WordCamp Victoria

Catherine Novak spoke about integrating your blog using social media and the magic of RSS.

Her slideshow is below:
The Connected Blog
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Cindy Stephenson spoke about research, topic selection and writing styles.

She has posted three articles to her blog related to WordCamp Victoria 2009:

• Tips on getting your message out effectively
• Tips on identifying and finding success within your niche
• Tips on researching content

Blogging: Research, Topic Selection and Writing Styles/Tips… Continue Reading

We have had some great feedback, mostly positive, but lots of great ideas for future events.

Please leave a comment below if you have some ideas you want to make sure we don’t forget for WordCamp Victoria 2010!

One thing we will do at the next event is plan “workshops” out in more detail in advance. Workshops will consist of people sitting around tables facing inward, sharing thoughts on a particular topic, and will be lead by a facilitator. Presentations are great, but adding workshops to the mix will give people … Continue Reading

Please leave a link to your WordCamp Victoria 2009 photos in the comments.

Thanks to DCMC Productions for the following video mashup from WordCamp Victoria 2009:

Chris Burdge spoke about blog marketing strategy. He has posted his presentation on his personal blog at Wordcamp Victoria #YYJWordcamp.

Chris was also responsible for organizing the sponsorship by Level Ground Trading, the official Direct Fair Trade coffee sponsor of WordCamp Victoria 2009. I think everyone can agree that Level Ground has some fabulous coffee! The only complaint I heard was “we want more!”

Thanks to Chris, and, of course, Level Ground!

Jeff Richards spoke about widgets. He has posted his presentation on his personal blog at Widgets:Making Your Site Great and Letting Others Help.

Raul Pacheco-Vega spoke about social media integration. He has posted his presentation on his personal blog at My yyjWordCamp talk on integrated socmed WP site building.

Paul Holmes spoke about domain name acqusition. There are some links, details and a video of his presentation on his personal blog at WordCamp Victoria 2009 – Domain Name Acqusition.

First, for those in my class who couldn’t see it because it was blocked by the school’s Parental Controls…

I was demo-ing how taking a theme that doesn’t look anything like you want, but it has a LAYOUT you like and turning it into something custom. The theme I started with was Connexion…

… and very quickly changed it into the BabesGoBare site:

Also… I didn’t get to extend the offer in class as we were zooming until the end… but I wanted to extend an offer to yyjWordCamp attendees only – … Continue Reading