Introducing the next evolution of Wealthy Affiliate...
Wealthy Affiliate - The Open Education Project!
First off, I want to explain what the Open Education Project (OEP) is and how it will impact you and how you can benefit from it.
Over the years we have been working towards a community of sharing and engagement. We have accomplished that in many senses, however our training has lacked for many reasons.
One, people that have very little incentive to share are unlikely to share. They are going to focus on improving their existing business, not offer training to others. Incentive comes in many forms, and with OEP you are going to get credited and rewarded for creating training.
We are a community, we are not two people!
As a community we all have something to offer, share, and contribute to help others. As a community, collectively we can learn independently at a much greater scale by contributing, interacting, creating, and networking as a group.
You are now going to have the ability to interact within other people's training, offer feedback and get help. Instant notifications and the delivery of new training via your friends and on a global scale is going to lead to much more efficient education, as well as in personal growth.
If you are not interested in creating training, that is fine. You are not required to. However, if you do create training you will have the ability to become a controlling factor within the Wealthy Affiliate system by earning ambassador status, which will we get into more detail later.
So, here we are! Wealthy Affiliate - The Open Education Project.
This is "iteration 1" of many and over the coming days, weeks, months and years, you are going to see OEP shape into the best education platform anywhere!
In this training, I am going to walk you through the MUST KNOW components of Wealthy Affiliate, OEP. This should help you acquire a solid understanding of how to use the system, interact within it, get support, make the best use of it, as well as earn revenue from it.

3. Do not copy content from WA and post it somewhere else on the Internet. (This i understand) This includes copying your own blog content and putting it on your website.- what does this mean?
6. Does this mean no posting of your affiliate links or any mlm 's I'm involved with. If that is what it means, I get that. Kind of like biting the hand that feeds you.
The rest I understand and feel delighted about. I was looking into affiliate marketing, using lots of other things, and sneaky stuff was going on. When I found some training it was really expensive.
When writing content, is there anywhere I can send it for feedback? I can get lost in my head and what makes sense to me can seriously baffle others.
I actually can't get over the fact that questions are answered without promoting another something to buy. This place is awesome.
Thank you.
I have a problem and I am in the process of writing my first blog about my competing my 10 Lessons in Level 1 of WA Entrepreneurial Certification Course and I am stuck on the part where I have to add tag. How do I resolve the add tag issue?
Thanks, Kyle and Carson for always looking out for us!
Brian
Well it would be equally annoying on WA community.
And in my opinion it makes community forum look cheap.
I am glad it is not spammed like elsewhere on the Internet.
Cheers'
Dave
But this whole course is about promoting affiliate links on the internet and some argue that we should treat the internet in the same way - no promotions, no spam, no solicitation.
Curious on your thoughts of this. Why is it ok "out there" and not "in here"? It's something I struggle with in this business. And I would love your perspective.
Thanks!
Ryan
I'm not sure where these rules come up (during signing on to WA or training?) but I don't remember seeing them so far though. It might help if they stand out a bit more so folks like me don't run the risk of breaking them inadvertently. (apologies if it's just that I didn't notice them)
Thanks for the heads up.
In my messages here in WA, usually, I ask people to know my website, I got with WordPress since I had my enrolment with WA has done, almost two years ago. The www.lifeandhealths.com is a website created for helping people to make their lives better, without any profit goal. Last week, I got a user's message saying that such note features a type of Spam. I enlighten you that during all the time I'm in WA, people are always commenting on this healthy work and according to the replying messages, the website has been helping many people, and it has been welcome so far for the WA community.
I would like to ask you to make an appraisal of my website content, and if indeed it is regarded as spam or inadequate for you, I'm thinking to be out from WA, because I don't want to cause any inconvenient for you all. So, I prefer to move forward with my website, without any link with WA from now on.
Madek
"This course is always kept current so if you ever need a brush up at any time going forward or you don't understand something within Wealthy Affiliate University, make sure you check back to this tutorial."
This course is definitely not current.
I am commenting as I read through this, so you can understand why I as a reader am feeling frustrated.
I still cannot find a Forum or Training
I found Classrooms link in the Left Menu. Perhaps that is the Training you are mentioning should be in the Activity Dashboard.
My Profile is not in the Activity Dashboard, but at least I know where to get it, in the top right link to logout.
I still cannot find My Blog.
I cannot find My Network in the Activity Dashboard, but at least I know to find it in the light blue button on the top right menu.
I cannot find Rapid Writer, but I assume it is now called Site Content in the light blue Site Rubix link on the left side menu.
I cannot find Share Wealthy Affiliate, but I assume it is now called Affiliate Bootcamp.
Overall I give this article the lowest rating as newbys to WA like myself are unable to follow anything in it.
