I feel like that guy on the Memorex commercial.
You know, this guy:
I suspect that a lot of you might be feeling a bit like that too, with all the WordCamp Portland 2010 info flying at you in the past week. Speakers, schedules, tickets, times, dates, whaaa? I thought I’d just break it [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Ask WordPress Questions to Matt Mullenweg at WordCamp Portland
Posted By Aaron on August 31st, 2009
We have a great addition to our lineup of presenters at WordCamp Portand; WordPress founding developer Matt Mullenweg will be here to lead a “Town Hall” style Q&A discussion about all things WordPress.
I’m sure the topics will go in a variety of directions once the ideas start flowing, but we’d love to have a few starter questions to kick things off. If you’ve got a question you’ve been dying to ask the man behind WordPress, leave it as a comment here. We’ll pick out a few to start the discussion (and anything that doesn’t get chosen is fair game to be asked from the audience).
Door Prizes and WP Ecommerce at WordCamp
Posted By Aaron on August 14th, 2009
In additional to our awesome speakers and wonderful sponsors, we’ll have some great door prizes to give away at WordCamp Portland.
- Everyone’s favorite pie cart Whiffies is donating a card for ten free pies.
- We’ll be giving away three licenses for MarsEdit, courtesy of the fine folks at Red Sweater.
- Because Portland loves bacon, the bacn.com crew has donated a $50 gift certificate
We’ll also have a special guest… Shayne from S-Tastic Designs will be on hand representing Instinct, the makers of WP Ecommerce, doing Q&A and handing out free modules for WP Ecommerce.
Thanks to our door prize donors and it’ll be great to have a WP Ecommerce expert at WordCamp. If you’d like to donate a door prize, contact Aaron.
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Tickets are now Sold Out; There’s a Waiting List
Posted By Aaron on August 12th, 2009
Wow. With significantly more capacity than last year’s venue, we managed to sell all available tickets for WordCamp in a week and a half.
We do have a waiting list – head over to the waiting list site and sign up. If space becomes available, we’ll notify folks in the order that they register for the waiting list.
Another option is to assist with sponsorship (sponsors receive a ticket or a few depending on amount sponsored). See the Sponsor section of our FAQ page for more information.
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Lorelle VanFossen and the SEO Smackdown!
Posted By Aaron on August 11th, 2009
We only have a few seats left for WordCamp Portland… if you were thinking of waiting until the last minute, that time would be now. Go sign up. Then continue reading this post to see what else we’ll have for you.
Some other WordCamps have a talk on SEO, but that wouldn’t be good enough for Portland…. no, we have the SEO Smackdown panel!
We’ll have a couple SEO professionals who think that SEO is very important for every blogger (Scott Hendison and Amber Case), along with a couple bloggers who think that SEO is overrated (Dawn Foster and Rick Turoczy). Moderator Nate DiNiro will ask some pointed questions to our panel along with fielding responses from the audience.
Speaking of interesting speakers… WordPress guru Lorelle VanFossen will join us and present Tags and Categories: Are You Uncategorized? – a look at how tags and categories can be used to both aid blog readers and also drive and maintain traffic on your blog.
WordCamp Portland 2009 Registration is Now Open
Posted By Aaron on August 5th, 2009
I’m excited to announce that registration for WordCamp Portland 2009 is now open. Head over to the WordCamp Portland registration site and get your tickets. We have a capacity for around 200 attendees this year. If last year’s event and this year’s interest pan out as I expect, it wouldn’t surprise me that we sell out before the event.
All of the key ticket information is on the registration site, but here are the important details:
- The event is September 19th-20th from around 9am ’til 5pm on both days.
- Tickets are $20 per person which includes access to the event, lunch on both days, snacks/refreshments, a T-shirt, some swag, and the ability to meet a couple hundred really great people including some really great speakers
More information can be found on our FAQ page. I hope to see you at WordCamp in September!
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