Author: Jennifer Bourn

You know that feeling when you wrap up a show you’ve been watching and you’re not sure what to watch next? I hate that feeling!

With my kids, I watch The Flash, Green Arrow, Super Girl, and Legends of Tomorrow — and all have new seasons out on Netflix, so we’re slowly working our way through the new episodes. Right now Brian, my husband and business partner, and head organizer of the Sacramento WordPress Meetup, and I just finished Halt And Catch Fire, Sense8, Bloodline, and Iron Fist — all were good but slow and now we’re on the hunt to see what we should watch next.

I want the next show I start to be awesome and I don’t want to waste time on a dud, so let’s see what our WordCamp 2017 speakers are watching… maybe we’ll all get some ideas for the future!

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Amanda McCoy

amanda-mccoy-design.com | @AmandaRaoul

After studying art and printmaking in college, Amanda eventually found work doing freelance print production at several San Francisco advertising agencies. She got a staff position at Young and Rubicam and worked there for many years. Seeking more meaningful work she attempted a career change to animation, but was discouraged by an uncertain job market. So she started her own graphic design studio in 2012. In 2014 she expanded her offering to WordPress websites. She is very excited to be back in graphic design and running her own business. She loves the work, with it’s combination of the aesthetic and the functional.

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AJ Morris

ajmorris.me | @ajmorris

I’m a Product Manager for Liquid Web, a fully managed hosting company. I work on various WordPress products and initiatives focusing on open-source, community, and spreading the love of WordPress. I have been involved with the WordPress community since 2006, working with theme and plugin companies in support and project management positions. In my spare time I love to travel and spend time with my lovely wife and newborn daughter.

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Sarah Wefald

zeek.com | @sarahwefald

Sarah Wefald came to WordPress and Zeek Interactive the long way. She started out as a project manager at a major record label &#8212l the sort of job she had wanted since she had first thought it would be cool to work with musicians. However, that dream was soon met with reality in the music industry: half the company worldwide was laid off after the label was purchased and privatized. Determined that her career would not be over at 23, she went back to school while working temp jobs to learn web development and design.

After finishing the program, Sarah started transitioning from her marketing career to more technical work within the music industry, handling social media and webmaster duties for bands. Finding Steve Zehngut’s WordPress meetup group in Orange County allowed her to take her knowledge of PHP and apply it to WordPress web development. As a result, she has created and launched dozens of websites for brands and small businesses on her own, and runs the OC WordPress Web Designer’s meetup at Zeek’s offices on the first Monday of each month. She has presented at WordCamp Los Angeles (2013, 2014, and 2016) and WordCamp Orange County (2014), and served on the organizing committee for WordCamp Orange County in 2015, 2016, and 2017. She’s very happy that Zeek has allowed her to unite her original love of project management with her enthusiasm for WordPress.

Sarah holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Mount Holyoke College and a Diploma in Web Design from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh Online.

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Jonathan Trujillo

jontrujillo.com | jontrujillo

Jon is a designer and developer for Tytanium Ideas, a Digital Marketing and Website Agency in Rocklin, CA. He is a Husband, Dad, and Christian who loves technology and learning. Jon has been using WordPress for years as his go-to CMS for client websites.

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I know you’ve been waiting to see the official WordCamp Sacramento 2017 schedule and start mapping out the sessions you want to go to… and it’s finally ready!

I am so excited about our stellar lineup of speakers and sessions for this year’s event — and I hope that when you look at the schedule, you’ll be as excited as I am!

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Margaret Andrews

stickyreaders.com | @stickyreaders

Margaret is an author, freelance writer, teacher, and humor blogger who has been blogging since 2005. She has published two books on blogging: Sticky Readers: How to Attract a Loyal Audience by Writing More Better and Adventures in Blogville: A Creative Writing Guide for Teens. She authors the award-winning humor blog, Nanny Goats in Panties, and the blogging tutorial site, Sticky Readers. She is also the co-founder of the Sacramento Bloggers network and currently serves on the advisory board for the International Food Bloggers Conference. And… she uses WordPress for everything.

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Sacramento is the capital California — where you will find cultural attractions, cutting-edge cuisine, and rich Gold Rush history. Sacramento is home to the original Pony Express, first public art museum founded in the Western United States, the largest almond processing plant in the world, and three of only nine International World Peace Rose Gardens in the world. From historic Old Sacramento’s gold rush era boardwalks, the Railroad Museum, and Sutter’s Fort, to the theater, the ballet, and the brand new cutting edge Golden 1 Center, there is never a shortage of things to do when you visit Sacramento.

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Justin Sainton

zao.is | @JS_Zao

Justin Sainton is the founder of Zao, an agency based near Portland, Oregon. As a core contributor to WordPress and lead developer for the WP eCommerce project, Justin believes passionately in the philosophy of open source software. Working exclusively with WordPress and an array of other open-source technologies, Justin and Zao have provided creative and effective solutions for a wide variety of companies and associations ranging from Amazon to PayPal to Pitney Bowes. When not building the Zao empire or spending time with his beautiful wife and four incredible kids, Justin can be found enjoying the best espresso in Portland.

