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 [...]