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May 11, 2012 by Rindy Portfolio • 2 Comments

A sincere “Thank You!” to everyone who submitted an application to speak at WordCamp NYC. We were truly overcome to see the response from the community - nearly 120 submissions in total! It was a challenge to choose from them, as we tried to balance a full menu of WordPress noodling with adequate air and space for all that happens in between the sessions, unplanned.

From that strong submission list we have curated an action-packed Saturday of close to 15 tracks (some are “mini-tracks” – more on that later), consisting of almost 80 individual sessions. And that is only on Saturday!

There is something for everyone in this diverse group, with presentations geared toward bloggers and developers, sysadmins and SEO-heads, designers and do-it-yourselfers, server-side ninjas and CEOs, teachers and web creatures…. basically all the great people who live and love WordPress.

If you have been waiting to see what we’d serve up before you grabbed a ticket, wait no longer my friend. Sign up for the show today, because this is a group of sessions that aims to inform. All in one place for one weekend only: WordCamp New York City!

Check out the full list of sessions.

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Sponsor Spotlight: NorthPoint

May 10, 2012 by Kevin Cristiano • Leave a comment

We’d like to thank NorthPoint for Sponsoring WordCamp NYC as a Gold Sponsor!

NorthPoint is an enterprise digital platform strategy and technology-consulting firm based in New York City. They have been at the forefront of delivering some of the most high-trafficked, content-managed sites for many of the world’s leading organizations across the Media, Publishing, Healthcare, Education, and Not-for-profit industries.

NorthPoint’s WordPress expertise includes but is not limited to Content Strategy, Information Architecture, Content Management Systems, Web Technology, Search, SEO, Social Media, Blogs, and Mobile. Their goal is to help organizations author, manage, and deliver content of any type to any platform or device including mobile, websites, knowledge management portals, intranets, and extranets.

    WordPress implementation and technology services include the following:

  • Information Architecture
  • Content Strategy
  • Optimization/Scalability
  • Social Media Integration
  • Multi-Site Support
  • VIP or Self-Hosted Infrastructure Support
  • Custom Design
  • Theme Development
  • Migrations / Upgrades
  • Custom Plugins
  • Maintenance

NorthPoint is thoroughly immersed in the WordPress community – they attend and sponsor WordPress events around the country; they put out thought-leadership pieces; and strive to keep up with the whats, wheres, and hows of WordPress: putting WordPress to work effectively for your organization.

For more information, please visit www.northps.com, meet up with them at WordCamp NYC, or talk to them at 212.819.1700 to learn more about NorthPoint.

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Sponsor Spotlight: WP in House

May 9, 2012 by Kevin Cristiano • Leave a comment

WordCamp NYC would like to thank WPinHouse for their support.

WPinHouse™ provides Enterprise-level WordPress guidance, strategies, training, and solutions to corporations and agencies.

WPinHouse explains their service:

Instead of handing you a fish, we teach you how to catch fish.

You get WordPress ActionPlans™ with clear next steps, frameworks, and processes. Along with training that empowers your in-house WordPress team to build and scale digital marketing, SEO/SEM, lead generation, and social media campaigns.

We know business and WordPress like no one else.

  • Let’s go where few are willing to go… beyond custom plugins, URL structures, and cross-platform integration.
  • Let’s identify areas for value creation and turn those opportunities into results.
  • Let’s move past mere tactics and focus on advanced strategies that will make a difference to your bottom line.

Integrating overall strategy and detailed WordPress execution is our “secret sauce.”

We understand enterprise level issues… and we believe in contributing to the global community.

WPinHouse™ provides pro-bono consulting and website development to women-owned startups, and we support non-profits worldwide through ProBonoWP.org.

Let’s move forward together. Let’s do it now.

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Sponsor Spotlight: Microsoft WebMatrix

May 8, 2012 by Kevin Cristiano • Leave a comment

WordCamp NYC would like to thank Microsoft WebMatrix for their Silver Sponsorship.

WebMatrix is a free web development tool from Microsoft that includes everything you need for website development. Start from open source web applications, built-in web templates or just start writing code yourself. It’s all-inclusive, simple and best of all free. Developing websites has never been easier.

  • WebMatrix is capability bundled with simplicity
  • WebMatrix combines five products in one, letting you install, develop, optimize, deploy and manage your sites and databases.
  • WebMatrix provides support for the latest web standards like HTML5 & CSS3, multiple frameworks like PHP, Node, or ASP.NET, and multiple database engines.
  • You can’t go wrong. It’s the tool to use to create awesome WordPress sites

And it’s all free.

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Ticket Registration Open!

May 4, 2012 by Andy Christian • Leave a comment

Alright folks, this is the moment you’ve all been waiting for—registration for tickets is open! There are two kinds of tickets available:

General Admission – $35
With each ticket, you will receive the following:

  • Two-day admission to WordCamp NYC.
  • A WordCamp NYC 2012 T-shirt
  • Lunch on Saturday Afternoon.
  • Admission to the after party on Saturday Night.

You can’t get lunch and a t-shirt for that price anywhere else, much less the full-on experience of a two-day WordCamp!

Individual Sponsor – $70
Want to show a little more love to WordPress and WordCamp? Feel the impulse to be at WordCamp? Do both at the same time by purchasing an Individual Sponsor Ticket. You’ll get everything included in a General Admission ticket, plus a tweet thanking you for your sponsorship.

What are you waiting for? Go and register for tickets today!

Note to Speakers, Sponsors, and Volunteers
You will receive a coupon code for your allotment of tickets shortly. Do not purchase your tickets now, as we won’t be able to refund them. If you’d like to purchase additional tickets, you can do so now, or when you register for your complimentary tickets.

