WordCamp Miami 2013: Grant Landram

Grant Landram @GrantLandram

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Grant is a front end developer and founder of Freshmuse, a small WordPress design and development agency working with mid-market clients around the world crafting unique and high quality WordPress websites and blogs.

Grant has spoken at numerous WordCamps and technology conferences on how his company uses WordPress to serve it’s clients, and how he has built a business around the open source platform. His 2012 talk from WordCamp Portland is the one of the top 5 most watched WordCamp videos of 2012. You can follow Grant on Twitter at @grantlandram or learn more at http://www.freshmuse.com.

Stay tuned for our last speaker announcements in March!

WordCamp Miami 2013: Mason James

Mason James @masonjames

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Mason is the Co-Founder and CEO of WP Valet where he’s made an art of making people happy with their WordPress experience. He has a passion for creating solutions and truly loves it when a plan comes together. When not connected to a computer he’s probably playing music, video games, or with his puppy, Penny (photos available on request).

Stay tuned for our last speaker announcements in March!

WordCamp Miami 2013: Nick Gernert

Another “local” guy (we consider Orlando close enough) joins the WordCamp Miami speaker ranks.

Nick Gernert @nickgernert

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Nick heads up the Platform Development team for Voce/Porter Novelli, overseeing the team’s custom application development projects. Voce’s Platforms team is a WordPress VIP Services Partner that specializes in creating large-scale WordPress apps for the biggest brands in the world.

Nick started the development team with the mission of building great experiences atop powerful publishing platforms and while the mission hasn’t changed, the scale certainly has. Nick has grown what was a two-person development team in Winter Haven, Florida to a team of more than 20 distributed across the country. Throughout his years in web development Nick has had developed projects for brands such as Discovery, Prudential, Disney, Bloomberg, Honeywell, MIT, and Symantec. Nick drives the strategy behind the team’s largest projects, maintains strategic partnerships and ensures the Platforms team has everything it needs to do great work.

Stay tuned for our last speaker announcements in March!

WordCamp Miami 2013: Mauricia Ragland

Mauricia Ragland @SummaNerd

mauricia Mauricia is from Miami (LOCAL GAL! WOOT!) and is a front to back freelance developer plus an entrepreneur at heart. She stumbled into the world of WordPress at the request of one of her first clients who couldn’t figure out how to add a page to their website. Since then it’s been her go to framework for any cms or blog needs.

Stay tuned for our last speaker announcements in March!

WordCamp Miami 2013: Ken Granger

Ken Granger facebook.com/kennethgranger

Ken_Granger Ken Granger has taught more than 10,000 small business owners how to brand their business and leverage the power of the internet to increase sales, brand loyalty and quality of life. Ken has been working with WordPress since 2008 and he and his team have built more than 3,000 WordPress websites.

Stay tuned for more speaker announcements this week!

Tickets Officially On Sale

wcmia2013-HorizontalIf you are on the WordCamp Miami mailing list, you already knew this yesterday. But officially today we announce ticket sales for WordCamp Miami are available. These tickets will sell out (already 25% of the tickets have been sold at the time of this post). Please read carefully the information on the ticket page (there’s information about different kinds of tickets, what we are doing for students, etc.) and choose wisely. Please also note the no refunds policy also on that page.

We are very excited to be offering tickets today for both WordCamp Miami and BuddyCamp. With such a great selection of speakers, talks, and surprises we can’t wait to see you there. Click here to buy your tickets.

BuddyCamp Miami 2013 Preview

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We are very excited about hosting the first BuddyCamp in the United States (well, to be fair, it’s only the second one ever – first one was in Canada). Since tickets for BuddyCamp is extremely limited this year, we wanted to give you a quick preview so you can get excited and grab your ticket as soon as possible.

What Is BuddyCamp?

BuddyCamp is a mini-conference before WordCamp Miami. It’s happening on April 5th in downtown Miami. It’s a conference focused on BuddyPress (a social networking plugin for WordPress that can do alot) and designing for social sites and networks.

Who Should Attend BuddyCamp?

If you want to learn more about BuddyPress and walk away as a BuddyPress power user, then BuddyCamp is perfect for you. If you are a designer or developer of social/community sites in general, you’ll benefit greatly from the coding, design, and UX/UI presentations being given.

