Speaking Topics

Here are a list of topics that I am currently speaking on (see SpeakingSchedule for upcoming appearances). As any wiki page, it is in a state of continuous improvement, and as such, more details are added over time.

microformats

I am doing talks (45-90 min), half day workshops, and full day workshops on microformats.

half day workshop

Most recently conducted at FOWA Miami 2008.

full day workshop

Most recently conducted at Fundamentos Web 2007 in Spain, and before that, d.Construct 2007 in Brighton, England, jointly with Jeremy Keith.

Here is a brief description:

This workshop will cover just about everything to do with microformats. That’s the beauty of such a simple technology: it only takes a single day to become an expert. This won’t be a passive presentation: you will learn not just the theory of microformats; you’ll also get down and dirty with some hands-on markup.

What are microformats? Get a good grounding in the kind of problems microformats are designed to solve... and find out where the limits of microformats are (by design).

Laying the foundations for microformats: it’s important to understand the value of meaningful markup before implementing microformats. This will get you thinking about how you should be marking up your content using plain ol’ semantic HTML before adding any microformat magic.

Incremental building blocks: from simple elemental microformats that consist of nothing more than adding an attribute, right up to compound microformats that can be mashed up together, you’ll meet them all.

Smell the microformats. Just as you can develop a nose for wine tasting, you can also develop a sense for spotting which content is just crying out to be microformatted. Once you’ve learned to see these patterns, you’ll never surf the web the same way again.

Add microformats to your sites. Using a combination of exercises, this workshop will teach you to how to spice up your content with semantic goodness. If you’re up to the challenge, you’ll have added microformats to your site by the end of the day.

Social Network Portability

I've conducted several sessions on Social Network Portability at various conferences such as Graphing Social Patterns 2007, BarCamps such as BarCampBlock2007, and FooCamps as well such as sgfoocamp.

Semantic HTML and XHTML (POSH)

I have done talks on Plain Old Semantic HTML (POSH) at conferences such as Web Essentials in Sydney, Australia, and SXSW in Austin, Texas, and may do more.

Body Optimization

I am doing talks, sessions, panels on BodyOptimization. Most recently: SXSW2008BodyOptimization.

See also

• SpeakingSchedule
• TantekBio

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