{"id":1624,"date":"2011-10-27T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T23:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2011.goldcoast.wordcamp.org\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2011-11-01T14:09:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T04:09:31","slug":"speaker-timothy-ferguson-running-an-online-bookclub-with-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldcoast.wordcamp.org\/2011\/speaker-timothy-ferguson-running-an-online-bookclub-with-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker: Timothy Ferguson, Running an Online Bookclub with WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Timothy Ferguson\" src=\"http:\/\/0.gravatar.com\/avatar\/85d7aa7eae3899904b48715e70c8dbda?s=220&amp;d=retro&amp;r=PG\" alt=\"Timothy Ferguson\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Timothy Ferguson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The wonderful thing about WordPress is that there are an infinite number of ways that the software can be used on the internet. WordCamp Gold Coast 2011 already has a number of amazing uses of the software ranging from: <a href=\"https:\/\/2011.goldcoast.wordcamp.org\/news\/10\/20\/speaker-kate-swaffer-my-unseen-disappearing-world-using-wordpress-to-capture-memories\/\">capturing memories<\/a>\u00a0right through to <a href=\"https:\/\/2011.goldcoast.wordcamp.org\/news\/09\/27\/speaker-troy-dean-running-a-small-business-as-a-wordpress-developer\/\">running a business based around WordPress<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>One usage of WordPress that I&#8217;d never considered before is using WordPress to manage and online bookclub!\u00a0Timothy Ferguson is\u00a0one of the maintainers of the Gold Coast Library WordPress site <a href=\"http:\/\/gcbooks.wordpress.com\/\">gcbooks.wordpress.com<\/a>. The Gold Coast Library setup their online book club as their staff training platform for Web 2.0 and are using WordPress as part of their new Online Branch strategy in 2012! Timothy and his team have also trained people on how to set up blogs and post on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>Timothy has been an IT trainer with various library systems for fifteen years. In his session he&#8217;ll share experiences about building communities of readers online. Timothy even\u00a0uses WordPress for his own freelance writing, (19 non-vanity published books so far) at <a href=\"http:\/\/timothyferguson.wordpress.com\/\">timothyferguson.wordpress.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wonderful thing about WordPress is that there are an infinite number of ways that the software can be used on the internet. WordCamp Gold Coast 2011 already has a number of amazing uses of the software ranging from: capturing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldcoast.wordcamp.org\/2011\/speaker-timothy-ferguson-running-an-online-bookclub-with-wordpress\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaker: Timothy Ferguson, Running an Online Bookclub with WordPress<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6187410,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,29],"tags":[12396,12397,12416],"class_list":["post-1624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-speakers","tag-bookclub","tag-gold-coast-city-council-library-service","tag-timothy-ferguson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1wRKr-qc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldcoast.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldcoast.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldcoast.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldcoast.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6187410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldcoast.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/goldcoast.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"https:\/\/goldcoast.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldcoast.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldcoast.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldcoast.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}