WordCamp NOLA 2009 | Schedule and Speaker Lineup
At this point everyone knows WordCamp NOLA is going to be great... so the only question that remains will be how many awesome folks can we pile into one room? Guess you better be here!
Friday, April 10, 2009 - WordPress, Blogging & Social Media
- 9:00 - 9:15 - Welcome - John and Chris
- 9:15 - 9:45 - Sloane Berrent -Understanding Your Audience Using Community Driven Tools
- 9:45 - 10:30 - Brian Oberkirch - Going Social with WordPress
- 10:30 - 11:00 - Break
- 11:00 - 11:45 - David Link, Ron Domingue, Matt Thomas - The Future of WordPress Design
- 11:45 - 12:45 - Panel - Tiffany Starnes-FabreSmithCoco, Damien Lamanna-Morgan & Co., Tom Martin-Zehnder Communications, Robbie Vitrano-Trumpet, Chris Schultz-Moderator
- 12:45 - 2:00 - Lunch
- 2:00 - 2:45 - Ben Huh - Keynote: I Can Haz A Cheezburger
- 2:45 - 3:45- Panel - Blake Haney-HumidBeings, Greg Larose-City Business, Anthony Patton-NewOrleansBlack, Kevin Allman-The Gambit, Karen Gadbois-SquanderedHeritage.com, Chris Schultz-Moderator
- 3:45 - 4:00 - Break
- 4:00 - 4:20 - Blake Killian - Innovative Revenue Models
- 4:20 - 4:40 - Justin Shields - How to Connect with Gen Y
- 4:40 - 5:00 - Ben Reece - Creativivity Above All
Saturday, April 11, 2009 - WordPress Workshop
- 9:30 - 10:15 - Douglas Hanna - The WordPress Showcase
- 10:15 - 11:00 - Will Scott - SEO for WordPress
- 11:00 - 11:15 - Break
- 11:15 - 12:00 - Marc Juneau - WordPress as a CMS - (re)Launching a 9th Ward Field of Dreams on WordPress
- 1:00 - 2:00 - Lunch
Ben Huh | I Can Have Cheezburger? & #FAIL Blog
Ben Huh is the CEO of the company that runs FAIL Blog, I Can Has
Cheezburger?, GraphJam and other Interweb time sinks. He lives in a strange
alternate-universe where people make a living from memes, viral humor and
crowd-sourced content. Ben and his team of 11 employees run one of the
largest blog networks in the world from a teeny tiny office under the Space
Needle...
» Visit I Can Has Cheezburger » Visit #FAIL Blog
Matt Thomas | Creative Director for Automattic
Matt has been a designer since before he knew what that meant. As a child, his parents would frequently return home to find their furniture re-arranged, art re-hung, and tables re-set. Ever since, Matt’s been interested in making things simpler, more beautiful, and more fun to use. He lives on Mobile Bay with his trusty sidekick, Maggie. And most importantly, he doesn't mind being the “other Matt” at Automattic. » Visit Automattic
Robbie Vitrano | Co-Founder of Trumpet, A Venture Marketing Company
Robbie is a co-founder of Trumpet, a venture marketing company that is a manifestation of the reinventing New Orleans. Trumpet has evolved its full-service brand communications disciplines to launch new ventures, incubating and developing them inside its 12,000 square foot renovated warehouse in the Creole district of the historic Faubourg St. John » Visit Trumpet Advertising
Sloane Berrent | Marketing Consultant
Sloane Berrent is a cause-based marketing and social branding consultant. She combines product evangelizing, social media strategy and community development services to for-profit and nonprofit companies. For the past 5 years, Sloane has lived in Los Angeles fundraising for nonprofits and working in the digital media space. She speaks frequently on building community and blogs at The Causemopolitan. » Visit The Causemopolitan
Tom Martin | President - Zehender Communications
Tom is a 16-year veteran of the marketing industry. During his career, he began to sense that traditional advertising research approaches were more often than not failing to effectively help him understand the consumer. Tom is a frequent lecturer on various marketing topics, authors his own blog, Positive Disruption, and most recently, Advertising Age, the most trusted brand of news and intelligence on advertising... » Visit Zehnder Communications
Brian Oberkirch |Marketing and Social Networking Consultant
I’m a marketing consultant focused on social media and product/service development. I do social media consulting and projects for companies and marketing agencies of all sizes, helping them use these new tools to have better conversations with those who matter to their business. write about social media, community-based marketing and technologies that revolve around relevance. » Visit Brian's Website
Tiffany Starnes | Interactive Strategist
Tiffany Starnes is the Interactive Strategist at Fabre Smith & Coco. Social media maven, self confessed Twitter addict and lover of all things Web 2.0, she develops integrated communications plans that leverage interactive tools to meet her client's business goals. As a founding member of Net2NO, she is an enthusiastic advocate for the local tech community. » Follow NOLA Tif
Greg LaRose | Managing Director of New Orleans City Business
