Trish Perkins' new slide show for her popular TechThursday series in the Triad area of North Carolina. The WordPress show is an introduction to the important Content Management System, open source and free WordPress.

1. WordPress for Nonprofits
Can a website get any easier?

2. Who’s Trish?
• Nonprofit systems
analyst and designer
• Affordable nonprofit
technology consultant
• Trainer—Google,
Salesforce, Office,
Video, Social Networks,
WordPress web sites

3. We do cloud computing solutions

4. Where is your WebSite Pain?
Tell us about your org and your web issues…

5. What do nonprofits WANT?
A website that is:
• Easy to update
• Easy to maintain
• Easy to customize
• Quick learning curve
• Cheap
• Good support network

6. Two WordPress Concepts

7. www.wordpress.com
• Hosted at WordPress
• Free, free, free
• Fastest way to get online
with your site
• Limited themes
• Restrictions about the
kind of content you can
use—no online
donations, no Google
Map
• www.wordpress.com/
yoursitename

8. www.wordpress.org
• Download the open
source software
• More themes
• Host at DreamHost or
GoDaddy or another
host
• eCommerce, maps,
online donations, fancy
photo gallery plugins
• Almost free…

9. Ten Reasons to Love WordPress

10. Functional Reasons
1. Ease of installation & development
2. Ease of training staff and volunteers to use it
3. Scalable– start small and grow…grow…GROW
4. Lives in the cloud: Access it from anywhere
5. Accessible for handicapped people
6. Different user levels – great for volunteer help
7. Community Support: Lots of developers creating
new plug-ins, because it’s open source

11. Marketing Reasons
1. Search Engines can find you
2. Need a change? Find a new theme
3. A-B testing for outcomes you really want

12. Things that are NOT free
• Time to develop the site
• Time to update WordPress and Plug-ins
• Time to train users – or to let users train
themselves

13. Local WordPress Sites
Demonstration

14. Make a Plan!
• Install WordPress
• Decide on a theme
• Gather your photos
• Build your pages
• Update, update, update

15. Posts and Pages
• Static Pages are regular website pages that
you can easily create.
• Posts are the twice-weekly updates you
provide your readers

16. Dashboard
Your web development at a glance

17. Upload media

18. Plugins

19. WordPress Mobile

20. Questions?

21. Contact Me
trish@cloud4good.com
336-471-5927
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