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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...

Hosting Videos for Online Courses
Videos are an important part of most online training courses. Hosting videos for online courses is an important decision in your course planning. Note some of the 3rd party training platforms like Teachable and Thinkific host your videos as part of the service. Make...

Implementing Takeaways from Social Media Marketing World
Two weeks ago this morning, I sat at my desk staring into my computer screen in absolute overwhelm. The night before I had returned from Social Media Marketing World with so many actionable items that I didn’t know where to begin. On the plane ride home I had gone...

Introduction to Zoom
Zoom is software that allows you to hold online meetings and communicate with others. When you create an online course, Zoom is a great way to do one on one and small group training. It allows you to audio record, video record, share your screen, and also has chat. If...

Using WP Achievements and WP Courseware for Gamification
WP Achievements and WP Courseware can be used together to enhance student interaction in your online courses. WP Achievements is a WordPress plugin that allows badges and points to be awarded for tasks ranging from adding comments to reading posts. This is one way to...

WPCampus Guest Podcast Appearance
Thank you to the team at WPCampus. They invited me to be a part of their podcast covering the use of WordPress in higher education. This was my first time to officially get to speak with formal educators about the use of WordPress as part of their instructional...

Edge-ucation Podcast Guest Appearance
Thank you to Scott Doucet and Josh Mackenzie of the Edge-ucation Podcast. They invited me on to discuss online courses, entrepreneurship, and how small businesses, entrepreneurs, and solopreneurs can use online courses to build their business and establish authority....

Gamification in Online Courses
Gamification in online courses can help keep the student motivated by providing instant feedback during the course. Gamification refers to applying game like features to a product or service. This can include points, achievements, leaderboards, levels and more....

Using Microlearning for Quick Reference
Microlearning refers to an educational concept where a student learns exactly what is needed to create a specific task just in time to complete the task. It provides small, precise instructions that may only be used in the moment instead of studied for long-term...