This weekend I’m heading to New Mexico for the first time for WordCamp Albuquerque. In addition to continuing the conversation about WordPress in enterprises, I’m looking forward to participating in a panel on Making a Living as a Designer or Developer with WordPress. Judging by the communication so far with speakers and attendees, this looks to be an incredibly well organized and planned camp. If you’re headed to Albuquerque, be sure to say hi this weekend!
I’ll be attending the 501 Tech Club monthly meeting this Thursday, August 16 from 5:30PM – 7:30PM at The Rhode Island Foundation in Providence. In addition to mingling with some local non-profit tech leaders, I’ll be serving as one of the panel members for the “Ask An Expert, A Group Problem Solving Salon” panel slated to kick off around 6PM. The meeting will be informal and is designed to connect non-profits with tech experts who can lend insight on how to use online marketing tools to further organizational and fundraising goals. I’ll be fielding questions on how non-profits can better leverage their websites as part of their larger digital strategies. Hope to see you there!
We might tell our clients to be serious about social media, and we might even build next generation websites structured entirely around social media. But we’ve been so busy helping clients that it wasn’t until tonight that we started getting serious about our own social strategy. We now own @10up on Twitter – the official place for 10up news and insights. In addition, we’ve launched our Facebook fan page, where you’ll find team photos you won’t find anywhere else. Of course, you also can continue to follow me at @jakemgold for unique 10up insights and news, and the team 10up list for a peek into our psyche. Be sure to let us know what you think – at those locations!
This weekend is the biggest WordPress event of the year – WordCamp San Francisco. So where else would team 10up be? No, we’re not just sending a couple of executives or a few top developers – you’ll find all of team 10up at this annual anchor event, running around in our 10up gear. At 10up, WordCamp San Francisco is our annual anchor, so we’ll be heading down the day before and sticking around for a couple of days after the camp for some face to face team work and some on site visits with local clients. Hope to see you there!
Looking forward to participating in WordCamp Reno-Tahoe 2012 next weekend, June 30-July 1. I had my first chance to visit beautiful Lake Tahoe about 1 month ago, and am already excited to be heading back. I’ll be revisiting Enterprise Class WordPress, an exploration of what it means to use and sell WordPress as the CMS solution for massive website projects.
Before I move from Wichita back to the East Coast (my original home) in a couple of weeks, I’m going to meet the fine folks of the Kansas City WordPress MeetUp and reprise my WCNYC talk on “Making Custom Content Management Disappear into the WordPress Admin”, since I wasn’t able to speak at WordCamp Kansas City. We’ll be meeting at 1PM at OfficePort (details). If you’re in the area, please come join us!
Attending WebVisions Portland? I’ll be joining Lorelle VanFossen’s panel session to discuss the “insider stories, tips, tricks, and techniques” that we use to make your website awesome both inside and out. We’ll talk about all the emerging web technology buzzwords: HTML5, responsive, and CSS3 plus exciting ways WordPress can be extended and tailored through plugin and theme development. I look forward to meeting you there!
Extending a big “your welcome” in return for the “big thank you” from WordCamp New York City 2012 for our Bronze Sponsorship. The jury is still out on speaker applications, but expect to see a few 10up-ers from our northeast contingent at this anchor WordCamp on June 9-10.
Tonight, I will be speaking about how to find a good WordPress developer talk at the Portland WordPress User Group meetup. My goal is to help educate end users about what to look for in a developer. Additionally, I will be leveraging my psychology background in discussing the importance of the relationship between user and developer with regard to accomplishing goals.
This coming Monday, I’ll be delivering an encore presentation of WWCD? (What Would Core Do) at the monthly Boston WordPress Meetup. We’re also sponsoring the meet up – pizza is on 10up. If you’re in the Boston area, drop by and say hi!