AYSA Announces New Classes for Late Summer 2009

Struggling to get your message heard amongst all the social noise and the tough economy? AYSA is offering new classes in even more locations to help you give your business or non profit a leg up. Learn how to stay relevant by leveraging new tools like twitter and facebook, or how to get your brand on the news.

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Who Should Attend the Wordpress Workshop?
posted by amanda :: May 23, 2009 – 12:46 am | No Comment

Who Should Attend the Wordpress Workshop?

I get asked a lot of questions about the Wordpress Workshop.

“Are we going to learn how to —–?”
“Will we be able to do —–?”
“Is this an advanced class or a beginner class?”

Wordpress is a very powerful but incredibly easy to use content management system (CMS).

What is a Content Management System?

Websites are made up of code and graphics, no more. So in order to have a website, you need to know how to code and how to get your images and logos, etc just the right size and format. Oh, and how to upload them, and where to upload them, etc. A CMS eliminates those needs. It’s a frame for all your content, and allows you to upload graphics and copy to it, and then converts it into a website for you.

Why do I need a Content Management System?

You don’t know code. And you don’t own photoshop. This is why in the past, you’ve hired a web designer, a web developer, a webmaster… they go by different names, but basically, the dude (rarely a chick) that charged you a lot, delivered the project late and

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Excited about our newest venue- Venture Hyannis
May 17, 2009 – 4:37 pm | No Comment
Excited about our newest venue- Venture Hyannis

This has been an exciting year- six months ago we started Are You Socially Acceptable because we were sick of attending seminars, classes and roundtables where people gave advice, without giving instruction. To say we’ve had a cross section of attendees would be an understatement: from the two grandmothers wanting to learn how to get the message out about the Miss Senior Arizona Pageant, to the owners of a Dorfler Sheep farm who wanted to learn how to build their own website, to the CEO of a multimillion dollar international corporation.