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Skype Training For Business Communication and Storytelling

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If images are worth a thousand words, audio and video are worth even more.  With YouTube being the #2 search engine just after Google, video is an excellent way to raise product awareness, reach potential customers and build trust with existing ones that the product they use is going places.

Does your company want to use Skype to do interviews?

I submitted a proposal to train a local San Francisco medical company on how to use Skype to conduct video and audio interviews so I thought it would be a great thing to post here in case there are other organizations trying to figure this out.

With the recent acquisition of Skype by Microsoft and the big announcement last week that you can now do video chats within Facebook using Skype, more companies will begin to consider Skype a serious business tool for communication.

Skype Training

Includes pre-training interview with staff to understand their audio recording
and technology needs and on-site training.

Training topics:

  • Equipment and hardware requirements for Skype recording
  • How to install and use Skype
  • How to record audio with Skype
  • How to record audio + video with Skype
  • How to use tools to record, edit and publish interviews – tools including: Audacity, Garage Band, Screenflow and Camtasia Studio

Interested in Skype training?  Contact me to discuss your technology training needs.

Upcoming Training At Freshworkshops March & April 2011

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Lot of exciting new training happening at Freshworkshops!

 

If you’re running a business and feel at times like you’re drowning when it comes to understanding what you need to be using to grow and promote your business, check out the training at Freshworkshops.

Upcoming Training for March & April 2011

New Training and Workshops coming soon!

I’ve listed upcoming training, new class ideas and testimonials in this blog post.

You can email info@freshworkshops.com or call 1-888-963-7374 with questions.

  • Pump Up Your Blog!  Wordpress Plugins For Beginners
  • Mailchimp Email Newsletters and Gmail Contacts
  • Techsmith Camtasia Studio
  • Using Your FTP Client with WordPress
  • What The Heck Is Social Media?  Choosing The Right Social Network
  • Get A Grip: Freelancer’s Guide To Billing Clients Online
  • Get A Grip: How To Setup Your First Email Newsletter Campaign
  • Pump Up Your Blog!  How To Setup WordPress Multi-Site
  • Manage Your Leads And Contacts In The Cloud
  • How To Encourage & Measure Intelligent Exploration Of Twitter For Your Business

 

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How To Update WordPress After A Domain Change

I had a Freshworkshops student taking the Build Your Own WordPress Website workshop ask for help to change her WordPress site over to a new domain.  She had registered with a .com but wanted to change it to a .com.au as she was in Australia.

I recommend all students setup their hosting at Rochenhost as a WordPress hosting company because of their twice daily backups of customer files and databases, certified Red Hat support folks, amazingly fast response time (usually under 12 minutes) and the cost of their hosting packages are similiar to all those “other” companies like Bluehost, HostGator, GoDaddy, MediaTemple and so on.

Freshworkshops student site cahootscommunications.com.au

In order to do this, we completed the following steps using the remote training & support service I offer at Freshworkshops:

  1. Signed into cheapdomains.com.au and changed the “www” and “@” record to point to her shared ip address at Rochenhost
  2. Told Rochenhost we wanted to change the primary domain name to the new .com.au
  3. Connected via FTP to her WordPress site before these changes had taken effect and changed the “WordPress Address (URL)” and “Site Address (URL)” in the wp-config.php file
  4. Ran a script against the database to change all instances of her old domain to her new domain.  This mysql replace script from IDoWebDesign will generate the SQL statement for you. Read More…

WordPress Training For Busy People is Tomorrow!

After a very popular session last month, I’m holding the WordPress Training For Busy People again on Thursday October 21st, 2010.

It’s a live, 3 hour intensive training on WordPress covering everything from post to pages, widgets, plugins, choosing themes and a whole lot more!

Register

Class: WordPress Training For Busy People
Date: October 21st, 2010 at 11am Pacific
Length: 1 session, 3 hours
Where: Online Classrooom at Freshworkshops
Price: $49

Who should attend?

  • Business owners new to WordPress
  • Employees who will be blogging for your company
  • Website designers considering WordPress for their next project

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June Webinars At Zendesk: 101, Active Directory SSO and Community Features

It’s that time again to list the webinars at Zendesk for the month of June.

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Remote Authentication: Active Directory SSO

This month special Zendesk webinar topic is: “Remote Authentication to Zendesk with Active Directory“.  I’ll cover the remote authentication Single Sign On (SSO) feature which allows you to pass on existing credentials to Zendesk so people don’t have to sign in with yet another password.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PDT Register Read More…

New Recorded Training For WordPress Now Available!

Folks I’m very happy to announce that Freshworkshops is undergoing some exciting changes in the next few months!

Today, I’ve just released two recorded trainings focused on people running blogs:

The first is Building Your Own WordPress Website

and the second is How to Get Beautiful Blog Photos!

Here are the details of the two trainings.  I’m working on several more.  I received so many requests from people who couldn’t make it to the live trainings that this was the next obvious option. Read More…

I Got My Passport Today!

I’m happy to share that I got my very first passport in the mail today! I went to the post office just 4 weeks ago and today I got it!!!!

