Ongoing:
- Open Parenthesis (May 2006 – present)
- CMS Myth (May 2011 – present)
Former blogs:
- Optaros (June 2007 – April 2011)
There’s some overlap between the Optaros blog and Open Parenthesis.
2012:
- 05/09/12 – CMS Mythbusting – Web Experience Management, CMS Expo, Evanston, IL.
- 01/21/12 – Case Study: Harvard Institute of Politics Forum Microsite, Western Mass Drupal Camp, Amherst, MA.
- January 2011 – Technical Reviewer, WordPress 3.0 for Business Bloggers
2011:
- December 2011 – Technical Reviewer, Packt Publishing: WordPress 3.0 Cookbook
- 12/1/11 – How Much Content Would a Content System Manage if a Content Management System Could Manage Content? (aka the Woodchuck talk). Gilbane Boston 2011, Boston, MA.
- 09/18/11 – Open Source Video using Kaltura and Drupal, DrupalCamp Montreal 2011, Montreal, Quebec.
- 07/24/11 – Don’t be a Tool: Content Management Strategy, WordCamp Boston 2011, Boston, MA
- 2/17/11 – “Making Private Event Retail Work For You” – Interview with John Mulliken, VP of Strategic Initiatives for CSN Stores, eTail West, Palm Desert CA. (Invitation-only Executive Luncheon).
- 2/9/11 – “With Friends Like These, Who Needs Revenue? Leveraging Social Networks” Magento Imagine eCommerce Conference, Los Angeles, CA
2010:
- Invited technical reviewer, Packt Publishing book: WordPress 3 Ultimate Security (published June 2011)
- 12/21/10 – Social Commerce and Group Buying Roundtables, PluggedIn Ventures eCommerce Summit, New York, NY
- 12/2/10 – Social Publishing in the Enterprise (Panel), Gilbane Boston, Boston, MA
- 2/25/10 – The Great CMS Debate, North Shore Web Geeks, Newburyport MA. (Panel discussion on Drupal, WordPress, Expression Engine, and Kentico, featuring Marc Amos, Jay Batson, Tom Herer, and John Eckman
- 1/23/10 – Founding Organizer, WordCamp Boston, Cambridge MA
2009:
- 11/14/09 – “You Got Your WordPress in My Facebook!,” WordCamp NYC 2009, New York, NY
- 9/23/09 – “The Assembled Web: Web Content, Community, and Commerce Management,” Executive Board of Visitors, Frank G. Zarb School of Business, Hofstra University, Long Island, NY
- 8/27/09 – Invited Speaker, “The Assembled Web,” Experian Forward, Experian, Irvine CA
2008:
- 12/2/08 Panel Moderator, “Open Source Content Management,” Gilbane Boston 2008. (Ellie Auvrey of Jahia, Nate Aune representing Plone, Michael Wechner of Wyona)
- 10/14/08 – “We’ve Only Just Begun: The Business Impact of Web 2.0” – Web 2.0 Kongress, Hamburg Germany
- 06/18/08 – “Tag, Upload, Share, Discuss: Content Management in the Age of Participation” – Web Content 2008, Chicago, IL
- 06/12/08 – Panel Moderator, “Open Source Platforms for Enterprise 2.0” – Enterprise 2.0 Conference, Boston MA. Panelists: Bob Bickel of Ringside Networks, John Newton of Alfresco, Jeff Whatcott of Acquia
- 5/20/08 – “Stump the Consultants” participant, “Facebook in the Enterprise” panelist – Enterprise3: Portals, Collaboration, Web. San Diego, CA
- 5/18/08 – “ReTweeter: Programming to the Twitter API” – BarCamp Boston, Boston MA
- 5/17/08 – “WPBook: From WordPress To Facebook (and Back)” – BarCamp Boston, Boston MA
2007:
- 12/4/07 – “Enterprise 2.0 – how to unleash the power of web 2.0 for Intranet and Extranet platforms” – Optaros Webinar
- 10/30/07 – “Rich Internet Applications: The What, Why, When, and How” – Optaros Webinar
- 9/24/07 – “Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Return of the Browser Wars” – Ajax World West, San Jose CA
- 5/07 – “Ajax Done Right, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the DOM” – AjaxWorld Magazine, Volume 2 Issue 3
- 5/18/07 – “Assemble Enterprise 2.0 on Open Source” – Optaros White Paper
- 3/27-28/07 – “Next Generation Internet Applications” – Optaros Executive Events, Zurich and Geneva, Switzerland
- 3/20/07 – “Not Just Another Pretty Face: Building the Business Case for Ajax Applications” – Ajax World East, New York NY
- 1/07 – “What’s in it for me? Building the Business Case for Ajax ” – AjaxWorld Magazine, Volume 1 Issue 2
2006:
- 12/06 – “From ‘View-Source’ to ‘Open Source’: Ajax and the Maturation of Web Development” – AjaxWorld Magazine, Premiere Issue
- 9/26/06 – “Ask the Experts Your Questions About Open Source Content Management” – Webinar sponsored by Optaros
- 9/18/06 – “Web 2.0 and Content Management Strategy” – Malcontents Episode 1. Inaugural episode of a podcast for Content Management Professionals
- 9/13/06: “Exploring the Influence of Open Source on the Software Development Industry.” Software Development Best Practices Expo. Invited participant in a roundtable on how Open Source licensing and distributed development methodologies are changing the industry.