Sponsor Spotlight: BraveNewCode

May 3, 2012 by anartica • Comments Off on Sponsor Spotlight: BraveNewCode

Logo for Brave New Code

WordCamp NYC wants to thank BraveNewCode for coming as a Bronze Level sponsor! Much appreciated!

BraveNewCode Inc. is Canadian company that began in 2007 as a simple design & development portfolio for the work of Dale Mugford. In early 2008, software engineer Duane Storey climbed aboard contributing his extensive talents to the mix. Dale handles most of the front-end design & CSS, while Duane contributes his extensive programming skills to the mix, making BraveNewCode a full-blown web creation company. Uniquely, Dale and Duane share cross-over skills and a passion for quality and precision. Together, the projects and plugins they’ve built are thoughtfully created and maintained.

Their plugins include:

  • WPtouch Pro and WPTouch for mobile versions of your WordPress website
  • WordTwit Pro and WordTwit to push tweets from WordPress to Twitter
  • Piggy Pro to view sales data for your Woo Commerce, WP e-Commerce, Shopp or Cart 66 powered WordPress website.
  • Earth Hour a plugin that allows you to show support for the Earth Hour event and turn off your website’s lights.

BraveNewCode is also making strides to reduce their company’s ecological footprint with the goal of becoming carbon neutral. From their website:

BraveNewCode believes it is not an individual responsibility, but moreso a corporate responsibility to lead environmental initiatives and to help inspire others to take action.

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Sponsor Spotlight: WP Engine

May 2, 2012 by anartica • Comments Off on Sponsor Spotlight: WP Engine


Our great thanks to WP Engine for coming in as a Silver Level Sponsor for NYC WordCamp 2012!

In their own words:

QUIT WORRYING AND LET US RUN WORDPRESS FOR YOU
“We serve 100,000,000 requests daily, each one carefully and continuously tuned for speed, scalability, and security. We’re beloved by hundreds of bloggers from huge, popular sites down to small company home pages who care about their SEO ranking and their users’ experience. Perhaps best of all is our tech support, where only WordPress experts answer questions. As Mikhail Baryshnikov says, “Try it. You’ll like it”
“My site loads ridiculously fast, my page views are up, and my business is seeing the results. I rest easy at night with the level of support. My only regret: that I didn’t move to WP Engine sooner.”
– PHIL SIMON, AUTHOR OF THE AGE OF THE PLATFORM

How fast could your site be on WP Engine? Visit Speed.WPEngine.com for your results now.

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Speaker and Sponsor applications are closed!

April 30, 2012 by Andy Christian • Comments Off on Speaker and Sponsor applications are closed!

Yep, that’s right. We are no longer accepting applications for speakers or sponsors. Thanks for your interest, but we had to cut it off at some point, or we’d never get this WordCamp finished! There’s been an overwhelming response, both from potential speakers (over 100 applications received!), and generous sponsors, listed on the sidebar of our site (with a few more to come).

If you still want to give back to WordCamp, you have a couple of options left:

Volunteer

With such a huge WordCamp, we need an army of hard-working volunteers to keep things running smoothly. From the night before, folding T-shirts and alphabetizing name tags, to Sunday night cleanup, volunteers will make sure that we make this the Best WordCamp Ever. If you want to help us out, head on over to our Volunteer page, and sign up. We are only looking for a few more people, but we especially need folks who can help with running rooms during sessions and taking video.

Individual Sponsor Ticket

We will be opening up ticket sales here in the next couple of weeks, and alongside the regular ticket, we will be offering an Individual Sponsor Ticket, which will cost twice as much. You’ll get a notation on your event badge to show how much you care, and we’ll even tweet out your name when you buy the ticket.

We’re going to get right to work on choosing speakers, so stay tuned to this site for more information on the speaker schedule, ticket sales, and, of course, the totally awesome after party!

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Call for Volunteers

April 27, 2012 by Andy Christian • 2 Comments

With six weeks until WordCamp NYC, and an expected 800+ attendees there is plenty to do… and we need people to help. So, if you want to give back to the WordPress community and you’re in the NYC area, then consider volunteering for WordCamp NYC.

You’ll be working side-by-side with other community members, having fun, and putting together one of the largest WordCamps ever. Before the event we’ll need your help with preparation and setup. During the event we’ll need volunteers to assist with registration and food, help attendees find their rooms (our venue is large), get speakers setup, and anything else you can think of.

For more information on what we need help with, and to sign up, head on over to our Volunteer Page.

If you plan on volunteering, please sign-up now…don’t wait until the event.

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Sponsor Spotlight: 10 Up

April 26, 2012 by Kevin Cristiano • 3 Comments

We’d like to extend a big Thank You to 10 Up for Sponsoring WordCamp NYC.

Are you in need of an awesome WordPress implementation? Check 10 Up out.

10 Up has this to say about themselves:

10up is a premium web agency that imagines, builds, and grows amazing websites with WordPress. We serve an incredible group of clients, ranging from small family businesses to diverse WordPress.com VIP clients like TechCrunch, Universal Sports, and Trulia, to universities like Bates College and the University of Rhode Island. Our team includes rockstar WordPress core contributors and developers of the some of the best plug-ins on the repository.

