I recently attended Ireland’s first Wordpress Wordcamp in Kilkenny. It was a great weekend, with a large number of geeks in attendance, myself included. I got a great insight to Wordpress, the best way to go about blogging and some cool WP Plug-ins. On the Saturday night, there was a gathering in the hotel for all the bloggers, and it was great craic.
Few Points from the day:
Before your website used to be the centre of online marketing with your blog, facebook & youtube as complimentary components. However now the blog is at the centre & your website, Facebook, Youtube & forums are complimentary.
This is because:
you work on 3 levels of interaction
1) website: gives you an online presence
2) Blog,fcbk & youtube: gives you social media power(create,share,comment)
3) Interaction in forums: gives you the online reputation

Here I am at the Wordpress WordCamp 2010
ECDL Webstarter course starting on the 30th September in st. Colmans Community College Midleton, this is a great opportunity to learn the basics of web design, it is ceritifed by ECDL.
The course will run over 10 weeks, two and half hours per night, there will be a very straight forward 45min exam at end of the course. Please email me at info’at’abeo.ie or click here to find out more about signing up for the course.
About Webstarter:
Developed by the ECDL Foundation, ECDL WEBSTARTER is a new certification designed to give you the basic skills required to design and create a simple web site.It has been specifically developed for anyone who wants to acquire the skills to create a simple web site, without having to commit to the time and expense of a professional-level web design programme.
This makes ECDL WEBSTARTER an ideal certification for second-level students, small businesses, community groups and individuals who need to create personal web sites.
After many weeks of work, the new Abeo Web Solutions website is launched.