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February 25, 2010

Featured Workshop – Blogging For Business

Each week we are featuring one of the Work The Web workshops here on our blog.
This week it is ‘Blogging For Business’
Who is this workshop for?
Small to medium sized business owners who own a website but feel that they are not maximising it to it’s full potential.
What you will learn:

Work The Web

Each week we are featuring one of the Work The Web workshops here on our blog.

This weeks featured workshop is ‘Blogging For Business’

Who is this workshop for?

Small to medium sized business owners who own a website but feel that they are not maximising it to it’s full potential.

What you will learn:

If you would like to start a blog for business but aren’t sure where to start, we can show you how to do it from the ground up. We will show you everything you need to know in order to set up a blog easily and quickly and to maximise both SEO and branding potential.

This is ideal for small businesses who want to be hands-on about their online marketing and web presence.

  • Choosing hosting and domain name

  • Wordpress vs Blogger

  • Creating your blog online

  • Configuring basic blog settings

  • Changing the look of your blog

  • Creating your first post

  • Formatting and editing posts

  • Using hyperlinks

  • Embedding video and images

  • Managing comments

  • Tags, Keywords, and SEO

  • Case studies – Blogs that work

  • Setting a blogging schedule

  • Different types of blogs

  • Targeting your market

  • What to write

  • Goals and calls to action

Where & When:

We are running this one day workshop on:

Friday 7th May at at Jury’s Inn, Dublin 1

and

Thursday 27th May at The Maudlins House Hotel, Naas, Co. Kildare


A limited number of Early Bird tickets are available for €95

Full price tickets cost €145

Payment Details

If you wish to pay by Visa or Mastercard please simple pay online when booking your tickets. If you wish to pay by Laser or if you prefer to pay by Visa/Mastercard over the phone please call 091 399 939 and tell the receptionist that you wish to pay by credit card. To pay by cheque or EFT please contact Ruairi on 091 399 939 for details.

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November 27, 2009

Helping business survive the aquapocalypse

Athy sinking

It is impossible to watch the news at the moment without your heart going out to those effected by the flooding.  People loosing their homes and their businesses, devastated by the ‘aquapocalypse’.

Spiderworking.com is delighted to join the scheme initiated by Galway based IT company ‘Kro IT solutions‘ to pledge time and services to a business effected by the flood.

Ruairi from Kro launched the initiative yesterday with on his blog promoting it across social media networks.  Using the hashtag #flood2help the cause quickly spread across twitter.  People shared the blog link on Facebook and soon the pledges of help started flooding in (excuse the pun).  Others started to blog their support and soon the pledged hours started clocking up.  At Spiderworking.com we pledged a tailored social media marketing package.

If you have a business and would like to pledge your help leave a comment on Ruairi’s blog, blog about it yourself letting Ruairi know so he can link to you, and spread the word on twitter, facebook and the rest of your social networks.

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November 19, 2009

Embedding a YouTube video into your Wordpress.org blog

Video blogging can be a great way to drive traffic to your site, It’s also a quick and easy way of updating your blog.

Or maybe you have spotted a video on YouTube that you would like to share with your readers.  How do you get a YouTube video to show on your Wordpress.org blog?

Follow the steps below:

  • For the default theme:
  • On the right hand side toolbar find

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  • Click ‘Log in.’
  • Enter your user name and password.
  • You will be directed to your blog dashboard.
  • On the top right hand side of the screen click ‘New Post’

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  • On the next screen give your post a title in the box under the heading ‘Add New Post’
  • On the right hand side click the ‘HTML’ tab

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  • Open YouTube in another browser (internet explorer) window or tab.
  • Select the video you want to embed.
  • On the right hand side of the screen select the text from the embed box:

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  • Copy the text
  • Go back to your blog post page
  • Paste the text into the post (underneath the tool bar)
  • Add any text or comments you wish to make underneath the video code.
  • When you are ready to publish the post either preview it or publish it using the buttons on the right hand side of the screen:

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Good luck. We’ll look forward to seeing some of your video blogs soon.

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