Saturday I spent the day with a couple hundred web developers, designers, publishers and blogging enthusiasts at an event called WordCamp OC. This the fourth annual WordCamp Orange County, and the eleventh WordCamp I’ve participated in. What is WordCamp? I shared my plans for WordCamp with one of my hiking friends, Paul. He reasoned, “Oh, […]
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WordCamp San Francisco is LIVE
My first WordCamp was in San Francisco back in 2007. For anyone who uses or develops with WordPress, there is no better place to network, to learn and to expand your knowledge on this powerful, open source CMS. Since then, I’ve been to WordCamp LA, WordCamp OC (twice) and WordCamp SD. This spring, I spoke […]
It’s Confirmed: I’m Speaking at WordCamp OC
If you’re anywhere within easy traveling distance to Orange County, join me on Saturday, May 14 at the second annual WordCamp OC, where I’m proud to say I’ll be speaking on Building an Intranet with WordPress. This year’s WordCamp OC will be held at Chapman University in Orange, and has grown to include three tracks. […]
Building an iPad Version of Your WordPress Website
Do you have an iPad? If so, you’ve probably tried one of my favorite apps — Flipboard. Flipboard gives your iPad a magazine-like interface to Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader and other news streams. Whether you have an iPad or not, now you can give your WordPress-powered website the same cool Flipboard experience on the iPad. […]
Post Formats and StudioPress Tapestry
StudioPress has released a new theme that takes advantage of WordPress 3.1 post types. They consider Tapestry a Tumblog style theme, but I see it as simply a traditional blog theme with the added plus of post types. I’m not going to delve into what post types are right now, except to say that different […]
WordPress Project: Book Launch Video Blog
This project was launched in December 2010 to coincide with the publication of Diana Mercer’s new book Making Divorce Work. Diana is an attorney who specializes in divorce mediation. Her mediation firm Peace Talks already has an established website and identity. For this companion site to the book, Diana wanted something that carried some of the same colors, but […]
What is the WordPress KM Project?
Knowledge Management is a term laden with baggage. For some people, KM synonymous with expensive IT systems and tools. For others it conjures memories of failed initiatives from a time past. But for most people, KM is a concept that they really don’t get. Not that they need to “get it.” The term itself was […]