Greg LaRose is the managing editor of New Orleans CityBusiness and has been with the publication since August 2004. In addition to the print product, he helps develop content for NewOrleansCityBusiness.com and its twice-a-day e-mail blasts, Daily Updates. CityBusiness has also recently launched a weekly e-newsletter on Real Estate and has additional industry-specific newsletters in the works. » Read New Orleans City Business
William Scott | Search Influence
Will Scott has been helping small businesses get online since 1994 - that's right, 1994 - before most people even knew there was an Internet. Since then, Will has been focused on making information more accessible online. In the classroom teaching technology to professionals or in the boardroom presenting the value of online business to fortune 1000 companies, Will is passionate about the impact of the Internet on business. » Visit Search Influence
Chris Schultz | Entrepreneur & President of Voodoo Ventures
We believe that we can change the world, or at least the world online, by injecting our creativity and passion into the projects we undertake. We are in constant pursuit of the next big idea. We do what we love. We create Web applications that we use, and businesses that we can stay excited about. We’re nice guys, but we’re looking to shake things up. We like to think of ourselves as Disruptors... » Visit Voodoo Ventures
Douglas Hanna | Director of WordPress.org's Showcase
Douglas Hanna is a consultant, blogger, and speaker who specializes in customer service. When he isn’t blogging or consulting, Douglas works for Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and Akismet.com, as a “Communications Engineer.” At Automattic, Douglas spends most of his time running the day-to-day operations of the WordPress.org Showcase and helping to support WordPress.com users. » Visit the Showcase
Marc Juneau | Owner of NOLA Graphics
manages a dedicated team of techgurus producing dynamic, open-source-based CMS solutions and e-commercewebsites using both Wordpress and CubeCart. Based in New Orleans, Marc specializes in maximizing local search forsmall businesses and corporations targeting the Gulf Region. While pursuing his degree, Marc worked for GoDaddy, becoming Director of Training and Development. » Visit NOLA Grpahics
Clayton J. White | Director of South Coast Angel Fund
The South Coast Angel Fund LLC (South Coast) is a member-managed angel venture capital fund designed to utilize the capital, resources, and expertise of its members to profit from its investments in entrepreneurial, early-stage companies, primarily within the Gulf Coast community. Our membership consists of a number of the region’s leading investors, entrepreneurs, and business leaders... » Visit South Coast Angel Fund
Ron Domingue | Creative Director, Ron Domingue Studios
Ron Domingue is a Louisiana-based designer, illustrator and technologist. He provides design solutions for improving user experience for multiple platforms and devices. He also helps clients migrate to current web standards for scalable content and accessibility and consults with businesses to utilize social media marketing to enhance customer relations. A proponent of emerging open source technologies namely WordPress. » Ron's Design Studio
Justin Shattuck | All Around Maniac & Director of Just the Web
I’m a normal guy; with a great personality and wonderful friends. I keep pretty busy between my professional career while juggling numerous ventures like my design and development company. If my name rings a bell it's because I'm also a wordpress plugin developer. I've made some pretty popular plugins in the past like "Comment Relish" and "www redirect"... I'll be at WordCamp NOLA... if I can stumble my way to the plane » Visit Just the Web
Damien LaManna | Digital Media Director, Morgan and Company
Coming to Nola from our nation's Capital, Damien spent the past few years crafting Pollie Award-winning (think Oscars for politics) online campaigns for a D.C. based public affairs firm. Today, he implements integrated interactive tactics for Morgan and Company and recently launched Zymeaux, a local mobile marketing startup. Damien is also a co-founder/organizer of the burgeoning tech-community organization Net2NO. » Visit Morgan and Company
Anthony Patton | President of W. Anthony Patton Agency
Anthony Patton is the President / CEO of W. Anthony Patton Agency, A Multi-Media, Marketing, and Recruiting Agency. W. Anthony Patton Agency is a full service agency geared toward the specific markets of Community Outreach and engagement. Currently, his media division reaches more than 100,000 diverse individuals each week and his marketing division reaches individuals globally through the use of his online methodologies. » Visit Do-Wap
David Link | Creative Director for Gatorworks
I am a 24 year old Web Designer/Developer living and working in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I’m currently employed at Gatorworks Web Design as Creative Director. I am an advocate for web standards and practice fully-compliant (X)HTML & CSS. I am passionate about the future of web design and I strive to share that passion with others through my words and my work. » Visit Gatorworks
