BuddyPress on YORGOO Media

YORGOO Blasters

When we started the YORGOO Blaster frenzy following one of the Ycademy Business Building Seminars towards the end of 2008, we had very detailed but relatively complex step-by-step setup instructions on the Support Site - and of course the friendly and professional help from Laetitia Paris, who’s in charge here. In fact, ‘newbies’ or people who didn’t want to invest the time and effort to set their blasters up themselves could get the service at a decent price and achieve the results they needed in any keyword niche of their choice. Examples and screenshots to solidify this statement are plentiful and well-known… and the show goes on, automatically that is - a good and very funny example being my forever surprising…  Xmas Blaster! Christmas Online all year long!

YORGOO Blasters work… and once the recent non-stop updates of software that cause a whole avalanche of related updates come to a standstill and the feed and syndication issues some of us unfortunately experience are solved, we will continue to shoot for the stars. Yeah… always optimistic she is…

BuddyPress on YORGOO Media

But to come back to the WordPress MU based Social Network Plaform “BuddyPress” and comparing its behavior with that of a Semiomantics tuned YORGOO Blaster Script - if that’s at all possible after just a short week and only a beta version as testing ground available so far:  I did notice something that has to do with Google, which seems to index some people much faster than others… and at times I wondered whether South Africa was anywhere on their map?

However, what struck me was that BuddyPress Blogs on YORGOO Media made it to top rankings within absolutely no time! I presented screenshots earlier and you can still check the rankings under quite some spiffy keywords like “BuddyPress News” or “BuddyPress Images” and many others - a simply amazing result!

And we ain’t started yet… we are still testing and finetuning and preparing ‘materials’ for the next Ycademy Seminar on 30 and 31 May 2009. Restricted to 10 participants only this gonna rock. . . and lucky the few participants!

BuddyPress Images

I almost forgot: what’s impressive on BuddyPress as well is the speed of setting it up, loading a few pictures, scaling them right there and then, adding titles and content and zooooooom!… your new blog is on the road!

Don’t forget to invite friends, start groups and get the social networking going; some kicked off the show already: Social Drinking and “MAC” - the Media Art Club

Spontaneous Sketches

Just Beta, just Fun … let’s see where “BuddyPress” will take us. . . after a little round of music via a “Spontaneous Sketch” I drew while listening to the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra conducted by Gustavo Dudamel in an earlier article . . .

Spontaneous Sketches by Bianca Gubalke (16)

Bianca Gubalke

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Health Press by Ute Schaedler

Health and Fitness are topics that always fascinated our long-standing YORGOO Member Ute Schaedler from Germany and, not surprisingly, she chose this theme when creating her Online Newspaper “Health Press”.

It’s been a while since I wanted to write about Ute Schaedler as a brilliant example and inspiration for anyone wanting to start an online career but hesitating because of some illusory limitation or  ‘deficiency; you’ll understand in a moment what I mean.

Without going into much detail, Ute - who has a professional background as a bookkeeper… which probably explains her acribic methodology in following instructions - went through quite some difficult times in life … which isn’t that extraordinary as many of us do, however, bearing in mind that the Internet is English here comes her big handicap: she understands very little English and most definitely, she doesn’t speak it.

Working from Home on the Internet

This ‘handicap’ never kept her back from attending most of our Daily YORGOO Infocalls as well as the rather ‘heavy’ (… I know that’s an understatement as all insiders will agree to with big nods…) weekly and monthly YCADEMY Seminars and Trainings which are now exclusively held in English. We did those in French and German as well, but it’s timewise unbearable from a preparational point of view alone and the clear lesson here was that the Internet user should rather adapt to the Internet environment, one requirement being to learn English… at the end of the day there is no other way. So while Ute could always get quick answers in German when those were needed, and some good fundamental PC knowledge and skills came in extremely handy… she still had to go most of the road alone.

Clearly, you only go such extra miles if you are passionate about what you’re doing, if you are driven from inside to learn, grow and excel - and this clearly is the case with Ute Schaedler whose total focus is to run her own Business from Home and Make Money Online.

So how does she do it?

