Who: Meet Mark Taylor.
What: Mark is the owner of TAYLORMARK, a Digital Life Service. They offer services in recover, support, banking and consulting. What are they using WP for? It runs their website!
When: Mark got into wordpress THIS MONTH! Can you believe that?! And his company was a WCDFW09 sponsor too, that is some quick work and adoption!
Where: Mark is from the big D.
How: He is using WP so he doesn’t have to rely on a coder/designer to make small changes, updates and modifications. “It just allows our business to be nimble. I get to prototype the site will satisfaction then publish it.”

Be sure and follow her on Twitter or check out his website. You can also follow his company on twitter at: http://twitter.com/taylormark.

The wordpress community in Dallas is still around, even if Wordcamp is over. If you’d like to introduce yourself and get to know some of us, let me know or @ me. I’d love to give you a quick interview and help introduce you!

Be sure and check out the DFW wordpress meet up group. We meet once a month and it is always a great time. If you are on twitter, we use the hashtag #dfwwp so you can follow the conversations there too.

Who: Meet Kat Rice.
What: Kat is the owner and a consultant for Veribatim web design and consultation. She is using wordpress in the following ways: running 90% of their clients on wp, they make custom plugins for wp too, and she also runs her personal blog on wp.
When: Kat got involved with wordpress about 2 years ago.
Where: Kat is from the Dallas area.
How: As far as how she is using wordpress, “it is the vehicle that her company reaches the goals and meets the needs of their clients. It is flexible and we would not be as effective without wordpress. I just believe in the platform.”

Be sure and follow her on Twitter or check out her website.

The wordpress community in Dallas is still around, even if Wordcamp is over. If you’d like to introduce yourself and get to know some of us, let me know or @ me. I’d love to give you a quick interview and help introduce you!

Be sure and check out the DFW wordpress meet up group. We meet once a month and it is always a great time. If you are on twitter, we use the hashtag #dfwwp so you can follow the conversations there too.

Who: Meet Steven.
What: Steven is a User Experience Designer for Telligent. He is using WordPress for his personal blog and client portfolios.
When: Steven first got into wordpress back in 2005.
Where: Steven is from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
How: WordPress helps meet Steven’s needs and goals because it is “easy & awesome.” He also loves the highly extensible nature of wordpress and that it is so flexible.

Be sure and follow him on Twitter or check out his website. Also, check out Telligent if you get a second.

If you’d like to be introduced to the WCDFW bunch, feel free to contact me or @ me on twitter M_A_Simo. We’d love to meet you and build the DFW wordpress community up, bit by bit. See some of the other W4H1′s from the 2009 Dallas Wordcamp.

I’ll be honest, I just had the idea to cover this event last night and I really had no idea how much effort it would take. It just seemed like a good idea at the time. I wanted to cover DFW Wordcamp 2009 from two perspectives, from what the speakers were talking about and who was in the audience hearing it.

I wanted to cover the attendees by a simple interview. I ask them the 4 w’s and 1 h (Who, What, When, Where, & How) and introducing them to the DFW WP community, that is it. Pretty simple huh?

You can follow along in the series here or request to be an interviewee on my twitter or simply leave a comment here.

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!

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/.

I had the pleasure of meeting Mike D. Merrill at the 2009 DFW Wordcamp.

Who: Meet Mike D. Merrill.
What: Mike is a Corporate Marketing Consultant.
When: Mike started using wordpress this past March.
Where: Mike is from New Mexico.
How: Mike is using WordPress to demonstrate expertise for clients and conduct research for a book that is bouncing around in his head.

For more info on Mike, check out his website or connect with him on twitter.

Point 1: Core Branding Value
- “Know your brand, know your audience.”

Point 2: Start Compelling Conversations

Point 3: Be an Asset: Add Value!

Point 4: Make friends, not fans.
- “Listen to your community, but don’t be changed by your community.”

Point 5: Show Appreciation.
- “Show appreciation, hit the reply button. Do it.”

Point 6: Take Breaks!
- “Give your audience a chance to miss you.”

Point 7: Always be Upgrading!
- “Kubrick is ok! Start, then upgrade.”

For more on Cali, visit her blog or at geekbrief.tv

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.

And Tony C taking the stage.

They have a RSS that is pulling in the hash tag: wcdfw09 from twitter and flickr so check that out for more coverage.

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