Perhaps one of the most experienced WordPress Plugin Developers around, Alex King delivers the final presentation at WordCamp Utah. King got involved in WordPress when it was born from b2 and has stayed involved in a variety of ways: coding, authoring plugins, theme competitions and most recently offering consulting and custom development services through his [...]

Ash Buckles is a web developer turned web marketing ninja. Buckles is the Director of Web Marketing Services at Axis41 and works with clients large and small. Buckles offers suggestions and insights on how to increase traffic to your blog via SEO, SEM, Blog Marketing, and PPC. He takes questions from the crowd (and the [...]

Thom Allen, my fellow co-host from PodCampSLC, delivers a pragmatic and insightful presentation about how to incorporate audio and video podcasts into your WordPress blog. Not only is it easy to do technically, Allen points out the key things you can do to increase traffic to your site and grow your subscribers.
Thom’s slides are available [...]

Cameron Moll, a web designer and creative director, gives suggestions and advice on creating a good design for a blog. Moll draws from many examples in real life and shows tricks such as grayscaling and blurring to help design so that important information pops off the screen.

Richard Miller works with over 100 blogs. He’s seen and developed many blogs using WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS). Miller talks about how Pages vs. Posts can be used for non-blog-like sites.
NOTE: Some Twitter users at the event felt this presentation included too much religious, “Mormon” content. This is the space where [...]

Matt Mullenweg, the founder of Automattic, visits Utah and gives a “State of the Word” speech to attendees. WordPress and it’s growth in the online business (WordPress.org) or from downloads for self hosting (WordPress.com) shows that blogging is going mainstream. Hear Matt provide the details in his keynote.
Special thanks to Jake Spurlock for putting [...]

Here’s a quick video flyby of all the pretty faces at Utah’s WordCamp. Matt Mullenweg keynotes, Alex King speaks, Thom Allen and many more local users present.

WordPress was downloaded for self-installs by over 11 milion times in 2008.
5.7 million blogs at WordPress.org
6.5 billion page views
5 billion spam messages were caught by Automattic’s Akismit (thanks Matt [...]

Wendia AG International, a privately-held European software company founded in 1990, is setting up their North American headquarters in Utah. Wendia provides best-in-class Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) based service management solutions to hundreds of organizations worldwide. ITIL is the de-facto global standard in the area of Service Management, and contains comprehensive and public technical [...]

As broadband connectivity spreads around the world, IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) is beginning to reshape the industry. In 2007, the number of households using telco / IPTV services grew to over 14 million worldwide (Parks Associates, April 2008). That number is expected to grow to more than 80 million households by 2011 (Strategy Analytics, January [...]