South Coast WordPress

Having trouble planning your next company event, corporate or otherwise? There may be a way to simplify part of the process through your website.

Our next WordPress meet up event is geared towards YOUR next event. Join us to learn about the best practices in event plugins, integration & audience participation with your website. There will be plenty for all at our next South Coast WordPress meetup. Whether you are planning an event for your sales reps and clients or planning a VIP executive party for your boss making your event easier with WordPress and a few other easily integrated tools you will be breathing easier.

Even if you don’t currently use WordPress as your web publishing platform – there’s still plenty to learn. We encourage businesses and business owners to attend and share their successes as well as frustrations. We also invite developers to do the same. As usual, Matt Medeiros and Nick Francis will be your hosts of the March meetup and will demonstrate some of the tools they use around their events.

Come prepared with questions and your own examples!

What we’re learning:

• Event integration with your WordPress Site
• Configuring Event plugins
• Where to begin when it comes to the web and your next event
• Learn more about the South Coast WordPress meetup at http://southcoastwp.com

The event

We will be networking for the first half hour and the event will start promptly at 6pm.

Are you like every other local business looking to leverage Facebook to drive traffic to your website?

This month’s South Coast WordPress meetup will be focusing on using Facebook with your WordPress website and how to drive traffic from your social stream. Are you wondering how to get Facebook like widgets or social sharing buttons on your own site?

Matt Medeiros and Nick Francis will host February’s meetup and demonstrate the practices of using Facebook with WordPress. We will walk through some of the solutions we use with our own client’s and demonstrate how to perform the functions on a test site.

Even if you don’t currently use WordPress as your web publishing platform – there’s still plenty to learn. We will be looking at common Facebook widgets and how to strategically place them throughout the site in order to increase your social reach. Matt and Nick will also discuss some of the strategies they use with their clients for inbound marketing using social media.

Come prepared with questions and your own examples!

What we’re learning:

• Facebook for your WordPress website
• Configuring Facebook plugins
• Configuring share buttons
• How to drive traffic to your website from Facebook
• Learn more about the South Coast WordPress meetup at http://southcoastwp.com

The event

We will be networking for the first half hour and the event will start promptly at 6pm.

Tomorrow marks our first South Coast WordPress meetup and we’re super excited!

We don’t have a specific format pinned down just yet, but we hope to  get some great feedback from all of you tomorrow. We have our guest speaker lined up, Linda Faulkner from LindaFaulkner.com to speak about launching her site recently on the WordPress platform. Those of you new to WordPress and web marketing should enjoy listening to Linda tell the story of her new launch.

If we run out of time introducing the plan for SCWP and our guest speaker, we’ll open the stage for lightning talks and ideas!

Thanks and we hope to see you there!

Hello world!

Slocum Design Studio and Franchise Studios Inc are teaming up to host monthly WordPress meet ups.

If you’re a designer, developer, copywriter, blogger, business owner, or lover of all things web – you’re invited!

Before we can begin (and put in all the hard work) we need to know a little more about you. Take a moment to fill out the survey and lend us a hand!

For the WordPress meetup survey, click here.