Photo Credit: adria.richards

I have wanted a passport for so long but felt intimidated about getting one and also didn’t know how I would even begin to use it since a year ago, I got very nervous about traveling.  Attending all these conferences and having clients all over has truly helped me develop a better comfort level with travel!

Now I can train, travel and speak anywhere in the world!  Check out speaking topics and sample work at http://adriarichards.com/speak

Feeling happy and ready to check off another goal on my list *smile*

I’m one step closer to empowering the world through technology!

Thank you everyone for your support and advice on filling out the papers and the process.  I was so nervous but asking for help on Twitter, bringing Bluey with me and researching what I needed beforehand really helped.

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Guest Webinar Tomorrow With Blogalicious: Google Search SEO

If you own a business and you’re on the internet, you have probably heard about your “Google rank”.  Maybe someone has called or emailed you promising if you pay them a monthly fee, they can get you to the very top of Google.

I will be a guest for an online Google SEO webinar being held by the Blogalicious conference tomorrow afternoon and invite you to attend!

How To Be Number One On The Google Without Paying A Small Fortune
When: Thursday, February 11th, 2010 at 2pm – 3pm Eastern
What: Learn how to rank well in Google
Cost: Free

Google search redesign
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Online WordPress Training Starts February 2nd, 2010 at Freshworkshops

Would you like to learn how to get WordPress installed?

Looking to setup WordPress.org and leave WordPress.com?

I’m back from presenting at Wordcamp NYC, Wordcamp Atlanta and Wordcamp Boston now and I will be holding another round of the popular 4 week, live WordPress training at Freshworkshops which starts February 2nd.

If you attended one of these Wordcamps, you get 50% off!

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Free Training: Installing Joomla! from Scratch in XAMPP

The free Joomla! training on how to install has been bumped to Friday, December 18th, 2009 at 4pm.

This class is for people who want to gain a better understanding of how to setup the content management system, Joomla.

Level: 201 Intermediate or Enthusiastic Beginner
Time:
2 hours
Location:
Online
Cost:
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Win A Free Ticket To Launch A Successful Geek Business

Life is good, isn’t it?

I’ve had some very exciting things go on in the last week and I’m feeling so thankful that it’s a good time to share the love.

I will be giving away 3 tickets to tomorrow night’s webinar, What Every Geek Needs To Start A Company with me and Chris Pirillo hosting.

Winners:

Howard and Benedict

Congrats!  Your tickets are on the way.

If you are already an IT consultant or thinking about launching something soon, this webinar is going to give you all the business basics as well as specific things us geeky/nerdy folks deal with like:

  • Finding potential client leads
  • Pricing our services
  • Why Geeks need contracts
  • Networking with other humans

It will be a 2 hour, live phone call and we’ll discuss, take feedback and recommend tools to get you on the path to geek success!

Rules

  1. There are 3 tickets up for grabs
  2. The most interesting submissions will win
  3. Post a comment or do a blog post about how you could benefit by attending
  4. If you do a blog post, you must link back to this post
  5. Contest ends 9/24/2009 3pm CST

Training Workshops for September!

Folks,

There’s a whole slew of trainings for WordPress, Joomla, Google Apps and more over at Freshworkshops this month so head over and check them out!  I’m proud to announce this will be our first month in full swing.  Back to school for bloggers and website folks too!

Free Workshop: Installing Joomla! from Scratch

Free Workshop: Installing Joomla! from Scratch

We will install Joomla locally on our machines using XAMPP, a tool that allows you to run a stand alone web server on your computer for testing purposes. No hosting account needed!
September 4, 2009 – 4:00 pm


Free Webinar: 10 Essential Things About Starting a Blog

Free Webinar: 10 Essential Things About Starting a Blog – FULL

Everyone is hopping online these day and talking about blogs, social networking, and cloud computing for business…But where to start?  Save 40% until noon Thursday!

September 8, 2009 – 1:30 pm


Build Your Own WordPress Website: The DIY Series

Build Your Own WordPress Website: The DIY Series

Do you want to build a website but don’t know where to start? No need to learn difficult programming languages!  This hands-on workshop has a limited class size of 12 so you are guaranteed to get help.
September 8, 2009 – 6:00 pm


How To Setup Google Apps Domain Email

How To Setup Google Apps Domain Email

Setup professional domain email with Google Apps yourself! Learn how to register a domain name, register with Google Apps and get your domain email up and running
September 10, 2009 – 1:30 pm


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Setup Professional Domain Email with Google Apps [Training]

Folks,

Reminder that the live training to setup Google Apps is coming around again!  This will be offered every few months as the waiting list grows.

January 2010 is the next worskshop.

We will:

Content

  1. Learn how to register for a new Google Apps domain
  2. Learn how to register a new domain name at GoDaddy and always get a low price
  3. Review the steps to fully activate your new domain email
  4. Discuss mail records (MX)
  5. Discuss email migration strategies
  6. Discuss the difference between Google Apps and Microsoft Exchange
  7. Verify domain ownership for new Google Apps account
  8. Change mail records (MX) for new Google Apps account
  9. Tour of Google Apps dashboard
  10. Learn how to test for mail record resolution

The workshop goes for 1 hour and the cost is $25.

Registration ends tonight so make sure to signup at Freshworkshops!

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