Awesome, I like the way this is developing. <br><br>There are numerous affiliate opportunities with Wordpress manuals -- hosting, commercial themes, commercial plugins, development services, training services (ie WordPress Academy <a href="http://wpacademy.tv">http://wpacademy.tv</a>, 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. <br>
<br>I am in a major rewrite of my WordPress Quick Start Guide (<a href="http://wpacademy.tv/wordpress-quick-start-tutorial/">http://wpacademy.tv/wordpress-quick-start-tutorial/</a>) 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.<br>
<br>THanks for feedback and encouragement.<br><br>Marc<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:15 PM, mick fuzz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mickfuzz@clearerchannel.org" target="_blank">mickfuzz@clearerchannel.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Marc Beneteau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marc@manifesting.net" target="_blank">marc@manifesting.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Mick
and all -- </font></span></div>
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">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 ;)</font></span></div>
</div></blockquote></div><div><br>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. <br>
<br>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. <br>
<br>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. <br>
<h1 style="margin-left:40px"><font size="2">Facebook riot calls earn men four-year jail terms amid sentencing outcry</font></h1><div style="margin-left:40px">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.<br><b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/44y6e5r" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/44y6e5r</a></b><br></div><br>Yes, that's pretty bad! 4 years! You should hear my riot special radio show - now that's incitement!<br>
Anyway, It's one thing to complain about it but another offer alternatives so we have set up <a href="http://network23.org" target="_blank">http://network23.org</a> - to offer anonmous blogs where people can wake up after their drunk incitement without getting arrested - and maybe for more legitimate activities as well. <br>
<br>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. <br>
<br>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. <a href="http://openweb.flossmanuals.net/" target="_blank">http://openweb.flossmanuals.net/</a> -<br>
<br>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. <br>
This is an experiment on how to best try to get a critical mass of people together to make it happen. <br><br>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! <br>
<br>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. <br><br> </div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">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. </font></span></div>
</div></blockquote></div><div><br>Cool, thanks for your clarification on that - the Quick Start Guide sound great. <br><br>nice one<br>see you all soon enough!<br><font color="#888888">Mick<br></font></div></div>
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