{"id":591,"date":"2009-10-17T22:40:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T06:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/?p=591"},"modified":"2009-10-17T22:40:21","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T06:40:21","slug":"happy-students-in-astana-kazakhstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/happy-students-in-astana-kazakhstan\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Students in Astana, Kazakhstan"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the last class I taught in Astana – they were very engaged with the idea of moving from traditional media to “New Media,” particularly with blogging.\u00c2\u00a0 The main question on everyone’s mind was “How do I drive more traffic to my site?”<\/p>\n

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I didn't know the Russian phrase for "Group hug, people!" So I just stood in the back and spread out my arms. <\/p><\/div>\n

I showed them some of the very basic tools to promote your content – the simplest being the blast e-mail alert to people you’ve signed up on a subscription list.\u00c2\u00a0 A couple of people in the class were already up on Twitter, and I sang that particular gospel, as well as the advantages of setting up Facebook groups or using the same functionality in the Russian equivalent, which is a Classmates.com-alike.<\/p>\n

As always, the skill level in the audience was very uneven. Some people were way out in front of the pack, others seemed to be lost. I tried to deliver a wide variety of tools to hit everyone. I got just a couple of hours to do some very basic tourism after this session.\u00c2\u00a0 The scale of the construction going on here is truly awe-inspiring.<\/p>\n

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It's pretty chilly here; not snowing yet, but it's thinking about it - thus the heavy clothes. Also, behind me is the new Presidential Palace. <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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