These days we all want our content to be shared, to grow and market itself. As we all know, WordPress is a powerful tool, and it is positioned well for today’s web that requires sites and blogs to have some sort of social integration.
This session will explore some of the different ways to make your WordPress site or blog more “social.” We will look at different ways to spread your content to other social sites (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.), improve your users’ experience, as well as bringing other’s content into your site.
We will cover:
Social Media/Content Marketing
Making a plan
Some plug-ins and widgets to get you started
2. Who and Why
• Reiko Beach - TRB Design,
Inc. Twitter: @ReikoB
• WordPress
• WP Meet-up Boston
http://bostonwp.org/
• A Big Thank you to
Kurt & James
3. What we will cover:
• Social Media - Content
Marketing
• Making a plan
• Tools - plug-ins & widgets
4. What it is not:
• Making a social site
(Buddy Press or BBpress)
• Coding
6. Social increases your Web Presence
Sharing and growing your market
* Spreading your content to other sites
* Improve your user’s experience
* Bringing other content to your site
14. The Plan
• Figure out where you
want to be
• Do you want a single
sign-in for comments?
15. The Plan
• Sharing your content:
• over all, subscribers-via
reader & email
• make it easy to share posts from flickr: by redjar
and pages
• putting your post on other
sites (LinkedIn, Facebook,
tweeting out links)
16. The Plan
• Sharing (other):
• bringing in sites to you site
(twitter feed, FB)
• Rating and reviewing people,
comments, products
18. Themes
• Search WP themes, Cyberchimps, WP Daddy has
some free ones
• SocialH just did a blog post (7/15) on top 20.
http://www.socialh.com/social-media-wordpress-themes/
Ifeature Pro
20. Plug-ins / Widgets
• There are thousands of social
plug-ins for WordPress
• Facebook Share, Twitter from flickr by: Samuel M. Livingston
Retweet, Tweetmeme,
Facebook Like
• Disqus, Facebook Comments
for WordPress