Session Ideas
The WordCamp schedule will be user-drive. If there is something you'd like to see a session about, please add it below. In a few days we'll let people vote on what they'd like to see.
Already suggested:
- State of the Word (keynote) — by Matt
- WordPress as a CMS — Using Wordpress in a Content Management environment, not as a blog.
- Theme Customization 101
- Blog Promotion 101 — Tagging, pinging, better writing, etc
- Plugin Showcase — What are some of the best and most useful plugins to use
- SEO for WordPress — How to optimize your blog for the search engines.
- Monetizing Your Blog — Ideas, tips, and practical ways to generate income on your blog
- Blog Architecture — New and creative ways of presenting content for readers exploration and increased pageviews/times of visit
- Podcasting and Vlogging — An introduction to rich media blogging with WP
- HOWTO make a plugin
- High Performance WordPress — Scaling WP for high traffic sites
- Intro to MU (Multi-user)
- What's new in WP 2.1
- How to write a compelling blog — by Chartruese
- Beyond Blogs — showcase and discussion of non-blog uses for WordPress
- Pimp my blog — Take someone's rather plain Wordpress site and outfit it with a funky new design.
- Blog Ad Revenue — Tips for finding relevant ads and placing them on your blog for optimal performance.
- WordPress Consulting — Best practices for making money doing consulting and development around WordPress
- Why use WordPress instead of Moveable Type or other blogging software?/The pros and cons of WordPress
- Theme Showcase — Similar to the plugin showcase, but showing some of the nicest themes currently avaliable. Possibly combined with Plugin Showcase?
- Widgets Showcase — To go along with the other showcases. ;)
- Nurturing a Comment Community — Do's, Don'ts, and Backstage ways to nurture your reader-community, especially leveragng WP features
- Microformats and Structured Blogging
- Wordpress Beyond Blogs — Using and adapting Wordpress for other purposes
- Metrics for WordPress — Measuring and analyzing traffic on your blog
- Avoiding comment spam — how to avoid ever more clever comment spammers
- Smart Ping — Getting Blogs to Ping Different Servers Based on the Content of the Blog Post (structured data like events, reviews, etc)
- WordPress for Dummies — for those of us who only just barely get it
- Wordpress Security — Protecting against SPAM and malicious attacks
- WordPress & Drupal — Scalability
- WordPress 101 for those who want to customize it for their own web site and have never used WP before
- How to help out — Ways to help and volunteer on WordPress.org
- What to do about blog aggregators and scrapers — (when you don't want them to do that)
- WordPress Wishlist — An opportunity for users to share their biggest wants and wishes
- Search within your blog — How to make all your content immediately, easily accessible
- Video in Wordpress & WordpressMU — Demonstration of video plugin, vPIP, for Wordpress & WordpressMU and discussion of media in Wordpress.
- Host Comparison — Everyone share the relevant specs, dirt, and wonders of their favorite and hated hosts
- Versatility of WordPress — Using WP in ways other than as an independent blogging mechanism.
- WordPress data model ( db schema ) in depth — Database schema for wordpress explored in detail
- Corporate Blogging - some notes and recommendations from the trenches — I set up and run Novell Cool Blogs - running on WordPress 2.0.x. This session covers some of the political and technical hurdles we encountered in setting up this technical community.
- Firefox Extension — Say if we can build a extension, that gets integrated in to firefox, So it's easy to integrate wordpress & firefox!
- Structured Blogging — Modifying the main render loop for rendering microformats and 'structured' blog entries based on post metadata
- WordPress as Non Profit CMS — How to help non profit organizations setup WordPress as a full featured content management system
- WordPress for Blog Networks — Examining different techniques for optimizing Wordpress as a publishing platform for blog networks (standard or MU)
- What's new in WP 2.1 — What's new in WP 2.1
- Peer Publishing As Social Movement — The peer publishing phenomenon is radically changing the way people relate to the mediascape -- what does it mean for our society?
- WordSchool: Blogs In Education — Methods for any teacher interested in using blogs in schools or interested in how blogs might impact the way classes run. Includes practical tips for setting up and managing one blog for each student (typically anywhere from 20 to 175 blogs) using WordPress MU and Bloglines, maintaining a single-user classroom Web site with WordPress, more complex features possible with a multiple-user classroom site, and allowing multiple contributors to run an entire school Web site using a regular WordPress blog. [This is "Beyond Blogs" for educators.]
- Word Press and Macs — Discussion of any issues peculiar to using Word Press with a Mac.
- Symbiosis: WP + * — Integrating WP with other software (CMSs, portals, forums, etc.)
- Blog Migration — Converting to (or from) WordPress, or from one host to another
- Set up a basic blog 101 — Helping non-technical folks get started with their first blog
- Wordpress as a complete media management platform — How can we extend wordpress to use it as a complete news media management platform. Extending the administration for proofreading, editorial process, offline printing etc
- Small Business Blogging — WP as an easy CMS for brick & mortar small biz folks?
- Roadmap developer discussion — For developers to brainstorm on the development roadmap.
- Publishing & Adveristing Relationship & Beyond — $ and besides $
- Going International — How can we better address the international Wordpress community?
- Video - Is it right for your blog? — Loren Feldman of 1938 Media would love to talk about.
- Corporate Blogging & Credibilitiy
- Word Press MU — Updates on what's happening with WPMU and a tutorial on how to set an MU site up.
- Music & WordPress — BlogSafe (Legal) Music For Your Blog
- Enterprise WordPress — Discussing large-scale, community driven WP sites - the issues, optimization tips, community building
- Interviews — Let a random selection of people interview creators for features on their own blogs after the convention
- Information Warfront For Bloggers — Tips and update about information warfront between blogger and media
- Vodcasting Taking Over Broadcasting (WP on Campus) — A look at alternative broadcasting methods in college campuses. We'll share what we've learned, how to start a program, trade-offs, and the future of vodcasting in education.
- WordPress as a Tool for Political Freedom — Tricks & Pitfalls of using Wordpress to try and circumvent national firewalls and blockages
- WordSchool: Blogs In Health — Tips for patients or health care providers in starting a blog about health topics. Introduction to the community of medbloggers. How to avoid privacy violations.
- WordPress for Indymedia — WordPress Could Be An Excellent CMS for Indymedia.org websites!
- WordPress and Ajax — How Ajax & Web 2.0 ideas can be used with your blog
- WordPress and web 2.0 calendaring — How to support interactive calendaring like google's and trumba.com's features on your blog
- Mashups — How to integrate other tools (feedburner, maps, etc.) with WordPress into a mashup
- WordCamp Podcast? — Could record some of the sessions and offer them during or after WordCamp as a podcast/vodcast.
- Embedding Presence in WP — Why, when and how to show on your blog where you are, how available you are, and the best ways to reach you
- wordpress consulting for non-profits — they need you folks
- Flash and JavaScript on a post-by-post basis — What are the best ways to drop in flash and javascript into an individual post, i.e. flickr and youtube feeds
- Aggregation using Wordpress — How to convert wordpress into a dynamic aggregator like PlanetPlanet (planetplanet.org), but with searchability, etc
- Semantic self-publishing — Extend WordPress for self-publishing specific types of information based on ontologies.
- The Fundamental Flaws of Microformats — One-size-fits-all definitions fossilize formats
- Better search — How to search relevant blogs and how to search within a Blog. Current blogsearch solutions are very limited.