Jeffrey LeFevre Tucson Electric Power Company

 Free  Easy to Access  Menu Driven  Makes training videos, Power Points or other training material available to all.  Saves money  Easy to use  Allows shift workers ability to view classes given at “normal times” such as HR, safety meetings etc.

 You must be able to access to open a Wordpress account for the interactive portion of the presentation.  If you do not have an address, you can create one by going to hotmail.com

 Go to wordpress.com  Select “Start A Blog”  Enter User Name  Create Password  Enter address  Select “Next”  An will be sent to you. Select the link as directed

 Log into your account using your user name and password.  Name your blog  Go to “My Dashboard”  Go to “Appearance” and then “Themes”  Select the theme you desire

For practice we will take a copy of this Power Point presentation and add is to our newly created blog.

 Go to “Library” and select “Add New”  From the“Browser Uploader” select the file from your computer and  “upload”using the “add media” icon. (It looks like a little sunshine or star)

 Form Media Library locate file and select “Show”  At bottom of page select “Insert Into Post”  Select “Publish”

 On the Dashboard under “Posts” select “Categories”  Name and Add the category  Go to “Edit Post” and uncheck the “uncategorized” box and then check the box for the category you created. (Sub categories can also be created)  When you view your blog the category menu will now appear.

You cannot install videos on your blog library without first downloading a video upgrade. ($60 – Remember, There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch!) There is also a limit to file size for other files. SO…………

 Have your I.T. folks set up a server and configure Wordpress on the server.  You can now download files to folders on the server and configure your blog to locate these files on the server.  Power Points can be hyperlinked to text and viewed.  Videos can be viewed by downloading a flash player which is added as a widget and then using embedded script to connect to the flash file on the server.

 We use a Sony DCR-SR82 camera with a 60 GB hard drive.  For better sound we use a Sony ECM- HW1R Wireless Microphone.  Videos are edited in Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0 and converted to flash video (Flash 700k)  Video files are placed on the server and the file path is added to the video script.

I hope this presentation has helped you to see how easy it is to set up and use Wordpress to create a company intranet training site. Thank you for your attention and participation.

Questions? Contact : Jeff LeFevre Tucson Electric Power Co. Springerville Generating Station