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How to Share an iPhone Screen on a Mac
https://youtu.be/kCXMZOqGiPA Sometimes if you are doing a live training with a customer, you may need to share your phone screen on your mac. This is particularly helpful if you develop websites for clients and want to show them the experience on your phone. If you...
Should You Build Your Own Learning Platform or Use a Done For You Solution?
One of the first things you have to determine before building your online courses or online learning platforms is whether you will build the platform yourself using a product like WordPress and a Learning Management System (LMS) plugin, or if you will opt to use a...
How to Add Your License to LifterLMS
https://youtu.be/I8-90nwB4QU When moving from the basic free version of LifterLMS to a paid add-on or premium bundle, you'll need to upgrade your license in order to access your new content. Steps to Add Your LifterLMS License Login to your LifterLMS Account....
Best WordPress Membership Plugins Discussion on WP-Tonic
This week (March 23, 2018) on the WP-Tonic show, our guest had to reschedule. Host Jonathan Denwood and I used the session to discuss Membership Websites and how to evaluate WordPress membership plugins. Show Highlights from WP-Tonic Show #277 In this episode,...
Do Not Place Animated Gifs in Text Instructions
Animated Gifs are very distracting. Do not place these in the middle of teaching text where people are trying to follow instructions. The purpose of an online course, or any other online instruction, is to teach the user something. The user experience needs to be...
Kim Shivler Guest Appearance on LMSCast Podcast
On November 20, 2017 I was honored to be a guest on the LMSCast podcast hosted by Chris Badgett. Chris and, his business associate, Thomas Levy are the creators of LifterLMS. LifterLMS is one of my favorite WordPress learning management system plugins because it has...
Kim Shivler Guest Appearance on Rethink.fm Podcast
On August 10, 2017, I was honored to be a guest on Jackie D'Elia's Rethink.fm podcast. Jackie and I met on the WP-Tonic roundtable podcast and we got together to talk about WordPress Learning Management System plugins. We covered some of my favorite LMS options...
Twitter Cards can Help Market Your Online Courses
Twitter cards are special tweet types that provide extra functionality within Twitter. They allow you to gather leads directly from your Twitter feed, point people to a website, or drive traffic to an app. My favorite use of the cards is to gather email address optins...
Guest Appearance on Conscious Millionaire Podcast
I love talking about online courses and my overall mission in life to help entrepreneurs and individuals teach what they know to make the world a better place. On this podcast guest appearance, I had the chance to speak about business, online courses, and striving...
Use Trello to Organize Your Online Course Content
Trello is an online content organization tool that allows you to organize information similar to the way you would a physical whiteboard. It has boards and cards on the boards that can be dragged between boards. Think having a whiteboard divided into sections with...
