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Preliminary Questions: Website Development  What is your objective in setting this up? JobSearch LearningLabs

Preliminary Questions: Website Development  What is your objective in setting this up?  Who do you hope will view it?  Will you want others to be able to edit it?  Is your interest to learn website development or to make use of a website? JobSearch LearningLabs

Preliminary Questions: Website Development  What is your objective in setting this up?  Who do you hope will view it?  Will you want others to be able to edit it?  Is your interest to learn website development or to make use of a website?  How “pretty” should it to be?  How much are you willing to spend? JobSearch LearningLabs

Steve’s Current Use of “Websites”  Job Search Learning Labs (wikidot.com) JobSearch LearningLabs

Steve’s Current Use of “Websites”  Job Search Learning Labs (wikidot.com)  Personal contact/use  Client calendar (wikidot.com)  Business colleagues (LinkedIn)  Personal/reference access (Google Profile) JobSearch LearningLabs

Steve’s Current Use of “Websites”  Job Search Learning Labs (wikidot.com)  Personal contact/use  Client calendar (wikidot.com)  Business colleagues (LinkedIn)  Personal/reference access (Google Profile)  Purposes4Life (traditional website)  Arboromics (WordPress) JobSearch LearningLabs

Steve’s Current Use of “Websites”  Job Search Learning Labs (wikidot.com)  Personal contact/use  Client calendar (wikidot.com)  Business colleagues (LinkedIn)  Personal/reference access (Google Profile)  Purposes4Life (traditional website)  Arboromics (WordPress)  Genealogy / Family Updates (wikidot.com)  Other interests like guitars (wikidot.com) JobSearch LearningLabs

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JSLL uses wikidot.com  Objective was to get content out to the job transition population  Easy to set up and edit  Popular – still Top Five on Google Search!  Multiple members of Steering Team can make changes  FREE!  Not pretty, but content was more important when we set this up! JobSearch LearningLabs

Sign up at wikidot.com  First several sites are free  Takes only a minute or two to sign up, with no credit card or personal information (other than email address) required  Easy to try out – easy to eliminate  Storage (pictures, documents) is minimal, but enough to begin JobSearch LearningLabs

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Let’s see how friendly the internet connection is right now….  Edit the JSLL website for next week  Upcoming topics?  New recommended website?  Include a picture of the group? JobSearch LearningLabs

Homework  Create a website “map” of how you would want your website to appear  Consider the website questions we discussed at the beginning regarding cost, experience, prettiness, audience  Set up a practice website using wikidot? JobSearch LearningLabs

QUESTIONS? If so, come on up afterwards, or join us in the lab to try this out If not, enjoy the weekend and week ahead See me for LinkedIn photos Hang out here for a while to catch up with new and existing friends JobSearch LearningLabs