Making a point about finding your voice
Hi gang! Thanks a bunch to all who attended our first WordPress Workshop Thursday. It was pretty exciting to meet all of you and have a chance to help you get more out of your blogging – both from a technical perspective (Doug’s piece) and a strategic perspective (my piece). Sorry if we went a little over the scheduled time. There was a lot to cover in just two short hours. 
For those of you who couldn’t attend, don’t fret: We will be putting together a web version of the workshop very soon.
I also really want to thank Bobby Rettew and View for taping the workshop, The Commerce Club for taking such great care of us, StudioPress for co-sponsoring the event, Jim O’Donnell for taking some of these photos and all of you who helped us promote the event. You guys all rock. It takes a lot of people working behind the scenes to actually pull off events like this one, and I am as ever very aware of that.
Here are some photos of the event:
Our superfly registration (with free parking vouchers)
Gil Gerretsen and Hank Merkle causing trouble again
@HaroAvo and @XYBrewer before I bored them to death
Yes, I talka witha my handsa. It isn't just an Italian thing.
Joel Van Dyke and Hank Merkle - up to no good, as always.
Doug Cone (@nullvariable) talking about CSS
Rambling about random blogging nonsense, I am sure...
A few of the tables. Check out all the hardware! We need more power sources.
Have a great Good Friday, everyone!
I really enjoyed your presentation last night and glad I attended. Even though I consider myself a “professional blogger” in that I use my blog to help give exposure to my business and give tips and ideas to both current and potential clients I still learned a lot. I took a ton of notes. I also realized that I need to work on my personal blog that I have ignored greatly and also really showcase “who I am”.
If you do an extended program I would love to help out as another speaker in fact I am looking at doing that aspect of what I do more and more and you and Doug both gave me a lot of pointers in that regard as well.
By the way I would love for you to be a guest blogger on my web site sometime! I need to remember to ask others to do that more often!
Oh, I added you to my blog roll. Doing some updates on my business web site/blog and not just giving you link for what you said last night but you do deserve it and your blog is worthy to point others to when it comes to branding. I subject I am passionate about as well.
Lost me? Heck no!! I was sitting there creating a new Twitter account (@brewpoint) as you were talking about making sure domain names made sense.
I never knew how much power one could wield over WordPress! Doug’s talk had a lot of great technical details, but I found myself totally behind schedule since I’ve not installed a wordpress.org blog myself (yet). But, I was able to follow along on my hosted version and got some great ideas for tying all my stuff together.
And if you think there’s an opportunity to talk about writing skills for blogging, I can help. That seemed to be a big light-bulb moment for me.
Both you and Doug possess some incredible talents and really work well together. Thanks for the class and hope you have more.
Thomas
Patrick: Thanks for the kind words. I am glad that you got something out of our workshop. The “personality” element of blogs, especially business blogs can often be overlooked. Oh, and I would love to guest post on your blog.
Christy: Writing – especially writing in a conversational tone – isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. It takes practice and probably some coaching. Since blogging is still primarily a written medium, there is a pretty solid opportunity for someone with your skills, talent and experience to help personal, professional and corporate bloggers hone their skills. Way to catch that.
Thomas, you are too kind, sir. Let me know if you need help with some of the topics you asked us about yesterday.