Got a burning Wordpress question? Looking for some blog design pointers? Want to find out how you might be able to monetize your blog? Join us for Social Media Speed Dating where you can ask the experts every social media question under the sun.
For an hour-and-half on Friday afternoon, experts are setting up shop in the atrium. Choose from topics that interest you most and get 20 minutes to ask questions and glean top tips before moving on to your next session of choice. Over the course of the afternoon you'll get a chance to attend four "speed dating" sessions.
Putting the Social Media Pieces Together with Rebecca Bollwitt
Rebecca Bollwitt has been blogging about life in BC since 2004 on
Miss604.com, and she has been podcasting since 2005. Listed among Vancouver’s most visible on the web, Miss604.com was voted "Best Vancouver Blog" by the Georgia Straight for 2009, "Best Local Blog" by The Westender in 2010 and has been ranked within the top ten blogs in Canada. Rebecca co-founded sixty4media, a WordPress website development firm, and has co-authored
the book, Blogging to Drive Business.
Photo by: Nordica Photography
Your Wordpress Questions Answered with Lloyd Budd
Lloyd Budd works for
Automattic as the WordPress.com VIP Hosting Services Lead. He enjoys this role as he loves finding elegant solutions to people's software needs, and squishing bugs of the software variety.
When not working, he's raising his currently expanding brood in Victoria, BC, Canada. Lloyd is a reservist in the Free Culture Force. When he retires in 70 years, he dreams of owning a vat protein deli or being a used driveless car salesperson.
Video for the Web with Warren Frey
Warren Frey is a writer, editor, videographer, blogger and podcaster. He’s worked in broadcast, most notably on the “The Lab with Leo Laporte” and “Electric Playground,” as well as print publications such as Mac | Life, Naked Eye and H+ Magazine. But he’s never lost his love for the internet and interactive media, from his teens when he dove into the WELL on his “Woz” edition Apple IIgs with the crackle of a 1200 baud as a soundtrack, all the way up to his present company, Freyburg Media (
www.freyburgmedia.com), a web video production studio that aims to bring TV quality production values to the internet. As a blogger for
Techvibes.com, Warren is also knee-deep in both the local technology and media scene and a keen observer of the big changes that have taken the internet from BLINK tags and blaring MIDI files to Web 2.0 and beyond.
Monetizing Your Blog with Laurie Pawlik-Kienien
Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen is a full-time writer and blogger on Bowen Island, BC; her work has appeared in publications such as
Reader’s Digest,
Writer’s Digest,
Health,
Woman’s Day,
alive,
MSN Health and sometimes
More. This
Adventurous Writer also writes articles, newsletters, profiles, and other word-things for clients such as BC Women’s Hospital and Health Match BC.
Pawlik-Kienlen created and maintains five “Quips and Tips” blogs:
Quips and Tips for Successful Writers;
Quips and Tips for Achieving Your Goals;
Quips and Tips for Love Relationships,
Quips and Tips for Couples Coping With Infertility, and
Quips and Tips for Spiritual Seekers. She's also the Feature Writer for
Psychology Suite101.
She teaches a “Make Money Blogging” course through Simon Fraser University; her degrees are in Psychology and Education, from the University of Alberta.
Blog Design Top Tips with Susannah Gardner
Susannah Gardner is the co-founder and creative director of
Hop Studios Internet Consultants, a Web design company specializing in custom Web solutions for content publishers. She is also a freelance writer and author; (Blogging For Dummies, Buzz Marketing with Blogs for Dummies, BitTorrent for Dummies among other titles). She taught and worked in the Online Journalism and Communication Program at the University of Southern California School for Communication and spent four years at The Los Angeles Times, one of six editors responsible for launching that newspaper’s Web site. Susannah earned bachelor’s degrees in Print Journalism and American literature at USC.
Getting Started with Podcasting with Tod Maffin
Tod Maffin is an authority on the strategic use of social media in business and a recognized commentator on the impact of accelerated technological change and innovation on business. One of Canada’s podcasting pioneers, Tod writes a blog that is followed by thousands of people in the media, technology and business communities around the world. He continues to report on national technology trends on CBC Radio and is the past host of
todradio.com and Real Life Chronicles.
Dealing with Negative Online Interactions with Lorraine Murphy
Lorraine "raincoaster" Murphy has been a professional blogger and social media trainer for the past five years. She specializes in teaching beginners and those with barriers to internet use, and in social media for social change.
Her flagship blog,
raincoaster.com, has been studied as part of the New Media curriculum in three universities, and the comments thread on her Mummified Fairy post has been called "one of the most beautiful things on the internet." She once got into a flamewar with the nation of Albania, and won. She conducts workshops in the transformative use of social media on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, and blogs regularly to seven different sites, including
trueslant.com/lorrainemurphy,
raincoastermedia.com,
theshebeenclub.com,
lolebrity.net,
ayyyy.com and
offsitedatabackup.com/blog/.
Photo by: plzthxkbai
