The WordCamp Report

 
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 [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

 
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 [...]

Live from WordCamp San Francicso 2009
Dave Moyer of WordCast Podcast and founder and producer of the Bitwire Media, a multimedia publishing company, talked about the basics of Podcasting and using podcasting with audio and video to build a community. Most of his presentation was on the production side of producing a podcast.
The first step is [...]

 
Matt Cutts
Matt Cutts is the head of the webspam team at Google where he specializes in search engine optimization (SEO) issues. He is known in the webmaster and SEO community for applying Google’s Quality Guidelines. Before working in the Search Quality group at Google, Matt worked at the ads engineering group and on Google’s SafeSearch. [...]

Live from WordCamp San Francisco 2009
BuddyPress has been developed by Andy Peatling and is the new social media networking feature for WordPressMU sites, taking advantage of the multiple members and users to create your own self-hosted community.
BuddyPress features easy login, community groups, friends, and all the features of other social network services like Facebook and [...]

Tim Ferriss
Timothy Ferriss, nominated as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People of 2007,” is an angel investor and author of the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek, which has been sold into 35 languages.
He has been featured by more than 100 media outlets, including The [...]

Well this year WordCamp San Francisco is starting with a bang. With chairs filling, the lack of plugs is showing with available outlets going fast. The cheerful talkative crowd walk past white boards asking for opinions, the Genius Bar discussing issues and fixing problems, and gathering around the Peets coffee and breakfast goodies.
The reports from [...]