesigning the Atlanta WordPress Group site, goals and ideas.

Have any ideas on:

Location of the meeting
It should include a good (free)wifi connection and a place for a large group to talk.

Day & Date
I thinking maybe Saturday may not be the best day:

Meeting Topics
Some topics that come to mind: seo plugins, calendars, css, different themes, items that should be on the website: members list, job board, announcements, and etc..

There  is a lot going in in Atlanta on the 18th, barcamp, L5Ps Hallowwen Party and more I’m sure, so if you can’t make it please leave a note, ideas or what ever.