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10 Years After the Manifesto: The Cluetrain Stops at WordCamp
Although the 95 Theses of the Cluetrain Manifesto first appeared a decade ago, they still resonate just as much today as they did then. The quiet success of the book has been such that concepts like “markets are conversations,” “To speak with a human voice, companies must share the concerns of their communities” and “hyperlinks subvert hierarchy” seem commonplaces today, though they are concepts more often cited than practiced. Many bloggers owe a significant debt to Cluetrain, and far too many don’t even know it!
In this panel, two of the original authors of Cluetrain, Doc Searls and David Weinberger, will have a discussion with Scott Kirsner about the decade since the publication of Cluetrain.
What do they think Cluetrain got right, and what did it miss? Has blogging been hopelessly co-opted by exactly the forces of marketing against which the “people of earth” were said to be uniting? If the rest of the world is finally catching up to Cluetrain, what will the next steps in the evolution of commerce and conversation look like?
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Academia/Higher Ed in Practice
WordPress is taking off in Boston academia. Why are higher education institutions choosing it? What does it need to expand adoption in academia?
Bill Dennen of Wheaton College, Sean Brown from MIT Sloan Review, and Chris Traganos of Harvard University mull lessons learned from rolling out WP and WPMU in academia. Moderated by Scott Dasse of Boston University.
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Daniel will present a high-level overview of the two major APIs that WordPress supports for remote integration: XMLRPC and AtomPub. He will discuss a variety uses for these APIs ranging from desktop apps, to cross-site integration, to specialized iPhone clients. This talk is aimed at designers and plugin developers who might get use out of the API, or whose knowledge of it might help them make better implementation choices. This talk does not delve into the specifics of how to use the WordPress APIs, but is intended to be a philosophical overview of the APIs and how it provides for integration.
Presented by Daniel Jalkut | Rate this presentation at SpeakerRate
The Future is Now: WP Themes With HTML 5
Excited about HTML5? Wish you could start using the new semantic elements right now? You can. In this presentation Rob Larsen will show you how to create cross-browser, HTML5 enhanced WordPress themes using nothing more than a little extra JavaScript, basic WordPress knowledge and some knowledge of the new elements.
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Get Seen: Web Video
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Steve will blast through a condensed version of his dynamic three hour class on choosing a camera, getting great audio and lighting, shooting, editing, hosting, and will include WordPress specific examples for embedding video.
Get Thee Behind Me: Making BuddyPress Do Thy Bidding
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With BuddyPress, you can build your own social network on top of WordPress in just a few minutes. But every community is unique (freakish?) in its own ways, and BuddyPress’s default setup won’t work for everyone. Sometimes you want more than the standard BuddyPress, sometimes you want less, and sometimes you want something that doesn’t look social networkish at all. In this session I’ll talk about the structure of BuddyPress and how the parts work together. Then I’ll demonstrate a few examples of how you can use plugins, config files, and child themes to make BuddyPress work for your unique and freakish purposes.
Presented by Boone Gorges | Rate this presentation at SpeakerRate
Getting into the Loop
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The magic behind WordPress is how it processes queries and gives you the results via “The Loop.” The Loop can be hijacked for a variety of custom uses and these techniques can quickly expand the capacity of WordPress to present information in different ways. We’ll cover this, as well as PHP tips which help introspect WordPress during lower-level development.
Presented by Michael Erlewine | Rate this presentation at SpeakerRate
Healthy Relationships: Parent/Child Theming in WP
The Parent/Child theme structure, as supported by the WordPress core, allows website owners, designers, and developers the ability to create custom theme designs quickly based on the template files of an existing Theme. This session will discuss various aspects of this useful theme creation technique.
Presented by Daisy Olsen | Rate this presentation at SpeakerRate
How Not to Get Sued: Legal Issues Bloggers Face
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How do you protect your intellectual property as a blogger? Should you register a trademark, a copyright? What are the rules around using third party materials? We’ll also talk about responding to DMCA take down notices, first amendment issues, and all the other legal issues bloggers commonly face – including time for Q&A.
Presented by Miguel Danielson and Kimberley Isbell | Rate this presentation at SpeakerRate
Using jQuery in your WordPress Theme. jQuery is a lightweight JavaScript framework that’s extremely popular with Web designers and developers. This session presents an overview of jQuery and how to start using it. I’ll walk through a case study that uses jQuery with a new, homemade WP theme and demonstrate layout techniques, animation effects, DOM manipulation and AJAX/JSON. This session will show beginners how to start using jQuery and how to begin making WordPress themes.
