When I Have Time by Sara Rosso
WordPress
Ask the Geek: How do I improve my photography with my DSLR?
Have a question for Ask The Geek? Send it to me. Dear Ask the Geek, I have a question for the photo geek. What book or resource do you recommend to learn tips on using a DSLR? Want to increase my knowledge before my trip to Lucca this April. Thanks, Kristen Dear Kristen, this time … Continue reading
My Ignite at LeWeb 2011 – The Future Way of Working: The Distributed Company
Last week I was privileged to be one of the few people on stage at the LeWeb conference in Paris, and I gave an Ignite presentation about The Future Way of Working: The Distributed Company. I go into more depth on how Auttomatic works in this post from earlier in the year. If you’ve never given a presentation in … Continue reading
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
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
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
The New Digital Company: Distributed, Online, and Transparent
I gave a presentation in Italian at the Digital Communication Forum in Milan in February, and I spoke about “The New Digital Company: Online, Distributed, and Transparent.” Continue reading
Ask the Geek: How Do I Find and Install a WordPress theme?
A step-by-step look at how to find a new WordPress theme and install it on your site. Continue reading
Awesome WordPress.com site designs with Custom CSS
I showcase some of the websites I’ve seen on WordPress.com that have made their sites beautiful using one of the default themes as a base and customizing the site with just the Custom CSS upgrade Continue reading
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