Vote for your favorites!
We have a chunk of time tomorrow at Mason Hall for lightning sessions from today’s most popular speakers. Want to nominate a speaker you thought was awesome, or one you were super sad to have missed? Let us know in the comments who you want to see tomorrow.
Brad Williams
j. hawkins, m. martz, b. williams
Loved the security talk with Brad Williams.
Definitely thought the child themes session was a good (and entertaining) one, as well as the jQuery session. I wish I could have made it to the WP Intranets.
I would love to learn more about Intense Debate. I missed their talk today. (time conflicts)
Jim Groom and Allan Cole.
There was a lot of buzz on twitter about the guy who did Plug-ins and another about SEO… would like to get a second chance to here from them myself!
John James Jacoby was awesome.
I also heard a lot of twitter buzz about security.
John Hawkins, Beau Lebens & Brad Williams all get my vote…
BuddyPress, Plug-ins
Plus, could you please publish on the blog the agenda for Sunday, since i think it changed from the origin
The SEO Guy – definitely. He had great energy and a very, very tough (and hot in a temperature kind of way) crowd.
Erin Blaskie on Lifestreaming, Adria Richards, Corey Eulan on SEO and Raphael from After the Deadline were all phenomenal.
Erin Blaskie’s talk on Lifestreaming was excellent.
Titles I wish I could have attended:
10 Tips To Creating Videos Like The Pro
Small Business Blueprint
Getting off the Farm: WPMU Beyond Blog Hosting
Growing Community with BuddyPress
Curse of The Invisible Blog: SEO Blog Review Workshop
I recommend Locking Down the Chastity Belt on WordPress Security
Corey did a great job with the SEO/SEM session.
I would be interested in Ignite sessions for:
WP Security
Mark Jaquith’s Feeding family w/wp session
I just want to second Mushon’s vote for a presentation of “Intense Debate”, and Cindi’s vote for “Growing Community with BuddyPress”
I nominate two sessions:
Media Slut session – did not attend but there was a lot of buzz on that session.
Scott Clark’s Pod session – it really needed to be longer so get all of that information out.
I would like to ignite sessions for WP Intranet. I thought it was a great presentation. I would like to learn more about it.
Would love another chance to see:
10 tips video
WP for Non-profits
SEO Blog Review
WP-Ecommerce ticketing
Lots of people said Harvard Gazette presentation on CMS use of wordpress was really good! I would like to see that tomorrow!
I’ll vote for Amanda Blum, and her presentation on WP implementation for non-profits – not only was it rich with valuable tips but so uproarious we got warned because the loud laughter was disturbing other sessions!
Another I’ll mention. In a later session on the CMS track, a deaf attendee emphasized the need for transcriptions of rich media. Earlier in the day John Bintz mentioned just such a feature in ComicPress, with users contributing the transcriptions. More info please! is it portable?
I would love to learn more from:
Corey Eulas: Seo For WordPress
Andrea Rennick: WPMU
Jim Doran: JQuery
Michelle Leder was hilarious & gave the best practical seminar on getting media attention. I have a feeling she could boil it down to a salient five minutes.
I enjoyed every session I got to today but the crowd was roaring at the SEO Blog Review… I would guess more than 2 dozen from the audience contributed comments or questions. With a capacity crowd in the room including lots of newbies that had never seen a line of HTML and hard cores that have been writing in it since FrontPage 98, it was difficult to cover the topic in 45 minutes. The presenter Corey Eulas got a huge ovation at the end for working it. I think everyone walked out of there with something useful whatever their level. I’d vote for more SEO and more MU because I missed that session. Cheers –
I’m interested in a bunch that I didn’t get a chance to see,
Intense Debate
Lifestreaming
One of the security ones (WP Security or Writing Secure Plugins)
WP in Education Roundtable
As far as one’s that were awesome and others should see – jQuery with Jim Doran
Child themes is a topic too important and relevant not to include.
