iPod | Phone | 2:54| To Embed or Email: click photo, then "i", then "Share." I am so excited - we can finally announce our very first Podcamp here in Hawaii, coming October 24-25, 2008. Shane and I have been wanting to do this for 3 years. Plus! We are going to have a WordCamp component too - it's the best of all worlds! Podcamp = unconference to learn about podcasting and new media and network with other indivudals and businesses who are using this tool to communicate. Wordcamp = unconference to learn about the amazing free blogging (and podcast platform) software, WordPress. We even have the founder, Matt Mullenweg coming to speak. Unconference = anyone can speak, the emphasis is on peer to peer communication and networking. Podcamp Hawaii web site Podcamp Hawaii on Twitter Hawaiian word: Ho'omoana: to camp Join us at The Reef for discussion, Reef Radio, and occasional live streaming. Support us by buying your own copy of our Beach Walks Theme music. Please check out our Blogroll page with many more links to our friends' web sites. Less

Most of the time, there is really no reason to pay for an ebook because there is so much free information available out there. Today I spotted a PDF search engine on popurls. So I did some searching. Free Adwords PDF’s Free Affiliate Marketing PDF’s Free Adsense PDF’s Free Forex PDF’s Free Ebay PDF’s Free Blogging PDF’s Free Wordpress PDF’s Free Search Engine Optimization PDF’s Free Make Money PDF’s Free Squidoo PDF’s Free Clickbank PDF’s Free Social Media PDF’s It should be pretty easy to figure out a few more. Like this post? Publish It On Your Own Blog ShareThis Tags: Adwords, affiliate marketing, Blogging, forex, free pdf, pdf search, search engine optimization, Social Media, Squidoo, wordpress Related posts The Last Year in Affiliate Sales (6) You Don’t Need an Untapped Market (0) You Aren’t the Only One (3) Why I Think Squidoo Has Good Potential (0) Using Squidoo (0) Less

In this Marketing Over Coffee learn : About getting your website to work for you, how to add energy to your next event, and great summer reading. All this and more… Show length 22:17 Listen now: Brought to you by Blue Sky Factory and MarketingProfs 00:32 Five Guys in a limo from Scott “Mustang” Monty 00:52 Extreme Website Makeover for Keith - How to make your website work for you 06:36 Correctly configuring a redirect to a blog to not lose Google juice 11:03 WordPress redirection plugin 12:36 Getting started with AdWords 14:40 John T. on how to set up a stage or performance room 17:25 More summer reading Barry Schwartz - The Paradox of Choice and TED Talk, Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational 18:15 MarketingProfs video coming soon, sorry for the wait, Chris has hardware in the shop. Chris at Podcasters Across Borders and then Podcamp Boston 3 John is not travelling Our theme song is called Mellow G by Fonkmasters from the Podsafe Music Network Direct Link to File Get your coffee delivered! Sign up for the Marketing Over Coffee newsletter! function validate() { var isValid = true; var isNewsletterSelected = true; var errorString = ""; var x = document.BSFOptinForm; if (x.field6.value == "") { errorString = errorString + "Email address\n"; isValid = false; } else { if (x.field6.value.indexOf("@") == -1 || x.field6.value.indexOf(".") == -1) { errorString = errorString + "Valid Email address\n"; isValid = false; } } if (x.field7.value == "") { errorString = errorString + "First Name\n"; isValid = false; } if (x.field8.value == "") { errorString = errorString + "Last Name\n"; isValid = false; } if (isValid == true && isNewsletterSelected == true) { return true; } else { if (isNewsletterSelected == false) { errorString = errorString + "----------------------\nPlease select at least one subscription"; } alert("Following fields are required:\n\n" + errorString); return false; } } Email address First Name Last Name ShareThis Less

http://live.pirillo.com - A few weeks ago, I did a Screencast about my free WordPress theme, WicketPixie. The reason why I'm bringing this up, is that the first time I zipped all the files up on my Mac to put online, people were complaining. They didn't know what the .DS_Store files were. Less

