Sponsor highlight: StickerGiant

Stickergiant-Logo-300px__55831014402e5Every sticker has a story. That’s the tagline for WordCamp Fayetteville sponsor StickerGiant and we love how they help each WordCamp and all their other clients tell a story. StickerGiant prints high-quality stickers and labels. They’ve been providing free stickers for WordCamps all over the world since 2008 because they too use and love WordPress!

They have the best customer service, quick turnaround times and free custom shapes using state of the art laser cutting.

StickerGiant was founded in 2001 by entrepreneur John Fischer and illustrator Mike Brooks. Since then StickerGiant has grown into the #1 sticker company on the internet. John and his team work every day to delight each and every customer.

StickerGiant is based in rural Boulder County, Colorado in a town called Hygiene (yes, they’ve heard the jokes)!

Thanks to StickerGiant for being an “Editor” level sponsor of WordCamp Fayetteville.

Sponsor highlight: BoldGrid

boldGrid-transparent-lockup-2aBoldGrid is a website builder powered by WordPress. It is a free set of WordPress plugins, themes, and other content that allows site creation and management similar to non-WordPress website builders.

By placing WordPress more in line with DIY site builder solutions on the market, their mission is not only to make WordPress more accessible and easy for beginners to utilize, but also automate and streamline typical WordPress tasks to provide a fast, creator-friendly platform that even web professionals will appreciate.

Experience WordPress as a website builder, including: free pre-built themes, drag and drop editing, integrated image banks, simplified photo editing, built-in staging, automated backups, and so much more.

BoldGrid will have you creating professional looking WordPress sites in minutes!

Thanks to BoldGrid for being an “Admin” level sponsor of WordCamp Fayetteville!

 

Sponsor Highlight: Pantheon

Pantheon_Tag_Color_clearThe website management platform for Drupal & WordPress, Pantheon provides web teams with the hosting, cloud-based developer tools, and scalable infrastructure needed to run awesome websites.

According to their website, Pantheon started in 2010 with a small team from their consulting businesses, and is now a team of 70 of the world’s experts in building, launching, and managing WordPress and Drupal websites.

Pantheon now powers more than 100,000 sites, serving billions of pageviews a month. They funded by the backers of Heroku, ExactTarget, and SendGrid.

Pantheon’s container-based infrastructure allows you to launch websites faster, without worrying about traffic spikes, security or performance. It’s free in development.

Thank you to Pantheon for being an “Editor” level sponsor of WordCamp Fayetteville!

Sponsor highlight: Jetpack

jetpack-horizontal-white-bgIf you’re a self-hosted WordPress user, gone are the days of needing a plugin to provide each function you need. With Jetpack, users gain access to all of the most powerful and popular WordPress.com features.

According to the Jetpack website, Jetpack allows you to:

  • Install more two dozen popular plugins with one click (and update them all the same way).
  • Engage millions of WordPress.com users, allowing them to interact with your site.
  • Boost your site’s performance by taking the load of these features off your servers.
  • Count on regular updates, enhancements, and troubleshooting from the same folks who build WordPress.com.

Jetpack is a free WordPress plugin that simplifies managing your sites. This single plugin enables Photon (a global CDN for images), uptime monitoring, brute force protection, traffic-boosting tools, single sign on, multiple-site management, and automatic or bulk plugin updates. Additionally, Jetpack includes several features that help you customize the look and feel of your site without installing other tools.

Thank you to Jetpack for being an “Admin” level sponsor of WordCamp Fayetteville!

Sponsor highlight: WooCommerce

woocommerce_logoWooCommerce is the fastest growing eCommerce software/platform, powering more than 30% of all eCommerce stores with more than 1 million active installations. Built to integrate seamlessly with WordPress, it is a fantastic eCommerce choice for existing WordPress users and connects you to the fast-growing WordPress ecosystem which now powers more than 25% of all websites on the internet.

What started in 2008 as three WordPress enthusiasts from different countries sharing ideas over email is now an international team of designers, developers, support ninjas and marketing people, catering for a passionate and constantly growing community of hundreds of thousands of users in 19 countries.

