2010 Pole Pedal Paddle this Saturday

The Pole Pedal Paddle is happening this Saturday in Bend.  

It's too late to register, but anyone can come down to the Amphitheatre for some cheering, food, music, and general spectating.

Some links:

• The official PPP site   
• The mini PPP (on Sunday)
• Former Olympian and PPP champion, Dan Simoneau's Daily Training Tips Blog.  
• Online PPP route maps from the Bulletin.
• A flickr slide show from previous races.
• Live PPP tweets.

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Free Friday Workshops for May 14th

Here are the workshop listings for this Friday, May 14th.

• Introduction to WordPress (10 to 11am) - Brian will be covering the basics of small site building and blogging using the world famous WordPress. How is a blog made? Learn about the difference between a post and a page, upload images, and especially, how to write for the web. 
   
• Discovering Your Keyword Niche (11 to noon) - For years, success in business has been "location, location, location". Now, it's more like "keywords, keywords, keywords". Learn how to discover, then optimize keyword searchability, regardless of the platform you use. We'll also spend some time covering the significant changes Google made last week in it's search engine algorithm.
   
• The Fresh Web (12 to 12:15) - This week on the web. The web is an ever-changing, even accelerating, networked environment. Many of these changes affect you as a web author or manager. Dustin will help put these into perspective by presenting a short review of web news for the week ending May 14th.
   
• Center Stage Review (12:15pm to 1) - Drop in and learn (or re-learn) how to manage your site using Alpine's Content Management System, Center Stage. See the built-in keyword analysis, suggestion, and redirect tools in action and learn how Center Stage makes search engine optimization a breeze. If you haven't been in for a while or have new job responsibilities that include Center Stage, please feel free to stop by.

These classes are free and open to the public. Remember, we have a new location at 790 SW Industrial

About Alpine

Alpine Internet is a web designer and developer based in Bend Oregon. Alpine is best known for their Center Stage content management system and their contributions to open source web applications including WordPress. Alpine workshops present best practices for beginning and intermediate webmasters and website owners. Basic concepts are explained and technology application discussions are led by Alpine's experienced staff.

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