Yesterday was Wordcamp Israel 2008 and I was asked to be the photographer for this event, so i was, gladly. Many others already wrote about this event, plus, my original post was lost somehow, so this is actually my second post I write about WordPressIsrael2008, the tag for this event in search engines.

So, because so many people already wrote about this, I just wanna share with you that I uploaded 144 photos to my Facebook Albums and that they are available to the public even though my profile is limited to friends only. I have also uploaded something like 30 somthing photos to Flickr.

The fun part in Facebook is that people tag other people, and even people who are not my friends can view and tag photos. It was so much fun getting more than 60 notifications from facebook about tagging, comments, friend requests, wall posts, all that… It made me feel like Facebook is a bit more open, but honestly, it isn't, yet. But in time… you'll see, they'll change.

Wordcamp and my choice to put the photos deliberately in Facebook (and only later on Flickr) thought me another lesson in the power of social networks in the world, not only that, I think every business today, every business, should think how to elevete itself using social networks and establishing a full time social presence on the web. More about that in the future, or you can contact me directly.

links about Wordcamp:
Gili Taguri- Happy Birthday (Hebrew)
Ira Abramov- live blogging from Wordcamp 2008 (Hebrew)
Oren Todoros aka SEOVice with a cool video from Wordcamp and some use of my photos (English)
Raanan Bar-Cohen- with his presentation about WordPress (English)
WordPress Garage- about the WordPress Camp (English)
Compucall- a presentation about SEO in WordPress (English)
Ring of Blogs- about the Gravatar enabled badges (passport photos in the nametags)

Please visit my photos on Facebook: all Wordcamp photos are licensed creative commons
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My laptop died so I couldnt uplad new materials to the blog since Wordcamp was finished. But now, thanks to…whatever… I bring you one of the video logs I made during the convention, and it's in English. Well, actually it's bilingual… you'll get the nothion.
Have fun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhjeOwjbjAk

These, in points, are the things that influenced me the most:

1- Kfir Pravda explaining in detail about how to organize Facebok, LinkedIn and the blog to your advantage as tools you work with, making me understand there are some more things I can learn on social media influence.

2- Maya Marom introducing the FireBug addon for Firefox making me understand css is B-shit when I want to redesign my blog.

3- Fire Uploader, that as a Firefox addon succeded in the task of uploading photos to my Flickr (though it's GUI isnt ready yet) even though the original Flickr uploader API failed.

4- Microsoft's Windows Live Writer which was also able to work even though we had the bandwidth limitation of a room full of live blogging bloggers, and get the job done for me when the browser failed.

5- Yosi Taguri for saying: "A woman who can write css, I need to shoot photo of her", and making me laugh so much.

6- Gadi Shimshon for explaining to the room that "Paris Hilton is public domain".

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There can be live blogging if there arent any photos to wash your eyes with.
Here are some of my collections from today:

all photos: Niv Calderon, license is CC

More photos can be found on my Flickr ser and on my Facebook

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** Internet here is slow… it's hard to race other users here for the bandwidth… I'm gonna try the Windows Live Writer my friend Yosi Taguri suggested to me long time ago on the Blogference back in July…

** I see many friends and people I Know and love, people from the industry, bloggers, they mingle togather…

** I've tried uploading photos to flickr, only four succesfully. hope i can find a way to live blog better.

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