Category: Speakers

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:

The Open Web Matters

 

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:

The Problem with Being a Problem Solver

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:

Dave Navarro, Jr. is the lead web developer for the Topeka & Shawnee County Library and Director of Digital Media for Alpha Media Topeka Radio. In addition to plugin and theme development, he’s a social media expert.

We met Dave at WordCamp Kansas City (WordCamp is a great place to meet people!). He has joined us at WordCamp Fayetteville for several years now, sharing well-researched talks on a variety of topics.

This year, Dave is bringing us something a little more personal. “I’m in my 50’s now and I’ve been an entrepreneur since I was 8,” he wrote. “My first business was a lemonade stand, but I ran my stand like a restaurant and made good money. Most importantly, I learned a LOT… And that’s been my story… learning from lots of mistakes, failures and successes.”

Dave wants to share with us his discovery of WordPress and how it resurrected his passion for being an entrepreneur and web developer. His presentation, “Never worked a day in my life,” will be the keynote presentation for WordCamp Fayetteville 2018.

So many people tell us that WordCamp has changed their lives. Maybe Dave’s presentation will inspire you in your life as an entrepreneur or web developer. Maybe it will start you on a completely new path.

Be sure to buy your ticket so you won’t miss anything!

See one of Dave’s presentations in this WordPress TV video.