Jeffrey LeFevre Tucson Electric Power Company

 Free  Easy to Access  Easy to use  Menu Driven  Saves money  Makes training videos, Power Points or other training material available to all.  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 or Google Gmail.

 Go to wordpress.com  Start A Blog – Select “Sign Up Now”  Enter User Name  Create Password  Confirm Password  Enter address  Check “Legal Flotsam” box  Select “Gimme a Blog”  Select “Next” then “Signup”  Go to your account. An will be sent to you. Select the link as directed

 Log into your account using your user name and password.  Select “View Your Site”  Under “Meta” select “Log in”  Log in to your blog  Dashboard is on left side  Go to “Appearance” and then “Themes”  Select the theme you desire (Refresh to view more)

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

 Go to “Posts” “Add New”  Name Post  Select Add Media Icon (little sun)  Select “Flash Uploader”or “Browser uploader”(whichever works best)  Browse for the file you want  Select “Upload”  Select “Show” (if applicable)  Select “Insert Into Post”  Select “Publish”  “View Post” takes you to blog

 “Site Admin” or “Edit” returns you to dashboard  On the Dashboard under “Posts” select “Categories”  Name the category  Select “Add Category”  Go to “Edit Post” on dashboard  Go to desired post and “Edit”  Uncheck the “uncategorized” box and then check the box for the category you created. (Sub categories can also be created)  Select “Update”  When you view your blog the category menu will now appear and the blog will be under the new category you created

Edit Post  Go to Posts  Select “Edit” on desired post  Check appropriate categories and sub- categories (select parent)  Select “Update”  Select Blog Title at top of page to view

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 to the blog 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