End Bloglessness – A half day workshop to get your blog up and running at Beer and Blog Portland

As part of our one year celebration, we want to offer the past year’s worth of wisdom that we’ve built up to help you launch your blog. We’re looking for all of those folks that have wanted their own hosted blog. End Bloglessness will be a 4 hour, 4 session workshop. We’ll be meeting at CubeSpace on Saturday, January 10th from 12:00-5:00pm.

End Bloglessness at CubeSpace

Saturday, January 10th from 12:00-5:00pm

Session Format

Each session will be 1 hour: 15 minute presentation and 45 minutes of assisted help. During assisted help, attendees can raise their hands to get help from one of our assistants. Assistants are folks from the Portland tech scene that have done this process before who can help you with your questions.

Agenda

Session 1 – Install your blog 12:00-1:00pm;
Session 2 – Configure your blog 1:00-2:00pm;
Session 3 – Stylize your blog 2:00-3:00pm;
Session 4 – Connect with other bloggers on Twitter, by Kelly Guimont (@verso) 3:00-4:00pm;
4:00-5:00pm will be an open help time to ask help with anything you’d like.

What to expect

We are focusing on launching WordPress blogs for this workshop. We’re also focusing on self-hosted blogs, so you’ll need a hosting plan and your access information with you at the workshop to get assisted help. Owning your own hosting account, and therefore your blog, is important and the reason we want to do this workshop is to expand access to blog ownership to more people.

By the time you leave the workshop, you’ll have a blog that is ready to go and some direction on how to connect with other local bloggers. We are expecting people from all skill levels, including the technically challenged. Everyone will be treated with respect and will be encouraged.

Help us get the word out!

Most of the people we’re hoping to reach are either to far outside of our social circles or are offline completely. We could use your help in letting people know about this free workshop to get a blog up and running. We don’t care if your motivation to blog is personal, professional, or political; we’ll help you get one up and running.

Tweet the link to this page http://is.gd/ePLs
Email this page to a friend
RSVP on Upcoming and Calagator
Tell someone in real life using your voice. Crazy, huh?

Why is this free?

We’re hoping to make new friends and be good citizens. We don’t want to be an insular group, so we want to enable others to join. And, because we’re Portlanders inspired by other Portlanders to DIY and that Yes We Can.

Help out

If you have experience with installing WordPress, we’d love to have you help answer people’s questions. Contact Michelle if you’re interested in helping!

1 Colemangirl

January 7, 2009 at 8:10 pm

That’s really great~You guys rock! I’ll pass this to my multimedia club on Monday and will see you there

2 Amy

January 7, 2009 at 9:31 pm

This is a great idea. I’ll post it on my blog.

Will you have some discussion of what “hosting account” means and how you would go about getting a host, domain name, etc.? Differences between WP-hosted and self-hosted, pros and cons? These were all questions I struggled with at the very beginning of my blogging life.

3 admin

January 8, 2009 at 11:32 am

Amy, you make a great point. This Friday’s Beer and Blog Portland is for you!

http://portland.beerandblog.com/2009/01/08/having-the-hosting-talk/

4 Vickie

January 8, 2009 at 11:22 pm

I have started a blog at blogspot but don’t know how to get the technical aspects to work for me so that I an make decisions about privacy and entry into it. Can you help me with that? Also, I don’t have a laptop. I’m really tech-lame.

But thanks for this great offer!!

Vickie

5 admin

January 10, 2009 at 12:54 am

Vickie, that last hour of the workshop is an open time for questions. We can try to tackle what you’re doing then!

6 boilikime

May 3, 2009 at 2:35 pm

now I’ll stay tuned..

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