At 10up, we value giving back to the community. That’s why we contribute employee time to free WordPress projects, release and support free plug-ins, teach at colleges and WordCamps around the country, volunteer our time to help run meet ups and WordCamps, and yes, sponsor events like this.

We’re always looking for new and engaging projects with customers looking for a partner who believes in doing it right the first time. A distributed shop with 10 full time employees around the country (and rapidly growing!), 10up is also always looking for new talent. Work from anywhere in the country with amazing developers, participate in conferences, and build amazing sites with WordPress. We’re hiring WordPress developers and a Marketing Coordinator.

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Sponsor Spotlight: Jetpack

April 25, 2012 by Kevin Cristiano • 2 Comments

WordCamp NYC wants to thank Jetpack for their support.

Supercharge WordPress with tools that help you to blog better and faster — all by activating a single plugin. Jetpack is a suite of great add-ons that are fully supported by the team behind WordPress.com.

With Jetpack…
you can get better feedback on your site’s popularity with WordPress.com Stats
never publish a typo again with After The Deadline
readers will love the social features from Sharedaddy (including sharing posts on Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon and many others)
Twitter Widget lets people know your latest 140-character thoughts
and there’s lots more!

Find out more, and download Jetpack, at Jetpack.me

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Sponsor Spotlight: Zemanta

April 24, 2012 by anartica • Comments Off on Sponsor Spotlight: Zemanta

Word Camp NYC 2012 wants to thank Zemanta for their support!

Zemanta enables content creators to make more compelling content by recommending contextually relevant content such as related images,videos, links to related articles and terms, and SEO optimized tags. It’s available on WordPress as native plugin and built into WordPress.com service, and best of all, it’s FREE! It’s blogging on steroids!

Zemanta brings you:

  • Links: Wikipedia, Amazon, IMDB, YouTube, Google Maps, CrunchBase, RottenTomatoes, MusicBrainz, MySpace, Last.fm, Snooth, Hulu, Wikinvest, Uptake, Muzu.tv,
  • Images: Getty, Flickr, Wikipedia
  • Articles: Major news sources like BBC and CNN and over 30,000 blogs

A simple point and click interface allows you to add only recommendations that you like. Recommended content is blogger friendly with clearly marked licenses (Creative Commons or similar).

Not having to search for related content saves you time and increases the efficiency of your editorial process. You can specify your own blog(s) and Zemanta will recommend links to your related posts!

Amazon affiliate support allows you to quickly link to books, music CD’s and DVD’s and earn money in the process.

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WCNYC Update

April 23, 2012 by Steve Bruner • Comments Off on WCNYC Update

We’ve been receiving emails, tweets and phone calls asking when tickets are going to go on sale, so thought this might be a good time to provide an update on the status of WCNYC:

SPONSORS

Sponsorship applications opened less than a month ago and support from the WordPress community has been amazing.  We will stop taking sponsorship applications on April 30, so if you want to support WCNYC now is the time.

SPEAKERS

The call for speakers went out less than three weeks ago and we have received an influx of applications… but we’re still looking for more! Please don’t wait until the last-minute to submit your application, do it now.  We are closing speaker applications on April 30 at midnight, so we can finalize the schedule the first week in May.  We will be notifying accepted speakers shortly thereafter, so you will have at least four weeks to prepare your presentation.

VOLUNTEERS

We will be opening volunteer registration soon. The immediate goal is to get a list of individuals who want to help us run WordCamp.  An in-person meeting will then be scheduled where we will discuss actual shifts. You will be entitled to a free ticket if you volunteer at least four hours.

TICKET SALES

Tickets will go on sale the first week of May!  If you plan on volunteering for more than four hours, do NOT buy a ticket since you may qualify for a free one.

See you in June!

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Sponsor Spotlight: nRelate

April 19, 2012 by Kevin Cristiano • Comments Off on Sponsor Spotlight: nRelate

If you want to increase page views (and make some extra money doing it), you will want to install an nRelate plugin.  Each product has been proven to increase pageviews by 4%-9%, and their advertising option can make you a few extra bucks as well .

nRelate creates the best content plugins to help bloggers and publishers increase their pageviews and revenues. Currently running on over 30,000 WordPress sites, nRelate’s plugins are responsible for millions of extra page views every day. You can find nRelate’s three plugins at WordPress.org:

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Sponsor Spotlight: Wordnik

April 18, 2012 by anartica • Comments Off on Sponsor Spotlight: Wordnik

 

   Our great thanks to Worknik for their support of WordCamp NYC 2012!
   Wordnik helps both bloggers and casual readers find and discover meaningful content. Their first product, wordnik.com, is the world’s largest online dictionary, powered by “word graph” technology which understands the complex relationships between all the words in the English language. Now, they are bringing our word graph and discovery technology to WordPress.Wordnik is designing unique and ground-breaking WordPress plugins that will take your blog to the next level. With their content discovery engine, Wordnik can help your readers discover interesting content and help you, the blogger, add related content to your posts. Together, these tools will help you understand your readers better, turn casual readers into engaged members of your community, and help you build a community of bloggers with shared interests and linked posts.
   Interested in learning more about Wordnik? Take a quick survey that will help us make it even better and sign up for our beta release.
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