A presentation to University of Arkansas students about how the campus WP multisite install can help them get their work online.

1. Living Online:
The WordPress Resume
Christopher Spencer
Web Communications Specialist
University of Arkansas
Twitter: cspencer75
E-mail: christopher@ozarksunbound.com or cjspence@uark.edu

2. What are our goals?
• Why WordPress Rocks
• What the U of A can do for you?
• Building a Blog/Portfolio/Resume/Repository
to get you noticed

3. Who the $#%$ are you?
Christopher Spencer: Born in El Dorado, lives in Fayetteville
• Web Guy: Hired in October as a web communications specialist at the
University of Arkansas.
• Journalist: Worked for the El Dorado News Times, Arkansas Democrat-
Gazette and The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas
• Publisher: Publisher of Ozarks Unbound (June 2009), The Food File.com
(April 2010) and Ballotbucks.org (April 2010)
• Creative: President of Creative Economy Action Group Inc., a Fayetteville
nonprofit dedicated to enhancing the city’s creative economy.
• WordPress Fanboy: Founder of WordCamp Fayetteville now in it’s third
year in Fayetteville.
• Former SPJ communications director from 2009 - 2011

4. What is WordPress?
• WordPress is web software you can use to
create a beautiful website or blog. We like to
say that WordPress is both free and priceless
at the same time.
• WordPress is used by over 14% of the
1,000,000 biggest websites.
• Five-minute installation

5. What are people using?
Breakdown of websites with a clearly identifiable CMS, according to W3Tech’s
survey of the top 1 million domains.
Year: 2011

6. What blogs are used?
Year: 2009

7. Who is using WordPress?
• WordPress is used nationally by CNN, the U.S.
Government, The New York Times, People
Magazine,
• Locally: Northwest Arkansas Newspapers,
Ozarks Unbound, the Washington County
Observer, the Fayetteville Flyer, Single Parent
Scholarship Fund and numerous other
businesses to manage their websites.

8. Examples of WordPress

9. U of A and WP
• Wordpress installation at
http://wordpress.uark.edu
• Any student, staff or faculty can
register a site there by signing in with
university credentials.

10. What you will see?

11. What you will see?

12. What you could see?

13. or …

14. or even …

15. How to create an online resume:
• Research existing resumes you like
• Distill the elements you want to provide:
Simple, comprehensive, flashy.
• Find plugins and themes that get you there
• Make printables an option, but not the focus

16. University WordPress Space
• Go to the Tutorials page – Find online
resources
• Currently more than 70 themes to choose
from – apply to get a new theme applied
• At least 86 plugins to choose from that expand
functionality

17. Groovy Plugin: WP Resume

18. Some starting plugins
• Jetpack to start – provides Sharing, Spell
check, E-mail subscriptions, Stats, Shortlinks,
Shortcodes, Sidebars (RSS, Twitter, Blog
subscribe)
• Akismet, WP Tables Reloaded, All in One SEO
Pack, Contact Form 7, NextGen Gallery, Wp
Touch

19. Some starting plugins
• Jetpack to start – provides Sharing, Spell
check, E-mail subscriptions, Stats, Shortlinks,
Shortcodes, Sidebars (RSS, Twitter, Blog
subscribe)
• Akismet, Wp Tables Reloaded, All in One SEO
Pack, Contact Form 7, NextGen Gallery, Wp
Touch

20. After Effects
• Space is always a concern. First bump is free.
• Try Amazon’s S3 – Simple Storage Service (12
cents/gigabyte)
• Portable data that travels with you as your
career develops
• Reserve a url now – have your WP site
changed to it

21. Use me
Christopher Spencer in Davis Hall
Phone: 575-4671
email: cjspence@uark.ed
Twitter: cspencer75

22. Addendum: WordCamp Fayetteville
July 27 – 29, 2012

23. WordCamp Fayetteville
• The purpose of WordCamp Fayetteville is to
teach people – including small businesses,
nonprofits, educators and journalists – about
the free open source WordPress software and
other Internet-based innovation.
• Year One = 100 people at the Town Center
• Year Two = 200 people at the Reynolds Center

24. What is WordCamp?
• Friday: WordPress 101 at The Iceberg and a
meet/tweet up afterward.
• Saturday: Full conference at the Reynolds Center.
Four tracks of speakers. Almost 30 sessions.
• Saturday night: After Party at The Iceberg
• Sunday: WordPress Wizards at Belford Group
offices

25. Why WordCamp?
$30 buys everything
T-shirt, conference access, After
Party , WordPress Wizards wp-fu,
Saturday snack and lunch, swag
bag

26. The Deal
• Use “wcfay12-student” when registering at
http://wordcampfayetteville.com to get a $10
discount. First 10 folks.
• Tickets go on sale on or around April 15.
Tweet me and I’ll notify you.