Welcome to WordCamp Cincinnati

The first-ever WordCamp Cincinnati will be held October 15-16, 2016 at The University of Cincinnati – Tangeman University Center. Cost is only $40 for the two-day event and includes lunch both days and a sweet t-shirt! Get your tickets here.

What is WordCamp?

WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. Attendees include aficionados, practitioners, website developers, agency owners, SEO experts, online commerce proprietors, and, hopefully, YOU!

Throughout WordCamp, attendees share experiences and insights about how they use WordPress to share ideas and execute business objectives.

What’s the Word on WordPress?

WordPress is a free, open source platform that enables quick and easy website, blog, or app development. The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine.

WordCamp Cincinnati will be held October 15-16, 2016 at the University of Cincinnati, in the Tangeman University Center.

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Thank You For Making WordCamp Cincinnati 2016 A Success!

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WordCamp Cincinnati 2016 would like to thank our sponsors, speakers, attendees and volunteers for an amazingly successful inaugural WordCamp.

Filled to near capacity, WordCamp participants enjoyed a friendly atmosphere where socializing and networking were actively encouraged. Speakers provided engaging and informative content. Sponsors provided both business expertise and financial support. Volunteers received the gratification of building a WordCamp community from an abstract concept into a vibrant reality.

If at any point you felt conflicted regarding which session to attend (because there were so many timely topics presented concurrently), fear not. Session recordings and presentations will be posted soon for review.

Did WordCamp whet your appetite for all things WordPress? Feed that hunger by joining our monthly WordPress Cincinnati Meetups.

We plan to make WordCamp Cincinnati an annual event. Please consider how you might wish to participate next year. Please share your experiences with your network – now, and in the future, as we begin to provide information regarding WordCamp Cincinnati 2017.

4 Ways to Use WordPress for eLearning and Online Courses

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We all know that WordPress is the best blogging platform around. It’s also the best way to create a full-blown website. But have you thought of using WordPress to teach, train, and make your job more efficient? With the explosion of technology, it’s easier than ever to create a learning center on your website. Here are 4 ways to use WordPress for training, eLearning and Online Courses.

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WordCamp Cincinnati – A No Politics Zone

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Swing state. Red state. Blue state. Donald. Hillary. She said. He said. Give us a break. Take a break.

Retreat into code nirvana at WordCamp 2016.  A well-functioning, agile website is a thing to behold. A thing of grace. Learn how to build something new. With facts. With skill. With enthusiasm. Leave your politics at the door. Register now. Debate? Sure, we’ll debate which plugins are best or which themes are our favorites. The rest? That can wait ‘til WordCamp Cincy concludes.

What You Need to Know For WordCamp This Weekend

It’s finally here! Cincinnati’s very first WordCamp will take place this weekend, October 15th and 16th, at the Tangeman University Center on the campus of the University of Cincinnati. We want to make sure you have all of the information necessary to make it the most enjoyable experience possible. With that in mind, this blog post will serve as an exhaustive resource to all of the details of this weekend’s event.

Directions to Campus

WordCamp Cincinnati will take place at the Tangeman University Center on the campus of the University of Cincinnati. It is a large campus, so we have compiled a series of detailed driving directions you can follow to help you navigate to CCM Garage, our recommended parking location:

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Parking

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If you are driving, we recommend that you park in CCM Garage,  an underground garage located next to the Tangeman University Center. To access the garage from Jefferson Avenue, turn onto Corry Blvd. At the end of Corry Blvd. you will pass halfway through a roundabout to enter the underground garage. Parking on the sides of the garage marked “Electronic Media” on any floor will put you closest to the venue. Once parked, take the elevator to the fourth floor exit of the garage. The weekend rate for parking in CCM Garage is $5 for an entire day. There is a pay machine on the ground floor of the parking garage, or the automated exit gates accept credit card.

Venue / Registration

Tangeman University Center

Registration begins at 8:00AM on Saturday. Once you’ve parked and have exited the parking garage on the ground level, you should see signs pointing toward the Tangeman University Center entrance. It is a very large slate-grey building with four floors. Registration can be found on the main floor of the building (this is actually the second floor of the building). Upon entering the main doors of the building, you should see the registration and information area directly in front of you. Registration is simple – simply tell our volunteers your name. They’ll locate your name badge, t-shirt, and a printed schedule, then point you in the right direction.

Sessions

All of the sessions will be located in one of two areas. The cinema is located immediately next to the registration and information area. This is where the Marketing track is located, and also where opening remarks and keynote sessions will take place. All other tracks are located on the fourth floor of the building in rooms 400A, 400B, and 400C. You can either take the stairs in the atrium of the building, or find an elevator in the corner opposite the food court restaurants and main entrance.

