Mauricia is from Miami (LOCAL GAL! WOOT!) and is a front to back freelance developer plus an entrepreneur at heart. She stumbled into the world of WordPress at the request of one of her first clients who couldn’t figure out how to add a page to their website. Since then it’s been her go to framework for any cms or blog needs.
Stay tuned for our last speaker announcements in March!
Ken Granger has taught more than 10,000 small business owners how to brand their business and leverage the power of the internet to increase sales, brand loyalty and quality of life. Ken has been working with WordPress since 2008 and he and his team have built more than 3,000 WordPress websites.
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If you are on the WordCamp Miami mailing list, you already knew this yesterday. But officially today we announce ticket sales for WordCamp Miami are available. These tickets will sell out (already 25% of the tickets have been sold at the time of this post). Please read carefully the information on the ticket page (there’s information about different kinds of tickets, what we are doing for students, etc.) and choose wisely. Please also note the no refunds policy also on that page.
We are very excited to be offering tickets today for both WordCamp Miami and BuddyCamp. With such a great selection of speakers, talks, and surprises we can’t wait to see you there. Click here to buy your tickets.
We are very excited about hosting the first BuddyCamp in the United States (well, to be fair, it’s only the second one ever – first one was in Canada). Since tickets for BuddyCamp is extremely limited this year, we wanted to give you a quick preview so you can get excited and grab your ticket as soon as possible.
What Is BuddyCamp?
BuddyCamp is a mini-conference before WordCamp Miami. It’s happening on April 5th in downtown Miami. It’s a conference focused on BuddyPress (a social networking plugin for WordPress that can do alot) and designing for social sites and networks.
Who Should Attend BuddyCamp?
If you want to learn more about BuddyPress and walk away as a BuddyPress power user, then BuddyCamp is perfect for you. If you are a designer or developer of social/community sites in general, you’ll benefit greatly from the coding, design, and UX/UI presentations being given.
Who Is Speaking At BuddyCamp?
We’ve been lucky to have several great speakers and presenters at BuddyCamp, including some of the core contributors of BuddyPress. Here’s a quick rundown of a few:
Brian Messenlehner (@bmess) – Brian will be giving one of the first presentations of BuddyCamp – “BuddyPress 101” to bring everyone up to speed on BuddyPress’s current capabilities and where/how to use it. Don’t miss this one.
Paul Gibbs (@pgibbs) – Travelling from the United Kingdom, Paul is a BuddyPress Lead Developer and will be giving a session about “Scaling your BuddyPress site Without Tears”. If you wanted to build a WordPress + BuddyPress site that could scale, you’ll want to listen in on that.
Tammie Lister (@karmatosed) – Traveling from the United Kingdom for BuddyCamp, Tammie is a full-time designer and has deep experience in designing for social and community sites – BuddyPress in particular. “BuddyPress Design Matters” will be an excellant session for designers and UX/UI folks.
John James Jacoby (@JJJ) – Traveling from across the country, John is a BuddyPress Project Lead and will be talking about “Using BuddyPress to Grow a Community”. This will be a great session of those newer to BuddyPress and those seasoned veterans looking to expand a community and social network on their site.
Boone B Gorges (@boone) – Happy to have Boone joining us at BuddyCamp Miami this year (we hope the feeling is also mutual). He’s another BuddyPress Lead Developer, and his session will be on “BuddyPressifying a WordPress Plugin using the Group Extension API”. Lots of interesting things you can do with the BuddyPress Group API, so that one will no doubt be a favorite.
What Will The Day Be Like?
In the morning, we are planning on a single track of sessions from our speakers. After a lunch break, we might split off into smaller groups to focus on addressing subjects and answering questions that will benefit the group. Throw in a BuddyPress panel, and that’s a day full of BuddyPress goodness.
What Are You Waiting For?
That’s just a quick look at BuddyCamp Miami and just four out of the many speakers and experts that will be on hand on April 5th. This event will be limited in attendance to about 90, so make sure to secure your ticket as soon as possible. Tickets for BuddyCamp (as part of WordCamp Miami) are now available. Click here to purchase a WordCamp + BuddyCamp ticket.
Our next speaker really needs no introduction. What can we say about Lisa that hasn’t already been said?
Instead of talking about Lisa, newly hired by WebDevStudios… instead of proclaiming that Lisa is the For Dummies brand franchise author on all things WordPress… let’s talk about her session for WordCamp Miami: “Scoping Projects to avoid Stress, Headaches and Angry Mobs”.
In Lisa’s words, “The basic concept is how to scope a project from step one to avoid miscommunication, manage expectations and have a better outcome with client projects.” Can’t wait? Nether can we.
Stay tuned for more speaker announcements this week!
Can’t. Stop. Announcing. Speakers.
Cliff is a UX Designer at Pardot, an ExactTarget company, with a passion for WordPress, design, content strategy, and doing business that matters. For the past five years he has worked on the web largely with small businesses and non-profits under Logos Creative. You can also find him working on fun projects like MusicGrid.me. He lives in Atlanta with his wife, April, where they do young urbanite-y things.
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At this point just assume we are giving you all the WordPress speakers on the planet. My fingers are tired.
See this man? This man is Cody Landefeld and his passion is helping organizations solve problems creatively. Good old Cody is a user experience problem solver by nature and has over 10 years of experience in the creative field. This brave coding solider currently leads the team at codyL where they are “building the future one pixel at a time”. Cody will be giving a great session in our beginner’s track at WordCamp Miami this year.
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The great speaker announcements continue. Will they ever stop?
Joe is an advocate for open source, an evangelist of Journalism and a dreamer of exciting futures for both. A Knight News Challenge winner, named Innovator of the year by Suburban Newspapers of America, and serves on the board of directors of the Local Media Foundation. His latest endeavor is the founding of NewspaperFoundation.org. It’s goal is to promote the use of open source software by newspapers.
Joe will be talking about “Free speech, free press, free software – How WordPress is saving Journalism”.
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Here comes another one!
Zac currently teaches WordPress for the amazing online learning site Treehouse. An experienced educator, Zac has taught web design and development at the middle school, high school, and university level. In addition to teaching, Zac owns a web design company that specializes in making $975 templated WordPress sites for small businesses. Zac will be helping out in our WordPress Beginner’s Workshop on April 5th in Miami.
Stay tuned for more speaker announcements this week!
Another speaker incoming! We are honored to have one of our favorite local speakers with us this year, talking about design.
Denise R. Jacobs is a regarded expert in Web Design and is an industry veteran with over 14 years of experience. She is now doing what she likes best: being a Speaker + Writer + Web Design Consultant + Creativity Evangelist who writes, speaks on, teaches, and coaches creativity, productivity, and innovation to both organizations and individuals in the business context. Denise is the author of The CSS Detective Guide, the premier book on troubleshooting CSS code; and co-author to the Smashing Book #3: Redesign the Web and InterAct with Web Standards and has presented and lectured at conferences and organizations such as South By Southwest, the BBC, The Future of Web Design, and Paris-Web.
Stay tuned for more speaker announcements during the month of February!
WordCamp Miami 2013 is over. Check out the next edition!