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Speaker Submissions Extended- Due April 1st

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You read that title right! We realized, since we set our deadline the day after Easter, and after some emails from people we’ve reached out to, that they were either on a short vacation, or out of town. We decided to extend the speaker submission deadline to April 1, 2016, at 11:59PM U.S. Central Standard Time.

You can submit your speaker proposal at:

https://2016.stlouis.wordcamp.org/2016/03/08/do-you-speak-wordpress-come-speak-at-wordcamp-st-louis/

We’ve received quite a few talks. However, for those of you who need some guidance on some topics we’d love to see, here’s some ideas:

  • How bloggers can make money with WordPress: This could be a case study on what has worked for you.
  • Client management and WordPress: WordPress tools and advice on managing clientele.
  • Local SEO: What you can do to have your site ranked favorably on the search engines, more specifically, your local community
  • Google Analytics and WordPress: Understand Google Analytics, and some tips for using GA that will help you.
  • Better theme or plugin development
  • Learning JavaScript more deeply
  • e-Commerce for WordPress (or even WooCommerce)
  • Securing your WordPress website (beginner and advanced)
  • Accessibility

These are but a few of many topics. The St. Louis WordPress community is quite diverse and we have a wide range of interests. If the our topic that you want to submit is different, please consider sending your proposal in. Once we have closed the submissions on April 1st, we will take a week to review.

We really appreciate everyone who has already submitted their speaker proposals.

As a last note, if you are having trouble realizing your topic, don’t worry. If your submission is accepted, you will be able to tweak your talk title and refine your talk’s description.We look forward to seeing what you’d like to share with the St. Louis WordPress community. Again, the final deadline is April 1, 2016, at 11:59PM U.S. Central Standard Time.

If you don’t plan to speak, but are in town May 14 and 15, 2016, don’t forget to buy your WordCamp St. Louis ticket.

P.S. – The date will not change, so we won’t play an April Fool joke on you. We promise!

Call for Sponsors

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The St. Louis WordPress community has a wonderful community that reaches all user, designer, and developer levels. With WordPress powering over 25% of the websites on the Internet today, you probably know a lot of businesses that use WordPress.

WordCamp St. Louis is an event that allows all walks of business owners and WordPress users to connect. If you’re local-based, this is even better as a lot of people love buying locally if a service is available to them.

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Do you speak WordPress? Come speak at WordCamp St. Louis!

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Submission deadline: April 1, 2016

Do you work with WordPress?

Are you a developer, designer, blogger, journalist, activist?
Do you run your business on WordPress?
Are you in or from the St. Louis metro? Are you part of Cardinal Nation?
Has WordPress changed your life? (That can happen.)

Whatever your story, we’d like to hear it.

Whatever your tips, tricks or techniques, we’d like to learn them. And why you prefer them to other techniques, methods or whatever. Why do you think something is a best practice? Why should it be?

In return, you’ll get the undying gratitude of the STL WordPress community; your talk on WordPress.tv (maybe); some awesome culinary concoctions at the Speakers’ dinner and all the smooth Kaldi’s coffee you can drink on site.

Are you in?

Just fill out the form below by April 1. We’ll be back to you within two weeks!

If you’d like to propose multiple topics, please submit the form multiple times – once for each topic.

Please note:

Your talk should educate or enlighten the community, or both, way more than it promotes your products or company.

It should also embody the values of WordPress.

That means:

We are inclusive and welcoming, and positive. Recommend one solution over another? Perfectly fine. Just frame your recommendations as, “I’ve found that with X I could do this faster, make it prettier, whatever … Y had/has these limitations … (not Y was bad or wrong.)

And we do have a code of conduct. In short: Be kind.

We are all about the GPL. We probably all use tools that aren’t GPL. (Photoshop, for instance.) When we speak at WordCamps, the themes and plugins we recommend from the stage need to explicitly embrace the GPL. Questions? Ask!

SPEAKER SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW CLOSED…if you submitted a proposal, look for an email from the speaker selection committee next week.