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Mike Demopoulos, who goes by Mike Demo, is a big fan of open source and a community builder. Mike is an Evangelist at Bold Grid, and we appreciate their sending him to share his A/B testing expertise with us at WordCamp this year.
Mike is also a contributer at Huffington Post and Treasurer for Open Source Matters.
Watch Mike’s talk on open source and how it all works together, from WordCamp Phoenix.
Dominick Montgomery is coming back to WordCamp Fayetteville with “WordPressneur,” a presentation on making money with WordPress.
Dominick is the owner of the Montgomery Group in Tulsa and
Chief Marketing Officer at Create The Movement LLC, also in Tulsa. He’s also known as a videographer.
He enjoys celebrating his clients’ successes.
Here’s some food for thought from Dominick’s blog.
Mary White is a WordPress designer and trainer in Kansas City. She also teaches at Johnson County Community College in Kansas.
Mary is a new speaker at WordCamp Fayetteville, but we’ve enjoyed meeting her as a participant in the past. She’s bringing us a session on integrating WordPress with YouTube.
Social media can work with WordPress to strengthen your online presence, and Mary will give you lots of details on how it’s done.
Read a post from Mary’s blog:
Lance comes to us from Little Rock where he is active in the WordPress community. He has many years of computer experience including a wide range of software and hardware knowledge.
He builds and maintains WordPress websites, and has been building sites for 20 years.
Lance is bringing us best practices for editing in the new Gutenberg editor. Gutenberg has been creating a lot of uncertainty and anxiety as the roll out gets near.
Lance will be demonstrating the use of Gutenberg, acquainting us with the Gutenberg blocks. If you’ve been stressing about Gutenberg, get your ticket so you don’t miss out!
Read Lance’s web maintenance tips.
Collin Condray of Blue Zoo is a technologist and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in helping companies architect and manage their online presence.
He has worked in the retail analysis field as a business analyst for 3M and Tyson Foods, and as a digital strategist for Collective Bias and Saatchi & Saatchi X.
Collin has presented at WordCamp Fayetteville in the past, and we’re excited to have him back this year. He’ll be explaining how to launch your website smoothly and successfully.
In the video below, Collin is co-presenting with his Blue Zoo colleague Eric Huber. Eric will also be presenting this year.
Rebecca Haden is founder and Creative Director at local web firm Haden Interactive. She has been writing for the web since the 20th century, and serves clients from four continents. Her degrees in Linguistics have turned out to be useful in SEO, her primary focus.
This year, Rebecca is sharing an advanced SEO technique that doesn’t require a tech background: Content Clusters.
Watch her presentation on SEO and content to prepare for this year’s session!
(Yes, the video claims that the presentation is about the three core focuses of WordPress in 2017, but that is not true.)
Aaron Campbell is the WordPress Security Team lead, currently funded by GoDaddy to work full time with WordPress. He has been a web developer for 18 years and has worked with organizations like Google, Disney, and Harvard.
Aaron has been contributing to WordPress core for a decade, and was co-lead on the WordPress 3.6 release.
Aaron wowed WordCamp Fayetteville last year with a session on being an introvert in the WordPress community. This year, he’ll be speaking about online reputation.
Watch another of his presentations:
Read a blog post from Aaron’s website:
Nathan Ingram of iThemes will be joining us at WordCamp Fayetteville 2018. Nathan is Host at iThemes Training and the creator of >ADVANCE Coaching, so he spends pretty much all his time teaching WordPress entrepreneurs to improve their business and their lives.
Nathan will be telling us what he learned the hard way in his session, “What I Wish I’d Known About Freelancing.” With 20 years of experience under his belt, he has a lot of knowledge to share.
Here’s a recent blog post of Nathan’s that a lot of us can learn from:
And here Nathan is on WordPress TV bringing wisdom to entrepreneurs:
Ben Pollock has been wrangling the WordPress 101 track for many years. This year, we’re changing it up — there is no WordPress 101 track. We’re hoping participants will get up and move from one room to another, meeting new people and having fun finding out new things.
Don’t worry. There will be at least one session every hour that is designed for beginners. And Ben will start you off with the basics in the first time slot of the day.
Ben is a digital media specialist for the University of Arkansas College of Education and Health Professions, and has also served as instructor at the University of Arkansas School of Journalism and Strategic Media.
Check out a presentation from the past:
WordCamp is a valuable experience. If you send your team members to WordCamp, you can expect a high level of inspiration and increased information. WordCamp Fayetteville 2018 will have sessions on the REST API, business strategy, social media, SEO, analytics and data-driven decisions, online reputation, blogging, and much more.
On a personal level, you’ll have fun, meet new people, and hear great new ideas. Andrea of the Central WordCamp team says that one of the most common terms people use to describe WordCamp is “life-changing.”
There are also parties, prizes, and amazing networking opportunities.
Yet the tickets are super inexpensive — about 10% of what you’re used to paying for local conferences. So how does all this WordPress goodness get paid for?
Sponsorships, for one thing. Local, national, and global sponsors cover a lot of the costs. This year, we’re offering microsponsor opportunities, too. Get all the details at our Sponsors page.
This is the first ever fundraiser in WordCamp history. It’s happening this Saturday, May 12th, from noon to 4:00 p.m., at the Gallery on Fourth in Bentonville.
WordPress experts will be on hand to answer your questions and assist with your website.
Yes, that’s correct. Walk into the Gallery on Fourth on Saturday afternoon and ask us anything you want about your WordPress website.
This is first-come, first served, and we’ll be making tweaks and giving advice rather than redesigning websites, but you’ll save hundreds of dollars by getting this WordPress goodness absolutely for free.
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