Category Archives: Conferences & Speaking

Want to learn WordPress? Learn with me at BCIT!

Well timed that it is with the soon-to-be-released Using WordPress, I’m teaching a pair of classes on consecutive Monday evenings through BCIT. The first is Monday Sept 13th—BCIT : : MDIA 0101 – WordPress.com for beginners 1—and is suitable for … Continue reading

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Please nominate me to speak at TEDxUBC

I know many of you have heard of the TED conference as well as the offshoot TEDx conferences. This October TEDxUBC is happening and the theme is right up my alley: “The iGeneration will expect instant responses from parents, teachers … Continue reading

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Would You Use iBooks as your iPad PDF reader?

I’m not sure this is a great idea, but it is certainly a nice option: Once you’ve got the files uploaded to Dropbox, though, how do you get them into iBooks? Just find the PDF in Dropbox on your phone, … Continue reading

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WordCamp Vancouver 2010 Presentation: WordPress 3.0 & Parent-Child Themes

Catherine and I just finished our talk at WordCamp Vancouver on WordPress 3.0 with a few touches into custom post types, custom taxonomies, and parent-child themes with Twenty Ten (you can still read about and download my child theme Twenty … Continue reading

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More Working on the iPad: Mindmapping with iThoughtsHD

I decided to follow Chris Brogan’s lead some more and just bring my iPad with me to meet with Christine of Blue Lime Media and Catherine to work on WordCamp Vancouver talks (I’m moderating Christine’s panel and Catherine and I … Continue reading

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Building Websites with WordPress Class Slides

During today’s class, several people asked if the slides would be made available online… So here they are: You can download a PDF version or view the slides on iWork.com Beta. One fantastic surprise from today’s class was that WordPress.com … Continue reading

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Building Websites with WordPress Course Outline

In case you’d like to know what I cover when I teach my Building Websites with WordPress class, I’ve uploaded the course outline to iWork.com and you can download a PDF version of it for yourself. Directly related to this … Continue reading

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Get Your Dose of Social Media Strategy, Competitve Intelligence, and Metrics at Tomorrow’s SMCYVR Event

You ready for a night of hard-core, you-can-use-it-right-away social media for business info? Sure I know you got a taste of metrics with Guacira’s Third Tuesday talk last night, but that was last night and we’re talking not just one, … Continue reading

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Twitter Search is Failing Us: Is There a Solution?

One of the crucial parts of using Twitter and social media for business intelligence is is search. The problem is that when using Twitter search for information is that Twitter holds all the cards, and I think Twitter is dealing … Continue reading

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Building Websites with WordPress (for Normal People) Next Week: Do you have a domain?

Next Saturday (May 29th) I get to teach one of my favourite classes: Building Websites with WordPress (for Normal People). Although it’s one of my favourite classes to teach, it’s also the one that poses logistical problems to teach it … Continue reading

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It’s Easy to Make Child Themes with Twenty Ten: Download My First WordPress Theme

One of the parts of Using WordPress that I’ve been spending a lot of time learning the whole WordPress theming area. Theme frameworks, Parent-child themes, CSS, PHP, Menus, Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies all interesting parts of WordPress 3.0 … Continue reading

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