Tag: speaking

  • MCA talk

    MCA talk

    I’m giving a talk at UMBC on Friday, June 10, 2022 at 10:00am entitled Marketing Best Practices for Independent Artists.

  • A Dark and Gorey Night

    Being a part of the great mystery show at AVAM has been one of the great honors and pleasures of my life. It is a thrill to see my art in the same room with Ingo Swann’s paintings, and around the corner from Edward Gorey’s The Gashleycrumb Tinies and Georges Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon. After…

  • Make It and Take It

    Make It and Take It

    I’ll be at AVAM this Friday with a TON of cigar boxes, ready to help bring new Dioramas into the world! Details above! UPDATE! Results, below. I’ll be doing another workshop (or several) in 2017! Stay tuned, and come make some art!

  • Diorama-rama Deux

    Diorama-rama Deux

    And I quote: “Wonder Commons presents Diorama-Rama Deux, a celebration of creative storytelling inside the box. Join us in our second year as we compete for awards and celebrate what can be seen through the miniature. Introductory Diorama demonstration by artist Jim Doran.” So, I set some of my work out and talked with folks…

  • WordPress for Creative Geniuses

    I gave a talk in at WordCamp NYC last August.  I explained things about sharing your creative work online, and whatnot. The whatnot is the best part.

  • FitBloggin 12: Better Blog Design on a Budget

    Saturday, I went back to the Hyatt in the Inner Harbor of Baltimore and spoke on blog design [slides] at FitBloggin – how to find/hire someone if you need help or how to do it yourself. I love seeing how FitBloggin has evolved, and seeing my new old friends from around the country. It was a great…

  • Fitbloggin Ignite: Derby Little Secrets

    I gave an Ignite talk Friday night at Fitbloggin called Derby Little Secrets [slides]. I was surprised at how emotional it was. I think some new derby boys and girls were born that night – I hope so, anyway. I talked about my girls discovered roller derby. We reached out to several local leagues seeking junior…

  • FitBloggin’ 11

    I haven’t posted anything in weeks because I’ve been reworking this site and writing a talk for the FitBloggin’ 2011 conference in Baltimore. I still have a pretty good list of things to clean up here, especially on the WordPress side of the site.  I experimented with Custom Post Types and multisite functionality, and finally…

  • Springbrook Web Conference

    Today, I spoke at Springbrook High School on “Building Your Brand” with some awesome free Web tools. I usually avoid talking about subjects like branding and social media in favor of technical/functional things, but this was for a good cause. My pal Zac Gordon is doing outstanding things in Web education, which I DO care…

  • WordCamp Philly 2010

    WordCamp Philly was great. Super well organized by nice WordPress enthusiasts  who actually return e-mails and are interested in their own event.  I enjoyed seeing Temple University and what they are doing with WordPress. Aside from all the raisins that ended up in my messenger bag, I’d call it a successful day. My previous post…

  • WordCamp Philly

    I’m speaking at WordCamp Philly on October 30, 2010 at Temple University. I’m giving a newbie talk this time – “Twenty Things the New WordPress User Should Know.” I plan to cover the basics of WordPress, including hosting, WordPress.com, new stuff in 3.0, themes, plugins, using WP as a content management system and more. It’ll…

  • Maryland Writers’ Conference

    This has been a really busy week for me. I am  looking into  developing an iPad application for work – exciting stuff. I’ve been prototyping iPad behavior on the web using JavaScript and exploring HTML5. Also, I pulled an all-nighter last night to complete proposals for ArtsScape in July – I have four in so…

  • Notes on FitBloggin’

    I’ve been to a lot of conferences. Some were organized on shoe string budgets, like a WordCamp for Education held in the back room of a community college, and some were expensive, fancy gatherings, like An Event Apart.  When a conference succeeds, it energizes, educates and unites its participants. FitBloggin’ was every bit as as…

  • Fitbloggin’ 2010

    I’ve been looking forward to speaking at FitBloggin’ since last year. This conference is organized by my friend Roni Noone, the hardest working Mom in blogging. It was Roni who actually introduced ME to WordPress a few years ago. I’m excited for her, and proud to be a part of this event. I’m also glad…

  • jQuery at WordCamp Boston 2010

    Man, Boston sure feels cold! My talk went well, considering that: jQuery 1.4 just came out and I had a ton to cover My talk was a 45 minute talk, and I did it in 30 I used a NetBook running Linux to present slides authored in PPT, which seemed a little risky at a…

  • WordCamp NYC jQuery Slides

    This weekend,  @zgordon and I decended on Baruch College in New York City with 740+ other WordPress peeps for two very full days of WordPress. I gave an introductory jQuery talk to a receptive crowd on Saturday afternoon. I covered: A look at the current state of jQuery A look at DOM manipulation and some…

  • Fourth Annual e-Learning Summit

    I just got back from presenting at the Baltimore County Fourth Annual e-Learning Summit. I heard most of Susan Patrick’s keynote address, and was amazed to learn just how far Mexico and China are in developing e-Learning content and platforms. I co-presented a talk with Heather Katz on creating accessible content for e-learning. Heather did…

  • Web Accessibility Conference, 2008

    At long last, the day is here. After almost a full year of planning, the Johns Hopkins Web Accessibility Conference will take place today. I’m delighted to say that I’m giving a talk on the basics of CSS and you can download my materials here. My presentation slides, the examples and sample site are available…