The document discusses three hurdles in the publishing side of WordPress: brainstorming, scheduling, and posting & syndication. For brainstorming, it recommends capturing ideas with Evernote, writing headlines in a sandwich format, and focusing on lists, reviews, and guides. For scheduling, it suggests building a routine, experimenting with schedules, and using calendars. For posting & syndication, it advises writing in various apps, syndicating through services like Ping.fm, and monitoring feedback with dashboards and alerts. The overall message is that WordPress is a powerful publishing platform and these tips can help users overcome hurdles.
How to force yourself to post more - how you need to behave and what tools might help you do that.
How to write blog posts regularly? What tools to use? How to use editorial calendar? What are other tools to be used - Zemanta and Blogspire.
Presentation at WordCamp NYC 2012.
Blogging, either professionally or personally, is a fun and easy way to express yourself online. Learn how to pick the right blogging platform, write for the web, and share your content. No coding experience is required!
How to force yourself to post more - how you need to behave and what tools might help you do that.
How to write blog posts regularly? What tools to use? How to use editorial calendar? What are other tools to be used - Zemanta and Blogspire.
Presentation at WordCamp NYC 2012.
Blogging, either professionally or personally, is a fun and easy way to express yourself online. Learn how to pick the right blogging platform, write for the web, and share your content. No coding experience is required!
Unless It Was a Digital Dog, No One Ate Your Homework (Diigo)Lisa Sjogren
Social Bookmarking is a tool which leverages your resources. By using tools such as diigo, you will be able to annotate on webpages and access/share your bookmarks by simply visiting a website.
The basics on the hows and whys of blogging for Real Estate agents. Created for an In Office Training Session on Feb 11, 2009 at Century 21 Crest Real Estate- Class given by Marie Episale, REALTOR, e-PRO Broker-Salesperson Sales Manger/ Trainer
Chris Abraham will offer you step-by-step advice on how to openly and honestly manage your brand and reputation on Wikipedia while providing you with best practices that will keep you out trouble.
If you're building a site with WordPress, there's one thing you'll definitely need: content. Unfortunately, content is hard. But it doesn't have to be. This session from WordCamp Toronto 2016 walks through the process of planning, producing, and promoting content. It's easy to follow and includes recommendations for a bunch of free tools.
Crafting Custom CSS @ PodCamp Toronto 2015 #PCTO15Andy McIlwain
“Custom CSS” is often touted as a feature for blogging and website services like WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger, and Squarespace. But a blank code editor can be a daunting thing for non-coders. Where do you even begin?
We’re going to tackle that problem in this session. We’ll explore the fundamentals of HTML & CSS, the building blocks of the web. You’ll learn how to use your browser to inspect page code, and how to write basic CSS to customize the look and feel of your blog or website.
Unless It Was a Digital Dog, No One Ate Your Homework (Diigo)Lisa Sjogren
Social Bookmarking is a tool which leverages your resources. By using tools such as diigo, you will be able to annotate on webpages and access/share your bookmarks by simply visiting a website.
The basics on the hows and whys of blogging for Real Estate agents. Created for an In Office Training Session on Feb 11, 2009 at Century 21 Crest Real Estate- Class given by Marie Episale, REALTOR, e-PRO Broker-Salesperson Sales Manger/ Trainer
Chris Abraham will offer you step-by-step advice on how to openly and honestly manage your brand and reputation on Wikipedia while providing you with best practices that will keep you out trouble.
If you're building a site with WordPress, there's one thing you'll definitely need: content. Unfortunately, content is hard. But it doesn't have to be. This session from WordCamp Toronto 2016 walks through the process of planning, producing, and promoting content. It's easy to follow and includes recommendations for a bunch of free tools.
Crafting Custom CSS @ PodCamp Toronto 2015 #PCTO15Andy McIlwain
“Custom CSS” is often touted as a feature for blogging and website services like WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger, and Squarespace. But a blank code editor can be a daunting thing for non-coders. Where do you even begin?
