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Join us (and Lorelle) at WordCamp Israel blogging conference

WordCamp Israel

It’s now official – Lorelle Van Fossen (yes, THE Lorelle) is going to be the keynote speaker at the upcoming WordCamp Israel blogging conference!

When: Oct. 25, 9am to 4pm
Where: Michlelet Afeka – Bney Efraim, Tel Aviv Tel: 1-800-37-37-10
Cost: Free! But you must register to reserve your place.

Among the topics to be covered at the conference is blogging and business (I’m on that panel :) ), how to create an effective web presence with WordPress, and practical tips on installing WordPress and using Plugins.

The conference now has an official web site, but if Hebrew ain’t your cup o’ tea, you can get most of the information on the English blog (written by…me!). You can also download banners in English and Hebrew to put on your blogs and sites, like the image at the top of this post, over here.

The Israel Internet Association (ISOC-IL) and Michlelet Afeka are the main sponsors behind the event, and have contributed the venue and Lorelle’s plane ticket.

What’s amazing about this event is that it’s been organized by some run-of-the-mill bloggers who thought it would be a good idea. Most of all, Tal Galili, a Masters student in Tel Aviv’s Mathematics Dept., has invested a huge amount of time organizing this whole thing, and WordCamp Israel exists basically because of him.

I’m really excited! I think that some of the lectures will be better than others, but most of all this is a great opportunity to meet the people behind the Israeli blogging and Internet scene, which is full of dynamic, innovative and creative individuals and companies.

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Miriam Schwab on October 2, 2007 • Category Blogging,Israel • Tags: , , , Comments (3)

3 Responses to “Join us (and Lorelle) at WordCamp Israel blogging conference”

  • Comment by Jennifer on Oct 14 2007 at 5:01 pm

    Love the crisp, clean new look of the site. Just wanted to let you know that there’s something odd going on with the character encoding set. I’m using FF2.0.0.7 and the autodetect marks the site as UTF-8. If this is correct, the apostrophes are coming out as “’” which I see as an “a” with an accent above, the Euro sign and the “tm” sign.

    Again, looking forward to meeting you on the 25th!

  • Comment by Miriam Schwab on Oct 14 2007 at 7:32 pm

    Thanks Jennifer! I had had enough of the old site, and we needed an update.

    This weird thing with the apostrophes happened on my other blogs when I updated to 2.x. Embarrassingly, this blog was running on 2.0.5, and for some reason an upgrade from that version causes these weird apostrophes.

    Glad you’re coming to WordCamp! Please make sure to come over and say hi!

  • Comment by Miriam Schwab on Oct 16 2007 at 9:36 am

    Jennifer – I think I fixed the weird symbol problem. I removed the UTF-8 encoding in wp-config, and voila!

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