September 26, 2009 — Chris Molitor gives a five-minute rundown on how to start finding a theme that’s right for your WordPress site.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 26, 2009 — Eric Amundson teaches quick, free, and effective ways to make WordPress installations more usable, accessible, secure, and satisfying—all in one five minute session.

Slides for this presentation are available here.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 26, 2009 — Martin Buckley shares his experiences with running, hosting, and upgrading multiple WordPress blogs, with tips and tricks—all in about eight minutes.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 26, 2009 — Learn what BuddyPress is, what it can do, how to set it up, integrate it, and extend it. Get a preview of some of the features coming in BuddyPress 1.1, and learn why it is to your advantage as a WordPress developer to incorporate BuddyPress consulting into the services you offer in this session from Mark Jaquith. Also covered: why BuddyPress is a good model for the future of the WordPress plugin landscape.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 26, 2009 — Scott Porad answers questions from the WordCamp Seattle audience, discussing the Cheezburger Network, their business philosophy, how they use WordPress, the evolution of their platform, selling advertising on blogs, and the tools they use to maintain the network.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 26, 2009 — Aaron Hockley talks about the numerous steps used during the recent launch of SocialPhotoTalk.com, including planning and site setup, theme and plugin configuration, launch steps, and basic publicity.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 26, 2009 — Ian Lurie reviews a few WordPress blogs for the audience, providing tips to improve SEO, readability, performance and subscribership.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 26, 2009 — Jane Wells of Automattic talks briefly about the state of WordPress 2.9, then answers a handful of questions from the WordCamp audience about things like the WordPress community, how to engage volunteers, and the evolution of the WordPress UI.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 26, 2009 — Chris Pirillo talks about the origins of Internet communities, what it means to be part of an Internet community, and what’s important in creating and maintaining your Internet community.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 25, 2009 — Akismet is a powerful spam filter that’s built in to WordPress.com. But what if you’re running a self-hosted WordPress blog?

This tutorial will give you the simple information you need to install and activate Akismet on your WordPress.org blog.