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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.

Thursday, August 27, 2009 / 6pm-9pm- Chandler, AZ

Members of our Wordpress Workshop have learned to install WP, personalise and theme it, and load and manipulate content. Now that you’ve had time to build your own site, lets take it to the next level with some intermediate techniques.

Learn to use plugins to manipulate menus, bring in social media, boost your RSS feed, and add graphics. Learn how to manage image galleries online, add video, and even boost the SEO of your blog. We’ll cover managing users and subscribers of your site as well as how to write blog posts that sell.

This is an intermediate class open only to those who have previously taken Wordpress Workshop. A sense of comfort with the internet and your own computer will be helpful. Attendees may follow along, or actively participate with your wifi enabled laptop.

Sunday, August 30, 2009/ 9am-4pm-Chandler, AZ

Social media. Everyone is telling you to follow them on twitter, from your newscaster to your hairdresser. Your daughter is concerned you’ll show up on her facebook account, and you keep getting emails to LinkedIn, but can’t figure out why people love it. You’d love to send photos online! What’s the hype, and doesn’t this all take a lot of time? Every day, people are telling you why you and your company SHOULD be using social media, but no one is telling you HOW to use it.

Bring your wifi enabled laptop, sit back and get ready to be shocked at how easy it is to dip into Social Media. We’ll take you through how to set up an account, to how to use it and what neat tools each technology has.

We’ll walk through Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, and Youtube all in one day. Step by step, at a very quick but fun pace. This is a beginner to intermediate class, but requires you have a wifi enabled laptop (you can follow along without one, but will be at a disadvantage) and are comfortable with your computer and the internet.