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PDXTech4Good – Change Management / Engagement & Social Media

Written by Todd Pitt on Tuesday, August 31st 2010 - 09:34 PM

Zero Strategist was delighted to have the opportunity to speak about change management / engagement and social media last week at the August PDXTech4Good / Portland NetSquared Net Tuesday Meetup at the Lucky Lab.

Zero Strategist PDXTech4Good Presentation – Mindmap

Zero Strategist Change Management / Engagement and Social Media Presentation

Download the Mindmap (Zipped .MM Format) [11KB]

Don’t have Freemind mindmapping software? No worries! Freemind is JAVA based free open source mind mapping software that is OS agnostic (works on Mac Linux and Windows) and can be downloaded here.

The PDXTech4Good Community

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The PDXTech4Good Community networking and socializing, while ZS sets up to present.

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Thank You All PDXTech4Good Attendees!

We were really happy with how the presentation went, covered a mountain of material in 28 minutes, finishing 2 mins early and there were lots of great questions from everyone! Of course a half an hour is only long enough to scratch the surface on the topic of change engagement.  Just wanted to reiterate here how thankful we were for each and every attendee who came out to listen, participate and share. The zero was elated so many people showed up to hear our thoughts on the evolution at intersection of change management and social media. Time is such a valuable resource for everyone in this era of always on, constant digital connectedness. We really appreciate giving us your time and attention on a night with so many PDX events happening.

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Event at Lucky Lab, 915 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR 97214 @ 5:30 PM

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13,409,950 Reasons Why WordPress

Written by Todd Pitt on Saturday, August 28th 2010 - 10:56 PM

Why Use WordPress? The WP Infographic Makes “The Why” Clear

Many people have asked and wondered why so many other’s use WordPress? Everyone asks for case studies etc. Here is the best visual summary / info-graphic that explains exactly why WordPress is awesome and why you should consider it as a strong option when building your web presence.

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Info-graphic Source on Flickr or view the Page.ly Post

Let’s break the case for WordPress CMS down into ten core points and be concise -

Zero Strategist’s Top 10 Reasons Why WordPress

  1. WordPress is Community Driven, Free Open Source Social Software with both hosted and self-hosted versions.
  2. WP Powers 8.5% of Websites on the Internet (Stop for a moment and really think about this)
  3. Thousands of Free and Premium advanced + supported WordPress Themes/Templates exist
  4. WordPress MU (Multi-User) became part of WordPress 3.0, plus there is BuddyPress (WordPress as a Social Network)
  5. There are 10,935 WordPress Plugins and a growing number of Premium plugins
  6. WordPress has: Akisment Anti-Spam & Intense Debate Advanced Commenting Systems
  7. There were 13,409,950 Downloads of WP 3.0 as of August 2010
  8. WordCamps (Community Organized Events) happen all over the world every year
  9. WordPress listens to the users and developers ideas about how to improve the social software and community
  10. WP just works and empowers non-technical people to rapidly publish content (text, videos, photos) to the internet
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Updated: September 1st, 2010

This Is OSCON – Open Source Convention 2010

Written by Todd Pitt on Saturday, August 7th 2010 - 04:24 PM

[This Is OSCON]

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OSCON 2010 – the Open Source Convention was held from July 19th-23rd at the Oregon Convention Center in downtown PDX. As a convention that claims to be all open source and stuff we were honestly not quite sure what to expect from this one (we prefer quality over quantity). For claiming to being “open source” the convention it was very very expensive compared to other PDX / Portland centric open source events like OS Bridge and a few others.

ZS @ OSCON | Nice Angle Ryan!

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VO @ OSCON | Paypal Pillows?

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It was worth making a day of it and showing up to be present in the open source community and check out new open source software solutions, causes, groups and organizations. Also, it was a huge convergence of insanely smart and extremely motivated geeks working on some pretty cool code and integration projects.

Bikes Outside OSCON | How Open Source Rolls!

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ZS got to demo some new software we had not seen yet and talk with several local user group organizers that we had been wanting to connect with for awhile all in one place, at one time. That made it worth the day trip. Even though we had to endure some very very very bad marketers and marketing tactics employed there (need we mention the toilet paper or the Facebook booth) were utter #FAILS.

Welcome To Portland – Now Get On Your Bike!

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Got to take the rough with the smooth sometimes, besides I needed more OSS stickers for my laptop! :)

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Updated: August 31st, 2010
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