March 6, 2010 — Maryrose Lyons discusses tactics used in writing for online audiences and how to tailor your writing style to capture the best attention possible.
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March 6, 2010 — Daryl Koopersmith looks at the good and the bad of WordPress themes, some new perks, and how to tweak the system to your liking. Looking to the future, he explores WYSIWYG theme editing and modular themes.
February 23, 2010 — If you’re a freelancer, a web design agency or simply a WordPress consultant, Technical Support for WordPress is a way to provide quality support to your clients. After setting up a WordPress powered website for your client, install the Technical Support plugin, which will enhance your client’s Dashboard with a new widget for submitting support tickets directly to your e-mail. Konstantin Kovshenin leads you through a demo of this plugin, available in the Plugin Directory here.
February 17, 2010 — WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg presented to a jam-packed audience of 400 plus webites at the 2010 Dublin Web Summit, hosted by Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Matt shares his insights, experiences and passion for starting WordPress, coding, and building a global open source community.
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February 4, 2010 — The all new WordPress for BlackBerry app allows you to write posts, upload photos and videos, edit pages, and manage comments. Both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress (2.7 or higher) sites are supported. Download the app and start blogging on the go in no time.
February 3, 2010 — WordPress for Android™ gives you all the publishing power of your WordPress blog, on your Android™ powered device. Available to download free from the Android™ Marketplace.
February 1, 2010 — A brief introduction to the new After the Deadline add-on for Firefox, bringing the same contextual spell and grammar checking you’ve been using in WordPress to text fields everywhere. After the Deadline is brought to you by Automattic.
January 26, 2010 — Adria Richards runs through the upgrade process for WordPress, using both the Dashboard and CPanel (found on many hosting providers).
January 23, 2010 — Two of the original authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto, Doc Searls and David Weinberger, will have a discussion with Scott Kirsner about the decade since the publication of Cluetrain.
What do they think Cluetrain got right, and what did it miss? Has blogging been hopelessly co-opted by exactly the forces of marketing against which the “people of earth” were said to be uniting? If the rest of the world is finally catching up to Cluetrain, what will the next steps in the evolution of commerce and conversation look like?”
Special thanks to the Microsoft NERD Center for hosting WordCamp Boston.