We have fantastic addition to our Speaker line-up for WordCamp Raleigh with Patrick O’Keefe, founder of iFroggy Network, a network of websites covering various interests.

Session:

“Building Community Around Your WordPress Blog”

Blogs can be communities – in fact, most of the most visited blogs on the internet are communities.

Learn how you can encourage the community around your WordPress blog to grow.

This presentation will include things you can do within the blog format, new features and add-ons you can install and how blogs and deeper community areas, like forums, can benefit from one another.

Bio:

Patrick has been managing online communities since 2000 and is the author of “Managing Online Forums,” a practical guide to managing online social spaces.

He has been responsible for the cultivation of communities like phpBBHacks.com, KarateForums.com and PhotoshopForums.com.

He blogs about online community at ManagingCommunities.com and his favorite record label at BadBoyBlog.com, plus more at patrickokeefe.com.

Patrick’s past presentations include everything from WordPress & Blogging to Social Media to Online Communities, for SWSXi, Blog World & New Media Expo and more.

Follow Patrick:

Blog: PatrickOKeefe.com
Twitter: @iFroggy

Here’s another long time WordPress community member and addition to the WordCamp Raleigh Speaker lineup, Ryan Duff, who is a System Administrator and was the original author of the WordPress Contact Form.

Session:

“Saving Yourself Time When Setting Up A Dev Environment”

Tips and Tricks on how to quickly set up a development environment.

Do it once and forget it so you can deploy a full blown environment in minutes.

Screw something up? Redeploy it and start over.

Bio:

Ryan has been working with WordPress since 2004 and was the original author of the WordPress Contact Form. He began making websites at the age of 12 and has been using PHP for almost 10 years. He loves virtualization, configuration management, and version control software.

As a SysAdmin and Linux user, he likes to hack things to make repeated tasks simpler. Currently, he is running his own WordPress consultancy, Fusionized Technology, in Harrisburg, PA.

Follow Ryan:

Website: Fusionized.com
Blog: RyanDuff.net
Twitter: @ryancduff

Our latest addition to our WordCamp Raleigh Speaker lineup is a very well known person in the WordPress community, Lisa Sabin-Wilson, who is a creative designer and owner of E.Webscapes Design Studio and the author of both WordPress For Dummies and BuddyPress For Dummies (Wiley Pub.).

Session:

“Building Online Communities with BuddyPress”

This session will take you on a tour through this year’s hottest open source product on the market: BuddyPress. BuddyPress is a suite of core plugins for the WordPress platform that enables any web site owner the ability to run a fully-interactive social network on their own web site.

Learn all about BuddyPress features that allow you to take your WordPress site to the next level by engaging a community on your own web site through dynamic features such as: * Extended Profiles * Friends * Private Messaging * Activity Wires * Blog Tracking * Status Updates * …and more!

Discover how web sites today are putting BuddyPress to great use on their own domain and explore the question of who should own YOUR content, YOUR traffic and YOUR community.

Bio:

For 10 years, Lisa has been consulting, helping to support, and providing custom solutions for web site owners using different content management platforms such as WordPress, Movable Type, Expression Engine and TypePad, to name a few.

She has also used a variety of different social media platforms, in particular BuddyPress, which gives individuals and small businesses the ability to host a niche, social community on their own web site.

Lisa is a ‘sometimes‘ public speaker at national conferences, on the topic of blogging, WordPress and social media. She has given past presentations at WordCamp Chicago & New York City and Think Tank Live Social Media Summit. She is also a speaker at the upcoming F5 Expo on Business Strategies.

When Lisa is not designing great websites, speaking publicly, or writing books about WordPress, design, blogging and social media – you can usually find her scuba diving or downhill skiing or just relaxing with her family, enjoying a good cup of espresso and a good book or movie.

Follow Lisa:

Website: EWebscapes.com
Blog: JustAGirlInTheWorld.com
Twitter: @LisaSabinWIlson

We are very excited about our latest Speaker addition for WordCamp Raleigh … Wayne Sutton, who is the business development/ marketing strategist for TriOut and Partner of OurHashtag. He is also the president of the Triangle Social Media Club chapter.

Session:

“Using WordPress To Build Your Brand”

Using WordPress to build your brand can be the ideal solution for companies and individuals.

In this session we will cover various ways to use WordPress as your lead generation tool and customizing WordPress to complete your overall web presence.

Other topics in this session include picking the right theme to match your personality, making WordPress your social web home-base and creating content strategies for your blog.

Bio:

Wayne Sutton helps individuals, startups and businesses succeed in understanding how to communicate on the social web via brand strategy, social networks and location-based services. With nearly 10 years experience in the technology and social media sector, he’s provided counsel to business leaders ranging from founders of small start-ups and representatives of non-profit organizations to CEOs of large and small corporations. Wayne is the business development/marketing strategist for TriOut and partner at OurHashtag.

Wayne is the president of the Triangle Social Media Club chapter. Wayne has spoken at various conferences and events such as SXSW, Social Media Breakfast, Triangle American Marketing Association, Pubcon Austin and Blog World. Staying current with the ever changing trends in the technology community.

Wayne loves making videos, blogging, educating and inspiring others.

Follow Wayne:

Blog: SocialWayne.com
Twitter: @waynesutton
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/waynesutton
Facebook: facebook.com/waynesutton

We’re excited to announce another presentation for WordCamp Raleigh by Glenn Ansley, of FullThrottle Development based in Wake Forest, NC.

Session:

“Beyond wp-content: A technical overview of the WordPress Core”

WordPress is much more than a great blogging platform. In fact it’s a complex factory that literally constructs itself, produces its content, and tears itself back down with every page load. Thousands of functions, variables, and classes are contained within the core WordPress codebase.

This presentation will review the journey WordPress takes from the microsecond its loaded into the server’s memory to the microsecond it’s spit back out. Covered topics will include the WordPress file structure, hooks, invaluable classes at your disposal, and common misconception. All of this will be applied in a manner that helps WordPress developers most efficiently step outside of the wp-content folder and take advantage of the complete WordPress codebase.

This presentation will include a detailed overview of the core WordPress codebase with special emphasis given to plugin developers.

Bio:

Glenn is an owner and developer at FullThrottle Development. While technology has always been a hobby, it was not until 2006 that Glenn was first introduced to web design.

Glenn used WordPress to cut his teeth on PHP, MySQL, Javascript, CSS and anything else web related. He takes pride in the fact that he didn’t know what a template tag was three years ago (documented in the support forum) but now develops highly customized web applications and and plugins around the WordPress framework.

Follow Glenn:

Blog: GlennAnsley.com
Twitter: @glennansley