David Kyte cornered me at the last StomperNet Live event, and requested I share with his audience about the real benefits of using Wordpress and Video. Watch this video as I share how a lawyer friend boosted his bottom line by an additional 6 figures in client billings. Appreciate your feedback as always 
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After you've accomplished the task of hiring or outsourcing an assistant or writer to contribute to your blog, how do you afford access to this new team member without giving him/her the "keys to your kingdom"? And how do you ensure that this new writer has all the capabilities to make their job easy to publish new content but control their access to certain parts of your blog?
This 3 step tutorial will show you step by step how to achieve a win-win situation with Role Management using a Wordpress blog and the Semiologic Pro theme. The Semiologic Pro theme includes the Role Manager plugin. If you don't have either, simply visit the Role Manager plugin site by Thomas S. and upload it to your blog's plugin folder on your host account.
First, login to your blog's Dashboard. Now you can follow along with the tutorial below.
Click the "Plugins" tab to view your plugins. Scroll down to "Role Manager" and click the "Activate" link.
Click [Users] tab > [Roles] sub-tab
On this page, you'll see a selection of "Roles" and "Capabilities" that have been checked and unchecked. Whether your assistant is going to be designated "Author" or "Contributor", you'll have total control over what they can or can't do by modifying the Role's Capabilities you're going to assign them.
When you're satisifed with the capabilities you're sharing with your new writer, let's move on to adding them as a new user.
Time to add your assistant as a new user on your blog.
Click [Users] tab > [Authors & Users] sub-tab.
Simply fill out all the fields, including his/her role, click "Add User" button and he/she will receive an email with the details on how to login.
In closing, this 3 step tutorial has revealed to you how to give access to your new team member to publish new content while providing you control of their restricted access to your blog.
If you do try this, I welcome your feedback and comments.
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How would you like to broadcast your own LIVE ON AIR video show to a global audience of unlimited size, with just a camera and an internet connection? Now you can with a variety of live interactive broadcast services like Mogulus.com, Stickam.com, Operator11.com, Justin.tv, and Ustream.tv.
The latter service, Ustream.tv, empowers us to engage with our audience and further build our brand with their ease-of-use, no-cost and stable broadcast platform.
They offer broadcast-to-viewer and viewer-to-viewer interaction, empowering a much more engaging experience for everyone involved. Viewers can also personally interact directly with whoever is broadcasting. Recently, Ustream launched their co-host feature, which allows broadcasters to invite guests onto their broadcast show.
Unlike other pre-recorded static video services that's predominated the Internet to date, Ustream offers LIVE streaming for major political events, debates, speeches, rallies, talk shows, premieres, 'red carpet events', music showcases, band performances, live jam sessions, conference sessions, school and business events and training, sporting events at college and high school level, personal milestones such as holiday gatherings, weddings, grade school events, parties, and even births.
On April 30, 2008 arond 2pm, I organized an impromptu Ustream broadcast with 20 viewers. On the broadcast, I/we revealed home studio video setups, audio podcast mics, cables, software, other gear and much more. We experimented with the co-host feature too. Also had lots of chuckles with jokes about 'equipment'. Listen in and I welcome your feedback. (Note: I've included the text chat discussion below the video to give you a fuller experience of this recorded broadcast)
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