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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Radical Inclusion: Blogging to the Masses

With todayʻs medical advances, people with disabilities that were dying at birth in the 1950s and 60s are able to live full and productive lives. One place where many people with disabilities are able to thrive is the Internet community, where people are virtually connected in seconds. They [...]

At an UnConference, anyone can sign up to speak. We will be putting the agenda together over the next few weeks and will post it as soon as we have enough in place to show you.

If you want to speak, please add your name and info to the Speaker’s Page on the wiki:
http://2008.podcamphawaii.com/wiki/doku.php/people-speaking

Though [...]