Hello WordPress friends and blogging neighbors! I (Morgan Senkal) am thrilled to take over the fabulous work that Aaron Hockley has done with WordCamp here in Portland. My two goals for this event are:
Make WordCamp Portland 2010 as fabulous as last year
Make it even better, if that is even possible!
I decided that the very first [...]
This is a sponsored post as part of BootsnAll’s WordCamp Sponsorship
Title: Portland Based BootsnAll Travel Network: PDX Word Camp Sponsor
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BootsnAll is honored and excited to be a part of this years PDX Word Camp. Please say hello to Ian, Brandy, and Chris as they listen, learn and share at this years event as well as visit our site(s). We always love constructive feedback!
A big thanks to Joe from Blaze Streaming Media who is providing our streaming services for WordCamp Portland.
View the stream at http://live.blazestreaming.com/wcpdx/.
The plan is to start streaming as the event begins at 9am on Saturday.
While it’s great that we have a sold out event for WordCamp Portland, it means that there are a lot of people who aren’t able to attend in person. Thanks to a new sponsor (more on the sponsor tomorrow), we’re now pleased to announce that we’ll be streaming as much of the event as possible. Blaze Streaming Media will be onsite to produce recordings and streams of speakers throughout the weekend.
Once we have the details on the broadcast of the stream we’ll post the information for those wanting to tune in.
Many of the WordCamp Portland presenters referenced links, information, or slides which are shared online. Here’s a roundup of pointers to the presentation information, roughly in the order presented:
Betsy Richter – From Concept to Execution in Eight Days – links, slides, video, commandments.
Justin Kistner – WordPress Ecosystems – slides, notes, links
Chris O’Rourke – 10 Proven Plugins to Make Your Blog Pop – slides, links, video
Josh Bancroft – Tying Your Tubes: Integration with WordPress – slides, links
Kelly Guimont – Considerations When Choosing A Theme – video (Outline/notes to come)
Dane Hesseldahl – Extend Your Blog with Custom Plug-In Development – slides, source code
Eric Amundson – Design & Debug WordPress Themes Using Free Tools – super-detailed notes and links
Marshall Kirkpatrick – Feed Your Blog with RSS – slides of links
If there is any information which should be added to this list, leave a comment and I’ll update the post. I know that some folks were recording or streaming video, we’ll link that that if available as well.
Beer and Blog is a great weekly blogging gathering (a.k.a. the Portland blogger happy hour) that happens to have been started by Justin Kistner, one of our WordCamp presenters. This Friday September 26th, WordCamp Portland invades Beer and Blog as an unofficial pre-conference gathering. Join Beer and Blog at the Green Dragon (928 SE 9th Avenue – just south of Belmont) and hang out with a bunch of Portland bloggers and other WordCamp attendees.
Strange Love Live is a local (Portland) podcast that often features guests from the Portland tech/twitter/blogging scene. Tomorrow night I (Aaron Hockley) will be the featured guest, with WordCamp as the topic. I’m not sure exactly what we’ll chat about but I’ll do my best to make it entertaining and hopefully educational. You can tune in live at 10:00 PM PDT on Ustream or catch the episode once it is posted on iTunes.
Overheard
