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title: 'Portland presents at WordCamp Las Vegas'
date: '2009-01-10T21:16:51-08:00'
type: post
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categories:
  - LasVegas
  - Oregon
  - Portland
  - WordCamp
tags:
  - 'aaron hockley'
  - Beer
  - 'beer and blog'
  - Blog
  - 'geoff kleinman'
  - 'las vegas'
  - 'lorelle vanfossen'
  - Portland
  - woopra
  - WordCamp
---

# Portland presents at WordCamp Las Vegas

[![WordCamp Las Vegas](https://i0.wp.com/siliconflorist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/imgwordcamplasvegas.jpg?w=925)](http://lasvegaswordcamp.com "WordCamp Las Vegas")This weekend, a number of Portland folks made the trek down south for [WordCamp Las Vegas](http://lasvegaswordcamp.com/ "WordCamp Las Vegas"), a gathering of WordPress users akin to our own [WordCamp Portland](http://siliconflorist.com/2008/09/29/wordcamp-portland-wordcampdx-2008/ "WordCamp Portland").

Three members of the Portland tech community—[Aaron Hockley](http://twitter.com/ahockley "Aaron Hockley"), [Geoff Kleinman](http://twitter.com/geoffk "Geoff Kleinman"), and [Lorelle VanFossen](http://twitter.com/lorelleonwp "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](http://ma.tt/ "Matt Mullenweg") (the creator of [WordPress](http://wordpress.org "WordPress")), [Chris Brogan](http://www.chrisbrogan.com/ "Chris Brogan"), [Liz Strauss](http://www.successful-blog.com/ "Liz Strauss")… the list goes on and on.

Aaron Hockley’s talk “[Beyond Beer and Blog](http://www.anotherblogger.com/2009/01/10/links-to-most-excellent-portland-things/ "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](http://sqrl.it/?876rp "Tweets about @ahockley and wordcamplv")—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](http://www.anotherblogger.com/2009/01/10/links-to-most-excellent-portland-things/ "Geoff Kleinman on managing team blogs").

Unfortunately, at the time of this post, the always incomparable [Lorelle](http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/wordcamp-las-vegas-will-rock-the-wordpress-community-this-weekend/ "Lorelle on WordPress on WordCamp Las Vegas") 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](http://woopra.com "Woopra").

WordCamp Las Vegas continues through Sunday. It is being [streamed live if you’d like to tune in](http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wordcamp-las-vegas "WordCamp Las Vegas on Ustream").