Dear Professionals, KLA Centre for Professional Development (KLA-CPD) announces a two day hands-on workshop on WordPress, a free and open source blogging tool and a Content Management System (CMS), on May10 and 11, 2014. The programme will be held at the newly inaugurated training facility of Kerala Library Association, the KLA Centre for Professional Development (KLA-CPD), on the premises of KLA Head Quarters, Thiruvananthapuram. ABOUT WORDPRESS WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPLv2 (or later). It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress is fresh software, but its roots and development go back to 2001. It is a mature and stable product. WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.Everything, from the documentation to the code itself, was created *by and for the community*. WordPress is an Open Source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it. (More than most commercial platforms.) It also means you are free to use it for anything from your cat’s home page to a Fortune 500 web site without paying anyone a license fee and a number of other important freedoms. You can download and install a software script called WordPress from WordPress.org. To do this you need a web host who meets the minimum requirements and a little time. WordPress is completely customizable and can be used for almost anything. There is also a *service* called WordPress.com which lets you get started with a new and free WordPress-based blog in seconds, but varies in several ways and is less flexible than the WordPress you download and install yourself. WordPress started as just a blogging system, but has evolved to be used as full content management system and so much more through the thousands of plugins and widgets and themes. Source: https://wordpress.org/about/ WORDPRESS FOR LIBRARIES Worldwide, hundreds of libraries have created their blogs or websites with WordPress. This highly customizable blogging system can be used very effectively as a web portal to your library's resources and services. The open and free nature of WordPress made it a is highly recommended blogging platform for libraries with less or no financial support, to launch their own website and provide online services. In India also, we have a good number of library blogs created with WordPress. A list of libraries around the world using WordPress is given below. http://lib20.pbworks.com/w/page/59677899/WordPress-Libraries-examples Special mention: http://universityofglasgowlibrary.wordpress.com/ Some examples of Indian libraries with blogs on WordPress are, Library, Kendriya Vidyalaya Pattom: http://librarykvpattom.wordpress.com(launched in 2007) K. N. Raj Library, Centre for Development Studies, Kerala: http://knrajlibrary.wordpress.com/ MBCET Library, Thiruvananthapuram : http://mbcet.wordpress.com/ Library Blogs of Kendriya Vidyalayas: http://kvlibrarians.grou.ps/ IITB Central Library: http://iitblibrary.wordpress.com/ http://indialibraries.wordpress.com/page/2/ http://rajabiswas.wordpress.com/ The list is not comprehensive and representative. You may find many more. WORKSHOP ON WORDPRESS Who can participate: Working Library Professionals, LIS Students and Researchers in LIS. Venue: 36, 2nd Floor, Kairalie Plaza Annexe, Karamana P.O., Thiruvananthapuram-695 002. Date & Time: May 10 & 11, 2014; 9.30 am to 5.00 pm Resource Persons: Experts on WordPress Training mode: Demonstration and Hands on sessions Course Fee: Rs 1000/- (includes study kit, working lunch, tea and snacks) Number of seats: 10 (Ten) only. Registration: On first come first served mode. Online Registration:http://klaweblog.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/kla-cpd-training-on-wordpress-onli... Last date for registration: 02/05/2014 Registration fee must be paid as Demand Draft, drawn in favour of Kerala Library Association, payable at Thiruvananthapuram. Registration will be confirmed only after the receipt of the prescribed fee. All communications will be primarily through e-mail. Guidance for accommodation will be given on request. Details: http://klaweblog.wordpress.com/2014/04/16/kla-centre-for-professional-develo... For more details: Shri N. Parameswaran / Shri N. Sukumaran Nair, Coordinators, KLA-CPD Mob:09387822201/09447213155 (npwaran49@yahoo.co.in/sukukla@yahoo.com) OR Dr A. Gopikuttan, President, KLA, Mob: 09446428163 (agopikuttan@yahoo.co.in) Dr M. Lalitha, General Secretary, KLA, Mob: 09495122282 (maashu1@gmail.com) ********************* For KLA-CPD S.L.Faisal Librarian Kendriya Vidyalaya, Pattom <http://librarykvpattom.wordpress.com> Thiruvananthapuram-695 004 Kerala, India Ph.09447699724 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.