Here are a list of topics that I am currently speaking on (see SpeakingSchedule for upcoming appearances). As any wiki page, it is in a state of continuous improvement, and as such, more details are added over time.
speaking formats
In general most topics I speak on can be presented as talk, a half day workshop, or a full day workshop
talks
Lasting 45-90 minutes, my talks typically require a projector and an internet connection. I always try to leave room for Q&A, but with 45 minutes that's often difficult. Audience size depends on available capacity, though is perhaps limited by the visibility of the projector.
workshops
Workshops can be tailored for a half day or full day. For best results, workshops should not exceed more than about 20 attendees, as I do very much prefer to make sure that I am able to give workshop participants at least some one-on-one time during the exercises.
microformats
I am doing talks (45-90 min), half day workshops, and full day workshops on microformats. I've done many of these, and can tailor according to experience level and technical skill:
- Introduction to microformats
- Better User Experience through Microformats
half day workshop
Description:
In the past year, microformats support has been launched and built into products and services by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Yelp and numerous other companies, as well as nearly every new social network website.
Taught by industry leader Tantek Çelik, the workshop will cover just about everything you need to know to get started with microformats.
In half a day you will learn how to add key well-established microformats to your website to benefit your users, help your website's findability in search engines, and provide a standards based API for web developers.
You will learn not just the theory of microformats; you’ll also get down and dirty with some hands-on markup:
- What are microformats? Get a good grounding in the kind of problems microformats are designed to solve... and find out where the limits of microformats are (by design).
- Foundations for microformats. it’s important to understand the value of meaningful markup before implementing microformats. This will get you thinking about how you should be marking up your content using plain ol’ semantic HTML before adding any microformat enhancements.
- Incremental building blocks. From simple elemental microformats that consist of nothing more than adding an attribute, right up to compound microformats that can be mashed up together, you’ll meet them all.
- Smell the microformats. Just as you can develop a nose for wine tasting, you can also develop a sense for spotting which content is just crying out to be microformatted. Once you’ve learned to see these patterns, you’ll never surf the web the same way again.
- Add microformats to your sites. Using a combination of exercises, this workshop will teach you to how to spice up your content with semantic goodness. If you’re up to the challenge and bring your laptop, by the end of the workshop you’ll have added microformats to your site in HTML4, XHTML, or HTML5.
- Powerful user experience enhancements. Add powerful one-click contact info download and event subscription functionality for your users to easily add your site to their address books and calendars.
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO). With both Google and Yahoo now indexing microformats and using them in search results, it's critical to make sure your site properly marks up contacts, events, and reviews with microformats for search engines to discover, index, and display better results to users.
Workshop covers introductory hands-on coding on hCard, hCalendar, hReview.
full day workshop
- if you are interested in a microformats workshop in your city, please contact me (see ContactCard).
I've conducted full day workshops on microformats in the past at the following
Attendees of a full day workshop provides the necessary time to understand both more features of, and many more of the commonly used microformats, as well as time to explore microformats-in-development of interest, catered specifically to the attendees:
Here is an updated description:
In the past year, microformats support has been launched and built into products and services by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Yelp and numerous other companies, as well as nearly every new social network website.
Taught by industry leader Tantek Çelik, the workshop will cover just about everything to do with microformats.
In this one day intensive, you will learn how to add key well-established microformats to your website to benefit your users, help your website's findability in search engines, and provide a standards based API for web developers.
You will learn not just the theory of microformats; you’ll also get down and dirty with some hands-on markup:
- What are microformats? Get a good grounding in the kind of problems microformats are designed to solve... and find out where the limits of microformats are (by design).
- Foundations for microformats. it’s important to understand the value of meaningful markup before implementing microformats. This will get you thinking about how you should be marking up your content using plain ol’ semantic HTML before adding any microformat enhancements.
- Incremental building blocks. From simple elemental microformats that consist of nothing more than adding an attribute, right up to compound microformats that can be mashed up together, you’ll meet them all.
- Smell the microformats. Just as you can develop a nose for wine tasting, you can also develop a sense for spotting which content is just crying out to be microformatted. Once you’ve learned to see these patterns, you’ll never surf the web the same way again.
- Add microformats to your sites. Using a combination of exercises, this workshop will teach you to how to spice up your content with semantic goodness. If you’re up to the challenge and bring your laptop, by the end of the workshop you’ll have added microformats to your site in HTML4, XHTML, or HTML5.
- Powerful user experience enhancements. Add powerful one-click contact info download and event subscription functionality for your users to easily add your site to their address books and calendars.
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO). With both Google and Yahoo now indexing microformats and using them in search results, it's critical to make sure your site properly marks up contacts, events, and reviews with microformats for search engines to discover, index, and display better results to users.
Workshop covers hands-on coding with elemental (rel) microformats, hCard, hCalendar, hReview, hAtom, hResume, some combinations thereof, as well as one or more microformats-in-development such as hReview-aggregate, hListing, hProduct, hRecipe, hMedia, and licensing.
Social Network Portability
I've conducted several sessions on Social Network Portability at various conferences such as
- Web Fundamentos 2007
- Graphing Social Patterns 2007
- BarCamps such as BarCampBlock2007
- FooCamps as well such as sgfoocamp
- Future of Web Apps Miami 2008 (The Future of Social Networks - focus on portability)
- dConstruct 2008
Semantic HTML and XHTML (POSH)
I have done talks on Plain Old Semantic HTML (POSH) at conferences such as Web Essentials in Sydney, Australia, and SXSW in Austin, Texas, and may do more.
- SXSW 2005 The Elements of Meaningful XHTML
Body Optimization
I am doing talks, sessions, panels on BodyOptimization. Most recently:
Building Blocks for Independents
I have put together a talk about how microformats and other such enabling technologies are part of a larger pattern of the emergence of Building Blocks for Independents
- SXSW 2006 Building Blocks for Independents
productivity
Productivity related: over the past year plus I have been developing quite a bit of material with regards to productivity and Web 2.0 tools (see respective wiki links for more on each).
Each of these has sufficient material to develop into a one hour talk.
see also
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