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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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Twitter Best Practice: follow everyone as courtesy. hang-on. no, actually don’t.

October 10, 2009

Image via Wikipedia 6 months ago, the Best Practice around following and getting followers on Twitter was that you must follow those who follow you as a courtesy as well as interest in others, and that the goal is to achieve as many followers as possible. It was days when Conversational web took a new [...]

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Community and Groups Rules of Existence and Success

September 13, 2009

Image via Wikipedia I was reading the fabulous article Asher Idan posted on Facebook about group dynamics, specifically examining group dynamics and how sometimes group can be its worst enemy despite having a mutual goal. The classic article was written by Clay Shirky One of the interesting stories described in the article is the sad [...]

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