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.

September 25, 2009 — Now, you can add generate short URLs at wp.me with a single click. This video will show you how.

This feature is currently only available on WordPress.com.

September 20, 2009 — A couple of SEO professionals who think that SEO is very important for every blogger (Scott Hendison and Amber Case) and a couple bloggers who think that SEO is overrated (Dawn Foster and Rick Turoczy) take pointed questions from moderator Nate DiNiro and the WordCamp Portland audience.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 20, 2009 — Garron Selliken discusses applications of geotagging and map implementations for WordPress sites and his development project of a plugin for WordPress to support and enable mapping individual WordPress posts.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 20, 2009 — Will Norris talks about some of the common pitfalls and mistakes made when constructing plugins, including security and usability concerns and how to efficiently and cleanly create your code. Includes code examples of both what to do and what not to do.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.