When I Have Time by Sara Rosso
Digital Curation: The New Frontier of Knowledge
This past Saturday I presented “Digital Curation: The New Frontier of Knowledge” at KnowCamp, an Italian BarCamp in Modena about knowledge and the web. If you’re not familiar with the Ignite format, it’s very exciting for both speakers and spectators. 5 minutes, 20 slides, 15 seconds each slide. It’s a timing nightmare and you’re always … Continue reading
Sites I love: Jamendo.com for Creative Commons music
If you’ve read a few of my articles you know I love all things Creative Commons – even music! I have even released ebooks, music and other content via Creative Commons licenses. (Read A Guide to Creative Commons on When I Have Time) I’ve been using Jamendo.com for several years as a source of creative … Continue reading
Vision Board and Planning Workshop in Milan, Italy
If you follow me on Twitter (@rosso), you might have seen my Tweet today: This week has convinced me I'm doing a Vision Board & Workshop in November, in Italian here in Milan. If you're interested, let me know.— Sara Rosso (@rosso) September 22, 2011 After speaking with several friends who are struggling to see … Continue reading
Review: Kodak PlaySport digital video camera
Just in time for a trip to Hawaii, I started playing with the Kodak PlaySport digital video camera. This is not my first Kodak digital video camera – right around the time I was playing with a friend’s Flip camera and was looking for a personal videocamera, too, and I got a chance to check out … Continue reading
Review: TextExpander typing shortcut software
I’ll just cut right to the chase: I love, love, love TextExpander. The way TextExpander works: You insert a snippet, phrase, or entire text and then insert it into any program on your Mac (email, document, anywhere there’s text insertion) with a special character sequence shortcut that you decide on. My shortcuts are usually 2-6 … Continue reading
Social Media Geek: Adding Community Features to Your Blog Liveblog from BlogHer 11
The liveblog of my panel at BlogHer ’11: Social Media Geek | Adding Community Features to Your Blog is now online. I talked about BuddyPress and bbPress as ways to extend your WordPress site into a community and I definitely recommend checking it out. The liveblog is about 90% accurate, which is amazing since we were talking … Continue reading
WordPress for Large-Scale Installs and Enterprise
Here’s the presentation I gave at WordCamp San Francisco – the official annual WordPress conference. This year there were more than 1,000 participants and not only did I speak, but I was working behind the scenes with the rest of the Automattic crew and volunteers to make the conference great. Here are the video and … Continue reading
Plugin Advice for WordPress Newbies
It’s a question I often get asked: What plugins do I need on my WordPress site? My answer is always the same: it depends. Sophia at Fiction Vixen put it more eloquently than I could and listed a bunch of considerations that I suggest anyone read when deciding if they should add plugins to their … Continue reading
Quick Bytes: Media Training 101
I’ve been reading, learning, and watching a lot of content about presenting lately as it’s something I’m very interested in and there’s no definitive manual to learn how to do it. I’ll be sharing that info soon, but first I thought a parallel subject is learning how to speak with the media. I spent three … Continue reading
How to Use WordPress as a Website (not Blog)
I’ve been fortunate to do a lot of speaking lately, and I’ll be slowly getting those presentations online, but I wanted to share this one presentation I did for the Stampa all’Estera, the Foreign Press in Milan. They specifically asked me to speak about using WordPress as a website, instead of a blog, as many … Continue reading
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