Health & Fitness

When we setup and developed our own Online Newespaper Blogs on YORGOOpress, Ute chose “Health & Fitness” as her main keywords, with “Health Press” being the title of her magazine. While she decided to work with PLR Scripts which helped her get brilliantly well over the language barrier, she only started looking at the aesthetical aspect of her new blog then… in fact, Ziborg Roy developed the web graphics for her header, banners and ads as Ute had no clue as to how that worked.

The visual world was quite foreign to her... and it took her a while to discover and start exploring her own creativity… which she was convinced she didn’t have at the time!

Health Press Images

This is when YORGOOpress Magic hit her with ‘tagaroo’ and some other helpful tools that come as free “addons” for Ycademy Seminar participants, and… suddenly… Ute Schaedler discovered her creative muscle and started exercising it… here’s a screenshot of her Health Press Homepage :

Health Press by Ute Schaedler

Ute Schaedler Motives

Maybe it’s the lightness of spring in Germany… but what you observe immediately is:

~ Ute’s choice of motives - flowers, butteflies and probably many more beautiful aspects of Nature to follow -;
~ how she assigns certain pictures to certain headlines… just see the stylized water lily in a calming blue ‘uplifting’ the whole feeling about a headline on a fast spreading disease: Depression; and lastly…
~ her colour choices.

A picture tells a 1000 stories… and a lot about the person choosing it…!

Ute’s progress becomes even more apparent with our latest adventure:  BuddyPress - a Semiomantics tuned Script for YORGOOmedia.

Ute Schaedler on YORGOO Media

Ute Schaedler on YORGOO Media

About Transformation

Ute keeps strictly to her main keywords - Fitness and Health - , continues her ‘red line’, and displays her favorite photographic motives - butterflies on flowers - in an even better… more balanced… way.

What do I mean?

Look at the screenshot above and you see how the way the butterflies are displayed guide the viewer’s eyes towards the ‘inside’, the posts… meaning looking from outside towards the inside of the blog.

You see it perfectly also on the bottom array of 3 pictures: along the left border, the butterfly is directed towards the inside, the middle - the same is true for the right side: it is turned towards the middle. The center motive works in any way and here a shot from the top could have been used, however, it’s fine as it is and never forget: the butterfly is a sign of transformation and that’s ultimately the goal for anyone looking at Health and Fitness issues - the sick want to become healthy, the fat want to become slim and yoga for instance is a way to higher levels of energy, fitness and wellbeing as a whole.

And last but not least… Ute Schaedler is our online Surfing Queen and as such well placed to advise in this area!

Congratulations Ute and. . . Yes! You Can!

Bianca Gubalke

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Ute, why not create a “Butterfly Club” in YORGOO Media… you already get the Butterfly Master Photographer Laetitia Paris as a member… and me as the Fairy Story Teller and Illustrator - which obviously inspires me for a… you know what I mean? Just wait for it … HA!

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Free BuddyPress News

Cape Town, 7 May 2009 - by Bianca Gubalke

Free BuddyPress tuned by Semiomantics for YORGOO Media is the ideal combination to start an enjoyable, simple to set up and manage Blogging experience - even if it’s your first one. Especially if it’s your first one!

Meanwhile, we have posted basic configuration instructions on YORGOOpublishing to assist you in setting up your Free Buddy Press Blog from your YORGOO Media Dashboard. You will discover some additional plugins - as also used on YORGOOpress or YORGOO Blasters for example,  so you are quite familiar with them - including Interactive Video for the optimal BuddyPress Video experience!

BuddyPress Images

Each blogessentially requires good original content and appealing web graphics, photos and images. Inserting images are easy on Free Buddy Press Blogs, but depending on the theme you choose they can be a little temperamental… so here are a few tips to help you along:

In our YORGOO Media supported theme what you need to do from your Dashboard is open the dropdown menu under Appearance on the left Menu, and then click on “Custom Homepage Images”.

You see various Blog Image Uploads and Crop - which means basically that you Browse on your harddrive until you find the image you like to show, then click on upload as usual. The image can now be positioned and scaled by pulling the edges of the little overlay - until you are satisfied… in which case you click on Save.

If however you are not happy, you still have to Save this picture as only then a Delete Button displays and you can now delete the picture and load a new one.

Before loading pictures check out the dimensions and see whether you have rectangles of say 300 pix wide or whatever your chosen BuddyPress theme from WordPress offers you.

