I learned a little something
Posted on | September 28, 2008 |
Wordcampdx yesterday as any of you following my Twitter feed will know (sorry if it got a little nuts, but it was a little nuts there). I learned a lot, and finally understand how much I need to learn if I want to be fully self-sufficent as a Wordpress user. That’s not to say that using Wordpress is difficult. It isn’t, as long as you want to use the prefabbed plugins and themes. I generally want to change things, not radically, but I like tweaking things to make them my own. That means that I like to have D tweak things until he makes them my own for me. That’s not exactly fair. It’s not his blog. It’s time to be a big girl and grow up a little.
Entering Wordcamp I was almost overwhelmed by the sheer number of people. They announced that they would let more people in, and I’m glad. I almost registered too late, intending on going, but trying to convince myself not to go because I wouldn’t know a soul there. We got t-shirts, name tags (I put my site address there, but I should have just put my Twitter name — EVERYONE was adding everyone to their twitter feed), and went into largest room for the first presentation. I could go through the entire run down, but it’s already been done, and more eloquently that I could write it. Oh, and if you look at the picture, I’m in there, messing with my freaking iPhone trying to take pictures. I should have just carried my Nikon with me.
So things I learned at Wordcampdx:
- Twitter is my friend.
- Stopping traffic on Grand Ave. is a lot of fun.
- I’ve only scratched the surface with what Wordpress can do.
- I need to make a stronger web presence (for both my sites).
- Portland is full of very friendly, helpful people who don’t make you feel stupid for asking questions.
- I’m obsessed with the stats tracker on my site, and Woopra is going to make it worse, but in the best way possible.
- Live blogging is fun, but I was too busy taking notes to do it.
- There are a lot of really cool, geeky women out there.
- Pita and falaffel are the food of the gods.
- Widmer makes great beer (I already knew this, but the keggers helped remind me).
- Wordpress 2.7 is going to rock.
I have a lot of work to do today for my novel, so I am going to get to it, but yesterday was one of the best days ever. And while I didn’t make it to the afterparty at the GreenDragon, I will make it to the other events there.
And I think I had a dream about blogging. 
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September 28th, 2008 @ 6:27 pm
So glad you found yesterday worthwhile!
I often have dreams about blogging. Until very recently, I thought it was a character flaw…
September 28th, 2008 @ 9:31 pm
You’re such a cute dork, that’s why I love you! You’ll have to share all the juicy, helpful bits with me….cause deep down, you lurve me too!
September 29th, 2008 @ 1:21 am
[...] I learned a little something (Moody Meow) “Entering Wordcamp I was almost overwhelmed by the sheer number of people. They announced that they would let more people in, and I’m glad. I almost registered too late, intending on going, but trying to convince myself not to go because I wouldn’t know a soul there.” [...]
September 29th, 2008 @ 5:45 am
I want to devote that much time to blogging but I don’t have it anymore! (Though my site is totally waning and no one comments anyway) but it sounds really cool all that you learned!
September 29th, 2008 @ 6:35 am
you are the coolest Geek that I know… I am not worthy!
September 30th, 2008 @ 2:24 pm
Claire, I think if you had the chance to go to something like this it would have inspired you. I know it did for me.
Hollie — awww
Betsy - it was amazing. I just hope there’s another one next year.
October 3rd, 2008 @ 2:53 pm
You summed it up better than I can. I’m still processing the whole cool experience. Now you know that WordCamp loving feelin’.
It was great and I had so much fun meeting all my new neighbors in Portland. Moving to a new area is always scary, but everyone made me feel totally at home. I’m eager to get to know everyone here now. It felt like family. That’s really nice.
Thanks for being a special part of the event for me, too.
October 7th, 2008 @ 1:21 pm
Falaffel is uber-fantastic. A few places here fortunately have it.
Wordpress is just as fantastic, with fewer calories.
November 3rd, 2008 @ 1:41 pm
[...] I learned a little something (Moody Meow) “Entering Wordcamp I was almost overwhelmed by the sheer number of people. They announced that they would let more people in, and I’m glad. I almost registered too late, intending on going, but trying to convince myself not to go because I wouldn’t know a soul there.” [...]