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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. Be […]

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. […]

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 […]