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WordCamp St. Louis Tentative Schedule and Talk Descriptions are Up!

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Yep! You heard it! We’ve put up a tentative schedule HERE so you can click on the talks and learn about each of our sessions. We are also going to have a “AMA”, or “Ask Me Anything” session where everyone can ask all of our speakers any WordPress, blogging, social media, design, development, or business question.

We wanted to make sure, that by the end of the day, if you had questions, we can try to answer those. It’s really important to all the organizers here at WordCamp St. Louis, that you go home feeling like some of your issues have been answered, so aside from the AMA, we will have the Happiness Bar again.

If you didn’t know what the Happiness Bar was, well, it’s an area set aside, just so you can have one-on-one time with a volunteer expert who may be able to guide you in the direction you need, whether troubleshooting a problem you’ve been having with your site, advice, or whatever it may be.

Please make sure to take a look at our schedule, and if it’s of interest to you, buy a ticket today! Tickets are only $20 for the ENTIRE conference!

Announcing the WCSTL Speaker Lineup – Round 3

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You thought we were done announcing speakers… nope! We’ve got another round to announce right here. We’re extremely happy and can’t wait for you all to hear our speakers on March 18th! We’ve still have other news to roll out, including a tentative schedule, so you can poke around and read all of descriptions for each talk.

Announcing the WCSTL Speaker Lineup – Round 3

Paul Gilzow

Paul is from Columbia, Missouri. He will be speaking on Access Denied: Keeping Yourself off an Attacker’s Radar.

Follow Paul Gilzow on Twitter at @gilzow.

 

 

Joe Duffin

Joe is from the St. Louis area. He will be speaking on Wireframing for content: How to develop a content strategy for WordPress websites.

Follow Joe Duffin on Twitter at @jcduffin.

 

 

Julia Eudy

Julia is from St. Peters, Missouri. She will be speaking on Implementation Strategy for the HTTPS Movement.

You can follow Julia Eudy on Twitter at @YourMktAdvisor.

 

 

 

Andy Nathan

Andy is from Chicago, Illinois. He will be speaking on Blogging for Business.

You can follow Andy Nathan on Twitter at @andynathan.

 

 

 

You do not want to miss out on WordCamp St. Louis this year! We’ve got an upcoming annoucement on how you’ll be able to get your WordPress questions and some of the help you need, while at WCSTL. Buy a ticket and come on out!

Announcing the WCSTL Speaker Lineup – Round 2

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Woohoo! We’ve got more speakers to announce! This is our second round of announcements. We’re so happy and excited to have these speakers confirmed for WordCamp St. Louis 2017!

2017 WCSTL Speaker Lineup – Round 2

David Evans

David Evans is from St. Charles, Missouri. He will be speaking about User Empathy with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF.)

Follow David Evans on Twitter at @dre711.

 

 

Mary Baum

Mary Baum is from St. Louis, but also lives in Lancaster, California. She will be talking on All around the block with Flexbox.

Follow Mary Baum on Twitter at @marybaum.

 

 

Heather Acton

Heather Acton is from Chicago, Illinois. She will be speaking on Navigating a Career in WordPress.

Follow Heather Acton on Twitter at @HeatherActon.

 

 

Aaron Graham

Aaron Graham is from St. Louis, Missouri. He will be speaking on Developing with WordPress Multitenancy.

Follow Aaron Graham on Twitter at @coderaaron.

 

 

Joe McGill

Joe McGill is from St. Louis, Missouri. He will be speaking on Showing up: learning how to make a contribution.

Follow Joe McGill on Twitter at @joemcgill.

 

 

Nile Flores

Nile Flores lives in Centralia, Illinois, but is from Belleville, Illinois. She will be speaking on Creating A WordPress Website That Works From the Start.

Follow Nile Flores on Twitter at @blondishnet.

 

 

David Needham

David Needham is from Champaign, Illinois. He will be speaking on Presentation Skills for Humans

Follow David Needham on Twitter at @davidneedham.

 

 

Bruce L Chamoff

He will be speaking on Making Plugin Development Easy.

Follow Bruce L Chamoff on Twitter at @brucechamoff.

 

 

 

Jason Yingling

Jason Yingling is from St. Louis, Missouri. He will be speaking on How to Battle Google Page Speed Insights and Win.

Follow Jason Yingling on Twitter at @jason_yingling.

 

 

Don’t miss out – get YOUR ticket today! Save the date for March 18, 2017! We’ve still have the official schedule to announce, and it will have full descriptions to the talks.

 

 

 

 

Announcing the WCSTL Speaker Lineup – Round 1

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The WordCamp St. Louis organization team is proud to present our first round of speakers for our 2017 event. We had a lot of a awesome submissions. We carefully went over all the submissions, as a team, and then voted on them. We looked for what we wanted to hear, what our local meetup group has been wanting to learn, and tried to select a variety of topics.

