Wordcamp 2008

Wordpress meeting: Wordcamp San Francisco 2008

Filed under: Online marketing events, Web2.0, WordPress, Wordcamp 2008 — Daryl Pereira on August 22, 2008

Wordcamps are events organised by the Wordpress gang to pull together developers working on the popular blogging platform. The latest event took place recently in San Francisco, pulling together some of the top brass working on Wordpress. The affable inventor of Wordpress, Matt Mullenweg led the proceedings.

Wordpress sessions of interest:

Andrew Mager made this wonderful blow-by-blow account of Wordcamp San Francisco 2008.

BuddyPress: Social networks on Wordpress

Filed under: Online marketing events, Social networks, Web2.0, WordPress, Wordcamp 2008 — Daryl Pereira on

Unfortunately I didn’t get to attend this session, but thankfully, through the beauty of blogging, there are numerous other accounts online.

BuddyPress grew out of a series of plug-ins that added social functionality to Wordpress MU (the multi-user edition). It is being touted as Facebook-in-a-box, ie. you can setup your own personal Facebook for your community.

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More screenshots from Andy Peatling’s blog.

Andy graciously added his presentation to…

Secret of virality

Filed under: Marketing, Online marketing events, Web Marketing, Web2.0, Wordcamp 2008 — Daryl Pereira on August 21, 2008

Ben Huh, CEO of Icanhascheezburger gave a great presentation on how to get your viral message out. This guy walks the walk: LOLCats has really taken off as a tool to mashup and share sweet animal photos. Beyond that, his presentation here was excellent - viral in its own way.

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SEO for Wordpress

Filed under: Online marketing events, Web2.0, WordPress, Wordcamp 2008 — Daryl Pereira on

Stephan Spencer from Netconcepts led this well-attended session on how to maximise search visibility using Wordpress. Generally, blogs work well for search engine optimization (SEO) due to their emphasis on generating lots of regularly updated content. However, there are steps you can take to optimize the standard Wordpress installation.

Key points:

Internal linking

Try and ensure your internal links (from one page on the blog to another) are as relevant as possible. Using a tag cloud in…


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