We’re going to tackle that problem in this session. We’ll explore the fundamentals of HTML & CSS, the building blocks of the web. You’ll learn how to use your browser to inspect page code, and how to write basic CSS to customize the look and feel of your blog or website.
Presented at the joint Techalicious + Toronto WordPress Group meetup on April 4, 2015. This introductory meetup covered the following:
1.) Introduction to WordPress
• How do websites work?
• How does WordPress work?
• How do we get WordPress up and running?
• WordPress Parlance: Posts, Pages, Permalinks, Plugins, and Themes
2.) Introduction to WordPress Themes
• Finding Free Themes
• Customizing Themes with CSS
• Starter Themes vs. Theme Frameworks
3.) Building Your Own Theme
• Wireframing: Paper to Pixels
• Creating an HTML & CSS Mockup
• Transform It Into a Theme with PHP
4.) Next Steps
• Guides & Reference Material
• Useful Tools
• Getting Help
See comments on the event pages:
• http://www.meetup.com/Techalicious/events/219445848/
• http://www.meetup.com/WPToronto/events/219575540/
10 Steps to Build a Business Website for Under $100Andy McIlwain
In this session we’ll be walking through the process of building a business website, from initial planning to site launch, for less than $100. Attendees will walk away with an actionable list of to-do items that they can follow to build a business site for themselves or for their clients.
Creating Communities - PodCamp Toronto 2016Andy McIlwain
Communities are supportive networks of people that can be built around anything. You can tap into the power of community to meet new people, create relationships, collaborate on projects, raise awareness for a cause, improve your business, support your customers, and above all else, make a real impact on the lives of others.
Consider this session a fun kick-off into the world of community creation. We’ll start with some high-level theory, slowly descend into some examples of successful communities, and then gently touch down with practical resources for starting your own community initiatives.
Content Creation Regimen - WordCamp Hamilton 2016Andy McIlwain
Content creation is the hardest part of content marketing. No amount of reading articles, listening to podcasts, or attending conferences will change that. You need to do the work if you want to make an impact.
Content creation is the hardest part of content marketing. Follow this step-by-step guide to get your content production process up and running.
Full post available at https://andymci.com/content-creation-regimen/
Understand how to incorporate blogging into your classroom and improve writing along with some tricks from teacher and edublogger Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher.
Learn how to blog in 2013 - get rid of the "noise" of "should do this" and "should do that" and focus on the ONLY web property that you own: you website/blog. Get your blog working well first, and then use social media to draw people to various blog posts and offers. The works really well for senior living communities that are looking for a way to generate new leads from their website.
Slide of presentation about blogging i gave at "Internet for a Better Life" seminar. It was being held by Community of Blogger of Indonesia University of Education at PKM UPI.
Presentation for how to create the perfect blog post for SEO purposes. Courtesy of Design and Promote your one stop shop for all of you website and web design needs.
https://www.designandpromote.com
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
3. Showing some <3 to WordPress.com
• We don’t want to
sideline .com users.
• Today’s meetup focuses
on publishing.
• Three hurdles will be
covered:
– Brainstorming
– Scheduling
– Posting & Syndication
5. WordPress.org + WordPress.com
• Two sides of the same
coin, catered to different CMS Blogging
audiences. Product Service
• WordPress.org = CMS vs.
Drupal, Joomla. WordPress.org WordPress.com
• Wordpress.com =
Blogging service vs.
Tumblr, Blogger. Drupal Tumblr
• WordPress is the only
solution that plays well in Joomla Blogger
both worlds.
7. “Born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured
personal publishing system.” – WordPress.org
• Publishing is universal
to WordPress and its
competitors.
• WordPress is the
superior publishing
platform.
• WordPress has always
focused on simplicity
and empowering the
content.
