Hello WordPress friends and blogging neighbors! I (Morgan Senkal) am thrilled to take over the fabulous work that Aaron Hockley has done with WordCamp here in Portland. My two goals for this event are:
Make WordCamp Portland 2010 as fabulous as last year
Make it even better, if that is even possible!
I decided that the very first [...]
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).
In additional to our awesome speakers and wonderful sponsors, we’ll have some great door prizes to give away at WordCamp Portland.
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.
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.
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.
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:
More information can be found on our FAQ page. I hope to see you at WordCamp in September!
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