Speaking at WordCamp Victoria

One of my dear friends from Victoria, Paul Holmes (Idea Zone) asked me a few weeks back if I could speak at the WordCamp Victoria he is organizing. And without checking my schedule, I originally said “sure, why not”. Paul has always supported me in my efforts, and during Blogathon, Idea Zone sponsored a post. So, really, it’s hard to say no to a friend who supports your own efforts.

Then I looked in my Google calendar “sorry, no, I can’t do it as I teach on Saturday“. And then I thought again. Paul is a dear friend of mine. I am a WordPress geek. I have many friends in Victoria, and lots of people from Vancouver Island follow me on Twitter. I’ve spoken at WordCamps before (Fraser Valley ’08 and ’09) and in general, I think I have a pretty good grasp of WordPress. I moved to a self-hosted install almost a year now and I write my own HTML tags (without the visual editor).

So it’s a fact now, I’ll be coming to speak at WordCamp Victoria ’09 on Saturday Nov 14th. I will be speaking about using social media to build your WordPress blog. It’s a different talk to that of my friend Catherine Novak, who will be speaking about promoting your site with social media. My talk will speak about multiple-platform integration of social media with blogging. I will outline a strategy to use these multiple platforms to provide you with content for your blog and how to maximize your site performance with social media tools and WordPress.

And my favorite drink is the gin and tonic

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November 11th, 2009 in WordCamp, WordCamp Victoria

Comments (4)

TylerNovember 11th, 2009 at 5:39 pm

Oh a WordCamp?

Have fun Raul! Hopefully someone live blogs your session so I can read it later!

JoVENovember 11th, 2009 at 7:00 pm

I knew we got along for a reason. That last line made me laugh. But then I just used Twitter to figure out which pubs in Antigonish have a beer I like on tap, not to mention where that beer can be had here in town (it’s a small NS brewery).

Have a great time.