My Day at Wordcamp 2006

I wrote up a post while at Wordcamp… on my old Palm VIIx. Here is the post, I’m sure you’ll have questions, just ask.

Wordpress 2006
The morning started off with me zoning out and missing the exit for BART and by the time i realized it i was in Albany / Berkley. I decided to continue on into the city, and ended up arriving early enough to help set up. After setting up, finding parking, and walking the 12 blocks to the Swedish American Hall. When I got back I found a line heading down the street. Though over 500 people signed up, luckily not that many showed up.

The whole started with a session on widgets. Sorta interesting, but where were the good toys?

We next had an interesting session on making your biog popuiar. The main focus was personizing your blog posts.

Acter a brief break Eric Haller did a few guitar pieces for entertainment.
State of the Wordpress… What needs work… Where is Wordpress going to be going.

Marketing your blog – Talking to Eric Haller he uses ads as an exparment… The session starts with Goodstorm and blank from an subscription ad service. Various comments about placement. Very few make any money.

Next Mark Jaquith (.com) talked about using Wordpress as a CMS. Using pages as heiarchal sales pages. He then showed different examples of sites that didn’t look like a blog but used Wordpress.

The next session I wandered between – blogs as a news source and Wordpress MU. Blogs as news seemed dry and rehashed. MU was interesting, but not relavent for me unless I want to host MANY blogs.

The next session (and last as I had to leave early because of parking) was optimizing Wordpress. Each situation is different but a couple big suggestions – wp-cache & wp-digg (read techcrunch optimizing also). Dedicated use lots of memory also memcache & elcellerator or abc. All in all I don’t think I’ll ever go dedicated. It made my head hurt.

I’m sorry there isn’t a lot of information, I wrote this whole thing on my old palm since I didn’t have a laptop. So feel free to ask me any questions, I’ll answer from home.

Edit: Here is a pretty decent write up.

Here are the flikr photoset photos I took.

Tags: Blogging, Interesting, wordcamp, Wordpress