1. SoCal WordPress
Social Media + WordPress
February 23rd, 2012
Presenter: Noel Saw

2. Tonight’s Sponsors
Thank you for your generosity!
Drawing for one free license of Dashter at
end of presentation.
Catering provided by:

3. Agenda
 Who am I?
 Why are we here and What are we sharing?
 Simple ways to hook up WordPress to social media
through sharing plugins including MoShare
 Ways to embed Twitter, Facebook fan page, and Google
to your site
 Updating EVERYTHING through one service
 Using Klout & Crowdbooster
 Dashter Presentation

4. Who am I?
 Serial Entrepreneur since 1992
 Co-run SoCal WordPress along with Natalie MacLees
 Over 7,000 Twitter followers @WPverse
 Over 2,500 Google+ followers
 I write WPVerse.com
 Over 3k unique visitors a month
 Over 150 articles on WordPress

5. Why and What?
 We use social networks to attract new
clients/customers and keep them informed +
remind them we’re here.
 How do we do this?
 Broadcasting of new content ourselves
 Facilitate public sharing of content
(posts, pages, ideas, etc.) through various networks
like FB, Twitter, and now mobile
 Create fan pages or brand identities (Twitter handles)

6. Easy social sharing plugins
 Other than Twitter, FB make sure it supports
Google+, Linkedin
 Sharedaddy version of Jetpack
 My current favorite:
“Twitter Facebook Social Share”
 Examples including more obscure services:
 EasySocial includes Pintrest support
 SocialSharing Toolkit includes Tumblr

7. Improving your social profile
 Dashter
 Klout
 CrowdBooster
 Postling

8. Different ways to post to
WordPress and
Social Networks
…at the same time!
 Dlvr.it
 Automatically scan your site via RSS and post to
FB and Twitter
 Posterous – post via email with auto update to
services
 PixelPipe – pushes many, many, many services

9. Next Month’s Meetup
 Microsoft Los Angeles office
 Covering Microsoft’s Matrix allowing WP to run on
Windows Server
 WordPress Performance
Weekly WordPress Hackathons starting next week
 Developer focus – Themes, plugins, PHP
 Here at Blankspaces
 Stay Tuned!

10. Thanks again to our sponsors
Drawing for one free license of Dashter!
Catering provided by: