{"id":1457,"date":"2011-09-26T09:29:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T23:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2011.goldcoast.wordcamp.org\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2011-09-26T13:00:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T03:00:17","slug":"speaker-jodie-miners-building-a-web-presence-for-your-community-group-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldcoast.wordcamp.org\/2011\/speaker-jodie-miners-building-a-web-presence-for-your-community-group-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker: Jodie Miners, Building a Web Presence for your Community Group, for Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Jodie Miners\" src=\"http:\/\/1.gravatar.com\/avatar\/765548dc4a96c1f8dd10b1f0aaac298a?s=220\" alt=\"Jodie Miners Avatar\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jodie Miners<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In this day and age, every community group, sporting team or not-for-profit group needs their own web presence. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re excited to have Jodie Miners presenting at WordCamp Gold Coast on building a web presence for your community group using WordPress.com and other free tools.<\/p>\n<p>Jodie&#8217;s presentation will focus on free or very low cost tools that your group can use to to get online and get organised.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;ll focus on using WordPress.com for building out a simple website and then look at other free tools you can integrate with your site to make a fully online community. This will include apps to manage your:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Emails<\/li>\n<li>Documents<\/li>\n<li>Events<\/li>\n<li>Forms<\/li>\n<li>Email Marketing, and much more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We asked Jodie a little more about her experience in building online presence of community groups and how she found her way to WordPress.<\/p>\n<p><strong>At WordCamp Gold Coast, you&#8217;ll show us how Community Groups can use WordPress.com and other free web tools to build their web presence. What are some community groups you&#8217;ve helped get online with WordPress?<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The community group I generally use as my playground to test new things out is NSW Underwater Hockey &#8211; There was always one missing piece on WP.com that meant that I would not change it over, but now that we can do Google Calendars on WP.com, this site will be the basis of my demos for the talk.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve even got my Mum onto building WordPress.com sites and she has built one for her Probus club and one for her brother&#8217;s business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>What tools other than WordPress do you encourage groups to use?<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Google Apps, MailChimp, Eventbrite, Saasu.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>What sort of outcomes have community groups seen after getting an online presence?<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s quite a transformation &#8211; having the ability for multiple people to edit the site, and having no issues with editing and uploading HTML pages, and having only the one &#8220;guru&#8221; who holds the keys to the kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>There is also the other benefits of using Google Apps which gives them the domain, their own email addresses and a central place to store all of the documents that is key &#8211; (then they can link to those documents on the WordPress site to enable download from their site).<\/p>\n<p>Plus all the other wonderful free or very cheap tools to manage members and send emails to members is key to the whole solution for community groups.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>You&#8217;re a Business Analyst by day working in the world of Sharepoint and other Enterprise technologies, how did you find your way into the world of WordPress?<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I first started blogging I started out on WordPress.com, I had used blogger and did not like it at all. A few years back I was asked to help a friend set up a site for their small business &#8211; that was on Full WordPress, so it was a good opportunity for me to undertake this project and learn WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>I then did a WordPress e-Commerce site for another friend&#8217;s business and tackled some basic PHP. I struggled with not knowing enough CSS so I got some 1 on 1 training to learn CSS from scratch and I now feel that I can tackle some more in-depth customising of WordPress themes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a coder, so I don&#8217;t ever intend to be able to build custom themes or do major development on WordPress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>What are you most looking forward to at WordCamp Gold Coast &#8211; the socialising or the sunshine?<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well, all my family is on the Gold Coast so it will be a good time to catch up with them also, and it&#8217;s always nice to pop in for a visit to Currumbin or Burleigh Beach for a swim and a few beers at the clubs overlooking the beach.<\/p>\n<p>But mostly I&#8217;m looking forward to learning heaps about WordPress and hopefully sharing a few tips of my own.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks Jodie, we&#8217;re looking forward to learning from you and hopefully teaching you a thing or two as well.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>You can follow <a title=\"Jodie Miners on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/jodiem\">Jodie on Twitter<\/a>. You should also follow <a title=\"WordCamp Gold Coast on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/wordcampgc\">WordCamp Gold Coast on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this day and age, every community group, sporting team or not-for-profit group needs their own web presence. 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