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Yes, I have an iPhone. If you look closely, you can see my little Chris icon on there. It’s also on my home screen. When I tap it, it opens my blog. When you open my blog on your iPhone, it’s going to look a lot different than it would on a browser. That’s due to a plugin I am running in WordPress. WP Touch is a plugin that was designed specifically for your iPhone or iPod Touch. What it does it to automagically reformat my blog (or any WP blog), and optimizes it specifically for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It gives it a whole new layout, even, that is designed to just render better on your Apple mobile device. There’s no better way of giving you a better experience than to use WP Touch on a blog that is running WordPress. As I drill down into the actual content on the home page, I can cascade out and read brief previews. Or, I can dive deeper and go so far as to leave a comment. It loads fast, and it’s clean. It’s a great way of getting content specifically optimized. It even uses Gravatars! There’s even a little search button at the top. Simply tap that, and you’ll be able to run a search through my blog. How did I get the little Chris icon, you ask? If someone is viewing your website and they press the little plus (+) icon at the bottom in their Safari browser, they can select “add to home screen”. When they do that, the little graphic that is on my web server (or yours) is automatically pulled in when it’s added to their home screen. Even if you don’t have the iPhone or the iPod Touch, you still want to do this. You don’t know who out there in your audience does have one. You want to give them an amazing experience. Just open up your favorite photo editor. You’ll need to create a .png file. The size can vary up to 60×60 pixels. I uploaded mine to my root directory. It’s very important to name it properly: apple-touch-icon.png. That has to be the name, and it has to be in the root directory. This way, the plugin will be able to pull in this icon. Think of it: you’re doing something simple and free for your audience. If you’re like me, you want to do everything you possibly can in order to keep people coming back for more. Want to embed this video on your own site, blog, or forum? Use this code or download the video: <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9GLjw0cVQIs"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9GLjw0cVQIs" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://chris.pirillo.com/">Chris</a> | <a href="http://live.pirillo.com/">Live Tech Support</a> | <a href="http://media.pirillo.com/">Video Help</a> | <a href="http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirilloShow">Add to iTunes</a> Is your Avatar a Gravatar? (106) What’s the Future of Portable Computing? (60) iPhone and iPod Video and Audio Cable for TV (31) Apple’s Announcements Disappoint (29) Apple iPod vs Microsoft Zune (7) The iPod does a Paris Hilton Sex Video (23) Better Than the Paris Hilton Sex Video! (6) From BlogWare to WordPress - Part Deux (4) Cleaning Up Old Posts (1) Thoughts on Apple’s WWDC 2008, iPhone 3G? (41) Less

http://live.pirillo.com - Yes, I have an iPhone. If you look closely, you can see my little Chris icon on there. It's also on my home screen. When I tap it, it opens my blog. When you open my blog on your iPhone, it's going to look a lot different than it would on a browser. That's due to a plugin I am running in WordPress. Less

This week on the podcast I am chatting with Travis Quinnelly, an author at Make Use Of and the blog’s Technical Editor. That is the guy who handles the technical end of things and makes sure that everything runs smoothly. This week we are talking about Wordpress, Plurk, Wikia search and other search engines, Adobe Air apps and Portable Apps and a bunch of other stuff, including the weather in Montreal, Canada and Tulsa, Oklahoma. If you look underneath the show notes on this page, you will see a little media player where you can listen to the podcast right here on the site. Or if you prefer, you can right-click on the “audio MP3? logo and save the MP3 file to your computer for listening on your MP3 player or iPod. We now have the podcast in iTunes so don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast if you have an iPod, or in another podcatcher if you have a different MP3 player. After listening, please submit your comments below on this page or you can also send me an e-mail with a question, comment, criticism or suggestion, and I’ll also be accepting audio comments, so go ahead and send your MP3 to the same address. Jason’s other podcast Fluency Wordpress admin theme and others Wordpress Codex Plurk.com and become Jason’s friend on Plurk Taking Search Back To Basics With Wikia Search Cool Search Engines to Remember 5 More Cool Adobe AIR Applications Updating Status Messages the Easy Way Jason’s Tumblelog PortableApps More from MakeUseOf.com : - MakeUseOf Directory : Read about up-to 5 truly useful web apps on a daily basis. - MakeUseOf ‘Geeky Fun’: - Fun Geeky Pics, Cartoons and Videos. Tags: adobe AIR, Podcast, portable app, wordpress Related posts 4 Tools for More Productive Twittering (5) WordPress vs. Drupal - Content Management Systems (27) Welcome to the MakeUseOf.com Podcast #1 (19) Virtualization-Free In-Windows Linux Installation (12) View your Google Analytics Account using Adobe AIR (7) Less

