How I "hack" podia to create my blog and help center

How I "hack" podia to create my blog and help center

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In this article, I want to show you how you can use the Podia Course feature to create a blog, help center, database without using another tool.


Shot on Sunday 26th of April 2023 by Daniele Catalanotto

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September 2023

  • A few mistakes and lessons learned when running webinars
  • How long does it take to edit and publish the video of a webinar?
  • How long does it take to import content in my digital brain?
  • Why I've built a landing page for my service design digital brain?
  • How I upgrade my video content with AI when I import it in my digital brain
  • How and why I'm using AI labels in my digital brain
  • 5 tools I use to organize a virtual book tour

August 2023

  • 4 ways I use notion.ai to help me run the Swiss Service Design Network

July 2023

  • Why I’m migrating my content to a knowledge base built with Intercom

June 2023

  • How long does it take to make a video Q&A?
  • How I use Descript to create new Service Design content

May 2023

  • A short review of SiteGPT
  • Ask AI: Why I'm trying to create a specialized AI in Service Design
  • Early exploration of 8 apps to create a specialized Service Design ChatGPT tool
  • How I use audio notes to write when I'm not motivated

April 2023

  • Why I asked a pro photographer to create a library of portraits
  • The newsletter has a new archive page

March 2023

  • How I "hack" podia to create my blog and help center
  • How I prepare my weekly newsletter with Notion and Podia

February 2023

  • How I used Notion AI to write a summary of a webinar
  • A first prototype for a Tiny Service Design Bible

December 2022

  • How much it costs me to create a book?
  • How I write and prepare my newsletters
  • Why I'm taking my newsletter more seriously
  • A first experiment using AI to write educational content
  • How I create and maintain my Service Design Questions and Answers Library
  • How I created a course with a small burn or little effort mindset

November 2022

  • Why I re-commited to Podia for the next few years

October 2022

  • Reflections after a 3 day book editing sprint
  • How I write in the open with a timeline of changes
  • How I manage references and sources in the books I write
  • How I onboard early reviewers for my books

September 2022

  • How writing a newsletter helps me fight my imposter syndrome
  • Tiny apps that help to write a book

August 2022

  • Book writing update
  • How much time does it take to publish a webinar?
  • What tools do I use to publish my webinars?

April 2022

  • Shadowing: How I edit a Service Design Principle

March 2022

  • How I edit my drafts to make them ready for a book
  • How I try to make automated email sequences that don't suck

January 2022

  • How I shoot my video guides
  • How I'm starting the work on a new book of the Service Design Principles Series
  • How I'm building my next free course in the open

December 2021

  • How and why I'm changing my prices
  • A big update to the website

September 2021

  • How I wrote a book, this time with a baby šŸ¼

August 2019

  • How did I prepare the marketing side for a conference

July 2019

  • How much money did I make in 7 month with online courses and books? šŸ’ø
  • A new writing routine with trains and crazy landscapes šŸ”
  • How long does it take to write the first draft of a book?

June 2019

  • Prototyping the workshop planner app ā°
  • The story behind "Why workshops work"
  • A big update to the website šŸš€

May 2019

  • How long does it take to prepare 10 articles
  • How I prepared my social media posts for the next year
  • What's in the making (May-June 2019)?
  • How much time does it take to create a workshop template?
  • How I come up with content ideas for my books

April 2019

  • What online tools do I use to build an online course?
  • How I shoot my online course videos
  • How I prototyped the videos of my first online course
  • How long does it take to make a video online course
  • Starting the behind the scenes