Coffee and refreshment stations will be available in both of these areas: outside the cinema and at the end of the hallway where the fourth floor rooms are located.

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Happiness Bar

Happiness Bar

We will have our very own “Happiness Bar”, a common staple of WordCamps. Bring any and all questions you have related to managing your website and our dedicated experts will be happy to offer their advice. You can find the Happiness Bar at the end of the hallway on the fourth floor, near the coffee and refreshments station.

After-Party

At the end of a long day of learning, why not wind down by enjoying drinks and chatting with other passionate members of our local WordPress community? Best of all, you don’t even have to leave the building! Our after-party will take place immediately after the last session on Saturday, at the Catskeller pub on the ground floor of the building.

Sunday

Don’t forget, we have two jam-packed days of sessions! All of the information above applies for both days, except that you will not need to re-register on Sunday (unless you are not able to attend Saturday). Simply bring your name badge you received on Saturday for entry. Because of this, opening remarks will begin at 9:00AM instead of 8:45AM on Sunday.

Register to Attend

It’s not too late to register! There are still have a handful of tickets available, so head on over to our Tickets page to get yours. We look forward to seeing you there.

A Big Thank You to All of Our Sponsors!

Thank You Sponors!

WordCamp Cincinnati is now just a week away! Can you believe it? If you haven’t already, you should register to attend while tickets are still available and subscribe to our blog using the form in the sidebar. We’ll be posting important details about the event this week so that you know what to expect on the 15th and 16th.

As we start to reflect on all of the work that has been put into planning Cincinnati’s first WordCamp, we can’t help but be grateful to the sponsors who have contributed to ensuring its success. We’re fortunate to have sponsors from both the local and broader WordPress community who are deeply interested in growing and bringing together the WordPress community. With that in mind, we wanted to give one last shout-out to all of our sponsors. Many will be in attendance at the event, so be sure to thank them in person when you see them!

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Last but Certainly Not Least, Our Final Speaker and Sponsor Introductions

With Cincinnati’s inaugural WordCamp only two weeks away and our full schedule now available, we hope that you’re as excited as we are to learn and connect with other passionate members of the local WordPress community in the very near future. Over the past several weeks, we’ve introduced you to the speakers and sponsors you can expect to hear, share, and benefit from during the two-day event. Today we’re happy to introduce the last of the speakers and sponsors that you can expect to meet at WordCamp.

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From Local WordCamps to WordCamp USA

Janette O'Shaughnessy

Janette M. O’Shaughnessy wears many hats. She is the Marketing Communications Manager at BiOWiSH Technologies, an upcoming biotechnology company headquartered in Cincinnati. She is also the founder of Murder Ink Agency which is a digital agency that works with select clients to build effective WordPress websites. Janette is also an avid WordCamp advocate, a cofounder of the Cincinnati WordPress Meetup and one of the founding organizers of WordCamp Cincinnati 2016.

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Command Line Interfaces for WordPress (WP CLI) and Learning Standards Around Accessibility

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Despite nearly 30 years of corporate experience in progressively more responsible IT roles, Patte Shetler found a great deal of value in attending WordCamps. She has attended about half a dozen WordCamps since September 2015.

Patte attended her first WordCamp while she was working full-time as a project manager for Dick’s Sporting Goods. Although the corporation had enterprise wide intranet, Patte was looking for a Content Management System (CMS) to use internally for her team. She knew that a WordPress website would be easy to deploy in conjunction with the corporation’s enterprise-level systems. She also understood that a WordPress website could be quickly available for her team’s immediate needs.

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Free Campy T-Shirt for Registrations Received by 10-1-16

WordCamp Cincinnati T-Shirt

Concert T-shirts. Sports team T-shirts. Political T-shirts. WordCamp Cincinnati T-shirts.

Start or expand your WordCamp Cincinnati T-shirt collection by registering for WordCamp Cincinnati now. Registrations received by October 1, 2016 will allow for shirt size selection. Registrations received October 2, 2016 or later may not include a T-shirts (dependent on availability and sizing). Register now to grow your hip and stylish T-shirt wardrobe.

Happiness Bar – No ID Required

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Instead of bartenders pouring spirits, at WordCamp Cincinnati 2016 we will have dedicated experts dispensing problem-solving advice. “Happiness Bars,” a feature at most WordCamps, provide a format for Camp attendees to get one-on-one advice for troubleshooting website issues. WordPress power users, with deep and broad WordPress expertise, voluntarily offer assistance to help solve particular WordPress issues.

Come to the Happiness Bar at WordCamp Cincinnati 2016 – you will find the knowledge gained is positively intoxicating.