PLEASE UPDATE IT.
Cheers Dave
A butcher cannot teach people to bake. Likewise, a newby at WA does not have the experience and skills to train. I look forward to taking up the challenge of training others when I get my head around all that I am learning.
Remember the saying, "If the blind lead the blind, they all end up in the ditch." My question is this. Why is the training in the WA Course not sufficient?
Your article said: "You are now going to have the ability to interact within other people's training,"
If people do offer training, then how do others find it? I am only aware of the course with the green button on the left. There is no process on WA to locate this training you mention. Perhaps if you added another button on the left menu titled Member Training, that other members could access, it might work better.
Well that's my feedback. Dave
In my last blog post (only my 3rd) I ended with ---- "Kind regards all" and my first name. No signature graphic or URL just my name --- Is this okay?
Also I started with a title completely opposite of my intent of the post but explaining my attitude when I first joined WA. So is this okay too? It could be perceived as click bait I suppose.
Anyone have thoughts on these?
Here I need you to look into my writing in networking or answering question so to see if there is any sense of spam at all, since I have asked our members to critique my site, www.ebettercare.com being built inside WA for monetizing the contents inside www.formefirst.com and www.sick-ask.com.
Well, scary! After reviewing the above rules, I will certainly exercise my best precaution to avoid falling into the unwanted trap of spam, which I would have never intended to. So, please look into all my writing inside WA if anything may contain a sense of spam (unknowingly) and help me correct and do better and more for WA community. Of course, I welcome your advice on how I can do better to build and monetize www.ebettercare.com, which is at its 2+-week infancy.
So, thank you for posting the concerns about spam.
I have a question about promoting things. Sometimes I am interested in what other products members are using, what they recommend and don't recommend.
For example, I recently did a search here within the WA community, to see what a good video capture software might be. I found three fairly solid recommendations and after doing my own research based on their suggestions in the various posts and comments I found, I was able to find one I thought would work for me. I found this to be of value to me.
They weren't directly trying to sell me anything. It was just helpful recommendations.
So my question is: Will these types of blogs also be removed? I would be disappointed if that is the case, because, like I said, I found this to be valuable information. I trust some of the people here more than outside WA, and their opinions are more relevant since we are all doing the same types of websites.
Several months ago, I had a thought of something I wanted to ask the WA community about but, it was in a gray area and could be spam. But, I was not sure.
I contacted Kyle and asked for his guidance and thoughts on my proposed post. He responded quickly with the help I needed!
Contacting Kyle in advance worked so well that I plan to follow the same path if I have any future doubts about my posts!
I encourage everyone here at WA to follow the same advice. If you find yourself in a gray area and are unsure about anything you want to discuss on this platform, just contact either Kyle, Jay, or Carson for advice on how to proceed. It will keep you out of trouble and preserve the pure nature of the WA community as it was intended to be.
And, good luck to all our members in their quest for financial freedom through WA!
Jim
Does that mean we DON'T have to post just business posts in WA, as long as we don't add an affiliate link?
Thanks so much!!
Tracy
I see posts every day here with links to others sites. They are not referral links to join another program but they are links to other sites. Most of the post will write something like "for further information" with a link next to it or to learn more about Amazons rules click here. Is this considered spam?
not many ambassadors create training [and some of the trainings happening now are very questionable in terms of content] or fulfill the other criteria, many of them say they ended up there accidentally [no way, it's hyperactivity and one wannabe at the moment has launched a very visible campaign that has got right up people's noses] also the number is limited to 25
Nathaniell recently wrote that ambassadors are the welcoming committee, then maybe call them 'welcome committee' instead of ambassador and see who still wants the job ;)
looks like you set out to have solid ambassadors, but that didn't pan out...
- that said, some of the personal stuff appearing is embarassing....someone's blog on friendship get 92 immediate comments and sits top of the leaderboard whereas someone's 'first $100 day' gets 11 likes in 24 hours and is lost among the hugs and emotional meltdowns
the spam is a no no and this post imo conflict
The tutorial is great and I hope to understand it more because right now I don't understand much.
Thank you.
And I understand my private messages are not really private? You read them?
I made the right decision on taking the promotional offer on becoming yearly paid Premium Members! How the last few hours of holding my nerve for resources and made it at the 11th hours still one of the best moment and decision I've ever made!
The prospect to be selected and on the plane to Vegas meeting all top brass relaxing ur way and to be involved in business overview could only one of the best life turnaround so far in my whole 36 years of existence! Terrific and terrific and terrific!
But if it is not me one of the huge parties there, at least we did some effort that better than nothing. I will still feel the blessed of those Members that could make the trip. At the end of the day, being just here on W.A platform is already something blessing.