Byte Podcast # 115 - Descarga directa Esta semana, en Byte Podcast: la llegada del Phoenix a Marte, WordPress cumple 5 años, un sitio para crearse una nueva apariencia física (virtualmente), un sitio de animaciones recomendado por Poncho, una nueva mochila para llevar laptops y el tema pendiente de Creative Commons, con extractos de entrevistas que pueden escuchar en episodios anteriores de este podcast. Además, anuncios, recomendaciones y saludos en la sección de retroalimentación que cierra este episodio. Sigan visitando los nuevos foros de Byte, en foros.bytepodcast.com Buzón de voz de Byte: 55 8421-9856 Byte, tecnología aplicada… a la vida. Podcast 115. Duración: 36 minutos Enlaces: Fotografía del Phoenix llegando a Marte (enviado por Lester) Wordpress.org (softwarea para blogs) y Wordpress.com (para crear un blog gratuito) Taaz: Free Virtual Makeovers (enviado por Luis Navarro) La Página de Poncho: Ill Will Press BUILT laptop backpack (enviado por natxo) Entrevistas a Creative Commons México: Leon Felipe Sánchez y Jorge Ringenbach. Podcast 44 y Podcast 61 Jornadas de Navega Seguro, 4 y 5 de junio en México D.F. (enviado por Raul Morales) El Sofista, blog de Ciencia y Tecnología (enviado por Jorge Mussuto) Denken Über, blog de tecnología, estrategias y cosas de internet (enviado por Jorge Mussuto) Developer Day de Google México. 23 Junio, 2008. Foros de Byte Podcast Byte Podcast @ tumblr Byte Podcast @ Twitter Grabado y Producido en los estudios de Dixo.com Espacio para el archivo MP3 cortesía de Alterno MX Less

With A Voice Like This Episode 055 Topics: 4-AM rehearsal First run through of my arrangement of Drift Away Set for a possible gig Monday June 2nd Review of the 4-AM website development Discussion of Live Streaming Video Testing Streaming Video Running some tests of Streaming video delivery Invites and info at my Facebook Group and Twitter Account Test using music from my Christmas EP The must have WordPress plugin for gigging bands Gig Calendar plugin by Dan Coulter How it works What makes it great The lone drawback and its workaround A brief word about a Talkshoe announcement Listener’s Choice Teach Me by Ben Parsons comes from Lynn, host of Lynn in the PM and Living in a Chemical Soup Links from this episode: Blogs for Bands site of the Gigs Calendar Plugin for WordPress With A Voice Like This Facebook Group My Twitter account Talkshoe blog entry about cash program suspension Listen above or download by right clicking and saving. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwithavoicelikethis.com%2F%3Fp%3D114'; addthis_title = '055+-+Forward+Momentum'; addthis_pub = ''; Less

With A Voice Like This Episode 055 Topics: 4-AM rehearsal First run through of my arrangement of Drift Away Set for a possible gig Monday June 2nd Review of the 4-AM website development Discussion of Live Streaming Video Testing Streaming Video Running some tests of Streaming video delivery Invites and info at my Facebook Group and Twitter Account Test using music from my Christmas EP The must have WordPress plugin for gigging bands Gig Calendar plugin by Dan Coulter How it works What makes it great The lone drawback and its workaround A brief word about a Talkshoe announcement Listener’s Choice Teach Me by Ben Parsons comes from Lynn, host of Lynn in the PM and Living in a Chemical Soup Links from this episode: Blogs for Bands site of the Gigs Calendar Plugin for WordPress With A Voice Like This Facebook Group My Twitter account Talkshoe blog entry about cash program suspension Listen above or download by right clicking and saving. addthis_url = \'http%3A%2F%2Fwithavoicelikethis.com%2F%3Fp%3D114\'; addthis_title = \'055+-+Forward+Momentum\'; addthis_pub = \'jimgoodrich\'; Less

