Setting up Your Blog on WordPress

Top rated icon TOP RATED

Carousel 4
ABOUT THIS EVENT
Event Category

Business & Technology

Event Overview

Learn how WordPress can set you on the right path to building and managing a successful blog.


Presented by Scott Winterroth, Content Academy® Co-Founder & Instructor


Do you have a great idea for a blog and want to share it with your friends, family and the world, but don’t know how to get it online? We recommend WordPress. WordPress is a content management system that was created by bloggers. It’s benefits include:



  • Low-cost

  • Minimal effort to set up

  • Professional look and feel

  • Easy to post content

  • Doesn’t cause you a headache to maintain


Robust online publishing platform used by solo bloggers to media networks


In our Setting Up a WordPress Blog in-person seminar, we’ll provide you with a technical overview on setting up a blog using WordPress.org, the #1 open-source content management system.


 


 


 

Minimum age

All ages welcome

What You Can Expect From This Experience
  • Popular platforms for blogging
  • Advantages and disadvantages to using a blogging platform, such as Blogger.com
  • Tools required based on your long term goals
  • Ideas and strategies for audience building
  • How social media can help or hurt your blog
  • How to build a blog launch plan
Cancellation Policy
Location

There are currently no upcoming dates scheduled for this Dabble. Log in to an account message the host or add to your bucket list to be automatically notified when new dates are posted.

MORE ABOUT YOUR HOST

Scott Winterroth

Top rated icon TOP RATED

Scott is a co-founder of Content Academy and a 10-year professional of the integrated marketing and communications fields. Currently, Scott is a full-time marketing manager in addition to his duties as co-founder of Content Academy.

Prior to his current full-time position, Scott worked in a corporate communications department and was a champion for the utilization of social media for public relations strategy. Today, social media continues to be an integral component of many external communication programs and a key asset to the organization for which he worked. Scott began his career working for a public relations agency where he assisted a variety of accounts in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors.

WordPress and Blogging Creds:

In 2008, Scott was introduced to WordPress while he was starting his first blog, CountryMusicChicago.com. Utilizing his journalism degree, publicity tactics, and photography skills, Scott managed to build an online community from scratch that quickly became a known resource for all things country music in Chicago. Along Scott’s Country Music Chicago journey, he quickly became enamored with WordPress, an open-source website content management system, and digital marketing tactics such as search engine strategy and content marketing. Scott quickly realized that when combined these tools can be very powerful for not only building blogs but also for marketing businesses online.
In 2010, Scott launched Front & Social which provides blogging strategy and WordPress development services for a variety of clients who are looking to use WordPress and search engine strategy to promote their products or ideas. Today, through his efforts with Front & Social, Scott has had the pleasure to assist many entrepreneurs with launching blogs and podcasts.

More Events From Scott Winterroth

BROWSE ALL EVENTS