WordCamp Victoria

Mike Vardy gave an entertaining presentation about writing great content.

His slideshow is below:

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

Her slideshow is below:

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

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 – those who would like a copy of my book that takes them through the setting up process in a less rushed way, I’ll offer my book at $25 until Wednesday morning.

Robin Heppell’s WordPress as a CMS:

Here is the video of Robin’s presentation, too: