What do you want your audience to take away? asks Cali Lewis of GeekBrief TV (and fellow contestant for the Best Job in the World!). What do you offer of value?
Rule #1: Know thyself, know thy blog. Know who you are, and what you’re passionate about. What’s your mission? Art Predator: in search of the aesthetic–that which engages the whole soul.
Rule #2: Start compelling conversations. Read more…
WordCamp 2009 Scott Porad: who’s in bed with who
User generated and user driven content: it’s a thunderstorm out there & that storm is changing everything, including who’s in bed with who. In this case, sleeping around is awesome. Read more…
Chris Pirillo on Community & how you can grow one
So here I am at WordCamp SF 2009, listening to Chris Pirillo, English major, who says of himself “I am nothing than just a geek” talk about community. And I’m monitoring the conversation on twitter like this tweet from @daynah:
“The connections I make from ppl from all around the world still amaze me to this day.” -@chrispirillo talking about Communities
And taking photos, And learning. It’s very invigorating.
Chris says, community isn’t about a company, it’s about a culture: Apple. Who is, by the way, 35, and has been online since 1992. You do the math. He remembers newsgroups and bbs’s.
Chris says, community is becoming increasingly distributed.
Chris says, community requires tools that can’t be built. Read more…
Philip Greenspun: how the web has changed writing
Back in the old days, there were 200 page books, 20 page stories, 10,000-20,000 word magazine articles, and news.
With the web, anyone can publish anything of any size. We can publish anything we want, how we want it. On the web, it’s all possible. But blogs are even more flexible than websites.
A blog post can be one word, one image, one sentence, one paragraph, one page. It can be on anything, not just Read more…
Tara Hunt has 2,700 friends on facebook and 26,000 people following her on twitter of which she follows 1700 back, and claims strong and weak connections to all of them.
“Whuffie” is the value that this sort of a community represents. “Whuffie” is part of the gift economy and must be circulated. So what can you give away that won’t leave you broke? The more you give the more you will get back. See below for gifts you can give which won’t leave you broke.
People join these on-line communities to create connections; these connections develop trust, credibilty.
So how did she get this amount of “whuffie”–this amount of social value? How did she get people to want to be her friend? to value her? She suggests: Read more…
WordCampSF 2009: Q & A with Matt Mullenweg
Right off the bat, Matt was invited to speak to a group of older blog users. How could he say no?
Here he is pointing to people asking questions in the cavernous room on the SF Bay where we are all meeting. Are there 500? 750? There’s a lot of people here–almost every seat is filled. Those clustered around outlets doubly so, since most people are using one or more electronic devices. For example, I’m on my laptop and just took this photo with my iPhone, downloaded it and delivered it to you immediately. But all this takes juice!
Other tidbits:
glot.press.org is an open source translation resource
yes it is easy to move your blog from somewhere else onto WordPress!! and other places and ways and such…
some stuff too techy for me to follow–sorry! I’m sure you can find that info elsewhere, you php junkies out there.
wow, developing a better parity between WordPress.com & .org–more new stuff for .com coming from .org developers!! yay!
One difference is that .org folks get access to fancy plug-ins. Matt says this is a way to test the popularity of certain plug-ins to see whether it’s useful to add them to the core platfom.
Ed Morita of Baker’s Hours tattoo celebrates WordPress.
Speaking of celebrations, Matt Mullenweg started WordPress at 19; WordPress celebrates its 6th Birthday tonight. Which makes Matt 25 years old. Amazing. He was born in 1984.
WordPress was conceived and delivered via a blog post and a comment. Matt wrote a post about what he’d like to see in a blogging platform using features from the various ones available at the time. Someone commented, saying let’s work on this, and away they went! Most of the people building WordPress worked virtually and didn’t meet and shake hands until after years of projects together. The WordPress community was born. A flexible platform for users to adapt to their needs.
WordPress’s stats have all doubled or tripled in the last year. For example: 22 billion pages views this year; up from 8 billion last year. Read more…
Get to know your neighbor, Matt Mullenweig says. That’s the theme of this year’s WordCamp.
In “Straight from Google: What you Need to Know” Matt Cutts asks, Why do you blog? Access? Fame? Fun?
Most people want to at least be read, to be found. That’s where Google comes in and Matt Cutts is here to help. Here’s some ideas from his talk.
How does Google rank pages?
Be relevant and reputable.
Ask yourself: Read more…
Think big. Play often.
This is the message on the big screen at WordCamp SF 2009 as I walk in with a cup of Peet’s Coffee and a raison bagel (one of the best I’ve ever had by the way). More on that in general: WordPress WordCamp 2009–here I come, SF!!
The message is courtesy of Tim Ferris, session one. I’m a bit late–after all, I was up late courtesy of a black tutu and a red bustier at the Fishbug party in Emeryville with other Burning Moms–hi Tara!–and he’s fielding questions on managing twitter and your love life.
Who’s Tim Ferris? He’s the author of the 4 hour work week. His law is “Don’t do things that aren’t fun!”
Tim Ferriss
Timothy Ferriss, nominated as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People of 2007,” is an angel investor and author of the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek, which has been sold into 35 languages. Read more…
The blue skirt is this summer’s netty in “windandsea” fresh yesterday from the Great Pacific Iron Works/Patagon
ia store in Patagonia’s home town of Ventura.
And here’s just a hint of last summer’s skirt which I wore to last year’s WordCamp –and every where else!
One guess what I’m wearing this year to WordCamp–but not on the Critical Mass ride at 6pm tonight meeting at the bottom of Market Street in SF. For that I’m in my navy Ventura Bicyclists Union with red logo t-shirt and linnen men’s dress shirt with black logo.
Say hi if you see me! I’ll be in pigtails, too.
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