This allows you to estimate which pictures are more suitable sizewise than others, which will save you time. At least that’s what I found… although I am aware that not everybody is familiar with cropping and scaling issues - and here you don’t have to. Experience comes with practice and whatever you do: always check the result by clicking on “Visit Site” at the top left next to your BuddyPress title.

Last tip: when clicking there, do so with a right-click and then choose to “…open in another window”. This allows you to check back and forth between your Dashboard and your Blog with no loss of time or having to reopen windows until you are totally satisfied with your results.

BuddyPress Art

Talking of pictures and images in connection with Buddy Press 1.0 obviously inspires me to add a new “Spontaneous Sketch” to our collection… as you know, all done within 10-30 seconds maximum with very little control, just a gesture following an inner rhythm or impulse, with the cool “Life is Lemon Pie” tool on the Yorgo Nestoridis Blog.  It’s open to anyone and comments are welcome and fun…

So here it is… guess who I had in mind …:)

"His Master's Mouse" - Spontaneous Sketches 15 by Bianca Gubalke

Actually, the 1:1 original is like a real little mouse fitting into a small hand…

Master Mouse by Bianca Gubalke

BuddyPress Media

You may think “… so what? A mouse is a mouse… and what has this got to do with BuddyPress Media” and you are right! However, did you ever think that many things of Greatness all started with a mouse? How about Walt Disney… and think about your interaction with a computer?

While we’re slowly abandoning our friendly companion and becoming more “touchy”, we still pretty much depend on this mysterious and curious little creature that showed a lot of character and courage when it shared our world as a child. . . or still does, as in my case…

Mysterious Companions by Bianca Gubalke

People interested in Art and Drawings start asking how I “…do these?” Well, here are the Tools I used:

1. the fast sketching tool described above,
2. SPX Editor - an Easter Gift to all participants of the last YORGOO WebMaster Training
3. Photoshop.

Simple, Fun and… Imaginational!

Bianca Gubalke

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BuddyPress on YORGOO Media

Vouliagmeni, May 7, 2009 - by Yorgo Nestoridis

Basic Tasks: YORGOO Media Configuration

Once you login to your YORGOO Media dashboard, please execute the following basic tasks:

1. Settings:

Fill in General settings and make sure the UTC time difference is correct; also change Name and Tagline of the Site, function of your targeted keywords.

Write and Read, Discussion and Media, Permalinks and so on: copy your data from YORGOO Press or YORGOO Blaster.

2. Go Plugins

Enable: FeedWordpress, Shaddowbox, Wiki and Interactive Video

Do Syndication settings -  similar to YORGOO Blaster or YORGOO Press and syndicate your YORGOO Press for example.

3. Appearance

Select and install theme called WPMU-nelo

Go Theme Options and select  Layout Mode: blog home page untill you have edited the Custom home page, thereafter you may switch.

BuddyPress

Test all features and connect to other people. Use the messageing tool, join or create a group, test wire and so on.

BuddyPress Bugs

Please comment this post with all problems you may encounter.

BuddyPress 1.0

Cape Town, 6 May 2009 - by Bianca Gubalke

Achieving top rankings on Google is any Internet Marketer’s prime target and the question is whether BuddyPress by WordPress MU alone is strong enough for ‘normal users’ to teach their goal?

As discussed today on YORGOOpublishing … the most efficient version right now seems to be a Semiomantics tuned Buddy Press … and to add some proof to the matter here is a quick screenshot not only showing how fast various of our Semiomantics-based Blogs fulfill their mission - and this within less than 24 hours -, but that a brand-new Blog YORGOO Media (BuddyPress tuned by Semiomantics) gets there asap… simply the best:

BuddyPress Images on Google

New: YORGOO Media with BuddyPress on top of Google

As we see above, AuctiontalkLive - a pure Semiomantics Script - proudly occupies rank 1 on Google, before buddypress.org… followed by YORGOO Media, Yorgo Nestoridis and YORGOO Publishing.

Totally astonishing… yet not surprising!

Way to go… and to be continued !

Don’t miss today’s call @ 9 in http://yorGOtalk.com for more instructions with the brand-new Buddy Press Blogs with a Twist!

Bianca Gubalke

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