Charlotte WordCamp 2008 Wrapup

Charlotte’s first blogging conference had ended. On the day of the conference, we had 120 attendees.

Keep an eye out for these upcoming post on the blog:

• Event feedback form summary
• Full video from the event
• Plans for the coming year

Here is a wrap-up so far:

• Check these tag roundups for “CLTwordcamp”  Flickr - Youtube – Twitter
• Ben Ullman’s take on his interaction with other Twitter users at the event
• Slide shows from the event, keynote and panels
• Corey Creed’s interview with be about Charlotte WordCamp 2008
• Don’t forget the elevator guy (he was trapped for an hour)

Other accounts of the event:

• Fifty Something Man
• Barnett Websites
• Innovate This Roundup
• Church Crunch
• Trench Reynolds
• Mr. R’s Blogspot 2.0
• Jody Farrad

Originally posted at JasonKeath.com

Feedback Please?

Tell us what you loved, hated, and secretly mocked. Or just build our egos a bit, your call. The official Charlotte WordCamp 2008 Feedback Survey.

Thanks for everyone’s support.

Slide Shows CLTwordcamp

The keynote and panel slide shows for your reference.

Promotion Panel – Corey Creed on SEO

Still more video to come, just posting some snippets as they get uploaded. Video by @jakrose, Corey Creed can be found here.

Content is King – Sarah Aarthum speaking at CLTWordcamp

Much more video coming. This is just a sample. Thanks to Stormncast on Twitter for video.

Twitter Love at WordCamp

At the beginning of CLTwordcamp, the 120 person audience was asked “Who doesn’t know what Twitter is?” It had already come up in conversation a few times. 1 person raised her hand. I am sure there were a couple other shy folks, but to say the least, Twitter was represented well at the conference.

Here is the CLTwordcamp tag on Twitter. Ben Ullman also wrote a good post on his interaction with other Twitter users at the event.

Man Stuck in Elevator at CLT WordCamp

Don’t worry, we got him out in time for lunch. UPDATE: His account of it here.

CLTWordCamp, blogging, participation & introductions

We’re almost halfway through CLTWordCamp , the morning started off with short 20 seconds introductions from the entire room, that went surprislly fast & well. Then we broke up into two sessions, 1. a WordPress for Beginners and the others had an open discussion (camp style) on wordpress.

We just finished our session on Technical & Design of WordPress and now it’s lunch time. Of course to follow the conversations do a search on #CLTWordcamp using search.twitter.com.

Welcome our Panel Speakers

Thanks to the following people for helping us as our first round of Panel Speakers:

• Brian Cary – BrianCary.com @briancary
  
• Peter St. Onge – The Ballot, Charlotte Observer
  
• Sarah Aarthun – Paid to Party, Charlotte Observer
  
• Justin Ruckman – CLT Blog @jruckman
  
• Corey Creed – Hippo Internet Marketing @charlotte_seo
  
• Lisa Hoffmann – New Media Lisa @lisahoffmann
  
• Donna Maria Coles Johnson – Indie Business Blog @indiebusiness
• Jason Keath – The Stratius Group @jakrose
  

We have a few more on the way, and all will add a lot of value to the day’s programming. Be sure to check out their websites and look them up on twitter

Tentative Schedule

• 10:00 – 11:00: WordPress for Beginners
• 10:00 – 11:00: WordPress.org Roundtable
• 11:30 – 12:15: Tech/Design Panel
• 12:15 – 01:00: Lunch
• 01:00 – 01:45: Content Panel
• 02:00 – 02:45: Promotion/Marketing Panel
• 03:00 – 04:00: Keynote Speaker (w/ Q&A) – Mark Jaquith

15 minute breaks (Lunch: 45 minutes)