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Speaker Spotlight: Douglas Hanna of A Small Orange

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Douglas Hanna

Douglas Hanna

If you’re in the market for a web hosting provider (or frustrated with your current one) don’t miss Douglas Hanna’s session, The Secrets of Web Hosting without the BS. A returning speaker to WordCamp Raleigh, Douglas knows the world of hosting. He’s the CEO of A Small Orange, a hosting company that makes customer service a priority.

Finding a good hosting provider is about more than just looking at their reviews online and picking someone who sounds good. It’s about understanding the goals for your site and how that provider can support you along the way. Douglas will cover topics like how to choose a quality host and choosing the right package to fit your needs. He’ll also demystify some industry jargon and dispel common myths about hosting.

When it comes to WordPress, Douglas likes the extensibility. “If WordPress core doesn’t do what you need, chances are there’s a plugin that does,” he said.  “Very few platforms can combine the ease of use that WordPress offers out of the box with the tremendous extensibility that’s easily within reach.”

One of Douglas’ favorite WordPress features are the iPad and iPhone apps.  “The blog I use the most is written by several different people, so I use the iPhone and iPad apps all the time to make quick edits to new posts published by others,” he said.

The most important thing you’ll get from attending Douglas’ session at WordCamp Raleigh is how to choose the right plan at the right web hosting company. Douglas feels that “A web host is essential to keeping your site online, and I want to help attendees make the right choice.”

Attend this session and get even more WordPress awesomeness at WordCamp Raleigh 2012 on Nov 3-4. Tickets are only $40 and you can register online now!

 Written by Kelly Phillips
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Speaker Spotlight: Tony Zeoli of Reese Felts Digital Newsroom

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Tony joined University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in August 2010 as the lead developer in the Reese Felts Digital Newsroom. Previously, he worked as a consultant in the development of digital media applications for corporations and start-ups. He created digital products for Sony/BMG, Associated Press, Entertainment Media Works/StarStyle.com, Cablevision Systems Corp., Fuse, Smith Street Records, Zondervan, Pepsi-Cola and Melibee Global. In 2009, Tony launched Digital Strategy Works, a new media consulting company building web and mobile applications on WordPress for small businesses. A WordPress expert, Tony launched WordPress Westchester through a partnership with White Plains, N.Y.-based, The Journal News (a Gannett publication) to train Westchester, N.Y. web developers on the popular WordPress CMS. Tony has also presented on the topic of WordPress and multimedia at WordCamp NYC and Raleigh.

Tony will be presenting on the topic of WordPress & Social Media in the Power Users track.  Here’s an extract from what you can expect to hear from Tony:

While SEO remains important to users searching for your content, social media has become a powerful way for users to find your blog posts upon the recommendation of friends and others who “Like,” “Buzz,” “Digg,” or “Share” or “Tweet” your posts into Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg, Reddit, and other social media services.

In this presentation, Tony Zeoli, Lead Developer in the Reese Felts Digital Newsroom at UNC Chapel Hill, will present options to empower your blog with plugins and best practices to help you manage and track audience engagement when your posts go viral through social sharing.

He will share a number of plugins that will help you cross post to Twitter and Facebook profiles and pages, shorten and track your URL’s, and provide social sharing opportunities on your sites pages. And, he’ll discuss why global social commenting is important, how to use related posts services, post ratings engines, and other ways to ensure your audience engage with your posts and those posts go viral into the social media stratosphere.

So register today for WordCamp Raleigh 2011 and come meet Tony.  Don’t forget to follow him on Twitter – @tonyzeoli

Speaker Spotlight: Tony Zeoli of Reese Felts Digital Newsroom

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Tony joined University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in August 2010 as the lead developer in the Reese Felts Digital Newsroom. Previously, he worked as a consultant in the development of digital media applications for corporations and start-ups. He created digital products for Sony/BMG, Associated Press, Entertainment Media Works/StarStyle.com, Cablevision Systems Corp., Fuse, Smith Street Records, Zondervan, Pepsi-Cola and Melibee Global. In 2009, Tony launched Digital Strategy Works, a new media consulting company building web and mobile applications on WordPress for small businesses. A WordPress expert, Tony launched WordPress Westchester through a partnership with White Plains, N.Y.-based, The Journal News (a Gannett publication) to train Westchester, N.Y. web developers on the popular WordPress CMS. Tony has also presented on the topic of WordPress and multimedia at WordCamp NYC and Raleigh.

Tony will be presenting on the topic of WordPress & Social Media in the Power Users track.  Here’s an extract from what you can expect to hear from Tony:

While SEO remains important to users searching for your content, social media has become a powerful way for users to find your blog posts upon the recommendation of friends and others who “Like,” “Buzz,” “Digg,” or “Share” or “Tweet” your posts into Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg, Reddit, and other social media services.

In this presentation, Tony Zeoli, Lead Developer in the Reese Felts Digital Newsroom at UNC Chapel Hill, will present options to empower your blog with plugins and best practices to help you manage and track audience engagement when your posts go viral through social sharing.

He will share a number of plugins that will help you cross post to Twitter and Facebook profiles and pages, shorten and track your URL’s, and provide social sharing opportunities on your sites pages. And, he’ll discuss why global social commenting is important, how to use related posts services, post ratings engines, and other ways to ensure your audience engage with your posts and those posts go viral into the social media stratosphere.

So register today for WordCamp Raleigh 2011 and come meet Tony.  Don’t forget to follow him on Twitter – @tonyzeoli

Speaker Spotlight: Brad Williams of WebDevStudios

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Brad Williams is the Co-Founder of WebDevStudios.com, a co-host on the SitePoint Podcast, and the co-author of Professional WordPress and Professional WordPress Plugin Development.

Brad has given presentations at various WordCamps across the country. He is also the organizer for the Philadelphia WordPress Meetup Group and WordCamp Philly

Brad has been developing websites for over 15 years, including the last 5 where he has focused on open-source technologies like WordPress.

 

Brad will be presenting on the topic of Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse using Custom Post Types and Taxonomies in the Power Users track.  This is a follow up presentation from last year’s popular WordCamp Raleigh presentation on Custom Post Types and Taxonomies.

So register today for WordCamp Raleigh 2011 and come meet Brad.  Don’t forget to follow him on Twitter – @williamsba

Speaker Spotlight: Adam Ware of SwellPath

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Adam is a self-declared “seasoned web veteran” with a rich web analytics background and extensive digital marketing experience and skills. Well-rounded in most areas of digital marketing and advertising with solid understanding of usability, web design, and underlying programming and CMS technologies. He’s now the CEO at SwellPath, an analytics consulting and digital marketing agency based in Portland. Adam is a WordPress fanatic, and has been a hardcore user since 2006. He’s got extensive experience with a wide-array of analytics applications, and has hacked and plugged-in most of them into WordPress.

Adam will be presenting on the topic of Measure Twice, Blog Once in the Users track.  Here’s an extract from what you can expect to hear from Adam:

This presentation focuses on methods and tools that can help folks get more actionable data out of their WordPress sites. I cover the basics of the Google Analytics plugin, and the other low-cost-or-free analytics application (Chartbeat, Clicky, etc.) plugins that are available for WordPress. Then I cover some basic analytics strategy best practices, before diving into the meat of the presentation, actual examples of ways to use analytics to gain more insight into user behavior. These include some basic tips like capturing off-site clicks to social media connections, and more complex, like feeding Google Analytics cookie data into contact forms and CRMs.

So register today for WordCamp Raleigh 2011 and come meet Adam.  Don’t forget to follow him on Twitter – @wheresitworking