Mark Ramsey’s Top 10 List for Attending OpenCamp!

Mark Ramsey is so smoooth. So here is his Top 10 List of Reasons to Attend OpenCamp!

By the way, you ARE coming to OpenCamp right? I mean… if you don’t show up you are instantly disallowed from ever asking me for blogging, Web authoring, or other general advice of this nature. :-) Seriously, you’ll learn more in two days than in at least a year on your own. For $99!!! I mean holy crap, other conferences with inferior speakers will charge you $1,000+ for two days OR worse yet, make you sit through sales pitches! AAAaarrrgghh!
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Giovanni Gallucci on Extreme Social Media Hacks

Giovanni Gallucci - Social Media ExpertThis lecture was recorded at the Dallas WordPress User Group meet-up on Saturday, July 25, 2009. Social Media Expert Giovanni Gallucci gives a stirring lecture on ways to make the most of online promotion using Social Media as a backbone.

This lecture is an hour and a half long, so go get your popcorn and a drink because you’re not going to want to miss a minute of it. I’d say that Gio packed about 100 tips on Social Media into this presentation, so I don’t care who you are – there is plenty of stuff to try out once you’re finished here.
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WordCamp Dallas 2009: Giovanni Gallucci – Top 10 Extreme Social Media Hacks

Giovanni GallucciGiovanni Gallucci gave a fantastic lecture at WordCamp Dallas 2009 on the Top 10 Extreme Social Media Hacks. It was an action packed 45 minutes with more suggestions coming at the attendees than most could take notes for.

Luckily we’ve got the whole thing captured on video, so we can catch up on everything missed. Oh, and if you didn’t get the chance to see this live, well you’re in for a real treat! Here are the slides in case you need them separately.

BTW, this video was shot, edited and produced by Dave Curlee.
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WordCamp Dallas 2009: The WordCamp Panel Discussion

WordCamp-Dallas-2009-Discussion-PanelMany thanks to Dave Curlee for recording and editing all of the upcoming WordCamp Dallas videos. Seriously folks, please show him some love for the hundred or so hours he has spent recording, editing and posting these for us.

This is the first of the videos filmed at WordCamp Dallas 2009 a few weeks ago and it’s a panel discussion consisting of: Cali Lewis, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins, Dave Moyer, Matt Mullenweg, Andy Skelton, Liz Strauss, Giovanni Gallucci and moderated by myself.

Topics covered during the discussion included blogging tips, advertising, mistakes and lessons learned, blogging equipment, themes, plugins and much more. I can’t believe how lucky we were to have all of these experts assembled in one place to take questions from the group.
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