Beer and Blog Portland

That’s right, time to End Bloglessness, AGAIN! Whoo-Hoo! Gather up your friends, family, or any one else you can think of who has been looking to start a blog and come join us!

Sunday, October 4th from 12:00-5:00pm

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 – Sign up for your blog 12:00-1:00pm;
• Session 2 – Dial in the settings for your blog 1:00-2:00pm;
• Session 3 – Intro to posting on your blog 2:00-3:00pm;
• Session 4 – How to promote your blog 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 WordPress blogs for this workshop. We chose WordPress so that if your blog is going well enough and you need to graduate to a hosted blog, you’re data and experience will be compatible.
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.
We’ll be hosting the event at Webtrends. There are some computers available to use, but we highly recommend bringing your laptop if you have one as there likely won’t be enough computers for everyone.

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://bit.ly/ufsYL
• 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. Please leave us a comment below if you’re interested in helping!

Attendees of End Bloglessness can do these three things to help us start quickly:

1. Buy your hosting package and domain name. Not sure who to use? Try Bluehost.com. Domain name is free with a 1 year purchase (we don’t get any money from you hosting with them).
2. Download the plugins we’ll be installing at http://www.beerandblog.com/plugins.zip
3. Download the theme we’re going to start you out with http://getk2.com/download/

Ok, looking forward to seeing you all soon!!

At the last Beer and Blog I said hi to a new face, Jim, and we talked about a friend of his that works with the homeless on blogging. So, from that serendipitous meeting raincoaster media is now bringing us some beer! This is Beer and Blog afterall

About raincoaster media

Tagline: 49 degrees latitude, 360 degrees attitude.
Ten Second Pitch: Social Media with a side of Awesome.

Much thanks to Jim for introducing us to Lorraine! And, much thanks to raincoaster media for your support of End Bloglessness!!

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.

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!