The WordCamp Report

Live Blogging from WordCamp San Francisco 2009
Cali Lewis of GeekBrief.TV is speaking upon community building as an expert of a video blog about tech news, reviews, and commentary.
Rule One – Know Thyself – Know They Blog! You must have value and know who you are and what you are capable of for your blog content. [...]

Scott Porad with Pet Holdings, the parent company of I Can Has Cheezburger? and Failblog.org, among many others.
What these sites have in common is they are entertainment/humor business, they are hosted on WordPress.com on the VIP hosting plan, among the top 50 blogs on the service, and they are based upon user generated and generated [...]

 
John Lilly
John Lilly is the CEO of Mozilla Corporation. He joined Mozilla Corporation in 2005 as Vice President of Business Development and also served as COO and a member of the Board of Directors. Prior to this, Lilly was the founder, CEO, CTO and VP of products for Reactivity, a software company acquired by Cisco [...]

Live Blogging from WordCamp San Francisco 2009
Steve Souders is a high performance website expert formerly of Google. He worked on the web performance and open source initiatives and is the author of High Performance Web Sites. Steve serves as co-chair of Velocity, an event to promote web performances and practices for high performance sites, and [...]

Douglas Hanna
Douglas Hanna is a consultant, blogger, and speaker who specializes in customer service. He writes about customer service and the customer service experience on his blog, Service Untitled. Douglas has helped companies of all sizes improve their customer service since 2004 and has written numerous articles on how and why companies can use [...]

Chris Pirillo
Chris Pirillo has been participating in Internet conversations since 1992, having launched Lockergnome.com as a content publishing network and building Gnomedex to be one of the blogosphere’s highly regarded conferences. He publishes a personal blog and lifecast to tens of thousands of viewers, and is a top subscribed partner on YouTube. When searching [...]

Ann Oyama, aka SuperAnn, works as a WordPress, web, and software developer who programs custom WordPress Themes and Plugins. She also runs BayAnime.com, a community site for San Francisco Bay area fans of anime, manga, and Japanese pop culture. She spoke on WordPress Themes customization.
She began with some basic coverage of good practices for WordPress [...]

Tara Hunt
Tara ‘miss rogue’ Hunt has spent most of her adult life online, either participating in or building communities. From the first wave of online marketing as it emerged in the late 90’s all the way to being a pioneer of new marketing in Silicon Valley in 2005, leading the wave into Web 2.0: [...]

After a very filling lunch Matt Mullenweg, remember ma.tt, somehow seemed to bound on stage. Well okay once dragged away from his iPhone.
Slide:
m(-@-)mullenweg.com
ma.tt
@photomatt
http://bit.ly/mattbook
Career Coach got up and asked Matt got asked to speak.
Now QUESTIONS
Q: Organization wants to use WordPress but is worried translation.
A: GlotPress translation service created by WordPress
Q: Migrating from Blogger to [...]

 
Matt Mullenweg
Matt is best known as the founding developer of WordPress, the blogging software he guided from a handful of users to the most widely used open source blog tool. In late 2005 he left CNET to found Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and Akismet.com. In his spare time he enjoys taking photographs and [...]