Agenda
Attendees are welcome to move back and forth between three streams for the day: the “Blogger” stream, “Technical” stream, and “Workshops”.
The Student Lounge and gymnasium are open all day for people to set up their laptops and exchange ideas, tips, etc. in an informal way.
Speaker Biographies | Facilitator Biographies
8:30am (Gymnasium) – Registration, Informal Coffee/Tea
8:45am (Gymnasium) – Welcome to WordCamp!
9am – 9:50am
- WORKSHOP – Chris Burdge – Promoting Your Blog Using Social Media
- TECHNICAL – Dave Pettitt – E-Commerce For WordPress
- BLOGGER – Mike Vardy – Knowing & Knurturing Your Kniche Blog: Starting & Running A Successful Niche Blog in WordPress
10am – 10:50am
- WORKSHOP – Gil Namur and Kerry Slavens – Guest Blogging and Multi-Author Blogs
- TECHNICAL – Tris Hussey – WordPress 3 SEO
- BLOGGER – Jordan Keats – Using Posterous as a Time Saving Tool for WordPress
11am – 11:50am
- WORKSHOP – Lloyd Budd – WordPress 3 Q&A
- TECHNICAL – John Overall – 10 Features To Maximize Your Self-Hosted WordPress Website
- BLOGGER – Lorraine Murphy – Comments and Community Management
NOON (Gymnasium) – BLOGGER PANEL (Raul, Lorraine and Rebecca)
1pm – 1:50pm
- WORKSHOP – Tim Ayres – Blogging for Business
- TECHNICAL – Dave Zille – Custom Post Types in WordPress 3
- BLOGGER – Jodie Gastel – The Uber Newbie look at Theme Customization
2pm – 2:50pm
- WORKSHOP – Paul Holmes – Blog Networks and Aggregators
- TECHNICAL – Robin Heppell – WordPress For Your Business Website
- BLOGGER – Rebecca Bollwitt – Plugins Every Blogger Should Use
3pm – 3:50pm
- WORKSHOP – Jeff Richards – 25 Plugins in 50 Minutes
- TECHNICAL – George Plumley – Converting Existing Sites to WordPress
- BLOGGER – Cathie Walker – Writing for the Web
4pm – 4:50pm
- TECHNICAL PANEL (Gymnasium) – Tris, Lloyd and Dave Zille
- BLOGGER – Raul Pacheco-Vega – WordPress for Professional and Personal Blogging: Two Approaches, One Site Building Platform
- SOCIAL MEDIA – Christine Wood – Social Media and Government: Sharing What Matters
