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Do you blog? Every 20 seconds a new WordPress blog comes online. WordPress is the most used blogging software in the World with millions of users across the globe. It makes creating and managing a blog easy with an intuitive user interface.
This event is for anyone that has an interest in blogging and WordPress in general. Beginner's will learn more about what blogging is and what WordPress software can do. Expert WordPress users will be able to network and learn from other expert bloggers.
Speakers
John Chow - Residing in Richmond BC, and hailed as a Dot Com Mogule - John has received much publicity (The Province, Vancouver Sun, Entreprenuer Magazine, BC Business, Globe and Mail, and T.V.) for his ability to make money - LOTS of it - by blogging. His free eBook “Make Money Online with John Chow dot Com” is a huge success, and documents everything he did to take his blog from $0 to over $10,000 per month in just eight months.
Rebecca Bollwitt - She is a blogging and social media star. A Podcaster, hyper-local blogger, new media outreach wiz, mainstream media pundit ~ Vancouver’s new ‘blogebrity’ - Rebecca Bollwitt has been blogging about Vancouver since 2004 on Miss604.com, podcasting RadioZoom since 2005 and is a co-host of The Crazy Canucks Podcast. You can find Rebecca live blogging at many of the social media conferences around BC - watch for her!
Kulpreet Singh - Kulpreet Singh is the Communications Manager at Creative Gift Solutions, an award-winning Richmond-based corporate gifts company. He also runs Simrun Media, a business consultancy specializing in integrated marketing communications and eBusiness development. As an entrepreneur and volunteer, Kulpreet Singh's goal is to help positive and inspiring causes prosper online. He has extensive experience in search and social marketing, content management, and writing/blogging. In his free time, he blogs about all of the above and more at KulpreetSingh.com.
Raul Pacheco - Raul has been blogging since April of 2006. He transitioned his blog, "Random Thoughts of a Student of the Environment" from Blogger to the WordPress platform in March of 2008. While Raul is a scholar in environmental studies, his blog is, by its very nature, very random. So one day you might find a serious essay, another day you might find a restaurant review and some other day you may find… well, a random post! He is currently Vancouver's top ranked restaurant reviewer on UrbanSpoon.com. Raul has also done press coverage and live-blogging of several local events, including Third Tuesday, Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Cossette Convergence 2008, Projecting Change Film Festival, VIDFEST and Launch Party.
Kerry Sauriol - WordPress convert since January 2007. Under her Crunchy Carpets guise, she has been ‘mommy’ blogging for about two-and-a half years. Kerry launched Wet Coast Women in January of ’07 as a way to reach out to more women Bloggers and create a community that extends from the bottom of Baja California to the top of North America. Kerry has been interviewed by ‘Today’s Parent’ and also guested on CBC Radio One’s ‘Sounds Like Canada’ and ‘On the Coast’ to discuss hip parenting and mommy blogging.
Schedule
6:00 PM - 6:10 PM Introductions and Welcome
6:10 PM - 6:40 PM Raul Pacheco - Topic: I Switched to WordPress, and So Can You!
6:40 PM - 7:10 PM Kerry Sauriol - Topic: Building a Community Blog the Simple WordPress Way
7:10 PM - 7:30 PM Break and Networking
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM Kulpreet Singh - Topic: Secure your WordPress blog from Hackers.
8:00 PM - 8:30 PM Rebecca Bollwitt - Topic: Custom Page and Sidebar Templates for WordPress
8:30 PM - 9:00 PM John Chow - Topic: Evil ways to increase traffic to your Blog.
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When & Where
The Cascades Casino
20393 Fraser Hwy
Langley,
British Columbia V3A 7N2
Canada
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PT)
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