Category Archives: Talks

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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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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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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Living in the work world that was my science fiction: My Art Institute of Vancouver Commencement Speech

Disclaimer: This is based on my outline for my keynote address at the Art Institute of Vancouver this past week. Since I rarely speak from anything more than bullet points and usually improvise on the fly, this is pretty much … Continue reading

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Upcoming talks, classes, and lectures in May

Turns out May is a really busy month for me for speaking and such. Let’s start off with Northern Voice this weekend… I’m talking Blogging ABC’s in the Social Media 101 track Friday morning, followed by Beyond the Hype: Teaching … Continue reading

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Catch my crash-course in podcasting at F5 Expo

I got an email from Lindsay yesterday to ask if I wanted to get 15-20 workshop on podcasting at the F5 Expo next month. Hmm, let me think about that for a moment… Hellz yeah! So, it’s all set now, … Continue reading

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All the extra tools bloggers need–WordCamp Victoria talk

It’s not hard to get blogging, regardless of what blog engine you use (though WordPress is the best IMHO), but there are tricks and tools that make life easier for you. At WordCamp Victoria I decided to distill and talk … Continue reading

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