As many of you know, we love WordCamps. They are a great place to learn new things about WordPress and get a glimpse of what’s happening on the development side. Plus they’re a great venue to meet local bloggers, developers, and WordPress fanatics.

Here’s some details about a few upcoming WordCamps:

WordCamp Boston

January 23
Boston, Massachusetts

WordCamp Indonesia

January 30
Jakarta, Indonesia

WordCamp Greece

January 30
Greece

WordCamp Miami

February 20
Miami, FL

WordCamp Fukuoka

February 27
Fukuoka, Japan

To see more details along with a list of all the upcoming WordCamps, check out the official WordCamp website.

A few months ago, I went and checked out WordCamp Dallas/Fort Worth. It was an amazing time and I managed to meet a ton of bloggers and WordPress fanatics. If you’ve never heard of a WordCamp, I HIGHLY recommend checking one out.

In a nutshell, a WordCamp is a conference devoted to WordPress. You’ll hear from various speakers about plugins, themes, and much more. You might even get a chance to listen to the founder of WordPress talk about what’s happening in the near future. Best of all, they’re really cheap to attend.

Here’s a list of WordCamps that are happening in the next few months:

When it comes to blogging, Tim Ferriss is a perfect example of someone who knows what they’re doing. He uses web analytics and experiments to figure out what works and what doesn’t. He also knows exactly what he wants to get from his blog.

Tim was one of the speakers at the San Francisco WordCamp this year and did an amazing presentation on blogging without killing yourself. He touched base on what he uses his blog for, what he does to get the best results, and also answered some questions from the audience.

We highly recommend watching this video as it contains some great tips on blogging. The length comes in at just over 50 minutes but it’s well worth it to take the time to watch the whole thing.

Although WordPress is known for being a blog platform, it can easily be used for other things. We’ve seen people use it for photo galleries, video sites, podcasts, and full on CMS systems. We wrote a post awhile back about using WordPress as a CMS that talked about some of the various plugins that extend the capabilities of WordPress.

However, from time to time we still get people that are not sure if WordPress is powerful enough to handle their project. Isn’t it for bloggers? That’s a common response when we suggest to small businesses that they should use WordPress to manage their website.

But since WordPress works so well for so many different types of websites, we thought we would share this really useful presentation we found from WordCamp Toronto last year. It has some great information about using WordPress as more than a blog and also has some great examples of sites that are utilizing WordPress. Check it out: