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WordCamp Vancouver 2010: Dave Olson

Dave Olson Art and Technology are Old Pals @uncleweed Dave Olson is well known personality in the Vancouver technology scene, and is currently a technology evangelist at HootSuite, the company behind one of the #1 web-based Twitter clients. Dave is a passionate and well-traveled speaker, and closed out WordCamp Whistler with his talk ?Are you Worthy?? last year. By exploring technological innovations from tubed oil paints and graphite pencils to telegraphs and mountain bikes, Dave will explain...

WordCamp Vancouver 2010: Mark McLaren

Mark McLaren Get Found Easier and Grow Your Business: 5 Tips for Better Search Engine Optimization with WordPress @mcbuzz Right out of the box, WordPress makes websites and blogs that are highly optimized for search engines as compared to traditional HTML and content management system (CMS) websites. Learn how, with a little extra time and effort, you can take your WordPress site to the next level of search engine optimization. In this elementary-level presentation, Mark will show you the basi...

WordCamp Vancouver 2010: Tris Hussey & Catherine...

Tris Hussey & Catherine Winters WordPress 3.0 and Parent/Child Themes @trishussey @catherineomega Tris Hussey is a long-time technologist, blogger, and writer, after picking up blogging on a whim in 2004, he quickly became both a professional blogger and a leading expert in business blogging. He has been a part of several Web 2.0 startups from blogging software to blogging agencies and continues to write, blog, teach, and consult. In addition to giving workshops and speaking at conferences, Tr...

WordCamp Vancouver 2010: Amye Scavarda

Amye Scavarda WordPress and Drupal: Deciding between content management systems for your projects @msamye Amye Scavarda is a project management person for open source content management systems based out of Portland, OR. She works to make websites that hurt less with teams that like to work with each other. She runs a consulting company called Function, and she’s on twitter as @msamye. WordPress works fabulously for a wide variety of websites. With the growth in development, even more websites...

WordCamp Vancouver 2010: Colin Ligertwood

Colin Ligertwood Designing for WordPress @brainbitsca In 1995, Colin made his first webpage and fell in love with the web. Since then, he has made a career of creating fun and professional websites and web applications of all kinds. When not working, Colin enjoys watching the sunset from a picturesque grassy knoll, indulging in fine wine over candlelit conversations on French film, and long walks on the beach. Colin will be speaking about how to make sure your website designs work well as Word...

WordCamp Vancouver 2010: Lauren Bacon

Lauren Bacon Being Curious for a Living: How asking questions creates loyal clients (and better websites) @laurenbacon Widgets are awesome, and writing beautiful code is an art and a science. But if you’re spending all your time implementing client requests rather than asking questions, then you’re replaceable — and replaceable doesn’t make for much of a business model. Veteran web strategist and designer Lauren Bacon shares the key questions you can ask your clients to turn them into loyal, r...

Wordcamp Vancouver: Panel Discussion

Christine Rondeau, Dave Zillie & Cam Cavers WordPress as a CMS @bluelimemedia @dazil @camcavers Christine Rondeau has been developing websites since 2001. In the past 5 years she’s developed over a 100 sites based on WordPress. Most of these sites have a blog component, but more and more of them are websites that look nothing like WordPress sites. With a strong background in project management, teaching, and developing for the web, Dave brings years of experience and tremendous enthusiasm to h...

WordCamp Vancouver 2010: John Biehler

John Biehler WordPress Development Environments @johnbiehler John Biehler is a jack of all trades, and can often be seen tromping through the puddles in Vancouver with many of his digital SLR cameras. When not photographing the Vancouver Olympics or random fashion event, John can be often be found hacking away on PHP and WordPress sites while sipping a locally brewed Vancouver beer. John will be talking about WordPress-related development environments such as WAMP and MAMP. Using these environ...

WordCamp Vancouver 2010: Nadia Aly

Nadia Aly Socializing Your WordPress Blog @digitalkva Nadia Aly holds a Masters of Digital Media from the Centre of Digital Media in Vancouver,BC. Currently she works at Microsoft as an online community manager. She specializes in Social Media practices, marketing and much more. She started developing websites 14 years ago at the age of 12 …..and never stopped…… Nadia does Social Media with an attitude !! Want to know how to make your blog social? What’s the secret behind getting those fancy r...

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