Presented by Jim Doran | Rate this presentation at SpeakerRate
Lock It Up: Security, Applied
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Learn how to keep your WordPress-powered website secure from hackers and exploits. I’ll show examples of hacked sites, share tips and plugins for keeping WordPress secure, and talk about my experiences with WordPress and security overall.
Media 101
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What’s a blog without video? And yet, is there any aspect to blogging less mystifying? What services to use, where to upload, how to embed, how do I avoid looking like a dork in my own videos? Walk through the basics of how to create, host and embed your own video content.
Presented by Nicholas Baisley | Rate this presentation at SpeakerRate
Monetization in a Free World
There are 7,500+ free and open plug-ins and 1,000+ free/open themes on the official repository, all running on free and open WordPress. Is there real money to be made building plug-ins and templates?
Jane Wells of Automattic, Jousha Strebel of Page.ly, Carl Hancock of Gravity Forms (RocketGenius), and Brian Gardner of StudioPress explore (non-consulting) business models in a world of free, open, and GPL. Moderated by Jeff Chandler of WordPress Tavern.
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You’ve heard the rumors- MU is coming to WordPress Core in 3.0. Learn what this merge means to you and what it means for Automattic. Hear from Jane Wells, a member of the core team at Automattic, about what UI changes are expected and what prompted the change from WordPress.
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Rock My Blog
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Creative yet inexpensive Internet marketing techniques such as blogging can build a company’s online presence, spawn brand loyalty, and generate leads/results. Through comprehensive SEO techniques and other inbound marketing methodologies, companies can increase website traffic and be top-of-mind for those discussing similar topics.
Because a corporate blog is a place for customers, prospects and like-minded individuals to share ideas, it reinforces a company’s image and brand as a thought-leader. This session will discuss what kind of content you can create to attract your customers, how to bring people to your blog and how to keep the momentum going. We’ll also cover how you can measure your success so you know what works and what doesn’t.
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Screaming Fast WPMU: Performance Optimization is Your New BFF
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Is your WordPress or WPMU install beginning to feel a bit lethargic? In this session Dan Collis-Puro will share real, honest-to-goodness, rubber-hits-the-road tips on performance optimization, nginx front-end proxy caching, and optimizing the LAMP stack. Feed your need for speed and your love of WP at the same time, and leave other WP admins in the dust.
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Sell Sh*t on WordPress
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The makers of WP-eCommerce and Shopp introduce their e-commerce solutions, share examples of their plug-ins in practice, and take questions on eCommerce implementation from the audience. The session is split evenly between these two popular solutions.
Presented by Shayne Sanderson and Jonathan Davis.
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SEO 101
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If SEO is as foreign to you as Moo Goo Gai Pan, give this session 45 minutes to radically change the way you see websites. Learn what SEO is and the fundamentals behind optimizing your website for search engines. Cover keyword research and how it can help you better reach your target audience. Learn which free tools to use, tips for choosing keywords, and how to integrate keywords into your site. Get the 411 on site architecture and discover the benefits of search-friendly URLs. Hear tips for linking from one page to another and what to avoid. Finally, learn how easy it is to make your WordPress site SEO friendly with various plugins.
Presented by Casie Gillette | Rate this presentation at SpeakerRate
An information-packed, interactive session full of SEO tips, tricks, and best practices proven to increase traffic from search engines. Learn by example with a look “under the hood” of a few actual sites owned by members of the audience. Discover how to enhance user experience and usability while making your site more search engine friendly. Whether you’re a beginner or advanced blogger, you’ll walk away with something you can use to improve your website’s performance. We won’t get to everyone’s website, but don’t worry – that’ll leave plenty for the Q&A session at the end!
Presented by Corey Eulas | Rate this presentation at SpeakerRate
Showcase Showdown (with After the Deadline)
So now you know how to build a great, practical site. Doug Hanna and Raphael (Raffi) Mudge of Automattic inspire you to raise the bar. Raffi will demo After the Deadline, a plug-in that virtually guarantees top notch copy writing. Doug, who helps organize the WordPress Showcase, wraps up the applied track with a look at some of the most noteworthy and inspirational implementations.
Presented by Doug Hanna and Raffi Mudge.
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Themes 101
No offense to blue gradients, big white text, and rounded corners, but you want something a bit more… you. What do you need to think about before you start looking? What is a “premium” theme? Do themes have “features” or are they just skins? Where should you look for themes? And what if you want something original, built for you? Learn how to think about and describe (CMS, curation, sitemap…) the rough sketch in your mind so you can find a theme that fits.
Presented by Jake Goldman | Rate this presentation at SpeakerRate
Using Plugins, Useful Plugins
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Plugins are at the core of giving your WordPress site functionality, but finding the right ones is like sewing with spaghetti—trying at best. Learn the twenty-five most useful, amazing, and radical plugins that take WordPress sites to the next level. We will cover plugins that boost traffic, improve SEO, extend navigation, increase content quality, monetize your site with commerce, automate tasks, and enrich the visitor experience on your site.
