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There is no shortage of Wordpress instruction, and the most authoritative is to be found at the Wordpress Codex. And there are no shortage of Wordpress installation tutorial videos available for free– to find the latest, just search “Wordpress installation video”.
The biggest problem is the very volume of instruction available. How to choose? One fairly reliable way for a beginner to get an overview of the installation procedure is to select a tutorial from a mainstream source, written for a mainstream novice audience. This article from PCWorld may give you the info and confidence to do your own installation of your own self-hosted Wordpress site, which we recommend as the centerpoint of your small business social media presence.

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The Global Neighbourhoods blog scratches the surface on the relationship between the high cost of travel (local and long-distance), and keeping up with your customers and business partners. This seems pretty obvious to social media evangelist-types, but I don’t feel shy about hammering the point home to small business folks who have yet to take advantage of social media opportunities.

Businesses will increasingly use social media to get closer with customers. This, of course, is already happening and happening at a pretty fast rate. But I think the trend is about to accelerate. Because it is getting too expensive and inconvenient to meet face-to-face in the real world, there will be more efforts to bring the conversation to the next best place, in the form of virtual communities.

From the article Social Media & the Cost of Fuel, Global Neighborhoods Blog