PodCampHawaii will energize our community for just two days! What will happen after that? Many of us will want to carry on our conversations and learn more.

KnowHowCafe will help with this effort. We are grateful that KnowHowCafe is joining us as an ʻOhana Sponsor.

Based on over a decade of experience with building large Content Management [...]

It’s not enough to feed our minds. We must also feed our bodies.

Our communities are based on strong and healthy families and friends. Blue Hawaii Lifestyle reminds us that we can do good at the same time as eating well. We are thrilled that Blue Hawaii Lifestyle has joined us as an ʻOhana Sponsor.

Blue Hawaii [...]

We could not have put this conference together without our volunteers!

Kyle Nishioka – Civil Engineer and podcast junkie. I subscribe to 75 - 100 podcasts, but I do not have a podcast of my own. However, I blog for the Technorama podcast at chuckchat.com/technorama as well as my own sites kylenishioka.com and madmarvonline.com. Iʻm also [...]

Here’s the working WordCamp schedule. Note that this track of PodcampHawaii is pre-arranged. We wanted to make sure some specific topics were covered, and we did! w00t!

Friday, Oct. 24
TimeTopicSpeaker(s)
8:00 - 9:15amRegistration & Networking
9:15 - 9:35amWelcome to PodCamp and WordCamp Hawai’i
9:45 - 10:45amWhy Blog?Sid, Lindsea, Aaron, Christie
11:00am - NoonEasily Create and Manage Unlimited Websites with WordPress [...]

Tiki’s Grill & Bar has made the PodCampians an offer I doubt many of us can refuse. This offer is for the FRIDAY post-PodCamp bash! Here’s what they’re doing for us:

Free Valet Parking for 3 Hours
Show Your Pod Camp Badge and get special priced drinks
Ask about our special PodCampPunch!

Tiki’s will have three (3) Live Bands [...]

Every community needs a guide to help find the new stuff. We’ll be teaching people how to create new podcasts. But it isn’t just about content creation: How will we find each other’s work? Helping us with this task, we welcome help from Tilzy.TV, an ʻOhana Sponsor. I’ve known Jamison and Josh, the brains behind [...]

Making Personal Connections

Before the Internet was a platform for big business, it was a platform for personal expression and exploration. Personal web pages and online journals sprouted up amongst the university course plans and technical manuals. The rest is history. Yet for all the focus on the online, it’s when connections reach offline than the [...]

A Case Study: Johnson & Johnson Health Channel

The creation of the Johnson & Johnson health channel on YouTube is a non-branded site with the goal of presenting a better understanding of health and health care issues. Roxanne will interview Rob about the creation of J&J’s program, from logistics of putting the channel together and populating [...]

Getting Started with Podcasting

Learn from the author of the first podcasting book, “Podcasting the Do it Yourself Guide” what it takes to create a successful podcast. Individuals and Business people will learn what to do and what not to do. He will give you insights into the podcasting space that no one else can.

Securing a [...]

Just a quick shout-out to Ed, our volunteer who is wrangling up a beach bar-b-que after Saturday’s day at PodCamp. Not only is Ed doing the organizing, he’s doing it green!

This is a great way to end PodCampHawaii 2008, with a beach bar-b-que. I couldn’t ask for a better way to wrap what’s shaping up [...]

Using New Media to Capture Outbound Chinese Tourism

Roxanne Darling will interview Christine to give us a quick overview in keeping in line with leveraging new media to help businesses in Hawaii.

Providing an overview of trends in outbound Chinese tourism and why it presents a big opportunity for Hawaii
Examples of companies and tourism bureaus already capturing [...]

How to setup a WordPress blog

UPDATE: After going over the schedule we realized we didn’t really have a basic WordPress Howto session. And because the original session I proposed, EASILY CREATE AND MANAGE UNLIMITED WEBSITES WITH WORDPRESS MU (MULTI-USER) is a bit more advanced, I decided to drop back to a more basic session topic [...]

Don’t try this at home: Avoiding wrecks on the bloggers’ highway

Blogging can be immensely rewarding. It can also be dangerous. I can say that with some authority because, according to several accounts, I was the first person who lost a job because of my blog. Learn how to spot and avoid some of the potential [...]

Standing out from the crowd: You, Your Brand, and Your WordPress Theme

This session will teach you how you can strengthen your brand or identity by making some simple changes to your WordPress theme. Holly will touch on design theory, inspiration, theme implementation, and how she has used WP as a (lite)CMS.

Holly’s slides are available as [...]

Making Things Personal

I will talk about several points in making blogs personal, and encouraging visitor interaction with my site.

A comment is not a bunch of words in a little box. It is a direct connection to another person. Treat it as such. (Respect.)
Expose yourself! Share your hopes dreams, wishes, values, etc. [...]

Our PodCamp site has a wiki, which is a set of helpful pages that you can edit! Yes, that’s right, you.

A Wiki is a public area where anyone can edit a page or add a new page. It is an example of “crowd-sourcing” where members of the community add their own tips and information. It [...]

Hawaii is blessed to be a high-tech mecca, a Silicon Valley of the Pacific. Our business environment supports and encourages technology-oriented projects in many unique ways. Similarly, PodCampHawaii embraces the business community by our “teaching them how to fish” with new social media. We are very proud to have High Tech Development Corporation join us [...]

How to Blog Your Career Without Breaking Your Budgets

Bill Sodeman uses WordPress to document and organize his teaching activities, academic writing and social media projects. His techniques are also helpful for graduate students, sole proprietors, small business owners, and anyone who wants to document their professional and academic activities. Entrepreneurs and university faculty are [...]

Woopra: It Just Takes One

Lots of us blog, or would like to write a blog. Most of us readily admit that we want people (friends, colleagues, business partners, strangers) to read our blogs. But how do we know if anyone is reading our posts, and what they like?

Lorelle blogged about Woopra recently. In her post, [...]

The State of the Word

Matt will talk about all things WordPress, from the ever-so-easy hosted WordPress.com to the do-it-yourself WordPress.org.

WordPress.com
WordPress.com is a version of WordPress that is hosted and completely maintained. Thousands of people every day are creating blogs on the WordPress.com service, which has just begun to explore its capabilities.

WordPress.org
WordPress is an open source [...]