I am sad to have missed:
Tuning WordPress and the LAMP for Speed and Stability
Stats Showdown
Wordpress Community in Japan
I was in the Newbie session but kept abreast of the Twitter stream during morning sessions (hey, the training was going slow) and heard good things about the “Lifestreaming” (Blaskie), “Getting Themes” (Richards), “10 Tips” (Bell) & “Research Sites” (Boggs) presentations. It seemed like the Blogger track sessions were generating the most discussion.
As far as the afternoon sessions I attended, most of them were finished well before their allotted time slot which was very disappointing. One person just had a 15 minute presentation & it was over. However, “Media Attention” (Leder) could have well gone on another hour but this session had more to do with PR than WordPress.
Wp security
code faster with smarter php with IDEs and other free tools
I’d like more about uses for Buddy Press and MU aside from the obvious. Lots of great info yesterday, but could have used more time. Also Allan Cole’s child/parent theme panel was awesome.
Seeing a lot of recommendations here I agree with! I also nominate Adria Richards for her Themes presentation. As for ones I would have liked to see, I heard the Ticketing presentation with Dan Milward was good, plus I’m interested in Ramil Teodosio’s WP Intranets presentation and Jeremy Clarke’s presentation on IDEs.
I really dug Andy Peatling’s demo on how to use the BuddyPress Groups API and build a BP plugin. Pretty balsy to try to show, step by step, how you code up a plugin live — and he pulled it off brilliantly
Oh, also, I can’t believe nobody has mentioned the new P2 here! Noel’s session rocked. http://p2.noel.io/
Defintately one of the most awesome things to come out of WordCamp NYC for me, and something everyone involved with WP should be aware of (even if they won’t have the foggiest idea about how to do half the stuff that Noel discussed in his “Advanced Theming” presentation).
Amanda Bloom
CMS – nonprofits
entertaining and informative
she was phenomenal
Scott Kingsley Clark
Use of “Pods”
CMS Framework Development
Jim Groom (aka Cyrus), Scott Clark (and his mad guitar skills), Allan Cole, and Jim Doran
Naoko, Je and Dennis on internationalization, localization, plug ins and tools for WP, WPMU and BP language translation
There were a lot of great presentations. Some of my favorites:
Brad Williams – Security
Corey Eulas – SEO
Michele Leder – Media e.g. “Own Your Topic”
Missed Media Attention – M. Leder – heard it was great!
Erin Blaskie was awesome – loved the pace
Corey Eulas – excellent – loved the pace
Might be too late, but my favorite sessions were:
Mark Jaquith – Feeding Your Family
Brad Williams – WP Security
Allan’s Child Themes session was hilarious and technical. Bring him back for the Ignite round!
My vote goes for Corey Eulas and his session on SEO Blog Review. I know Corey personally and his extensive knowledge and drive on SEO is something that everyone should have gained from. He is truly one of the rising stars in the SEO/SEM field. Unfortunately, his session was marred with newbie questions (“What is a H1 tag?”) to self-proclaimed “SEO experts” trying to stump or disrespect him to promote themselves. I know, if anyone ever can get the chance to speak with Corey for 5 minutes, they would know that he would be a strong asset for their SEO/SEM needs.
I know it was only one vote, but these 3 woman did a fantabulous job.
Erin Blaskie – Lifestreaming: The New Future of Blogging? What can I say she is who she is.
Adria Richards – Borrow, Buy or Build? Get Your Dream Theme or Bust. A woman with a charming personality and a great public speaker.
Daisy Olsen – Cut Through the Noise; seriously how many moms can take care of their baby (with husbands help) and be able to accomplish everything she did. She was all over the place. Great job.
As for Corey Eulas – I totally agree with what Michael Andrews said. There were too many newbies in that blogger session who should have been in the newbie track. It was not only done to him. Many of the speakers were constantly interrupted with shout outs. Questions should be done at the end of the session. Seriously, What is an H1 tag or what is Google analytic’s and and where do I find it? Bloggers that’s 101 stuff. Great time though.