Author Archives: Brandon

Austin Passy

By Brandon | Published: April 21, 2010

Austin Passy is a freelance web designer and WordPress developer. Austin built a WP centric site “WPCult” and sold it this year, he’s also been known to build a few plugins. He was the Organizer of SoCal’s first WordCamp: WordCampLA 2009, and is getting ready to start planning for 2010.

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Let’s Share the Love

By Brandon | Published: April 19, 2010

The countdown begins. We’re less than a week away from Orange County WordCamp and we’re stoked about all the stuff we have for you. But, we want to go bigger. A lot of you are coming to Orange County WordCamp, but there are people all across the world who can’t make it to the conference [...]

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Unconference/Ignite Sessions

By Brandon | Published: April 17, 2010

@Mac_Boy mentioned a sort of niche topic in a comment on the CMS talk teaser post. It got me thinking…Is anyone interested in giving some short informal talks during lunchtime? We have the rooms all day, so we might as well use them. The topics can be anything you’re comfortable presenting on (hopefully WordPress/blogging/Internet related) [...]

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Lucy Beer

By Brandon | Published: April 17, 2010

Lucy Beer of Web Training Wheels is an online marketing professional of 8+ years. She has a background in constructing and executing online marketing campaigns for small business, entertainment and art clients. These days she loves to teach small businesses and entrepreneurs how to develop their online marketing strategies. She has been using WordPress since [...]

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5 Lucky Attendees

By Brandon | Published: April 17, 2010

Thanks to Wiley (@WileyTech), publisher of all kinds of awesome WordPress books, five lucky attendees will be walking away from Orange County WordCamp with one of the fine titles shown below. Professional WordPress WordPress 24-Hour Trainer Smashing WordPress WordPress Bible Teach Yourself VISUALLY WordPress

Posted in Community Support, General Awesomeness, Sponsors | Tagged Wiley, WordPress Books, WordPress Raffle, Wrox | 2 Comments

Last Call For Tshirts

By Brandon | Published: April 13, 2010

Ladies and gents, we’re getting ready to put in our order for the t-shirts that you get with your ticket. I’m sure there are some of you who are waiting for the last minute to buy tickets, but if you do that, you might be left with a shirt that doesn’t fit you (or one [...]

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Oops! Did I Scare You?

By Brandon | Published: April 1, 2010

You may have noticed a little grey box that says “Woopra” at the bottom right hand side of your browser when you visit this site and may not have thought anything of it. It’s a simple thing to overlook, but I can assure you that it’s something you should be paying a lot of attention [...]

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Checking in With UC Irvine

By Brandon | Published: March 31, 2010

Here’s a little back story on why we chose UCI as our venue. First off, UCI wasn’t our first choice. As a graduate from Chapman University in Orange, I thought it would have been be a perfect venue for OC WordCamp. It’s small, central to Orange County and has a good community. Unfortunately, they don’t [...]

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The End of An Era

By Brandon | Published: March 28, 2010

My WordPress branded pen just ran out of ink. I got this pen at my very first WordCamp, WordCamp San Francisco 2009. It lasted me only a year, but with that pen, I’ve proudly planned and executed many WordPress projects. Lucky for me (and for you), Orange County WordCamp is right around the corner and [...]

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