Who Is Speaking At BuddyCamp?

We’ve been lucky to have several great speakers and presenters at BuddyCamp, including some of the core contributors of BuddyPress. Here’s a quick rundown of a few:

Brian Messenlehner (@bmess) – Brian will be giving one of the first presentations of BuddyCamp – “BuddyPress 101” to bring everyone up to speed on BuddyPress’s current capabilities and where/how to use it. Don’t miss this one.

Paul Gibbs (@pgibbs) – Travelling from the United Kingdom, Paul is a BuddyPress Lead Developer and will be giving a session about “Scaling your BuddyPress site Without Tears”. If you wanted to build a WordPress + BuddyPress site that could scale, you’ll want to listen in on that.

Tammie Lister (@karmatosed) – Traveling from the United Kingdom for BuddyCamp, Tammie is a full-time designer and has deep experience in designing for social and community sites – BuddyPress in particular. “BuddyPress Design Matters” will be an excellant session for designers and UX/UI folks.

John James Jacoby (@JJJ) – Traveling from across the country, John is a BuddyPress Project Lead and will be talking about “Using BuddyPress to Grow a Community”. This will be a great session of those newer to BuddyPress and those seasoned veterans looking to expand a community and social network on their site.

Boone B Gorges (@boone) – Happy to have Boone joining us at BuddyCamp Miami this year (we hope the feeling is also mutual). He’s another BuddyPress Lead Developer, and his session will be on “BuddyPressifying a WordPress Plugin using the Group Extension API”. Lots of interesting things you can do with the BuddyPress Group API, so that one will no doubt be a favorite.

What Will The Day Be Like?

In the morning, we are planning on a single track of sessions from our speakers. After a lunch break, we might split off into smaller groups to focus on addressing subjects and answering questions that will benefit the group. Throw in a BuddyPress panel, and that’s a day full of BuddyPress goodness.

What Are You Waiting For?

That’s just a quick look at BuddyCamp Miami and just four out of the many speakers and experts that will be on hand on April 5th. This event will be limited in attendance to about 90, so make sure to secure your ticket as soon as possible. Tickets for BuddyCamp (as part of WordCamp Miami) are now available. Click here to purchase a WordCamp + BuddyCamp ticket.

 

WordCamp Miami 2013 Speaker: Lisa Sabin-Wilson

Our next speaker really needs no introduction. What can we say about Lisa that hasn’t already been said?

Lisa Sabin-Wilson @LisaSabinWilson

lisa Instead of talking about Lisa, newly hired by WebDevStudios… instead of proclaiming that Lisa is the For Dummies brand franchise author on all things WordPress… let’s talk about her session for WordCamp Miami: “Scoping Projects to avoid Stress, Headaches and Angry Mobs”.

In Lisa’s words, “The basic concept is how to scope a project from step one to avoid miscommunication, manage expectations and have a better outcome with client projects.” Can’t wait? Nether can we.

Stay tuned for more speaker announcements this week!

WordCamp Miami 2013 Speaker: Cliff Seal

Can’t. Stop. Announcing. Speakers.

Cliff Seal @cliffseal

cliff Cliff is a UX Designer at Pardot, an ExactTarget company, with a passion for WordPress, design, content strategy, and doing business that matters. For the past five years he has worked on the web largely with small businesses and non-profits under Logos Creative. You can also find him working on fun projects like MusicGrid.me. He lives in Atlanta with his wife, April, where they do young urbanite-y things.

Stay tuned for more speaker announcements this week!

WordCamp Miami 2013 Speaker: Cody Landefeld

At this point just assume we are giving you all the WordPress speakers on the planet. My fingers are tired.

Cody Landefeld @codyL

160db1e See this man? This man is Cody Landefeld and his passion is helping organizations solve problems creatively. Good old Cody is a user experience problem solver by nature and has over 10 years of experience in the creative field. This brave coding solider currently leads the team at codyL where they are “building the future one pixel at a time”. Cody will be giving a great session in our beginner’s track at WordCamp Miami this year.

Stay tuned for more speaker announcements this week!