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I know a few of you use forums. Some of you have blogs and other social accounts. Most of these places allow you to set up an avatar. The hope is that one day, you only have to upload an avatar once and have it populate to all places you are on the Web. There is something that may be used throughout any blog that uses WordPress, and that has this feature enabled. For years, the Gravatars have been a plugin for WordPress. Now, the new version of WordPress has support for these Gravatars. If you’ve commented in my blog in the past, you’ve used an Email address. This is what will allow you to have a Gravatar that follows you around once you register. Your Gravatar will automatically be posted with your comments on any blog you visit, as long as you comment using your normal email address. You don’t have to sign up with my blog, or anything! Of course, you will need to sign up for free with Gravatar. A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs? Setting up gravatars on your weblog is easy, you don’t even need an account! Plugins are available for leading weblog software, and our tutorials will have you running gravatars in no time. To request a gravatar from our servers, you simply add an image to your comments area with an “src” attribute that points to our gravatar image generator and includes an MD5 hash of the commenter’s email address. Since all gravatars are rated with an MPAA style rating, you can restrict your site to show only gravatars whose content you are comfortable with. You may have more than one email address or more than one avatar that you want to manage. That’s fine, you can do that! You can upload your image, and it helps you crop it down so it fits into an avatar size! It’s super easy, even if you aren’t good with photo editing software. The challenge now to you is to go sign up for Gravatar, then leave a comment in my blog so that we can all check out your avatar! FirstRSS ERROR: "http://shop.tagjag.com/products/wordpress" NOT FOUND! Want to embed this video on your own site, blog, or forum? Use this code or download the video: <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cVgcTV_WsKw"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cVgcTV_WsKw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://chris.pirillo.com/">Chris</a> | <a href="http://live.pirillo.com/">Live Tech Support</a> | <a href="http://media.pirillo.com/">Video Help</a> | <a href="http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirilloShow">Add to iTunes</a> WicketPixie WordPress Theme Screencast WicketPixie: a Social Media Theme for WordPress HP’s Color LaserJet CM1312 Is This the Easiest way to Turn Photos into Videos? SLR Accessories to Buy How to do a Successful Photo Blog Digital Camera Tips Buying a Digital SLR Camera Canon Digital Camera (SLR): Rebel XTi How to Take Pictures of Pets and Kids Less

http://live.pirillo.com - I know a few of you use forums. Some of you have blogs and other social accounts. Most of these places allow you to set up an avatar. The hope is that one day, you only have to upload an avatar once and have it populate to all places you are on the Web. Less

If you would like to hear what the founder of WordPress.com has to say about the future of blogging, this interview is for you. Subject: Our guest today is Matt Mullenweg who is the Founder of Automattic, Inc . which is the owner of WordPress.com and the Akismet anti-spam software for blogs. Invested capital in Automattic is now $30 million from such sources as The New York Times, Polaris Ventures, True Ventures, and Radar Ventures. (more…) Less

Almost everyday, I do something with WordPress, particular with themes. That’s because I like to mess around with it, experiment and really dive into all it has to offer. For most of us, we upload this to a web host, create a dummy account or dummy folder and work from it there. I do that a fair bit but sometimes, you just don’t want to FTP in and out. Who knows, sometimes your Internet connection may be down or you just want to unplug while you get things done for a while. But how do you unplug when your work is online?  Hmm…. Why, run a web server on your own computer of course! I love, love, love using Uniform Server for my own development because compared to other methods, it is super easy and always works - at least for me. Never failed. I have been getting my hands dirty with PHP sites since 2002 and working with WordPress since 2003-2004. Ever since, I’m always on the lookout for good packages to run a web server on my own computer so it would be easier to work on scripts before taking them live. If you ever tried manually installing Apache, PHP and Linux on your computer you’d know that it is truly geeky. A throwback to those school days when the computer was still purely text (and the green screen you know?) Ugh. I don’t want to learn to run a web server or manage a database just so I can develop a theme.  That’s why Uniform Server is a beautiful thing. It is small enough you can run it directly from your USB stick. Yup. Take your work with you - no Internet required. It’s also amazingly easy to run. Just download the package, run the setup. Double click a file to start the server and voila! Instant server. Installing WordPress now becomes super easy too. No FTP - just copy your files over and set up the database as usual. Piece of cake. Try it you’ll fall in love with it. Check out the video. You’ll see how I get the server running. http://media.techbasedmarketing.com/video/uniform-server2.flv   Share This Less

