When: Thursday 4th of September 2008 at 9:30am (half day workshop)

Where: The Werks

Cost: £50 - Register and pay online

with Stewart Mader

Teams can use a wiki to organize and work on critical documents and project plans. It lets people work more efficiently between face to face meetings and becomes a magnet for all the information relevant to a project. This workshop will show you how to:

• Organize your project on a wiki
• Help your team make the change from trading emails and attachments to gathering, building, and editing information on the wiki
• Manage everything related to the project, including background research, notes, URLs, timesheets, meetings agendas & minutes, action items, and finished documents, presentations, and files

Register online.

When: Wednesday 3rd September 2008 - 7-9pm

Where: The Werks

Cost: Contribution based - feed the piggy

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Grow Your Wiki

What’s the best way to grow wiki use at work? Should you even call it a “wiki”? What are the best uses? Who are the best promoters?

Stewart Mader, Wiki Evangelist, adoption expert, and author of Wikipatterns and Grow Your Wiki, will answer these and take your questions.

We’ll explore:

• What’s the business value of wikis?
• How to make the case for using a wiki in your group or team
• How to encourage participation
• Build excitement and drive adoption using examples of current wiki success
• How do wikis change an organization’s culture for the better?
• How do wikis “fit” with other business tools like SharePoint, blogs, content management systems, and email?

Register online.

Where: The Werks

Cost: Feed the shiny piggy (make a contribution)

Register: sign up online

Wordpress is traditionally known as a blogging tool. More recently it has become a popular tool to manage small websites, aka a CMS (Content Management System).

This is a small hands-on workshop delivered by Mark Kirby which will cover the basics of how to create a client site using Wordpress as a simple CMS. Mark will explore some of the pro’s and con’s of using Wordpress as a CMS and show you how to quickly turn a site’s HTML and CSS into a Wordpress template.

You are expected to have basic knowledge of HTML and CSS.

Mark Kirby is a web developer in Brighton who specialises in PHP and Wordpress.

Please register to attend.