What a busy weekend. Tomorrow marks the start of WordCamp Columbus. As I’ve found out this week, it’s not going to be as easy as I thought it would be to provide great coverage of the event because it’s multi-tracked. There are so many speakers presenting at the conference that for most of the day, there will be simultaneous presentations taking place and I can’t be everywhere at once. This also puts a kink into providing a live video stream of the event. It wouldn’t be a problem if I could sit in one spot all day but because I’ll be moving from room to room, setting up the equipment and then taking it down all day long doesn’t sound too appealing to me. Also, I’m not sure what the internet connection speed is at the event so I’m unsure as to whether streaming video would suck up all the bandwidth or not. I may give the video stream a try just to see what happens but I’m not making any promises.
Ok, so now to figure out where to get coverage of the event.
Tavern Forum – I’ve been giving this some thought on how I would cover the event and I figured the best option for me is to use a special thread on the WordPress Tavern Forum. This way, the posts are archived and it would allow other attendees to publish what they are learning in whichever tracks they are participating in. I know that Will Anderson and Kim Parsell will be there so feel free to chime in on this forum thread throughout the day.
Twitter – Be sure to follow this hashtag #wccbus tonight and Saturday as it’s the official hashtag for the event. Isn’t it good to know things like this ahead of time?
Live Blogging – The organizers of the event have created a special Prologue 2 site where attendees can be granted access to publish to the group blog. Note, you must have a WordPress.com account in order to apply.
After The Event – I will have my Kodak Easy Share camera with me so you can bet I’ll be taking video snippets as well as quite a few photos. I’ll be uploading the video clips to YouTube and the photos to Flickr with each item containing the following tag – wccbus. If you upload content after the event, I encourage you to use the same tag.
By the way, I ran out to Staples yesterday and purchased 200 business cards. I’ll be taking a stack with me to give away. It’s the first time I’ve ever had business cards to give away. Check out the design and let me know what you think.
Am I the first one to have a TinyURL on his business card?
WPBeginner has a great tutorial on how to add the Twitter Anywhere service into your WordPress powered site. Twitter anywhere is a service provided by Twitter that enables webmasters to add twitter to a website with just a few lines of Javascript. Not just an embeddable box, but a box that enables tweeting by visitors, a follow button that works, and a slew of other features. I’m not sure if I want to add something like this to the WPTavern website but I suppose if enough people talk me into it, I could give it a try. 
