UKWORDCAMP 08 BIRMINGHAM

THANK YOU VERY MUCH EVERYONE THAT  I SPOKE TO AND LISTEN TO OVER SATURDAY  19TH AT THE STUDIO BIRMINGHAM.

wordcampuk thank you to everyone who put this together

 

THANK YOU VERY MUCH EVERYONE THAT  I SPOKE TO AND LISTEN TO OVER SATURDAY  19TH AT THE STUDIO BIRMINGHAM.

I enjoyed meeting people at the table,around a coffee ,in a corridor or at the PUB . You gave me a lot to think about and to listen to and learn from so THANK YOU VERY MUCH & here’s to pressing on!

Birmingham’s got balls !!

 

see for yourself from the picture above .!!

wordcampuk review  From a day in Birmingham is a little further down the page .anyone tell me how to get a chosen few post to stick up at the top of home page ? help would be gratefully received Thanks

wordcampuk a review

Can’t do it justice  in one post so I’ll hack together a few  as i have a spare moment .

workcampuk wh0t a greenhand learned about SEO , beer & bots

Beign as I am  a new kid on the blog and unawre of any conspiracy theory in regards to the dark arts ,or not in cyberspace  I was totally absorbed by the revelations immparted by  our second speaker on SEO . we learned  with great clarity from  a well resourced presentaion that Google really do rule the world and not only is content king to  the traffic seeking & generating bots (theres no bots on me  judging by the total abstaince  of traffic on this blog !! )but  relevant and good content  is at the top of the pile particularly if its fresh and steamy  and not second hand or stored on someone elses shelves  .Then we came to the bots If you were thinking of ,well just dont even   try beating the bots by repition repitition repition did I say ” repition “? because the’re not havign it and say alwavs vin . This is all very reasurring  especially if you have shares in google. The  information that :-it not worth using …… on your bog because its useless was imparted    .. I wont say what   . . .  is becasue the presentation on journalism and blogging  delivered post luncheon told us you migt get sued for liable or defamation of product  and  unless you have a heavy weight team of lawyers like they (who pay the bots ) do you might find yourself in the . . . . so just accept the fact that  everyting in the whole www will soon be pointed by google ,in one way or another to the Betfair  site   and why not since they so generously sponserd the event from ther megre revenuse .

if you have a problem with that thers a bot waiting for you outside !!

All this is very re-assuring and enlightening  as any organisation tha has taken that well know word google and turned it into there owm logo and brand name must be quite clever .

Incidently if you where alert enough to notice what color the second letter ( or was it the second  o) was in the google logo on at 8:43 pm the Wednesday before the  workcampuk  pub quizz  then you could have notched up another point at the pub quiz . The quixmaster and his lovely assistant was well worth the trip to Birmingham alone. but it was deffinitely the case that the real ale bots had not be sent out prior to booking the pub for the aftercamp bonfire and said  quiz . A feature i hope will be remeded if there is a similar do after any 2009 workcampuk  .find bots that are assigned to search for the word “real ale” and ask them to give you an inside algrhythm on the matter .

Can WordPress and blogging in general change the world ?

That was one of the questions that was listed but not answered during the day on Saturday 19th at the ukwordcamp 

[If it was answered on the Sunday I missed it as I was not able to be there. ]

In my view what ever  people do its changes the world at some level so perhaps the question was ment really on the lines of  Can WordPress and blogging in general change the world for the better .

maybe many bloggers hope so and are convinced that they can do something  with their blog that will make the world better ,even if only for themselves .

But if we have bigger change in mind then bigger change needs bigger effort and bigger effort  means for those people with  limited ( little) resources  uniting those little people size  efforts together to make a bigger wack 

In the “Dummies Guide to Success” there is a lovely story about an early settler in America who built a barn with costly effort  only to discover that in winter it was prone to flooding . the next summer  he fashioned  handles ,one for every able person in the community and fixed them to the barn .

in the autumn he had a barn raising with a difference . His barn was picked up and  carried to higher ground !!    .A barn is impossible for one man to rescue but . . .do able with a whole community of people uniting their effort towards a common shared and valued objective.

a little more on changing things for the better tomorrow perhaps

wordcampuk venue

What they told me It was managed by Orange   [ the phone people that is ]It is currently run  by the managment team who took over  when Orange decided that they no longer wanted the venue 

I thought it was a good venue  I thought  easily accessed from the station  which was good for me 

what did you think ? well done to the organisers

UKWORDCAMP 08 Pub Quizz

I didnt get to stay around for all the answers .SO WHAT I REALLY WANTED TO KNOW IS 

So just how many miles of canal are in Birmingham ? and

Where in The Area of Birmingham did JR Tolkin originate from or live in ?

if you can let me know that would be  my first  ever comment received , as this is the first ever post i have made in a public blogg!!

 

 up until now I have only kept a wordpress as a privat ejournal    but the Word Presscamp has given me confidence to  publish 

 

and really the quiz was fun but I do think maybe some wordpressfolk do need  to get out more ! 

  no really it was good to hang out with the wordpressfolk  thanks to MIKE and the others who let someone so ignorant  of computers and Birmingham share the table