I am still slowly working through the videos I shot during the WordCamp NYC 2009 event. This was the very first presentation I attended that day entitled “Building Community with BuddyPress” by Lisa Sabin Wilson. It is a great presentation and she nicely runs through all the major features of this powerful set of WordPress plug-ins.
A recent study by the UK-based National Literacy Trust finds blogging, Facebook, texting and other such writing results in a “strong correlation” with better overall reading and writing. Their study looked at kids aged 9 – 16. Big surprise? Success here leads to greater interest in traditional forms of writing, and the use of more informal writing styles online doesn’t seem to have a negative impact.
Message traffic on our company Yammer network is following the classic 80-20 principle, although in our case it is closer to 85-15. Some stats: Read the rest of this entry »
In the theory of limited time and resources, if people do more of one thing then they do less of something else. So if Twitter is growing, what is losing out? Are Twitter, WordPress, Facebook, LinkedIn, Yammer, etc. competitors, or do they complement each other? I have accounts on all these services, and for me they complement each other nicely: Read the rest of this entry »
The program is finished and posted for the WordPress University workshop, scheduled for Thursday April 8, 2010. It is a really exciting program: Read the rest of this entry »
What is OpenCalais, and what is this semantic web stuff all about? Sure I watched the video on their site, and read through the documentation. Somehow this all will make web content in general, and these blog posts in particular, easier to find and link with other relevant information. Which all sounds good, but I want to see it in action. So I installed their Tagaroo WordPress plug-in.
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