WordCamp Phoenix 2011
Ravensteed (also known as MRI Optimize Consultants) helps sponsor Phoenix Wordcamp 2011 on January 26-31, 2011
WordPress is the most commonly used open source web CMS (content management system). While WordPress started out as an open source blogging platform back in 2003, it was written by Matt Mullenweg. Because the “open source community” believes that internet tools should be free, many have provided and written modular “plug-ins” and widgets that can be plugged into the design templates or themes and tailored to the use of the owner. Some template and plug-in upgrades require nominal payments, but much of the work requests donations for the hours of time individual coders invest into sharing their knowledge, and getting credit for the development they share with the WordPress open source community.
Thirteen percent of the largest 1,000,000 websites are built using WordPress, and version 3.0 has been downloaded over 12.5 million times since August 2010. Featured speakers are offering their expertise in how to build, maintain and operate a WordPress based website. Many attending range from open source developers, plug-in coders to beginning bloggers and website creators. Some of the bloggers or SMEs (subject matter experts) attend to learn how to better use WordPress for their specific and tailored purposes.
Ravensteed representatives have been involved in Social Media since before “Social Media” actually had a name. Members in our group had our first websites up back in the 1990′s, and have integrated into the social media community to learn, share and grow.
It’s no wonder then, that we are involved in WordCamp Phoenix 2011 as both sponsors, and helpers. We believe in helping others find their online voices!
The unique and beautiful artwork done by Amanda Hawkins is profoundly representative of an “Out West” attitude and theme, but the functional Wordcamp website was done by none other than Chuck Reynolds, a master of WordPress and one of the featured speakers for the past several Phoenix Wordcamps.
Western motif used for the outlaw impassioned WordPress custom website for WordCamp Phoenix 2011.
Along with other well known names such as Microsoft, Cox Communications, NameCheap, Page.ly, Vaultpress, PollDaddy, rYnoweb and more, MRI Optimize Consultants, who specialize in helping radiology centers and hospitals with getting the most out of their MRI systems through improving image quality, patient throughput and combination marketing.
In summary, we had a great time spending one of the days with Boone Gerges, who runs the largest WordPress website in the world, CUNY, with twenty-three locations, and with sponsors sharing their samples, and with other teachers from around the country, all brought together by the incredible Amanda Blum and Chuck Reynolds, the main organizers of the largest WordPress Wordcamp event (until Jan 2011) numbering over 700 attendees.
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