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WordPress Blog training May
I will hold a free WordPress blog training Monday 5/17 at 5:30pm at my home. You can learn how to post to this MNS blog, or even your own blog. I estimate it will take about an hour, but at the latest it ends at 7:00pm, because of Leilani’s bedtime.
We will cover:
* Signing up, signing in, basic navigation on the administration panel
* Adding new posts, editing existing posts
* Uploading photos and media to blogposts
* Adding Youtube and other movies to blogposts
* Adding dates to the school calendar
If there are people who already completed the Basic training, or know the above already:
* Creating Photo Galleries
* Categories, excerpts, tags and SEO (if you stay awake)
I can accommodate up to 3 people, I have one PC and 2 Macs, or you can bring your laptop. Email me if you are interested – also email if you are interested and can’t make the date.
Let me know if you need to bring the kids. Maybe I can arrange for Andy to take care of them.
This is the last blog training until October, unless more than 3 people sign up (in that case I can also hold one the following week.
Edited: May 3rd, 2010
Blog Training
I will hold a free WordPress blog training 4/19 at 5:30pm at my home. You can learn how to post to this MNS blog, or even your own blog. I estimate it will take about one hour.
We will cover:
- Signing up, signing in, the Dashboard
- Adding new posts, editing existing posts
- Uploading photos and media to blogposts
- Adding Youtube and other movies to blogposts
- Adding dates to the school calendar
- Creating Photo Galleries
- Categories, excerpts, tags and SEO (if you stay awake)
I can accommodate up to 3 people, I have one PC and 2 Macs, or you can bring your laptop. Email me if you are interested – also email if you are interested and can’t make the date.
You can bring your kids, Andy and Leilani will be home to play with them.
Edited: April 12th, 2010
RSS – Subscriptions – Notifications
At yesterday’s board meeting Katie asked if we can be notified of updates by email. I now added an RSS Subscription Service to the blog, it’s not exactly email but very easy to use. You can find a great tutorial online but chances are a click on the RSS symbol below and a few simple steps will set it up perfectly for you.
If you’d like to be notified of new blog posts automatically click on
The RSS symbol is always in the sidebar to the right, at the bottom if you have troubles setting it up drop me an email.
Edited: March 31st, 2010
Please Review Us!
We ask board members, parents and staff members to please review the Millbrae Nursery School on the following sites:
Yellow Pages
Yelp
Google
Yahoo
Savysource (only if you have 1/2 hour, big survey)
Great Schools
Please pick one or more of the sites listed above, if you don’t have an account create one and in the review point out our strengths while making it truthful. (Call me if you need help 650-871 7449). Please do not review anonymously, or misrepresent yourself. And please, for grievances see the teachers or board members first 
Especially yelp has a lot of rules under which reviews are deleted or hidden, a few that I know are: You need to log in to your yelp account and review occasionally – after a few weeks to months a 1-review account will be deleted. Do not have 2 or more super positive reviews in a row. They will be hidden, and you won’t get a new chance to review the businesses for a while.
Edited: February 1st, 2010
New Website and Blog
I am happy and excited to present the new website and blog.
The content of the old website has been copied over, refreshed, and reviewed by my husband Andy, who is a technical writer. The blog lets us post event photos and share stories and updates.
Every parent who is interested can add articles or photos directly to the blog. Let me know if you are interested, I can set up an account and teach you how to do it. I’d like to hold a general class on Blog usage.
We should make 1 blogpost per week for a good Google rating. So far we have exceeded this goal every week, giving us #1 rank in google (above local.yahoo and above yelp) for preschool millbrae, “millbrae preschool” and #3 for preschools Millbrae and millbrae daycare (working on it…) also need to work on “preschool millbrae”
I consider the site finished now, but things I think really should be done are:
- I need input about the Admissions and Registration content so we can make it clearer
- Photos for the main website (got some from Amy, took some myself but more are appreciated)
It would be nice to have:
- Bio for Carla
- Photos of teachers and Carla
- Directory of parents’ businesses
- Photos of current events, parties, activities or trips (for the blog)
- Everyday school and play yard photos (for the blog and the website)
- Links: your own or favorite websites to share with others
- If you have a website of your own, personal or business, create links to www.millbraenurserycoop.org
Ongoing needs:
- Items to go on the Wishlist post – or to be removed from that
- Newsletters and newsletter items for the blog
- Suggestion, input and ideas about the new website. To best reach me: Comment on this blog post or email sonja@wailuaweb.com or by phone 650-871-7449 or Kass Pre-K file
Things I will do in the near future:
- Monthly blog posts about the schools history history
- Add Carla to the staff page
- Research ways to integrate networking into the blog (possibly social networking addon to the blog)
- Take more photos for website, put galleries on main site (parent’s request) I’d still love to get your photos
- Add a few school emails …@millbraenurserycoop.org and forward them to your usual email address (staff, info, webmaster)
- Take photos of teachers and staff who don’t provide them
- Add some links to our List of Donors or Sponsors, but I need to research some technicalities here (linkfarm). Maybe only link to donors of $100 or more?
Other Computer Issues and Solutions (it gets technical here…):
We moved the hosting it away from Dreamhost to my regular hosting provider 1and1, due to continued technical difficulties that Dreamhost is experiencing. I checked in google, the site sped up by an average factor of 4. Dreamhost had problems with their SQL servers and I spent a lot of time figuring out the problem, they fixed it twice, but there were new slowdowns. I got the domain millbraenurseryschool.org back from a (nice enough) cybersquatter (as a Christmas gift I think) and consolidate Domain Registration (millbraenurserycoop.org from dreamhost, millbraenurseryschool.org from enomcentral into a godaddy account. I also closed the dreamhost account saving the school $20 per month.
Edited: December 7th, 2009