Presented by Adria Richards | Rate this presentation at SpeakerRate
So, in a nutshell, it will be a beginner’s guide on how to edit/manipulate WordPress (themes, plugins, etc) files to accomplish what you want without having to hire a developer.
WordPress 101
It all starts with the WordPress Dashboard. If you’re new to WP, learn how to navigate the backend of the this content management system. Learn the difference between posts and pages, and how to use the editors in WP. Learn what widgets and plugins are, and how to use the settings in WordPress. We’ll discuss various ways of getting your own WordPress installation, and this session will be a perfect launchpad for the rest of the beginners track.
Presented by Amanda Blum | Rate this presentation on SpeakerRate
WordPress for Big Media
You’re sold on WordPress as a solution for the lone blogger and small businesses. But does it work for big media organizations? Ned Watson of 1080d.com has set up both internal and VIP hosting for companies like MTV and Time Inc. He’ll review big media use cases, hosting alternatives, integration with external platforms, and other lessons learned from rolling out WordPress at scale.
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WordPress Powers My Startup
You’re flirting with WordPress, now meet some entrepreneurs who made a commitment. This panel features startup and small business leaders for whom WordPress is a critical part of their business operation. Why did they settle on WordPress? What challenges does that decision present? If they could start over, would they pick WordPress again?
Locals Juliet DeVries of Audissey Guides and Amy Katz of Nine Lives Media join m62 visualcommunication’s Joby Blume, stopping in on the way back to the UK. Moderated by Jake Goldman.
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[...] to be speaking at WordCamp Boston, January 23rd, 2010! http://wordcampboston.com/program/ [...]
[...] Check out the rest of the program. [...]
[...] we knew it, a slate of top local talent from the academic world filled out a panel on its own: Academia / High Ed in Practice. Still wanting to explore WordPress as a business tool for start ups and small businesses, we [...]
[...] without disrupting users whose browsers lag the spec. Then Daisey Olsen will explain how the Parent-Child theme relationship – supported by WordPress core – can ease the work of theme developers by enabling [...]
[...] December 28, 2009 · Filed under News · Tagged with wordcamp, wordcamp boston · Leave a Comment StudioPress sponsors WordCamp Boston and Brian Gardner will part of the panel speaking about “Monetization in a Free World”. [...]
Looking for anyone else from elementary education (grades 3-5) working on WordPress blogs with the students?
[...] Boston is less than a week away, and as part of my presentation I wanted to show the new elements in an environment that basically everyone that works on WordPress [...]
[...] you don’t know much about SEO but you are interested in finding out, the SEO 101 session is definitely for you. Learn the basics of what SEO entails; keywords, links and content. [...]
[...] to be in Boston this weekend for the first ever WordCamp Boston! I’ll be speaking on the Parent/Child theme structure. It will be a great conference and I’m really looking forward to networking and all the [...]
[...] For those heading to the conference scheduled panelists include Chris Traganos, who moved the Harvard Gazette to WordPress and is now working to bring all of Harvard University to Wordpress MU; Sean Brown, online manager of the WordPress powered MIT Sloan Review; and Bill Dennen, who is knee deep executing Wheaton College’s move from an aging CMS to Wordpress MU. The discussion will be moderated by Scott Dasse, Creative Director for New Media at Boston University, who helped BU through a campus-wide deployment of WordPress MU last year. The full program is listed [here]. [...]
[...] It’s the wave of the future. It’s like plugin for your theme! Want to hear more? I’ll be talking all about it in my session: Healthy Relationships: Parent/Child Theming in WP [...]
[...] I’m planning attending sessions about the Wordpress Loop, API’s, JQuery, Security, HTML 5, SEO, and web video. WOW! What a list, right? I hope to come home with some new knowledge to share [...]
[...] be attending sessions in both the beginner and applied track, including Rock My Blog, PHP & CSS, and Themes [...]
[...] Boston January 23, 2010, Microsoft NERD Center Donate!AboutOrganizersBlogWordCamp.orgProgramUnconferenceIgnite WordCampGenius BarScheduleSpeakersLocationLodgingSat. Night ReceptionIn the [...]
[...] WordCamp Boston Program – Session descriptions and links to SlideShare presentations, videos (when available). Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)A Blogger’s ParadiseMissing Blogger Turns up Unexpectedly in Tropical ParadiseBlogger’s paradise [...]
Why is Microsoft taking so long with the videos we recorded on their equipment?
I will have an update on this situation really soon. Please stay tuned!