I went to the Dallas WordCamp 2009 a few weeks ago. It was fun to be with lots of people interested in sharing what they know about WordPress. These events are packed with good times and good info. Here are a few of the nuggets I found.
- Lots of people are interested in WordPress. Men and Women. Young and Old. Technical and non-Technical. They were all excited, which helped me continue my excitement for WordPress. Thanks to John Poz and the others that put on the WordCamp in Dallas.
- You need to have a focused ideas about what you want to say on your blog to consistently attract an audience. I need to work on that. Thanks Cali Lewis.
- Creative Commons License. There is stuff out there on the Internet that you can use on your site for free if you give proper credit and point to the Creatvie Commons License. There are WordPress plug-ins like Photo Dropper that will help you use this content. Thanks John Bailey.
- You can make money with your blog (if you have lots of traffic). One speaker mentioned that he made $1000 to $2000 per month. There are businesses that you can use to monetize your blog by displaying ads on your site. You get paid for the display of the ad, not a click like Google Ads (Videoegg , Project Wonderful , BuzzLogic) Thanks Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins.
- There are some neat plug-ins to help you add data management to WordPress (i.e. Let you add, update, and display data on your web site). Pods is one of them . Thanks Scott Kingsley Clark.
- There is a good way to decide which Tags and Categories to use on your site. Yes, they are both useful. Categories are the table of contents and Tags are the index. I will be able to explain this better to others that ask. Thanks Lorelle Van Fossen.
- Video is worth 30,000 words per second. OK, the point was that video is powerful and using it on your sites is something that is not to hard to do today. Thanks Dave Curlee.
These are some of the good take aways for me. There were lots of speakers, lots of give aways and lots of people to talk about WordPress. Have you been to a WordCamp? What did you learn?
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Thanks for posting these takeaways, David. I’m very interested in learning more about possibly running ads on my blog. I receive 30-40K visitors per month, but I honestly HATE ads personally and wouldn’t want them to be at all distracting from my blog content. I hadn’t heard of those non-Google ad options you mentioned, so thanks for the reference.
I have started officing at OKCcOcO and they are doing an event on Oct 3 about podcasting. I wonder if we have enough interest in the OKC area to do a WordCamp? If so I’d love to attend and participate.