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
After testing them out on our friends, and them testing us! We’ve launched a range of gadget lessons to enable you to use your gadgets and devices to the full extent of their capability. One on One or group sessions available.
We can provide full day sessions or a couple of hours chat with your mates round finding out about apps and websites
Have a look at www.audiomint.co.uk/gadgets to find out more or call us on 0161 408 5221
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
You’ve got a Twitter account and you’ve sent a few tweets, but it’s not really caught your imagination or you feel you’ve nothing important to say? Not sure how it can work for you or your organisation?
Our Twitter course shows you how to use Twitter to increase sales, improve your organisation’s brand awareness and get right in to your customers conscience in a cost effective and simple way.
During the day you’ll cover:
- An Introduction to Twitter – what it is and how it can be used for you and your organisation
- Why Twitter – why you should use it over other social network
- How it differs to Facebook and Linkedin but how to link to them to improve productivity
- Profile – How to set up your profile
- Twitter Terms – tweets, Retweets, hash tags etc.
- Socialoomph – a great website for automating those boring tasks.
- Creating a strategy for Tweeting, – content, time and place
- Interacting with other twitter users – who and how to follow, what to say.
- The Do’s and Dont’s of Twitter – avoid making a fool of yourself
- Choosing an App on your phone or desktop that works for you – on your own account and device
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.
Our next Introduction to WordPress course starts on Monday 21st November 2011 at the Inspire Centre in Levenshulme.
this 2 hour 3 week course will get you creating your own website in no time using the briliant WordPress software. You’ll be working on a live website that you’ll get to keep after the course and you’ll learn:-
- how to set up a wordpress based website.
- create pages and posts.
- add images and video
- enhance functi0nality with plugins and widgets
- find and install new themes
- link to social media sites.
- purchase domain names and hosting packages.
- cost is only £10 per hour! a total of £60
too busy to attend this course? we offer one on one training, all day events or a complete web design service.
contact – hello@audiomint.co.uk or call us on 0161 408 5221
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