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WCDFW09 W4H1: Josiah Platt

Matthew — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:46:38 +0000

Here is the third installment of W4H1..

I had the pleasure of meeting Josiah Platt at the 2009 DFW Wordcamp. Seems like a really cool guy.

Who: Meet Josiah.
What: Josiah is a front-end designer & developer. He is also the Director of Web Techonologies at Project 7 and also the co-founder of Magnt. Currently he uses WordPress to run his personal blog and uses it for the majority of his clients.
When: Josiah got into wordpress way back when it was first kicked off and has been hooked ever since. He has experimented and used other CMS solutions but he still swears by wordpress.
Where: Josiah is from Dallas, Texas.
How: Josiah is using wordpress in a multitude of ways, but to sum up how excited he was when describing it to me: “WordPress is the easiest, most usable, accessible solution.”

For more info on Josiah, check him out at his blog and follow him on twitter.

Be sure to check out his projects Magnt and Project 7.

If you are a member of the #WCDFW09 WordPress community then let me know on twitter and I can get your W4H1 too!

WCDFW09 W4H1: Kyle Steed

Matthew — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:47:12 +0000

Here is the second installment of W4H1..

I had the pleasure of meeting (again) Kyle Steed at the 2009 DFW Wordcamp.

Who: Meet Kyle Steed.
What: Kyle is a Web + Graphic Designer. He uses WordPress to run his blog and a new endeavor Chat Creative.
When: Kyle started playing with WordPress on wordpress.com about 2 years ago.
Where: Kyle is from Huntsville, Alabama.
How: Kyle is using wordpress mainly to participate and contribute to the worldwide design community. He is also using wordpress to feature his work, ideas and most recently has started video blogging.

For more info on Kyle, check him out at http://kylesteed.com/ or follow him on twitter.

Also, follow Chat Creative for the latest info on developments. For quick what’s what with what Chat Creative is see this vlog post: http://kylesteed.com/2009/seven-eight-nine/.

Tony Cecala: Turbocharge Your Career with WordPress

Matthew — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:33:39 +0000

Some highlights from Tony C’s talk.

The wordpress advantage.

Stable.
Mature.
Good-Looking.
Open.
Extensible.
Own your own data.
Dominate the search engines.
Easily Manage Multimedia.
Easily Manage External Data.

To see the full slideshow, Tony C has kindly added it to Slideshare.net already.

Wordcamp Dallas/Ft. Worth 2009

Matthew — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:21:05 +0000

I’m super excited to have a spot to this years sold out wordcamp dfw . I’m going to try and post some cool things I come across as it happens. Yay iPhone + WP app…

I’ve never been to wordcamp so I have no idea what to expect at all.

I’ve never done mobile coverage of an event before either, so I have no idea what to expect there either.

Should be an interesting weekend, come say hi, I’d love to meet you if you are here. You can find me on Twitter @m_a_simo too.

Stay tuned!