On Today’s Show: steampunk, wordpress, Metallica, RvB, Utensils, Bikes Best wishes to John And Blanca Crazy week in review Wordpress Tweaking Very short SEO Overview Lance Armstrong is Bugging me Real News Bytes Time to buy The White Album again. Holographic Storage debuts RvB Explains Gadgets and obsolesce. Metallica smells money crawls from under a rock Tech Cruft R2D2 Goes Steampunk, and awesome MonoWheel, [...] Less

Introducing the Seesmic WordPress video comment plug-in! (@ wiki.seesmic.com/wp-plugin.) In today's show, Whit gives a quick demonstration of the new Seesmic plug-in for Wordpress. You can now leave video posts on your WordPress blog and get video comments in response. it's awesome! Less

Download MP3 (right-click, select Save Target As) Duration: 30 min. In this podcast, I talk with Theresa Putkey, a usability consultant in Vancouver, about how she transitioned from technical writing into usability. This is part II of the previous conversation with Theresa. Learn more about Theresa by reading her blog. You can also read Theresa’s articles on Boxes and Arrows. Topics in this Podcast In this podcast, we talk about the following: How to move into usability Designing user interfaces Contributing towards usability on project teams Compelling reasons to transition from technical writing into usability Whether applications can be so intuitive that they never need manuals Conjectures to the question — Will technical writers ever be extinct? Making content more findable in search Tagging topics with concept keywords to increase their search rating Harnessing related topics, concept keywords, and synonyms for search results Browsing in the table of contents versus relying on search to find content Making content findable in large projects (such as those with 3,000+ topics) Using card sorts to determine user terms for topic names Using focus groups to gather terminology and function lists from users Usability consultant versus technical writer — preferences, purposes, and job satisfaction Whether technical writing is only a transitional field Defining different categories within user experience: interaction design, graphic design, programming/web designer and programmer, information architecture (designing information spaces) Creating navigation that people can use to find information Expanding beyond user interface when it comes to usability The Information Architecture Institute (IA Institute) Content Management Professionals IXD, Interaction Designers Group Human Factors Group Vancouver User Experience Group (VanUE) Organizations and professional groups for usability Choosing your career — technical writing or usability? Teambuilding, including everyone, and communicating regularly Building relationships in your company (the key to success) Collaboration, teambuilding, and communication — breaking down silos across departments Techniques for bringing people together (the importance of the watercooler) The paradox of making friends and winning people to your side Note: Ever wonder why I make such an extensive list of topics covered? Audio doesn’t have keywords like blog posts, so people who search for them on Google never find the audio unless I saturate the show notes with relevant keywords. Podcast Sponsors MadCap Flare is the most versatile XML-based Help authoring tool on the market, with thousands of customers using MadCap products including Microsoft, Google, HP, GE, yahoo and the list goes on. Check out Flare version 3.1 and a host of other new tools at at madcapsoftware.com. Adobe – The Technical Communication Suite software offers a complete solution for authoring, managing, and publishing interactive instructional information from technical documents and books to online help systems, knowledge bases, interactive training, and eLearning content in multiple formats and languages. Learn more here. Intro music is Velveture by Ocean Alexander Upcoming Training on WordPress Are you interested in learning more about self-hosted WordPress blog sites? If so, let me know by sending me an email (tomjohnson1492@gmail.com). I’m planning to offer some training in the upcoming weeks. Training will cover everything from the basics, such as using posts, pages, categories, and tags, to PHP calls and CSS tweaks. Less

