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Earlier this month, I put through a special announcement to our newsletter subscribers about my upcoming webinar on BuddyPress on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CDT. It’s a FREE webinar designed to introduce you to the fabulous suite of plugins available, called BuddyPress, to WordPress users that will turn your web site into a fully functional social community (ala’ Facebook).

This is re-posted from my personal blog. This month has been just a crazy month of travel for me. One of the really nice results of publishing several books over the past 3 years is that I do get asked to speak a lot at different types of industry events from WordCamps to social media and internet marketing events. I really love to do it, as I really enjoy connecting with people…

Social Media, WordPress and BuddyPress – all in ONE big day in Vancouver!

It has been a LONG LONG time since I have been to Vancouver. I visited once and climbed all the way to the top of Grouse Mountain and had a blast! When the organizers of the F5Expo event contacted me to see if I had any interest in speaking and participating in their conference, I jumped at the…

This is my 5th trip down to Austin Texas for the annual South By Southwest Interactive Festival. I always have a fantastic time during my visits to SXSW – – I get the chance to rub noses with some favorite geeks across the internet, from all points on the globe and do a little promotion of my various books and projects that I have going on at the time.

I am leaving…

I am proud to announce that I am, once again, co-organizing WordCamp Chicago, along with Brian Gardner of StudioPress. Together, last year, Brian and I hosted 200 WordPress fans in downtown Chicago and enjoyed a fabulous weekend of sharing, networking, food and fun! This year, we are anticipating to more than double that number and are expecting 500+ WordPress fans to invade Chicago the weekend of June 5&6!

I am happy to announce that I am speaking at the Think Tank Live Search Marketing and Social Media Summit scheduled for February 23, 2010 in Milwaukee, WI. I will be presenting on the topic of building a niche community web site utilizing the free and dynamic software combination of WordPress and BuddyPress and how business, and individuals, can leverage the features and components to build a fully functional social community on…