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01225 436109Monday, September 26th, 2011
In today’s busy world many small businesses and sole traders turn to on-line/e-learning or distance training. So why would you choose Classroom training?
E-learning allows you to proceed through a course at your leisure, when it is convenient to you, with the support of tutors, which sounds perfect if you are a small business or sole trader with no lost time away from your business.
Classroom training means taking time out of the business to learn something new. If you have already chosen to undertake further development you will consider the course, the cost financially, the cost in time and the benefits to you and your business.
Classroom training and distance learning are not better than each other and everybody will make their own choice. We believe Classroom training is more beneficial for a number of reasons.
Classroom training takes you away from your place of work to enable you to:
In fact many people learn better in an environment with other people, it allows for discussion and interaction that cannot be achieved with on-line or e-learning. Trainers provide immediate clarification to your questions and you are free to explore other areas of interest in the subject matter with the full support of an expert who is not just on tap, but actually there in the room with you. Distance Learning tutors may not be available at the times you have a question and this may halt your progress through your chosen course.
In a team or workplace environment classroom training is a great morale booster, trainees can also get support from others on the course and not feel isolated, referring back to what they have learnt together in the future.
Often Classroom training courses can be covered in a shorter period of time which will allow the newly learnt skills/information to be put in to good practice sooner. You get a faster turn around on your investment.
We think scheduled classroom training is a really great way to learn. These are some of the reasons Godjira offer scheduled classroom training for their WordPress, Twitter and Social media courses. We also offer e-learning for some of the other things we do like, MailChimp, Swiftpage, ZenCart, OpenCart and using tools like Dreamweaver to update websites.
To find out more about our scheduled classroom training give us a call or browse our events calendar here
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
After a few experiments* with things like Joomla, Drupal and a couple of other Content Management systems, we have pretty much standardised all our managed content websites on the WordPress platform.
* we call this the Dark Ages, about 5 years ago!
The question is why? Why is WordPress so good?Well there are a number of great reasons to use WordPress.
Firstly it’s FREE and Open Source and in constant development. This is really important. The World Wide Web is still a bit like the Wild Wild West out there and you need to make sure whatever software you are using is being properly maintained and protected.
Secondly it is immensely powerful. You can do pretty much anything with it from a simple blog site to a classified advert site with all points in-between. We’ve built shops, directories, and all sorts using WordPress plug-ins. WordPress scales up really well too, sites like Mashable are built on WordPress and we’ve used Amazon Cloudfront to speed sites up by delivering static content from the cloud.
WordPress lends itself to modern designs really well too, some of the premium themes are actually really good indeed too. If you take a look at some of the best design sites out there then about 40% of them are actually being built on WordPress. We can design sites for WordPress and be completely relaxed about being able to do the technical build of the website. (It helps that we are really good at it too).
WordPress can be a cost effective way of getting your own site built. Our £50 blog hosting package gives you a choice of the hundreds of standard themes that come with WordPress. For a few dollars more, you can choose a premium theme and get lots more functionality built in to your site. In fact if you pay us for a few hours of your time, we can help you set it all up and you can have a WordPress site with a premium theme that will look great, you can edit yourself and add unlimited pages, images and news/blog articles. We can also build you a custom design or fit your existing site design if you don’t want a change, but want the extra power.
One of the greatest things about WordPress is that Google loves it and WordPress loves Google back. WordPress is built from the ground up to work really well with Google; plus you can add Search Engine Optimisation plug-ins and things like the Google +1 plug-in to make sure your site plays the game in exactly the way that Google wants it played. Simply, WordPress sites perform well in Google and by adding regular news or blog articles you are doing exactly what Google wants you to do to keep your site fresh and important.
So we love WordPress. We are WordPress experts; we could write you a plug-in, build you a site and scale your site from an iddy biddy one to a great big one running on it’s own server with cloud delivered content. We can even teach you how to use WordPress yourself in our scheduled classroom training.
To find out more about our scheduled classroom training, our £50 blog hosting offer or to get us to help you build a WordPress site……drop us a line
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
John Dickens from Godjira websites was the expert being interviewed by Mark O’Donnell on BBC Radio Wiltshire on Friday 2nd July about Twitter.
You can listen to the interview using the media player here:
John Dickens on Radio Wiltshire
If you want to find out more about how you can use Twitter for your business contact Godjira or book on one of our Twitter for Business Classroom Training Sessions.
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Setting up a fan page in Facebook is fairly easy, but keeping it populated and up-to-date can be time consuming. If you are already writing articles in your blog or news page and are using a modern CMS system like WordPress, then you can cross-post using your blogs RSS feed and import that in to Facebook.
The notes application is usually hidden off the end of the tab bar. Facebook keeps changing its UI so, you might have to hunt for it!
Aha! Now here comes the trickery. The”import a blog” link is elusive and doesn’t immediately show up. You need to click the “write a new note” button and then cancel it, then it will appear. Probably writing a new note will do the same thing, but the import button isn’t always there first time.
In WordPress and on most good browsers, the RSS feed is underneath the little orange button in the address bar at the top of your browser. Clicking it will display a formatted version of the feed and also give you the link to the feed. In this case http://www.ngbowen.com/feed
Go back to Facebook. Fill in the box, and tick the box that says you are entitled to use this feed. You are aren’t you? Then click on “Start Importing”.
Click the button. Nuff Said.
Now every time you post a new blog article that will also get fed through to your Facebook Business Page.
If you’ve got more than one blog, you can join the feeds up using Yahoo Pipes, you can also take a look at stats and set up a mailing list using Feedburner. While you are in the RSS feed take a look at Twitterfeed to push your blog out to Twitter as well.
