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December meeting (Melbourne)

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Date: Thursday 06 December, 2007

Event Details

On December 6th, James Farmer, former online community manager for theage.com.au and organiser of the first ever Melbourne WordCamp, will be talking about blogging tools.

Presentation Title: Whoever Said Blogging Tools Were Just For Blogs?

James Farmer has worked with teams turning blogging platforms into content management systems, social networks, academic journals, and communities for professionals... and Sam and the City.

Social software built around open source platforms like WordPress, extended through plugins and crammed full of widgets and APIs are starting to pop up left right and centre.

In this get together James will take you through some examples, illustrate just how easy they are to put together and talk about how blogs, and other elements of social software do, and don't, fit into the mass media landscape in Australia.

Speakers:

James Farmer is the founder of Edublogs.org, the largest educational blog network on the web, and co-founder of Incsub.com, the first WordPress MultiUser development firm.

In past incarnations he's been the Online Community Editor of The Age and worked as a Lecturer in Education Design at Deakin University.

Meeting Time?

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

6:30pm-7:00pm - Nibbles, drinks and networking
7:00pm-7:45pm - James Farmer: Whoever Said Blogging Tools Were Just For Blogging?
7:45pm-8:00pm - Questions and discussion
8:00pm onwards - Drinks and socialising at the Sherlock Holmes hotel

Where Do We Meet?

A map showing the location of the Sherlock Holmes hotel

Meetings are held at the Victorian government's excellent Centre for Innovation & Technology Commercialisation, in Emirates House (opposite the 101 Collins shopping centre).

Centre for Innovation & Technology Commercialisation
Level 1, 257 Collins Street (Emirates House)
Melbourne VIC 3000

View a map to the venue.

Cost?

There is no cost to attend. No, really! Food and beverages are kindly being made available thanks to SitePoint.

SitePoint is a Melbourne-based company who, when not handing out free food, publish articles and books on best practice web development, with a focus on web standards. Their discussion forums are also home to the web's most active web development community, so I encourage you to check them out at http://www.sitepoint.com if you haven't already.