I spent the past few days in Las Vegas for the Layered Tech LTPact 2008 Conference, an event sponsored by Layered Tech, the second largest web hosting and reseller in the world, among WordPress luminaries and experts and a lot of server geeks and serious online business folks.
I got a chance to spend time [...]
Many of you know that I’m a geek at heart. I go nuts over all things geeky. Secretly, I adore Barry Abrahamson, the server guru of Automattic and WordPress.com, especially when he starts talking numbers for WordPress.com:
2,638,958 file uploads
About 1,074 gigabytes of new files.
417 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
1,134,796,234 pageviews total across all [...]
Charles Stricklin, the host of WordCamp Dallas 2008 and The WordPress Podcast has released The Voices of WordCamp Dallas, a collection of quick interviews and questions I asked during the event.
I was so amazed at how open everyone was, willing to share their thoughts on WordPress, WordCamp, blogging, and the magic of the web [...]
Tonight was the first event of the Successful and Outstanding Bloggers Conference (SOBCon) in Chicago at the pre-conference meetup hosted by FuelMyBlog.
It was a great opportunity to socialize with many of the return participants to SOBCon, but also to meet new people. It is clear that SOBCon is going to be the event of [...]
WordCamp Dallas in Frisco, Texas, began Friday night with a bang of social fun at a local restaurant, with a lot of the participants and speakers talking WordPress and blogging, and getting to know each other while competing with the loud volume of the announcements for diners.
The beers were huge and the people were wonderful. [...]
Get ready for Friday. Lorelle and Jeffro2pt0 will duke it out on the WordPress Weekly Show!
Due to a variety of unfortunate circumstances, including tornadoes, last week’s WordPress Weekly live show was rescheduled to this Friday, April 18, 2008, with myself and host, Jeffro2pt0. You have no excuses now to join us Friday at 9PM EST! [...]
Weblog Tools Collection has a list of the videos and special interviews of the speakers at WordCamp Dallas, including my presentation on WordPress Tips.
Check it out and tell me if I did okay. And be sure and watch everyone else. They did much better.
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In honor of April 9, 2008, as CSS Naked Day, my blog is going naked. I discussed this a few days ago with details on how to strip naked your blog if you would like to join in the celebrations.
By going naked, my blog stands with thousands of others who recognize and honor the hard [...]
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It’s Liz Strauss. I’m hijacking Lorelle’s blog while she’s off in Pasadena being brilliant again. Lorelle and I were together at WordCamp Dallas. While we were there, I learned and confirmed a few things that I’d like to share.
I got home from WordCamp Dallas 2008 on Tuesday afternoon, and I’m still recovering. The event was [...]
I’m a huge fan of Tony Hung’s Deep Jive Interests and thrilled that he’s opening his blog doors to guest bloggers, hoping to give them the necessary exposure many want.
In a little over two years, Tony turned his blog into a high traffic site with his insightful and challenging thinking and writing. It lead [...]
In combination with Successful and Outstanding Bloggers Conference (SOBCon 200 , Chris Garrett, BlogCatalog, and Authority Blogger are working together to offer a $2,000 consulting prize package as part of the SOBCon promotion.
The winner will receive a $1,000 budget for attending SOBCON including travel expenses, a copy of “ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your [...]
My laptop has reached the four year birthday and I’m ready for a new one. Every computer and laptop I’ve owned I’ve pushed beyond it’s capabilities from day one. I will never forget the first computer my husband and I bought “together”. Within three days, I’d filled the 2 gig hard drive, the largest one [...]
I’ve got three blog conferences I’ll be speaking at, and I want to give you 24 good reasons why you should be at each of these.
March 29-30 - WordCamp Dallas
WordCamp Dallas is going to be one of the hottest WordPress-oriented blog events this year. People are flying in from all over the country to [...]
February 7, 2008 – 4:04 pm
The Beta News is having a Two Year Anniversary Contest over the next two weeks featuring some great prizes such as my book, “Blogging Tips - What bloggers won’t tell you about blogging” and a blog critique from David Airey.
There are three different ways to participate, and it’s an unusual contest, so go check out [...]
February 6, 2008 – 12:59 pm
As I have/will/did write in the future post, Blog Struggles: Surviving Offline Downtime, which released a week ahead of schedule due to a repeat of a glitch on WordPress.com that hasn’t been seen for well over a year, I depend upon the future posts feature of WordPress for my blog to keep going while I’m [...]
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