Author: joanvinallcox

Joan Vinall-Cox, Ph.D. is a lifelong learner, retired communications professor, rabid reader and poet who has taught in both the college and university systems. Her Ph.D., in 2004 was an Autoethnographic Arts-Based Narrative Inquiry focused on moving from technophobia to technophilia. She is a widow from a happy marriage and a mother to a strong and kind daughter. Her interests include Centering Prayer, Multiple Intelligences, Attention Deficit Disorder and its connection to creativity, Jung, Campbell’s Monomyth, and Arts-Based Narrative Inquiry

WordCamp Toronto ’08

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I’ve been using Twitter for live blogging but am moving to my own blog.

Joseph Thornley inviting audience to describe their plugins, sites, etc. People giving their site URLs & Thornley showing them to us.Here’s few –

Plugin – on open id

Matt Mallenweg – State of the Word

WordCamp Toronto 08
WordCamp Toronto '08

Lots of upgrades – open source drives it. (Shouldn’t take more than 2 minutes)

WordPress.org is exploding – 2 million in 07 to 11 million this year

WordPress.com also

Spammers use social engineering >> compliments used to get traction

WordCamps all over the world – local, small but many, local culture in speakers & environments

New Features

iPhone – WordPress – lots of installs