All the best folks!
I hope this will be available to the new members for the to know before hand before they flout the rules unknowingly.
To your success Wealthy Affiliates!
7) No adding affiliate links to any blog, training, discussion or private message
I may be misunderstanding this, but if I make a blog about things that people should avoid doing and I link to this page, am I breaking this rule? It sounds that way. Further, some of the training here specifically mentions linking to pages here at WA in order to make use of the thousands of posts and the training that is available here, but this list seems to say we shouldn't do that.
16) No signatures at the end of your posts (posting your website URL, image, etc)
This one confuses me, as I see a number of members with signatures, including some ambassadors...
#3. I thought that was the whole purpose. Get our posts and blogs "out there".
#9. This seems to be a fairly common practice. I thought that was how I get around plagiarism, giving credit of authorship to the original creator.
#3. Do not copy content from WA and post it somewhere else on the Internet. This includes copying your own blog content and putting it on your website.
#9. Do not post content where your readers are required to go to an external website to "read more". All of the content must be self contained within the post itself.
Thanks
DennisD
be Professionals...nothing wrong with that
my friend !!
I was hired by a company one time who told me that
what ever experience I had from working with other businesses,
they didn`t want to hear about it !!
They said that they were going to teach me in their own way,
that I would be trained by professionals, to be a professional !!
And that they did, with all my focus on their business. Just taught
I would drop that by you.
Let us not bring any outside luggage into WA.
You are all doing such a great job !!
Bravo !!
The Dashboard - Global, Personal Feed, Notification
However, I find this perplexing because his images don't show those; ergo, I am not sure what he's talking about. Help, please?
Page 2, my Dashboard looks nothing like portrayed. Mine looks like this
I have extensive knowledge of web design, but these weren't my designs, so I felt helpless because I didn't know how to make the darn thing work, but because of my background I kept with it, but it came close to where I didn't.
Rule 18, what's considered a product? Taken literally with the emphasis on "ANY", I would consider this a really broad term, but in the maybe three hours I've been here I've seen posts about YouTube, specific video software, and a whole classroom dedicated to Wordpress. To me these are all products. So is the key in the word "promoting"? But when combined with rules 5 and 6, it seems like saying anything good about any product is promotion of that product.
So for example Wordpress seems to be the CMS of choice. Any training on a plugin is out? I do web design for a living. All my clients use WP, and one of them got hacked. It was a mess to clean up, and I think WP security is one of the most important things that people ignore with WP and I would be happy to do training on it. I use one specific plugin though. I'm not saying you can't use others, this is just the one I use, and there are certain things you either need a plugin to do or you need to know how to code. So is the line a general blog post saying here's what you need to do, but you'll have to figure it out for yourself? Because than we come to my next question and it seems like I can't even say, "and here's where yo go to figure it out."
Rules 2 and 9 seem to be contradictory. You can't copy anything in and you can't reference anything outside. 9 says "required to go to an external website" though. So the spirit seems to be don't gratuitously be linking to outside resources, but assuming you give a thorough answer is it OK to add a reference to an outside resource for more information if desired? I tend not to expect people to accept my word for things and prefer to send them to the source so they can decide for themselves, so I want to know if I should really not be doing that.
I guess my problem is I have 20 years of programming and marketing experience, and I came here because I was looking for a community to share some of that with. I was kind of skeptical about coming here for my own reasons, but I got pulled in by the Black Friday Deal and decided to give it try. At first I thought it was going to be way better than I hoped. But after reading this I feel like I'm going to be walking on egg shells not to say the wrong thing anywhere.
I was just saying the other day how I wish I had someone to push me, give me so feedback that will help me help my business and all along I had a system that I was not using.
I'm learning a lot here at WA, but I think I'm lacking some social skills. The Open Education Project looks like it may be something that may help me readjust my comfort zone.
Thank you again Kyle
It can be easy to get sidetracked about certain endeavors that are unrelated to what WA is all about, and it's great to be able to access this reminder when we are not sure if something's ok or not.
Thanks again, Kyle!
I am a Pilipino, My country Philippines is composed of 7,200 islands. And those islands that have a story and beautiful places to see. I want to know the opinion of members here if I am allowed to post a blog, making story on how the inhabitant and culture of my countrymen is this site, WA?
If I write something in my WA blog deemed worthwhile for everyone, both inside and outside of WA, and can't use it on my own website, then you're asking me to choose who to share it with. So, if I choose to use it as content on my website, the WA community will miss out on some of my best essays and vice versa.
I completely get not using affiliate links or links to outside sites. But some content would be helpful without being spammy. And I'd prefer not to be told that my writing is exclusive. Why would you censor the good stuff?