From the monthly archives:

November 2009

WordCamp NYC – why Code IS poetry

November 28, 2009

Image via Wikipedia WordCamp NYC finished 2 weeks ago but it was only this weekend that I had a chance to properly digest and review all the notes and posts from the event. WordPress is one of my favorite online products out there. It is really enough to see Matt Mullenweg in action to really [...]

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WordCamp NYC – BuddyPress in Local/HyperLocal Journalism (NJ no less)

November 20, 2009

Image by cloneofsnake via Flickr I wrote this as a draft when live blogging from WordCamp NYC,  but have not had a chance to publish since. This was one of the best sessions, demonstrating how BuddyPress was used to create a social networking to support citizen journalism. Speakers:  Ted Mann, @turkeymonkey What’s HyperLocal – neighborhood [...]

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WordCamp NYC 2009 – Harvard Gazette Transformation into An Online Newspaper

November 14, 2009

Image via Wikipedia I am live blogging from WordCamp NYC,  please excuse any typos or less polished text. Speakers:  Perry Hewitt and Lin Chen Problem: Harvard University Gazette is the uni’s official paper, highlights faculty research, staff, students and events.  How do you take the paper version into an online version? In Harvard there are [...]

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WordCamp NYC 2009 – Plugins Demo

November 14, 2009

Image via Wikipedia I am live blogging from WordCamp NYC,  please excuse any typos or less polished text. A cool demo session with a quick run through cool plugins for WordPress: Smart commenting – IntenseDebate – demo by @beaulebens better and easier way to manage your comments. Includes plugin to FacebookConnect, Twitter, etc; includes reply [...]

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WordCamp NYC 2009 – How to Choose Your Dream Theme

November 14, 2009

Image via Wikipedia I am live blogging from WordCamp NYC,  please excuse any typos or less polished text. Speaker: Adria Richards If you are a beginner blogger, this is very useful for you. If you are not, move on to the next post…. Everybody wants a great looking site, looks easy, but it’s not. If [...]

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WordCamp NYC 2009 – Using WordPress as Library Catalogs

November 14, 2009

Image via CrunchBase I am live blogging from WordCamp NYC,  please excuse any typos or less polished text. Speaker: Casey Blisson “wordpress is everything that libraries are not” Blisson opens.  The cost of library software is really high (Endeca is mentioned). WordPress is easy to use, easy to install, easy extend – plugins is an [...]

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WordCamp NYC 2009 – Using WordPress as Research tool

November 14, 2009

Image via Wikipedia I am live blogging from WordCamp NYC,  please excuse any typos or less polished text. Speaker Jeremy Boggs Information management: how do we aggregate information and make sense of it? Back in the old days we had notes. now we have that and delcious, twitter, other aggregators. “if you are using all [...]

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WordCamp NYC 2009 – WNET.org case study

November 14, 2009

Image via Wikipedia I am live blogging from WordCamp NYC,  please excuse any typos or less polished text. First session is case study for using WorPress as CMS. “Using WPMU [WordPress Multiple Users - AWL] , WNET partnered with Tierra to launch 50+ non-blog sites supporting WNET television programming, reducing costs, improving traffic and streamlining [...]

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WordCamp NY 2009 – the only thing to make me get up at 7am on Sat Morning

November 13, 2009

Image via CrunchBase 4 months ago I attended the San Fransisco WordCamp to celebrate my favorite software’s 6th birthday. This was a 2 day event bursting with really fun and light and yet inspiring sessions, on which I reported here in my blog. And that is why, tomorrow, following a crazy workweek with an avg [...]

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