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 and everyone else… they will never be off the grid.” Children of Cyberspace. Old fogies [...]

Would You Use iBooks as your iPad PDF reader?

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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, hit “Open With” and choose iBooks. It’s easy as pie, and your PDF files will [...]

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 Ten dot Five). Far and away the most ooohs and ahhs came from the WordPress [...]

More Working on the iPad: Mindmapping with iThoughtsHD

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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 are talking about WordPress 3.0). Especially since I boldly said that working on my iPad [...]

Building Websites with WordPress Class Slides

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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 now supports WordPress 3.0 menus: While only the new Twenty Ten theme can use the [...]

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