10. Brainstorming: Capturing Ideas
• Carry a notebook. You
never know when an
idea will hit you.
• Digital: Evernote. Free
and awesome. Get it!
• Traditional: A small
notebook w/ protective
case. Writing by hand
increases your
Download Evernote @
comprehension!
www.evernote.com
12. Brainstorming: Writing Headlines
• Writing good content
starts with headlines.
• Jot down important
points in sub-headline
format.
• Make a sandwich!
Introductory
paragraph, key
points, supporting
paragraphs, summary.
13. Your Post Title
The first paragraph introduces your subject.
Point 1 is a Sub-Headline
Supporting Paragraph(s)
Point 2
Supporting Paragraph(s)
Point 3
Supporting Paragraph(s)
Review your points with a neat summary.
Tip: You should always
Related Links: include a relevant image in
» Cite your sources! your post!
15. Brainstorming: Focusing Thoughts
Three tried-and-true post
types for you to build on:
• Lists
Great for skimming.
• Reviews
Useful and opinionated.
• Guides
Opportunity to establish
Cracked.com built their
thought leadership. success on posting
funny/interesting lists.
18. Scheduling: Build a Routine
• We rely on routines to
get things done in our
day-to-day life.
• Predictability is more
important than
frequency.
• Get your readers to fit
your website into their
routine!
Image Credit: http://idledoodle.blogspot.com
20. Scheduling: Experimentation
• Experiment with
different schedule
formats.
• Write in advance. Set a
date aside, write posts
in bulk. Or…
• Write the night before.
Posting on a Tuesday?
Write on Monday night!
22. Scheduling: Using Calendars
• Be disciplined and stick
to your routine.
• Set deadlines, make use
of calendars.
• Google, Yahoo!, and
Hotmail in the cloud; or
use a calendar app.
Whatever tool you choose,
use it!
25. Posting & Syndication: Write!
• There’s more than one
way to craft a blog post.
• Don’t like to write in the
WordPress editor? Try:
– Windows Live Writer
– Microsoft Office
– ScribeFire
– Evernote (yep!)
Download ScribeFire @
www.scribefire.com
27. Posting & Syndication: Syndicate
• Your audience is spread
Google+ LinkedIn
across multiple places.
• Use the Hub & Spoke Facebook Reddit
model!
Your
• All social network Twitter
Other
Blogs
Site!
updates point back to
your blog.
Reach out to your readers, but make them come to your site!
28. Posting & Syndication: Syndicate
Three Approaches
• Manual: Post social
network updates by hand.
• Assisted: Use applications
like Seesmic, TweetDeck.
• Automated: Hook your
RSS feed into Ping.fm!
• Alternative: Use Hook your WordPress RSS feed into
Twitterfeed, pull updates Ping.fm to automatically share posts
across social networks!
from Twitter.
30. Posting & Syndication: Feedback
• Keep your eyes open for
responses and track
conversations.
• Two ways to do this:
– Dashboards like
Tweetdeck, Seesmic, Ho
otsuite, JugnooMe
– Google Alerts, updates
sent to RSS feed or email JugnooMe is a new Canadian
product in closed beta.
You can request an invite @
doyoujugnoo.com
31. IN CLOSING
Takeaways
• WordPress is the best publishing platform for the web.
• Download Evernote, capture your ideas on any device.
• Key points = your blog post’s sub-headlines. Write them first!
• Good post formats: Lists, Reviews, and Guides.
• Build a routine, set deadlines, use calendars.
• Don’t like the WordPress editor? Try alternative apps for writing.
• Hook your blog’s RSS feed into Ping.fm for easy syndication.
• Monitor feedback with dashboards like Tweetdeck and Google Alerts.
More Resources
• Content Rules: Read this book!
• Copyblogger: Blog/Lessons/Plugins
• Plinky.com: Inspiring your blog posts
32. THANKS!
Andy McIlwain
www.andymci.com
@andymci on Twitter