In July 2015, WooCommerce was acquired by Automattic, the creators of WordPress.com, which serves more than 15.8 billion pages a month and also the creators of other popular WordPress services including Akismet, Jetpack, and VaultPress.

With WooCommerce, WordPress users can start with all the basic tools that any small business would need to start selling online, including product setup, payments, shipping options, and sales reports and as your business grows choose from over 300 premium add-ons available including additional payment processors, shipping methods, inventory systems and marketing tools anyone to sell anything, anywhere from real products and digital downloads to subscriptions, content and even your time.

Thank you to WooCommerce for being an “Admin” level Sponsor of WordCamp Fayetteville.

WordCamp Fayetteville press release

For Immediate Release • July 3, 2016 • Contact info at bottom

WordCamp Fayetteville Set for Late July

Quick look: WordCamp Fayetteville will be July 22-24 at the University of Arkansas. The July 23 workshop is designed to help people at all levels of knowledge develop websites — at low cost — for themselves, nonprofits and businesses. It focuses on WordPress, the popular Internet platform that is used on nearly 75 million websites or blogs worldwide. Admission to WordCamp Fayetteville is $35 and includes a light breakfast and box lunch, as well as a Friday reception, Saturday after-party and informal tutoring Sunday morning. No tickets will be sold at the door so register in advance at 2016.fayetteville.wordcamp.org/tickets.

FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas — The seventh annual WordCamp Fayetteville will be July 22-24, with workshops throughout that Saturday at Donald W. Reynolds Center for Enterprise Development on the University of Arkansas campus.

The key day for the conference is Saturday, July 23, at the Reynolds Center, part of the Sam M. Walton College of Business. Tickets are $35, which includes the full day on Saturday, the Jam Session (informal tutoring) on Sunday morning, and social events on Friday and Saturday evenings.

WordCamps are designed for new and experienced users of WordPress, the world’s most popular content management system with usage estimated at 75 million websites. WordCamps are organized by community volunteers all over the world and the events are designed for all levels of users from beginners to developers.

Sessions offer a wide range of topics that center around using WordPress. These topics include basics for novices, tips for nonprofits and businesses, improving content, development and design, and web security. This year’s schedule of sessions will be available on the website soon.

Eric Huber, chief creative officer and co-founder of Blue Zoo Creative of Fayetteville, continues to be the lead organizer for WordCamp Fayetteville for a second year. Huber said the WordCamp Fayetteville 2016 committee made a change to the schedule format this year after seeing the new format prove successful at other WordCamps, including the recent WordCamp Kansas City.

The change is that sessions will not be divided into tracks. Instead, each session hour will include a more user-focused course and a more developer-focused course. The more relaxed format will make it easier for participants to decide which session to attend instead of feeling like they must stick with a specific track. For example, one session such as the planned “Anatomy of a Website” or the session on legal guidelines for influencer marketing could easily have fit into several of the previous tracks.

Brian Hillliard
Brian Hillliard

All session speakers are local or regional WordPress users who have expertise in their given area. However, the keynote speaker for WordCamp Fayetteville will be Atlanta-based Brian Hilliard, co-author of the best-selling book “Networking Like a Pro.” The Duke University graduate’s focus is on marketing for entrepreneurs.

Included in the $35 ticket are pastries with coffee or tea during sign-in Saturday morning, snacks during the day, with box lunches and soft drinks at the noon break. Friday’s reception will be at Teatro Scarpino with Saturday’s after-party at Powerhouse Seafood & Grill, with complimentary hors d’oeuvres at each. The location for Sunday’s Jam Session is still being finalized and the information will be available on the event website soon.

Registration is limited; sign up at 2016.fayetteville.wordcamp.org. The event has sold out every year, so tickets will not be available at the door. Each person who registers by July 11 will be guaranteed a WordCamp Fayetteville T-shirt, and meal preferences must be made by July 18.

The website 2016.fayetteville.wordcamp.org has details.

For more information:
Eric Huber
Organizer, WordCamp Fayetteville 2016
Eric@bluezoocreative.com
479.790.7388
2016.fayetteville.wordcamp.org

WordCamp Fayetteville is over. Check out the next edition!