AAM 2012: Blogging Basics 101

Building blogs in Wordpress

Cool Resources
- Free Wordpress themes A huge repository of free wordpress themes. You can also google “wordpress themes” to find more free and for-sale themes.
- More about the Twenty Eleven Theme
- Smashing Magazine This site has some really great tutorials for Wordpress, from beginner level to advanced template and plugin editing. I love this site!
From Wordpress, About Wordpress
In Case of Emergency
- Google
Popular Plugins
- Add Link to Facebook Automagically adds a link to your latest post on your Facebook wall
- AddThis featuring Sharing Buttons / Facebook Like / Tweet Button
- Akismet Helps control spam comments
- Broken Link Checker
- Google Analytics for Wordpress
- SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam Helps minimize spam comments
Wordpress Books
- Head First Wordpress For the person who has played around with blogs already and wants to know what else Wordpress can do
- Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog For those who are ready to hack the templating files
- Teach Yourself Visually Wordpress For novices who never created a blog before this workshop

Blogs are for people. Make them for people.

Focus like a laser on your mission, using your blog to extend the mission into the online space.

There’s a thriving blogosphere already out there. Join it!