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The one and only Seth Godin talking on Ted.com about marketing and the adapting approach to the current marketing zeitgeist. In general we are seeing a shift towards more information and less time.

Seth is a fantasic teacher and an innovative marketer with some very relevant ideas that reflect the general state of what it takes to make an impression in the current marketplace. Enjoy!

 Managing Next Gen Gallery Plugin: Play in Popup | Download (78)

This Screencast video training will show you how to upload and manage galleries in your Next Gen Gallery on your Wordpress website.

There are 4 Chapters in this Quicktime movie. They are:

1. Adding Images
2. Managing Galleries
3. Adding a New Gallery
4. The Next Gen HTML Button

 The Wordpress Dashboard: Play in Popup | Download (18)

Here we give you a tour of the central control center of Wordpress. The Dashboard.

New and revamped in version 2.6 the Dashboard gives you quick access to all your main links and resources.

 Optimizing Images with Photoshop: Play in Popup | Download (14)

This training video will show you step by step how to prepare images for the web in Photoshop©. In this example I am using Photoshop CS3 but previous versions also have the same controls and menus.

A summary of the steps are as follows:

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 Adding A Link to the Wordpress Blogroll: Play in Popup | Download (17)

Adding a link to another website or URL is easy in Wordpress 2.6.

The steps are as follows:

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 Embedding Video in Wordpress Articles: Play in Popup | Download (21)

This tutorial will show you how to embed videos from YouTube and other sharing sites into your Wordpress blog posts and pages.

For information on how to maximize your video sharing efforts click here.

Here is the process summarized:

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 How To Write Posts and Pages in Wordpress 2.6 - Screencast: Play in Popup | Download (101)

This 27 minute Screencast Training goes into depth, and will show you how to post articles and pages in Wordpress 2.6.

This tutorial is broken down into convenient chapters within the Quicktime movie. Click in the drop-down to the right of the timeline in the movie player. The chapters are:

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 Uploading and Previewing Themes in Wordpress 2.6: Play in Popup | Download (14)

This short guide will show you how to easily upload and preview themes in your self-hosted Wordpress site. Want to explore more Themes? Go to our links page.

To be able to upload new themes from your WP Admin as shown in this movie you will need the plugin - WP-Easy Uploader. If you have a website made by us and this is not already installed you can request it here.

Online video is going nuts if you hadn’t noticed already! - stats report here.

If you’re selling something or promoting yourself online and you’re not using video, you’re crazy. The number of visitors to video sharing sites is growing at an incredible rate with some focusing only on training and learning. e.g. www.Sclipo.com only allows web training and learning videos.

In addition, if you only upload videos to YouTube you may be missing a lot of potential traffic as well. To read some valuable video research go the video research page on TubeMogul. (new window)

TubeMogul allows you to upload one video, with a title, description and tags, and then publish it to many video sharing sites with one click.

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 Managing Comments in Wordpress 2.6: Play in Popup | Download (23)

Comments are a fun way to start a dialogue with your readers.

Create something of value and ask for peoples involvement to refine your ideas. or you can use various plugins to add features to the comments process.

This video training will show you how to setup ,edit and delete comments on your Wordpress website.

This video requires Quicktime for Mac and PC. Download it here.

NOTE: The Author of a particular page or post determines who is sent the Comments email notification. Make sure that the Authors are correct AND that you have a correct email address in Users > My Profile.