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I’ve escaped from the “office” today and am working at a Regus Business Lounge as St Peters House in Manchester City Centre.
I’m in a little think pod which is great as you can hide away from the world and ear wig on the conversations going on around you, if that’s your bag, that’s not mine of course but i have learnt about Chinese immigration rules and how to beat them.
There’s loads of these business lounges around the world apparently and my little Gold Card gets me in to all of them. some tho are just lounge type chairs with a table attached to the right arm and are a bit small.
And how much is this service? something like £25 a month if you join with Regus BUT FREE if you join the Federation of Small Business at £130 a year. Cant complain at that!
oh and there’s free tea and coffee and wifi!
We’ve just confirmed our first twitter one day course in Sheffield. We’ll be at The Circle an excellent space owned by Voluntary Action Sheffield in the City Centre on Tuesday 6th March from 10-4pm. Join us to find how to improve your Twitter experience and automate those boring tasks.
or call 0161 408 5221 or hello@audiomint.co.uk
A student on one of our WordPress courses is featured in this weeks South Manchester Reporter (20th January 2012)
This is the first website that Gina from Creativity Unleashing Potential has made herself and she’s now using it to promote events and groups that benefit from the work she does.
Gina attended our 6 week course and has gone on to purchase web space and hosting from us to develop her site further.
We’re pleased to announce our next training course at Levenshulme Inspire.
After the success of the last two training courses we’re pleased to being back our Introduction To WordPress course in March.
The course takes place over three weeks from 7th March 2012, 6-8pm:
This discounted course is for – Community Groups, Small Businesses, Freelancers, Bloggers and anyone wishing to create or enhance their own website.
If you’d like your own website or blog but dont know where to start, this is the course for you.
If you have a website but would like to alter or improve it, WordPress can help.
Using WordPress.org self hosted Web Software (used by over 25,000,000 websites and bloggers including the New York Times, Ebay and us) we’ll guide you through the creation of a new website in 3 easy and relaxed 2 hour sessions.
You’ll be using a live website installation for practice in class and at home and to see your results instantly. You’ll be able to keep your website to practice on for 6 months after the end of the course.
Class sizes are small (max 10) so spaces are limited.
Sessions will include -
- create new web pages – including adding images
- writing blog posts – and adding tags & categories
- Changing the look and layout of your website – choose from 1,000′s of free or paid for themes.
- Add plugins - to increase the capability of your website – Send posts to twitter, facebook,
- Hosting websites, web address purchasing and email.
Start Date – Wednesday 7th March 2012
Last Session – Wednesday 21st March 2012
Time – 6pm to 8pm
Sessions – 3
Cost £20 per session (£60 payable, £20 deposit required on registration)
Location: Inspire Centre, Stockport Road, Levenshulme, M19 3AR
Free wi-fi or a network port will be provided*
*Participants will need to provide their own laptop with wi-fi or network cable.
To find out more or sign up please email Dave Murat at hello@audiomint.co.uk, use our contact form or call us on 0161 408 5221.
Alternatively sign up a Levenshulme Inspire reception.
A new version of WordPress is available. (A bar across the top of your dashboard tells you!) Highlights
- Easier Uploading
- File Type Detection – A single upload button.
- Drag-and-Drop Media Uploader
- Dashboard Design
- New Toolbar in the dashboard, combining the Admin Bar and admin header
- Responsive design for some screens, including iPad/tablet support
- Flyout menus, providing single-click access to any screen
- New User Experience
- New feature pointers, helping users navigate new features
- Post-update About screen
- Dashboard welcome area for new installs
- Content Tools
- Better co-editing that releases post locks immediately
- Tumblr Importer
- Don’t lose widgets when switching themes
- Under the Hood improvements
- Use the postname permalink structure without a performance penalty
- Improved Editor API
- is_main_query() function and WP_Query method
- Remove a number of funky characters from post slugs
- jQuery 1.7.1 and jQuery UI 1.8.16
- A new Screen API for adding help documentation and adapting to screen contexts
- Improved metadata API
- Performance improvements and hundreds of bug fixes
Interesting article on Mashable by Brian Casel who created our theme about WordPress 3.3: The 11 Most Important New Features: http://bit.ly/vJo3Ze
We’re looking forward to getting the official release in the next few days.
Google has added pages for businesses to its Google+ social media website, just like the fan pages on Facebook.
Similarily it’s announced that last week was its third largest for traffic, showing that it is growing, but it’s still very small compared to Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and who amongst your friends actually uses it? and do you know what to do when you get there? looks like a large empty place doesnt it, that’s the clean layout for you!
but if you want to check out our new page, do so here! we’ll soon be doing training through the hangout pages and exploring the potential of this site as it grows.
We’re just getting ready for tonights WordPress Training session. Dont forget we’ve got two more courses available in the next few weeks:-
a 3 week course (2 hours per week) – at Levenshulme Inspire Centre
and a 1 day course – 3rd December 2011 in Manchester City Centre.
look on the website for more information or call 0161 408 5221.
We’ve just added some new WordPress training courses;-
One Day Courses, weekly courses and one on one tuition at your home, online, or in your office.
Take a look at www.audiomint.co.uk/wordpress for more info or call Dave on 0161 408 5221.
We deliver training programs aimed at the beginner in WordPress web designing;
- Weekly 1 or 2 hour classes at venues across the region.
- One day courses in Manchester city centre and towns in the North West.
- 1 on 1 tuition at your home or office.
- 1 on 1 remote training via the Internet
- Small group tuition at your premises – develop the skills of your employees in a cost effective manner.
Every delegate receives their own live website to work on both during sessions and for 6 months.
All training materials are available online through our website with easy to follow instructions and great hints along the way.
It’s Friday 14th October and it’s new iPhone day. We’re a bit excited as we know our new phone is ready and waiting at the Vodafone store. But we don’t want to queue. We haven’t got time!
So what time should we go and collect? How long can we hang on for? How big is the queue? Why didn’t we just get it delivered?
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