Please give our speakers a warm welcome. Please note, we’ve not posted the talk descriptions yet, but we’ve given a little tease, by unveiling the title of each speaker’s topic.  This is merely round 1, so there will be another round of announcements soon.

2017 WCSTL Speaker Lineup – Round 1

These are in no particular order.

Mike Hale

Mike Hale is from Warrenville, Illinois. He’ll be speaking about Building a Developer Friendly WordPress Plugin.

Mike Hale on Twitter – @mikehale

 

 

Steve Stewart

Steve Stewart is from St. Louis, Missouri. He will be speaking about Podcasting 101

Steve Stewart on Twitter – @stevestewartme

 

 

 

Tim Sisson

Tim Sisson is from Virginia Beach, Virginia. He’ll be speaking about Herding Cats: Tips for Leading Technical People.

 

Tim Sisson on Twitter – @boldgrid_tims

 

Michele Butcher- Jones

Michele Butcher-Jones is from Carbondale, Illinois. She will be speaking about Demons In the Closet.

Michele Butcher- Jones on Twitter – @Michele_Butcher

 

 

Dane Morgan

Dane Morgan is from southern Missouri. He will be speaking about WordPress Theme Code Reviews.

Dane Morgan on Twitter – @danemorgan

 

 

Emanuel Costa

Emanuel Costa is from Brazil, but lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. He will be speaking about The Ultimate Security Checklist For WordPress Websites.

Emanuel Costa on Twitter – @emanweb

 

 

Jennifer Swisher

Jennifer Swisher is from St. Louis, Missouri. She will be speaking about Creating Websites for Everyone.

Jennifer Swisher on Twitter – @jenswish

 

 

Like our speakers? Interested in what they’ll be talking about? Come get your ticket today, so you can see them present their topic on March 18, 2017, at Washington University!

Introducing Our WordCamp St. Louis 2017 Keynote Speaker: Jarrett Gucci

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Our keynote for WordCamp St. Louis 2017, is Jarrett Gucci. His talk will be about “WordPress, not just software, but LIFEWARE.” Jarrett dedicates his business, WPFixit.com, to helping WordPress users accomplish their goals, whether it’s spreading some message, or selling some product or service. He does this by providing services to fix WordPress sites, when those site owners are either too busy to do it, or they aren’t able to fix it. He has also spoken at several WordCamps around the United States, in the past few years.

His official bio:

Jarrett Gucci comes from a retail background that started at Home Depot in Buffalo, NY, as cashier, and 18 months later was asked to be a project manager, based out of Carson California, with a goal of opening 12 stores in 14 months. This goal was accomplished. He has also been an area manager at Big Lots, and Bed Bath and Beyond. He left his very last retail career as a district manager at Linens & Things, in 2007, to pursue a hobby of website development, as hope he could make some money doing it. After 4 years of building and managing WordPress sites, he founded a company called WP Fix It, and since 2011, his company has serviced over 30,000 WordPress support tickets. Something you may not know about Jarrett, besides all this, is that when he was 15 his neighbor gave him a 1962 dodge dart, and he completely took it apart and rebuilt it.

We went ahead and asked Jarrett a few questions for us, so here is his interview:

NILE FLORES: WordPress, not just software but LIFEWARE, why did you pick this topic?

JARRETT GUCCI: Some look at WordPress and see a software or a tool that can build an online presence for their idea, service or message. Then there are others that look at WordPress and see a living and breathing POWERHOUSE PLATFORM. Let me walk you down the path of how WordPress can provide an opportunity to accomplish all your goals.

NILE FLORES: What would you like people to takeaway from your talk?

JARRETT GUCCI: I would love for attendees to get inspired and energized not only about WordPress but also the upcoming talks they will attend at this WordCamp.

NILE FLORES: What motivated you to start using WordPress?

JARRETT GUCCI: I began to use it based on a need to develop client sites faster. I stuck with it because of the community that surrounds it.

NILE FLORES: What motivated you to contribute back to WordPress?

JARRETT GUCCI: My favorite thing is helping others to learn and be successful. Giving back to the WordPress community allows me to do both of these.

NILE FLORES: Who do you look up to in the WordPress community, and why?

JARRETT GUCCI: I can not really pin point a certain person or people. I can honestly say that over the years, those I have met in the WordPress community have been very gracious and humble.

NILE FLORES: What’s the biggest 1 or 2 things that WordPress users should be doing with their websites?

JARRETT GUCCI: Same thing they should be doing with everything in life, learning and growing to be better.

If you’d like to hear Jarrett’s talk, you’ll need to buy a ticket to WordCamp St. Louis. Hope to see you March 18th!