Start @ Community!
February 19th, 2010
Start Your Very Own Community Blog & Social Media Site Now – Here’s How:
We’re just getting things kicked off here at the Community Blog (CB) and we would like let you know how you can get your very own community blog and social network going here as well.
We run the CommunityBlog on a hybrid version of the robust and highly-scalable WordPress MU (Multi-User), also known as WPMU, blogging and CMS (Content Management System). This is open-source at it’s finest, folks. To get an even better idea of how great, and trusted, WPMU is go ahead and take a peek at who else is making good use of it;
WPMU Showcase (Best Buy, Wall Street Journal, Star Tribune, Comedy.com, University of Maine, NY Times, America.gov, The University of British Columbia, b5media, Harvard Law, The Times, Le Monde Newspaper, Reuters, Mozilla, Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, Network Solutions, Flickr, Ning, Samsung, GE, RackSpace, Carnival Cruise Lines, Flokka, TechCrunch, People, Martha Stewart, Anderson Cooper, Larry King, etc.)
There are also over 8,200 free web-site plugins to choose from on the WordPress platform;
There are also over 1,100 free custom themes to choose from as well;
And that’s just the beginning to what you can do here at the Community Blog with WordPress. Pretty cool, huh?
If you aren’t very familiar (or familiar at all) with WordPress or blogging, or could use a refresher course, then the following is just for you;
WordPress Codex
Introduction To Blogging
Getting Started With WordPress
Are you ready? Lets get started:
To open an account with us the quick and easy steps needed to be taken are as follows;
1. Figure out your preferred blog/social-networking web-site address (your CB Handle) at the Community Blog, where the XXXXXX are represented in the following example:
http://XXXXXX.CommunityBlog.com/
i.e.; If you owned a business called Seattle Sheet Metal, Inc. then you may likely request the following address;
http://SeattleSheetMetal.CommunityBlog.com/
Think along the lines of how web-site such as craigslist.org employ sub-domains, such as http://seattle.craigslist.org/ to represent each unique web property of theirs.
Upper and lower-case spelling doesn’t matter in the sub-domain TLD (top-level-domains), it’s just used for visual reference and easier reading/viewing here. Lower-case would look like the following for the above example given;
http://seattlesheetmetal.communityblog.com/
You can easily check the address before contacting us by typing it into your favorite web browser to see if it is available or not.
2. Then contact us with that address. If the address you requested is available we then confirm that you actually own or represent the business, person, place, thing, object, item, etc. The easiest way to do this is to contact us via the use of one of your official company email addresses. Such as for the above example, your business web address may be;
http://www.SeattleSheetMetalInc.com/
and you would contact us with, say for example, the following email address: johnR@SeattleSheetMetalInc.com
This lets us know that you have the authority to run and administer this web-site address for said business through the CommunityBlog.com interface.
3. We then give you a price quote for the monthly costs of hosting and maintaining your blog and social networking web-address here on the Community Blog. The prices quoted to you will fall into the following range;
- Personal Blogs: Currently not supported
- Non-Profits, Community Services, etc: FREE! Contact us to see if you qualify
- Small Local Business: $9.99 per month
- Medium-Sized Local Business: $24.99 per month
- Large Local Business: $49.99 per month
- Franchise Business (i.e.; Dominos Pizza): $199.99 per month (does not apply to parent company of franchise)
- City Names: Free (i.e.; towns under 99 people) – (i.e.; Los Angeles, Manhattan, etc.) Contact us for price quote
- State Names: (South Dakota, California, etc.) Contact us for price quote
- Country Names: (United States, Russia, etc.) Contact us for price quote
- Brand-Names & Well Known Businesses (i.e.; Starbucks, Kmart, Apple): Contact us for price quote
- Products, celebrities, phrases, bands, shows, terminology, and all else: Contact us for price quote
- Generic Keyword(s) (i.e.; Money, Finance, SEO, Design, Clothes, Cars, etc.): Contact us for a more exact price quote on the specific generic keyword(s) that you want.
- Anything else you aren’t so sure of, or don’t see in the lists above, we’ll be more than happy to quote a price for you on. Just (you guessed it!) Contact us and we’ll go from there.
Remember, at CommunityBlog.com you won’t have to configure a server, set up a web hosting account, or even register a domain name. We even set up the bare-bones template of your choice, as well as configure it’s initial settings. for you. You will then receive your user-name (your choice as well!), which is your “CB” handle, and password via your email account that you’d signed up with and you can then start adding your own content and promoting your blog(s) and social networking platform(s) and forums from there on out.
We are currently offering a 5% discount on accounts that are 6-months pre-paid and a 10% discount on accounts that are 12-months pre-paid. Ask us about our *Lifetime Pre-Paid Discount (up to 50% off!).
SPECIAL OFFER; For A Limited Time Only!: The first 250 blogs get to try the service for FREE for 30-days, after the free trial period you will be charged/billed the regular rates quoted to you at your initial sign-up and acceptance of the 30-day free trail offer.
No matter what your needs, after your acceptance of terms and conditions of use of our services (pretty standard stuff), and we’ve received cleared payment in-full, we’ll have you up and running within 1-2 business days.
What are you waiting for? Start your very own Community Blog today and start moving forward in life and business!
Fine Print Below – Be sure and read it.
*All prices, special offers, discounts, promotions, coupon codes, affiliate programs, terms of service, use and conditions at CommunityBlog.com are subject to change without notice of any kind and at any time. There are absolutely no refunds available on pre-paid accounts.
