Adding Those Kindermusik Widgets

Thanks to Nancy Hehemann for documenting her strategy and instructions for adding the KI widgets and videos to her YourVirtuoso website. This does take a little "web savvy", as it involves the web language HTML, but it is doable if you just want to follow the instructions carefully. Here are Nancy's words of wisdom...

Check out my website: www.nancy.kindermusik.net.

First I selected a different look/feel. I was using the original/default page and I think there was not enough room in the box on the home page to add a widget, movie clip, etc. There, I have added a facebook widget "Kindermusik with Nancy - Become a Fan" and also the scrolling widget of music quotes from KI.

On "About Kindermusik" I embedded the "Can't decide whether to Enroll" video. On the "Classes" page I embedded the general "Follow Me to Kindermusik" video and then listed links to specific age group videos.

I will try to put all the steps here:

1. Copy the widget script from KM Teacher's lounge
2. In YV, Click on Content, Inline editor. Select the page/place you want to put the widget. Open the edit box by clicking on the highlighted text there
3. Click on the <> tool at the top of the editor which allows you to see and/or add html scripts.
4. Paste the script where you want it to be. Click OK and then you should see your revision/insert pop up.
5. You will then need to close the window and back in YV admin, click Content and Apply Changes.

You do the same process for embedding a video clip.

1. Go to the clip you want on youtube.
2. You will see the option of URL or Embed. There is a little symbol next to Embed. Click on that. It will give you an option to pick a border to place around the video and below that it gives you a size to select. I would select the smallest size so it doesn't take up your whole webpage. Once you have selected if you want a border and the size, click on the embed box and it will be highlighted. Right click on it and copy it.
3. In YV, Inline editor, go to the page you want to put the video. Click on the box to edit. Click on <> so you can see codes. Paste the video embedding where you want. Click OK. You should see what it will look like. Then make sure to apply changes.

Note From Gerry: This is quite complex stuff, so just remember that if you try it, and it messes your page up, you just need to go to "Apply Changes" in YV and discard what you did rather than accept it.

While you are in the inline editor, you are playing in your own private sandbox, and until you accept the changes, nobody else will see them.

Kindermusik Class Locator

In collaboration with KI, we have created the following instructions to have your class schedule, as in YourVirtuoso, show on the Kindermusik class locator. Only Kindermusik classes will be sent from YV to KI, and the current method of identifying these is by analysis of the curriculum name to recognize the standard KM names ("Our Time" for example). NOTE: If you rename KM curricula, they may not be sent. If you have a custom curriculum (eg. "Your Time") it may be confused and sent as a KM class.

1. Login to Your Virtuoso.
   
2. Go To the Setup-> My Info menu.
   
3. Click Edit for the Web Services section
   
4. Click on Enable for the Kindermusik.com web service. 
   
5. Select the option for returning Registration information to KI and click Save
   
6. The My Info page will now display each of your locations with the associated Location ID that must be entered in the Kindermusik.com system. Keep this window open, or make a note of the location id(s)
   
7. Login to Kindermusik.com and go to the Teacher’s Lounge.
   
8. Under “My Program” click on the “Profile” link.
   
9. Then click on the “Contact” tab.
   
10. Next to “Class Schedules Source” click on drop down box and choose the system you are using (YourVirtuoso).
    
11. Click on “Studios” tab.
    
12. For each of your studios enter your “YourVirtuoso Location ID”. This ID is the one from the YourVirtuoso My Info page.
    
13. If you would like the Enroll Now button displayed for each studio location on the locator you will need to enter your web address in the Enroll Now URL field.
    
14. Click “Update” and then when parents use the Kindermusik Class locator your schedule will be pulled from Your Virtuoso and displayed on the Kindermusik locator.
    
15. We recommend checking the locator immediately to make sure everything’s correct

Getting on Google Searches

Getting listed on Google is usually just a matter of time (a few months sometimes) but there are things you can do to speed it up and get listed higher. 

First, submit your website URL (address) at http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl .

Then make sure you have the "Serving" text in YV (Setup/MyInfo) set to include the names of the areas parents might search for in google. You can even check your status with google at https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/sitestatus .

Good luck!

Gerry