The speaker schedule will be posted very soon–we’re just dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s. This promises to be an awesome event. Hope to see you there!

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Sponsor Spotlight: BraveNewCode

May 3, 2012 by Tim • Leave a comment

Logo for Brave New Code

WordCamp NYC wants to thank BraveNewCode for coming as a Bronze Level sponsor! Much appreciated!

BraveNewCode Inc. is Canadian company that began in 2007 as a simple design & development portfolio for the work of Dale Mugford. In early 2008, software engineer Duane Storey climbed aboard contributing his extensive talents to the mix. Dale handles most of the front-end design & CSS, while Duane contributes his extensive programming skills to the mix, making BraveNewCode a full-blown web creation company. Uniquely, Dale and Duane share cross-over skills and a passion for quality and precision. Together, the projects and plugins they’ve built are thoughtfully created and maintained.

Their plugins include:

  • WPtouch Pro and WPTouch for mobile versions of your WordPress website
  • WordTwit Pro and WordTwit to push tweets from WordPress to Twitter
  • Piggy Pro to view sales data for your Woo Commerce, WP e-Commerce, Shopp or Cart 66 powered WordPress website.
  • Earth Hour a plugin that allows you to show support for the Earth Hour event and turn off your website’s lights.

BraveNewCode is also making strides to reduce their company’s ecological footprint with the goal of becoming carbon neutral. From their website:

BraveNewCode believes it is not an individual responsibility, but moreso a corporate responsibility to lead environmental initiatives and to help inspire others to take action.

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Sponsor Spotlight: WP Engine

May 2, 2012 by Tim • Leave a comment


Our great thanks to WP Engine for coming in as a Silver Level Sponsor for NYC WordCamp 2012!

In their own words:

QUIT WORRYING AND LET US RUN WORDPRESS FOR YOU
“We serve 100,000,000 requests daily, each one carefully and continuously tuned for speed, scalability, and security. We’re beloved by hundreds of bloggers from huge, popular sites down to small company home pages who care about their SEO ranking and their users’ experience. Perhaps best of all is our tech support, where only WordPress experts answer questions. As Mikhail Baryshnikov says, “Try it. You’ll like it”
“My site loads ridiculously fast, my page views are up, and my business is seeing the results. I rest easy at night with the level of support. My only regret: that I didn’t move to WP Engine sooner.”
– PHIL SIMON, AUTHOR OF THE AGE OF THE PLATFORM

How fast could your site be on WP Engine? Visit Speed.WPEngine.com for your results now.

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Speaker and Sponsor applications are closed!

April 30, 2012 by Andy Christian • Leave a comment

Yep, that’s right. We are no longer accepting applications for speakers or sponsors. Thanks for your interest, but we had to cut it off at some point, or we’d never get this WordCamp finished! There’s been an overwhelming response, both from potential speakers (over 100 applications received!), and generous sponsors, listed on the sidebar of our site (with a few more to come).

If you still want to give back to WordCamp, you have a couple of options left:

Volunteer

With such a huge WordCamp, we need an army of hard-working volunteers to keep things running smoothly. From the night before, folding T-shirts and alphabetizing name tags, to Sunday night cleanup, volunteers will make sure that we make this the Best WordCamp Ever. If you want to help us out, head on over to our Volunteer page, and sign up. We are only looking for a few more people, but we especially need folks who can help with running rooms during sessions and taking video.

Individual Sponsor Ticket

We will be opening up ticket sales here in the next couple of weeks, and alongside the regular ticket, we will be offering an Individual Sponsor Ticket, which will cost twice as much. You’ll get a notation on your event badge to show how much you care, and we’ll even tweet out your name when you buy the ticket.

We’re going to get right to work on choosing speakers, so stay tuned to this site for more information on the speaker schedule, ticket sales, and, of course, the totally awesome after party!

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Call for Volunteers

April 27, 2012 by Andy Christian • 2 Comments

With six weeks until WordCamp NYC, and an expected 800+ attendees there is plenty to do… and we need people to help. So, if you want to give back to the WordPress community and you’re in the NYC area, then consider volunteering for WordCamp NYC.

You’ll be working side-by-side with other community members, having fun, and putting together one of the largest WordCamps ever. Before the event we’ll need your help with preparation and setup. During the event we’ll need volunteers to assist with registration and food, help attendees find their rooms (our venue is large), get speakers setup, and anything else you can think of.

For more information on what we need help with, and to sign up, head on over to our Volunteer Page.

If you plan on volunteering, please sign-up now…don’t wait until the event.

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Sponsor Spotlight: 10 Up

April 26, 2012 by Kevin Cristiano • 1 Comment

We’d like to extend a big Thank You to 10 Up for Sponsoring WordCamp NYC.

Are you in need of an awesome WordPress implementation? Check 10 Up out.

10 Up has this to say about themselves:

10up is a premium web agency that imagines, builds, and grows amazing websites with WordPress. We serve an incredible group of clients, ranging from small family businesses to diverse WordPress.com VIP clients like TechCrunch, Universal Sports, and Trulia, to universities like Bates College and the University of Rhode Island. Our team includes rockstar WordPress core contributors and developers of the some of the best plug-ins on the repository.

At 10up, we value giving back to the community. That’s why we contribute employee time to free WordPress projects, release and support free plug-ins, teach at colleges and WordCamps around the country, volunteer our time to help run meet ups and WordCamps, and yes, sponsor events like this.

We’re always looking for new and engaging projects with customers looking for a partner who believes in doing it right the first time. A distributed shop with 10 full time employees around the country (and rapidly growing!), 10up is also always looking for new talent. Work from anywhere in the country with amazing developers, participate in conferences, and build amazing sites with WordPress. We’re hiring WordPress developers and a Marketing Coordinator.

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