WordCamp 2013 Talks in Review

As the talks are ongoing today at WordCamp, I thought it would be best to collect all the talks, and speaker details, together in one quick-look post.

Jen Mylo – Keynote
Jas Panesar – Problem Based Selling VS Solution Based Selling
Vincent Smuda – Shortcode Shenanigans
Theron Smith – Keeping up with the Joneses
Nick Keyko – Your website/app/product/technology/idea is going to fail.
Glenn Walker – Google Analytics: The Swiss army knife for bloggers, designers and developers.
Micah Slavens – Sure-fire Secrets to Win Over Clients
Sarah Patzer – Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Keyword Research and Probably a Few Things You Didn’t
Shaun Brandt – Designing the Invisible – A Framework for User-Centered Design
Cameron Service – The 6 Types of Work that Fill your Day.
Mo Jangda – Caching; for fun and profit.
Vasken Hauri – Better Living Through Code Scanning
Kyle Huberman – Shedding light on “alternative” methods to the website design and development process
Kim Bruce – What Everybody Ought to Know About the Visual Art Website
Kasia Gawlak – Up by the Bootstrap: Building Mobile-Responsive Custom WordPress Themes with Bootstrap Development Framework
Jon Pearkins – Surviving WordPress’ English and PHP Bilingualism
Jody Bailey – Design, development, and content aren’t all you have to master. You gotta be good people too.

WordCamp 2013 is here…

Welcome to the party everyone.

WordCamp Edmonton 2013 is upon us, starting bright and early tomorrow morning. For more details on who is attending the conference (for networking/flirting [jkjk] purposes) check out the Attendees page.

The hastag for @wordcampyeg is #wcyeg, so find us there, and join the conversation… I am also wondering if anyone will be live-blogging the event? Is that on anyone’s agenda? Please feel free to let me know in the comments… and we can SET YOU UP!

Schedule Updated

We have a jam packed day of all things Web Design, Development and Content coming up this Friday at WordCamp Edmonton 2013. So jam packed in fact that we had to rejig the schedule a touch just to fit in all the awesome. Take a peek at the revised schedule, and bring a hat, to minimize clean up when your mind is blown from all the excitement.

If you are still looking for tickets, check out the comments to this post.

Full Schedule now Posted!

The full WordCamp Edmonton 2013 schedule is now posted… take a peek so that you can plan your conference accordingly, and make the most of WordCamp Edmonton. It is coming up pretty quick, it is less than a week away, before to bring your laptop, some business cards, a notepad and a willingness to learn new things … We are very much looking forward to seeing you there!

Sold Out

Happy to announce that WordCamp Edmonton 2013 is now sold out. If you are looking for tickets, add a comment here and there may be someone who can not go, it is like a waiting list!

Tickets are now ON SALE

Alright folks, the day has finally arrived. Tickets are now available for WordCamp Edmonton 2013! As a reminder, it’s a one-day conference that is going down Nov 15 at Startup Edmonton. Get a ticket for yourself, get one for your boss or coworker, get one for your best friend, or your best enemy.

Get one for whoever, but get it soon, because it will sell out: https://2013.edmonton.wordcamp.org/register/

Thank you to sponsors thus far…

Sponsors of WordCamp Edmonton 2013 give back to their community to support many of Edmonton’s best web designers, content managers & authors, web developers, and WordPress wizards and wizards-in-training! So we wanted to take an opportunity now before tickets go on sale October 25th, to thank all the sponsors of WordCamp Edmonton 2013, they are:

bluehost
WiredTree
Code Poet
Startup Edmonton
DreamHost
thinkmojo
Paper Leaf
Flagship
Curlybird Design
ShareEdmonton

For more information on each of these incredibly generous companies, check out their details on under Sponsors.

If you would like to sponsor WordCamp Edmonton 2013, there is still time for you to Become a Sponsor!

The most delicious cupcakes in the world care of Minibites, photo by Mack Male on Flickr

Confirming Speakers and Schedule

Things are coming together for WordCamp Edmonton 2013. We are confirming speakers, and the schedule for the day as we speak and tickets will go on sale later this week. We are all very, very excited.

WordCamp Edmonton 2013 – Coming Soon!

That’s right! WordCamp YEG 2013 is a hurtling train of awesomeness whose momentum can’t be stopped. We’re working out the details right now, but we’re looking at a 1-day, ultra-focused and superultramegaradical 2-stream (design/development and content/business) conference held at Startup Edmonton on November 15 2013. Make sure to follow us on Twitter to keep abreast of all the announcements, like location, exact date, speakers, and so forth.

Right now, though, we’re looking for speakers and we’re looking for sponsors. Help make WordCamp Edmonton the cat’s pajamas by sharing your knowledge, sponsoring the event, or at the very least, helping us find people and businesses to do those very things!

A List of Shared Slides: WordCamp Edmonton 2012

Here’s a running list of presentation slides shared by our speakers at WordCamp Edmonton 2012. We’ll be updating as more get posted; these slides are free to view/download as well!

@korymath – Kory Mathewson – Dev Work Flow
@walkergv – Glen Walker – Is This Relationship Right For You? Tools for Evaluating Relationships
@FunctionWriting – Kelvin Cech
@12strong – Gabrielle Fitzgerald
@jfaid – Julian Faid
@kylefox – Kyle Fox – typesetting the web