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WordCamp Sacramento 2017 Tickets are officially on sale!

WordCamp Sacramento, the only WordCamp in Northern California, is a truly inclusive community event that invites and welcomes anyone and everyone who is interested in or who uses WordPress in any way to come together for a weekend to collaborate, share, converse, learn, and grow.

This year we’re bringing you 42 sessions and a full day beginner curriculum that will teach new WordPressers how to use the software, update, and maintain their websites.

Of those sessions, we have 41 educational learning sessions, including a panel discussion on blogging monetization moderated by yours truly.

We’re also introducing an entirely new type of session… This year we’re testing a speed networking session, designed to help you meet as many people as possible while at WordCamp.

We all are so excited about WordCamp Sacramento 2017 and we want YOU to join us.

Get Your Ticket Now!

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WordCamp Sacramento tickets go on sale tomorrow — and I know what you’re thinking…

Where is the t-shirt information?

How will I know what size to order?

Don’t worry… we’re here to make sure you have all of the information you need to select the right size t-shirt, because trust me, the shirts for this year are my favorite yet and you’re going to want to wear it!

Below you’ll find all of the details on both styles of shirts we’ll be offering this year. If you have any questions, please let us know!

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In 2015 WordCamp Sacramento offered attendees 19 sessions to uplevel their WordPress game. Then in 2016, we moved to a larger venue, expanded to two tracks, and provided attendees with 31 different high-value sessions that inspired many and showed what’s possible with WordPress.

Now in 2017, we have again moved to a larger venue (one we won’t outgrow), expanded to three tracks of sessions, and are offering attendees 42 different educational sessions to choose from, PLUS an entire Beginner curriculum designed to teach new WordPress users how to use the software.

To say I’m excited about this event is an understatement! Once you check out the sessions, I know you’re going to be just as excited!

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Heather Hogan

hhogan.com | @hnhogan

Heather has been making websites since the dawn of this millennia. She has taken on many roles in the communications sphere including: webmaster, designer, developer, artist, project manager, event coordinator, and marketing specialist. She has had the pleasure to work with organizations like the Sacramento Public Library, The Nature Conservancy, The World Economic Forum, Sacramento State University, and the City of Rocklin.

Currently, she divides her time teaching web design and digital illustration at Sacramento City College, performing feats of web and print marketing for Sierra 2 Center, juggling freelance web projects and making fine art.

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Ah, Sacramento! The heart of California! What’s not to love? First you’ve got the Sac. Then all of that sweet Rament hiding in the middle. And finally the O at the end. So satisfying. It’s the whole package!

DreamHost is proud to be a sponsor of WordCamp Sacramento 2017!

Here’s a crazy statistic! On average we have 1.8 WordPress installations for every single customer at DreamHost. That’s a whole lot of WordPress all over our servers. With WordPress powering over a quarter of all sites on the web, it’s hard to see why anyone wouldn’t get excited about its incredible ability to give voices to the voiceless through lovingly-crafted lines of poetic code.

DreamHost supports WordPress with our time, with our talent, and with our technology. We’ve built incredible managed WordPress hosting options like DreamPress that make it run like lightning!

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Arsen Rabinovich

tophatrank.com | @tophatarsen

Arsen Rabinovich is the founder of TopHatRank.com LLC, a Los Angeles-based, Search and Social Marketing Agency that specializes in innovative digital marketing techniques for modern brands of all sizes.

Arsen has over 9 years of experience as a digital marketer specializing in SEO, some of his clients include brands like The Walking Dead, Beyond Yoga, and Hint Water. He’s built large social communities for fashion brands reaching millions of people, strategized and executed search and social marketing campaigns with million dollar budgets and has helped multiple brands recover from search engine penalties and devaluations.

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It’s that time again!

In a way it’s hard to believe that WordCamp Sacramento is just a couple months away, and in others, it can’t get here soon enough! It seems like we were just at WordCamp 2016… But now that summer and concert and festival season is here, it’s also time to ramp up the WordCamp Sacramento promotion.

This summer marks the 50th anniversary of the Summer Of Love. During this time, creativity flourished, there was an emphasis on sharing and community, and there was a feeling that anything was possible. The message sent to the world was one of love, peace, understanding, freedom, compassion, and respect.

Just as the Summer of Love was a gathering of people from all walks of life working together and sharing with a sense of community to create something wonderful for the world, WordCamps are gatherings of people of all skill levels and walks of life working together and sharing to create something wonderful for the WordPress community… and WordCamp Sacramento is no different.

This year we’re flying our hippie flag and embracing peace, love, and WordPress — and you might even see some tie dye.

WordCamp Sacramento, the only WordCamp in Northern California, is a truly inclusive community event that invites and welcomes anyone and everyone who is interested in or who uses WordPress in any way to come together for a weekend to collaborate, share, converse, learn, and grow.

And we want YOU to join us.

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