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Portland presents at WordCamp Las Vegas

Rick Turoczy on January 10, 2009

WordCamp Las VegasThis weekend, a number of Portland folks made the trek down south for WordCamp Las Vegas, a gathering of WordPress users akin to our own WordCamp Portland.

Three members of the Portland tech community—Aaron Hockley, Geoff Kleinman, and Lorelle VanFossen—took to the stage to present. Which is a really big deal, given that the attendees at this event are very much a who’s who of the WordPress community and the world of blogging, including Matt Mullenweg (the creator of WordPress), Chris Brogan, Liz Strauss… the list goes on and on.

Aaron Hockley’s talk “Beyond Beer and Blog,” described the growing Web tech scene here in town and highlighted some of the key factors that contributed to building such a successful community.

The presentation was so exceedingly good—and so well received—I’ve embedded it below for your viewing pleasure. It’s the weekend. Kick back and spend a few minutes hearing about how we got where we are today.

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Geoff presented on techniques and tips for managing team blogs with large numbers of contributors. You can watch his presentation on the WordCamp Las Vegas Ustream channel.

Unfortunately, at the time of this post, the always incomparable Lorelle had not yet had her presentation archived. (I’ll link it up when it’s available. [Update] Or not. See Aaron’s comment below.) She presented on measuring traffic and what it means to bloggers. No doubt with a mention or two of Woopra.

WordCamp Las Vegas continues through Sunday. It is being streamed live if you’d like to tune in.

Published by Rick Turoczy

More than mildly obsessed with the Portland startup community. Founder and editor at Silicon Florist. Cofounder and general manager at PIE. Follow me on Twitter: @turoczy

  1. shamsher August 20, 2012 at 4:36 am

    i like it

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  4. Lorelle January 11, 2009 at 1:38 pm

    I’m hoping to get this recovered – if not, I’ll have to ask for a redo. 😀

    We so rocked in Las Vegas at WordCamp. We’re bringing back a ton of energy and lessons learned in prep for the next WordCamp PDX. YEAH!

  5. Aaron Hockley January 11, 2009 at 9:18 am

    Thanks for the kind words.

    Sadly we found out this morning that due to internet access issues, the video of Lorelle’s presentation was lost into the void. She did a great job starting off talking about stats in general (which matter, and which really don’t) and then gave an in-depth look at Woopra.

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