(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The conference dedicated to free, open-source blog publishing application WordPress (www.wordpress.org), WordCamp will be coming to Phoenix, Arizona, next week, which for the first time will be streamed live for anyone who cannot attend.
According to its Thursday announcement, the day-long WordCamp (www.PHXWordCamp.com) on November 13 is aimed at helping attendees improve their WordPress websites. The event gives attendees access to influential insiders who specialize in dynamic topics such as Search Engine Optimization, website content, video blogging and online marketing. The conference includes key Internet leaders and game changers such as WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg and 43folders.com creator Merlin Mann.
Another highlight is sure to be the special round-table featuring Mullenweg, Joshua Strebel, president of Arizona web design and development agency Obu Web Technologies (www.obuweb.com), a and Chuck Reynolds, web strategist at rYnoweb (www.rynoweb.com).
“WordPress has helped so many businesses and people worldwide,” said Chuck Reynolds, a long-time WordPress developer and advocate, who is the key organizer for Phoenix WordCamp. “I’m excited to finally bring this great event to Phoenix, have it streamed live and recorded to share with everybody. We have a great line-up of speakers and topics, an Experts’ Bar to help with attendees’ questions. Our sponsor GoDaddy.com is pulling out all the stops to help make this one of the best WordCamps of the year!”
Web host and domain registrar GoDaddy.com (www.godaddy.com), which is based in Arizona, is sponsoring the Phoenix WordCamp, and streaming it to the public in its entirety, letting people from around the world to participate while the event happens. No other WordCamp has had streaming to the scale of this event. To participate online, users need to register in advance and then log in to see the event.
“We wanted to make Phoenix WordCamp accessible for everyone, not just people here in the Valley,” Go Daddy chief executive officer and founder Bob Parsons said in a statement. “More and more people are interested in learning how to maximize their online opportunities and this event is an excellent resource. We’re going to give this WordCamp some first-rate Go Daddy GO!”
WordPress is the most widely incorporated application in the popular Go Daddy Hosting Connection, with more than 1,000 installations every day. Go Daddy even has a special WordPress hosting plan.
