BarCamp Belfast

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Speakers (36)

Teens & T'Internet — How to understand and deal with Under 18s on the internet, how to market to them etc. (not to be taken seriously!)

— Enda Crowley (@endac)

What's your phone number? — A talk about social networks, social engineering, simplicity, and grassroots action.

— Blaine Cook (@blaine)

The 7 Deadly Sins Of Wordpress — The 7 Deadly Sins Of Wordpress

— Lee Munroe (@leemunroe)

Coffee Brewing 101 - Making coffee at home — Using nothing but regular home coffee equipment and cold hard science, we'll have you making coffee to rival any shop.

— Andrew Gribben (@grib)

MatchMedia — An insight into 'The Digital Visualisation of Competitive Sport' a product currently in development. Philip Wilson (the products inventor) will give a view of the product, the progress being made, the partners already involved and any potential collaboration opportunities.

— Philip Wilson (@internetsense)

Competitive advantage and the web — How what makes companies is changing, and what this means for you!

— Paul McKeever (@paulmckeever)

Adventures in building a web app — Short talk on experiences building a real time Javascript app atop Google AppEngine, and/or focus on application performance and why it's of prime importance.

— David Wilson

Educating Standards — Bootstrapping web design education for the benefits of the creative community by creatively colliding the ivory towers of academia with the messy trenches of industry.

— Christopher Murphy (@fehler)

Helping your startup punch above its weight — Over the past couple of years I have figured out a few ways of helping market my start up business without spending much money enabling us to raise our profile. I'll share some thoughts on how you can do this too

— Niall Harbison (@niallharbison)

Educating Standards — Bootstrapping web design education for the benefits of the creative community by creatively colliding the ivory towers of academia with the messy trenches of industry. (alongside Mr @fehler)

— Nicklas Persson (@takete)

Secret! — Or if you ask nicely I'll tell you I haven't decided yet.

— David Rice (@davidjrice)

TBC — still to decide....

— Chris McClelland (@chrismcclelland)

Monetising your service — Moving from product, price and through to actually getting the money into your bank.

— Caelen King (@revahealth.com)

Life | Business | Arts Coach — TBC - sifting through ideas...

— Tracy Dempsey (@tracydempsey)

No, I Can't Build a Website for ?500 — How to put yourself in the customer's shoes, understand what they need, present your ideas, price your work fairly and effectively - and win bigger web projects. A talk for any developer, designer, project manager, entrepreneur who'd like to move from many small unprofitable projects to fewer larger profitable ones

— Paul May (@paulmmay)

Great customer support — "From a year on the front line."

— Paul Campbell (@paulca)

Web Analytics — I'll be explaining how to use web analytics to measure meaningful shit, like the cash generated by visitors, as opposed to, say, most popular posts. If you're making money online, and you're using G.A. to count pageviews only , this one is for you.

— Des Traynor (@destraynor)

The 5C's of Digital & Social Media Marketing — I would like to talk about how successful marketing strategies in the real & virtual interconnected worlds requires you to consider each of the following 5C's - Consumer, Concept, Content, Connections & Conversations.

— conor lynch (@con_nector)

There's no such thing as a social network! — An investigation into why and how people form organised groups and bodies.

— Anton Mannering (@antonmannering)

HTML5 — HTML5 overview.

— Stephen (@hitman2victor)

Money for new rope: a changing face for public service media — Pubic service media does not equal noble, dry and drab. Channel 4's Innovation for the Public has started developing networked web, mobile and gaming services, apps and apis (and a little content), but wants more. Especially from Northern Ireland. I'll share what I, at least, think could shape net-based media this year, and show you how to get some dosh to make it with us.

— Ewan McIntosh (@ewanmcintosh)

Accessibility 2.0 — TBC

— Philip Strain (@pstr)

Get your own API — Why do you, as a company need an API? I mean... can I haz money from it?

— David Coallier (@davidcoallier)

Frontend Caching — Cache and optimize the frontend of your website to improve responsiveness (and thus user satisfaction) reduce bandwidth (operational cost) with couple of easy tricks that can be applied to most websites

— Helgi Thrmar Thorbjoernsson (@h)

Animation — TBC

— Christopher Lennon

The semi-permeable newsroom — John Campbell (BBC News Online) and I (BBC Newsline) will lead a session on how local newsrooms and journalists can best harness whatever wisdom may exist in the crowd and use it to improve our news output and make it more responsive to our users.

— Dee Harvey (@deeharvey)

The semi-permeable newsroom —
Deirdre Harvey (BBC Newsline) and I (BBC News NI) will lead a session on how local newsrooms (in particular our newsroom, but other journos and producers more than welcome to input) can best harness whatever wisdom may exist in the crowd and use it to make our news output more responsive to our users.

— John Campbell

OneAPI — Bringing Telecoms to the internet. How to use web services for SMS, location and more.

— Kilian Woods (@kilianw)

360 Degree Video Production — A few case studies of video projects spanning TV, Web and Mobile and the challenges for producers.

— Mairin Murray (@mairinmurray)

Making Web Apps with Flex — Some stuff about creating web apps in Adobe Flex. I'd also like to see if we can maybe start a Flash Platform user group here.

— Gerard McBreen

TBC — Still to get topics ready

— Darren Doyle (@darrendoyle)

Making photos look good-For the rest of us. — How simple steps in thinking about your shot, selecting the right camera, making the right edits in post production as well as organizing your photos effectively can not only make your photos look better and professional; it also saves time, increases productivity and in some cases can be profitable

— Paul Mcenhill (@adobeaddict)

The First Million — 10 steps to a million. Developing upon an idea.

— chris (@maxer08)

What does ones need in terms of support to grow your business? — what does ones need in terms of support to grow your business:

mentoring/coaching subjects - one-on-one

skills - technical, business

finance - grants/low-no interest loans

— Tim Kelley (@aceunconference)

OpenStreetMap: Mapping your world — OpenStreetMap emerged from the desire to produce a "Wikipedia of map data". Since then, more than 100,000 mappers have been surveying the world around them to produce a truly free (speech and beer) map usable for basically any purpose. Come and see how and why...

— Dermot McNally

The fundamental principals of success — Basic principals common amongst very successful people

— Eoghan McCabe (@eoghanmccabe)