WordCamp Math
$30 admission
...and then a miracle occurs

seanosh
Thank you, John.
John Pozadzides,
WordCamp Dallas Organizer

Turbocharge Your Career
with WordPress
Tony Cecala, Ph.D.

http://www.wordle.net/
TonyCecala.com
@tonycecala
delicious.com/zenarcher

Small Town OK
The Three Rs
Reading, ‘Riting, & ‘Rithmetic

Caitlyn Willows
The Three Rs
Reading, ‘Riting, & ‘Rithmetic

dalbera
Smarter, Quicker

The Flynn Effect

aussiegall
The Network
1900s: Landlines : One to One

Milica Sekulic
The Network
1980s: Cellular Networks : Three-Way Calling

Nesster
The Network
1990s: Texting : N-Way Communication

William Hook
The Network
Today: Full mobile internet access

ftchris
The Network
Robert Scoble broadcasting live to FriendFeed
from his Qik-enabled phone

William Hook
The ‘Net
Global, Digital, Always On

kosmar.ipernity.com
The Three Cs
Communication, Collaboration, Creativity

laffy4k
Communication
What do you have to say?
Who wants to hear it?

What is your message?
writing
photography
design
music
video
kevindooley

WordPress Enables
Communication
Posts
Comments
Trackbacks
Feeds
Newsletters

Writing: Personal Blog
Kari Sullivan, KariSullivan.com

Writing: Online magazine
Randy Hoyt, JourneyToTheSea.com

Writing: Online magazine
Tony Cecala, HolisticNetworker.com/wp/

Writing: Online book
Felicia Weiss, Ph.D., ParentWiz.com

Tom Coates
Collaboration
What projects are you working on?
What is your unique contribution?

bbPress: forum software
forum software that doesn’t suck
Simple, fast, elegant

http://ma.tt/2009/05/how-p2-changed-automattic/
Micro-Blogging with P2
Matt: P2 “...completely transformed how
Automattic works internally...”

John-Morgan
Creativity
What new ideas do you have?
How do you solve problems?

Video Blogging
Cali Lewis, GeekBrief.tv

VideoPress
Putting your ideas in motion.

VideoPress
Putting your ideas in motion.

What about facebook?
Your social network.

Facebook is a walled garden
your data is hidden
away on facebook’s
servers
hidden from Google—
on purpose
facebook is in Google’s
blind spot

Facebook is a walled garden
Together, this data comprises treats it all as proprietary
a mammoth amount of data, largely shielding it from
activity, almost a second Google's crawlers. Except for
Internet. By Facebook's the mostly cursory
estimates, every month users information that users
share 4 billion pieces of choose to make public, what
information—news stories, happens on Facebook's
status updates, birthday servers stays on Facebook's
wishes, and so on. They also servers. That represents a
upload 850 million photos massive and fast-growing
and 8 million videos. But blind spot for Google, whose
anyone wanting to access long-stated goal is to
that stuff must go through "organize the world's
Facebook; the social network information."
WIRED MAGAZINE: Great Wall of Facebook: The Plan to
Dominate the Internet — and Keep Google Out

Facebook is a walled garden
have fun with facebook
publish your updates
don’t count on it to
promote your message
to the world

What about Linkedin?
Your professional network.

The Paper
Resumé is Dead
SOCIALisBETTER

The Paper
Resumé is Dead
SOCIALisBETTER

AndyFitz
Andy’s Resumé
andyfitzsimon.com.au

Google is
Your New
Resumé

What about Twitter?
Your global communication protocol.

What about
Twitter?
Your global
communication
protocol.

What about
Twitter?
Your global
communication
protocol.

Build a home on the web.

The WordPress Advantage
stable
mature
good-looking
open
extensible
Randy Stewart

Your WordPress Advantage
own your data
dominate the search
engines
easily manage
multimedia
easily manage
external data
danpeerflix

Your
WordPress
Advantage
own your data
Linuxgeek

Your
WordPress “WordPress takes
Advantage care of 80-90% of
(the mechanics of)
dominate the search search engine
engines optimization (SEO)”
Matt Cutts,
Google Engineer
WordCamp SF,
5/30/2009

Your
WordPress
Advantage
dominate the search
engines

Your WordPress advantage
manage multimedia

Your WordPress advantage
manage external data

Getting Started
try WordPress.com
learn the basics
study the masters
get help (Genius Bar)
network with peers
(DFWWP)
hire an expert
danpeerflix

WordPress Showcase
Douglas Hanna
Showcasing the Showcase

WordPress Themes

Nikolay Bachiyski
DFW WordPress Meetup
Currently meet on the last Saturday of the month
check http://meetup.com/dfwwordpress/

Thank you, Charles.
Charles Stricklin,
DFW WordPress Meetup Founder

Nikolay Bachiyski
Thank You, Matt.
Matt Mullenweg,
Founding developer, WordPress

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