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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 so fast, so if you see particular sentences with a few words missing you should know that the point being made was brilliant and we were coherent […]
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 […]
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 self-hosted WordPress site (spoiler: you might not need every plugin under the sun). One of my favorite points from her post which I totally agree with: When […]
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 […]
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.”
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.
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
