WordPress Background I was in Phoenix this past weekend for a beta version of a WordPress conference for bloggers called Press Publish. This is major news. At least 1 in 5 websites in the world, and it is approaching 1 in 4, run on WordPress. Wordpress has had gatherings called WordCamps beginning in 2006. I did […]
Spinning Out After A Conference
Friday and Saturday I attended a conference with the hashtag #BBCPHX even though it had nothing to do with the British Broadcasting Company, except perhaps for one attendee, Jan Ziff, and was held in Scottsdale, not Phoenix, Arizona. The conference was called Bloggy Boot Camp by the SITS Girls even though it was not a […]
Another Fragment & Forward Friday
Fragment Fridays provide an opportunity for me to collectively address the accumulation of ideas that have not made it into into print this week that either I really wanted to develop into full posts or were enticing thoughts that I just did not get beyond the “jotting down” stage. Twitter and #ff Mania I totally understand […]
Familiar Face Summary of BlogHer 12
While not the be all and end all of BlogHer, the personal connections made at BlogHer, and retained from conference to conference, and grown between conferences provide a positive anchor within the network for me. This point was well illustrated for me yesterday when @flexhourjobs, aka Jacqueline Sloboda, tweeted: “Great to see another familiar face […]