We have a show filled with LOL cats, WordPress upgrades, cheat sheets and free file hosting. Now what in the world do all of these topics have in common? Well… nothing at all really but you should know by now I don’t need a reason to talk, I’ll do so at any time, at any place for any reason you hand me. Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 146! Running Time: 14 minutes | File Size: 6.10 MB Here are just a few topics from this week’s episode of the Web Hosting Show. The WHIR Blog = Getting Better? You Tell ME! Cheat Sheets to Make You a Better Webmaster? WordPress 2.5 Finally Comes to the Masses! File Dropper Promises to Be RapidShare with Less Suckiness! Wild Cats Take Over Data Center’s Land, Who Will WIN? My hangover on Peeps and jelly beans is now long gone, so I am back to spread the digital word on all things web hosting, web development and web anything else you might have in mind. This show is the podcast to tune into to get the first, middle and last word on the state of the hosting industry today. Extra: New Bookmarklet Makes it Easy to Add to MySpace! © Mitch Keeler - like this? visit Mitchelaneous.com | FirefoxFacts.com | WebHostingShow.com   Less

Download MP3 Duration: 30 min. In this podcast, I talk with Theresa Putkey, a writer/usability consultant in Vancouver, about the largest project of her career. She explains how she approached a project that had upwards of 2,500 help topics, many of which consisted of duplicate content. She explains how she transitioned from RoboHelp to Flare, the advantages she found as well as her regrets, and how she configured the search to make it easy for users to find information. Theresa recently presented a similar topic at Content Convergence and Integration, a conference in Vancouver. Her presentation was titled “SuperWoman, WonderWoman, UnderDog, and Leprechaun, with Flare: A case study in breaking down silos.” You can view the slides from her presentation on SlideShare. Learn more about Theresa by reading her blog. You can also read Theresa’s articles on Boxes and Arrows. Topics Covered in the Podcast Topics covered in this podcast include the following: approaching large projects with hundreds of help topics located in multiple sources how Flare and RoboHelp handle large projects (latency issues) AuthorIT, always a hometown favorite techniques for breaking down silos how she transitioned from technical communicator to information architect why she moved away from RoboHelp to Flare, and the problems she found with both the sluggishness she encountered with large files how to approach the information architecture for a project with 2,500+ topics tips for creating more effective searches implementing Madcap Feedback server for keyword search metrics and and comments/feedback overcoming problems of findability integrating knowledge base articles with read-me’s and technical guides and user guides maintained in 5 different formats creating a master search for a massive help project topic-based browsing in the TOC versus search configuring synonyms and keyword concepts limitations with Flare’s search techniques for gathering feedback from users importing Word files into Flare cleaning up RoboHelp code before importing into Flare getting buy-in from different departments (teambuilding) Flare’s unexpected learning curve choosing software based on the needs of your project considering cost when selecting software several hidden gotchas in Flare working with concept keywords in Flare to improve the searchability Podcast Sponsors MadCap Flare is the most versatile XML-based Help authoring tool on the market, with thousands of customers using MadCap products including Microsoft, Google, HP, GE, yahoo and the list goes on. Check out Flare version 3.1 and a host of other new tools at at madcapsoftware.com. Adobe – The Technical Communication Suite software offers a complete solution for authoring, managing, and publishing interactive instructional information from technical documents and books to online help systems, knowledge bases, interactive training, and eLearning content in multiple formats and languages. Learn more here. Intro music is Velveture by Ocean Alexander Upcoming Training on WordPress Are you interested in learning more about self-hosted WordPress blog sites? If so, let me know by sending me an email (tomjohnson1492@gmail.com). I’m planning to offer some training in the upcoming weeks. Training will cover everything from the basics, such as using posts, pages, categories, and tags, to PHP calls and CSS tweaks. Less

mov | wmv | 3gp | m4v Story Links: Matt Mullenweg and I sat down to talk about how he got his start and came up with the idea for Wordpress. Less