[FM Discuss] From Marc on WordPress docs

[Marc Beneteau]

Awesome, I like the way this is developing.

There are numerous affiliate opportunities with Wordpress manuals --
hosting, commercial themes, commercial plugins, development services,
training services (ie WordPress Academy http://wpacademy.tv, I have a 40%
affiliate program).  Users want to to know about these services and so they
should be included in a practical wordpress manual. I propose the project
co-ordinator get this money.

I am in a major rewrite of my WordPress Quick Start Guide (
http://wpacademy.tv/wordpress-quick-start-tutorial/) and will be
contributing this to flossmanuals as a stand-alone doc, as a free-standing
chapter in Mick's manual (if y'all are willing), and (as per excellent
earlier suggestion) to free Kindle.  It's going to take 4-6 weeks.

THanks for feedback and encouragement.

Marc



On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:15 PM, mick fuzz <mickfuzz at clearerchannel.org>wrote:

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> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Marc Beneteau <marc at manifesting.net>wrote:
>
>> **
>> Mick and all --
>>
>> Ok looks like we are on the same page here (others feel free to chime-in),
>> initial handshake succeeded.  No one has responded to the question of where
>> to send the affiliate links, so I guess we'll just send them to Mick
>> for co-ordinating all of this ;)
>>
>
> I have to admit that the reason that I didn't reply was because I didn't
> know what affiliate links were. From the stuff I've read it seems to
> normally be linked to a affiliate marketing programme. So I'm a bit
> confused. Is this a money thing or can it also be used to describe where you
> send traffic after they come to your site. I've not got any real experience
> of that kind of thing.
>
> In terms of motivation. I wanted to get this stuff updated as I do use it
> for training pretty regularly or at least I have in the past, and I've been
> paid to do some writing for different bits of it - a bit on the podcasting
> stuff for tactical tech - and some generally for blogging for a company that
> I used to work for people's voice media. I may end up getting paid to do
> other stuff like this, ie getting a citizen toolkit together for a community
> network, maybe not, who knows.
>
> But I also do a lot of voluntary work in the area of citizen journalism and
> I'm currently working on a project to give anonymous blogs to activists as
> the UK police have gone a bit bonkers about social media - check this out.
> Facebook riot calls earn men four-year jail terms amid sentencing outcry
> Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan, 22, of Latchford, Warrington, used his Facebook
> account in the early hours of 9 August to design a web page entitled The
> Warrington Riots. The court was told it caused a wave of panic in the town.
> When he woke up the following morning with a hangover, he removed the page
> and apologised, saying it had been a joke. His message was distributed to
> 400 Facebook contacts, but no rioting broke out as a result.
> *http://tinyurl.com/44y6e5r*
>
> Yes, that's pretty bad! 4 years! You should hear my riot special radio show
> - now that's incitement!
> Anyway, It's one thing to complain about it but another offer alternatives
> so we have set up http://network23.org - to offer anonmous blogs where
> people can wake up after their drunk incitement without getting arrested -
> and maybe for more legitimate activities as well.
>
> So part of the motivation is to document the process for setting this up so
> it can be replicated easily by other communities, and to use the
> documentation as a way of promoting the ideas of control, federation and
> security on the Web.
>
> So in some ways if we are talking about affiliate links being used to
> promote something it might be something like this book we wrote on the open
> web which deals with some of these aspects.
> http://openweb.flossmanuals.net/ -
>
> Another motivation for writing this book is to explore different ways of
> trying to create the conversation, motivation and momentum needed to
> complete a really good introductory manual to something in with a
> geographically disparate group, in a time when every is busy etc. I want to
> try this out because I think that when there isn't a strong will by the
> community that develop the software to write good beginner manuals, then it
> becomes something that a loosely federated network or people that use docs
> to do training regularly can maintain.
> This is an experiment on how to best try to get a critical mass of people
> together to make it happen.
>
> It's kind of building momentum. It's a shame that I'm now off the Internet
> for a week (rural France) - but it would be great if people wanted to step
> in to try to keep the conversation and momentum going!
>
> If you are new to this list please do introduce yourselves and pitch in any
> new ideas for chapters or use this list to get feed back on anything you
> write.
>
>
>
>>  I didn't realize the current book was as advanced as it is, so let me
>> clarify my intention, I want to create a "WordPress Quick Start Guide" that
>> lives up to the promise of "your first site in 3 hours" ie it needs to be
>> super-compact but also fairly comprehensive.  This could perhaps be a single
>> chapter in Mick's latest "Version 2" below, so would require some massaging
>> of the table of contents, but I think we can make it work.  The total
>> project is more ambitious which is a practical wordpress reference /
>> userguide and I am in favor of that too.
>>
>
> Cool, thanks for your clarification on that -  the Quick Start Guide sound
> great.
>
> nice one
> see you all soon enough!
> Mick
>
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