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Meet the WordCamp Omaha Speakers: Kevin Moser

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Kevin Moser is the webmaster for Peru State College in Nebraska. He graduated from the University of Nebraska in psychology, but learned web development from the school of hard knocks. He is so passionate about WordPress that he built Peru State’s new website on it. Work tends to dominate his life, but when he has free time he enjoys photography, bicycling, and writing.

Hometown: Elgin, Neb.

Contact: peru.edu | @VinMoser

SessionHappy Clients, Outstanding Outcomes

As web designers and developers, we often focus on the technical aspects of our jobs. Unfortunately, many of us struggle with an important part of a project – communication with our clients. It is an often overlooked piece of the puzzle, but it is directly correlated with outcomes and how the client feels we did our job. In this talk, we will look at communicating with clients and managing expectations in three broad phases of a project – pitching/planning, development, and launching/troubleshooting. Specifically, we will look at steps that will make the client feel involved and important. This level of involvement and communication will help keep clients happy through the entire process, giving us an outstanding outcome.

WordCamp Omaha 2015 is happening Oct. 10-11 at Metropolitan Community College’s Fort Omaha Campus. Get tickets today!

Thanks to AIGA Nebraska, Silver Sponsor!

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AIGA advances design as a professional craft, strategic advantage and vital cultural force. As the largest community of design advocates, we bring together practitioners, enthusiasts, and patrons to amplify the voice of design and create the vision for a collective future. We define global standards and ethical practices, guide design education, enhance professional development, and make powerful tools and resources accessible to all.

Contactnebraska.aiga.org | @AIGA_Nebraska

Sponsors like this one make WordCamp Omaha 2015 possible. Thanks, AIGA Nebraska!

WordCamp Omaha 2015 is happening Oct. 10-11 at Metropolitan Community College’s Fort Omaha Campus. Get tickets today!

Infinite Thanks to Our Community Sponsors!

Thank you to our generous WordPress community sponsors! These are sponsors who pledge to support the WordPress community in a certain region (or, in some cases, the whole world). Their support allows us to concentrate on creating stupendous, volunteer-organized events for the WordPress community.

Outstanding community sponsors:

bluehost_main_logoBluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over one million WordPress sites. Their goal is to provide outstanding hosting services and customer support for the best possible price. Bluehost is also constantly innovating and upgrading their services and infrastructure at no additional cost to their customers. Join the millions of other website owners that have already chosen Bluehost and see how they can help you with your site.

wiredtreelogo600wideWiredTree provides Managed VPS and Managed Dedicated Servers to WordPress users worldwide from our Chicago-based data center and offices. Every WT server is backed by 24×7 telephone support, ticket support with 15 minute average response times, and is fully managed and monitored by WiredTree to maximize uptime and minimize frustration. All servers come ready-to-run with cPanel/WHM and are optimized and security hardened with firewall and anti-spam out of the box. With experience in SSD technology, MariaDB, Memcached, WordPress plugins, server optimization, and LiteSpeed Web server, WiredTree can take your site’s performance to the next level.

mt-250x140-dkFrom its inception in 1998, (mt) Media Temple has been on a mission to help people and businesses succeed online. Over 125,000 customers in 100 countries now rely on Media Temple’s tools for domain registration, web hosting, business applications, virtual servers, and other cloud services to power more than 1.5 million websites. With 200 dedicated, U.S.-based employees, Media Temple takes pride in their 24/7 customer support. Their customers range from everyday people to top bloggers, creative professionals, and small businesses, as well as large enterprises like Starbucks, Adidas, Samsung, and Toyota.

jetpack-logo-horizontal-940x198Jetpack is a free WordPress plugin that simplifies managing your sites by connecting to WordPress.com. This connection enables Photon (global CDN for images), uptime monitoring, brute force protection, traffic-boosting tools, single sign on, multiple site management, and automatic or bulk plugin updates. Additionally Jetpack includes several features that help you customize the look-and-feel of your site without needing extra plugins. More information can be found at jetpack.me

Superb community sponsors:

GoDaddy_logo-1GoDaddy’s mission is to radically shift the global economy toward small businesses by empowering people to easily start, confidently grow and successfully run their own ventures. With more than 12 million customers worldwide and 57 million domain names under management, GoDaddy gives small business owners the tools to name their idea, build a beautiful online presence, attract customers and manage their business.

Splendid community sponsors:

wpmlOnTheGoSystems is the author of WPML and Toolset plugins. WPML turns WordPress websites multilingual. It works with caching, SEO and E-Commerce plugins, and allows the building of complete multilingual sites. WPML powers simple blogs as well as corporate and enterprise sites. OnTheGoSystems is always looking for exceptional people to join the team. To learn more about our products and open positions, you can visit: http://www.onthegosystems.com/

dh_logo-a-2014-940x198DreamHost is a global Web hosting and cloud services provider with over 350,000 customers and 1.2 million blogs, websites and apps hosted. The company offers a wide spectrum of Web hosting and cloud services including Shared Hosting, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Dedicated Server Hosting, Domain Name Registration, the cloud storage service, DreamObjects, and the cloud computing service DreamCompute. More information can be found at  http://dreamhost.com.

Call for Speakers Closing Thursday, Sept. 3

If you haven’t already done so, please answer our call for speakers by pitching your talk idea for WordCamp 2015 by no later than 5 p.m. (Central) Thursday, Sept. 3.

If you have any questions about how to apply, what makes for a good WordCamp talk, or anything else, please feel free to contact us via this site, at omaha@wordcamp.org or on Twitter.

We look forward to hearing from you, and hope you’re excited for Oct. 10 and 11!

Registration for WordCamp Omaha 2015 Now Open

Ticket sales for WordCamp Omaha 2015 are now open! Head on over to omaha.wordcamp.org/2015/tickets to secure your spot.

Tickets are $40 and will give you access to:

  • An amazing lineup of speaker presentations covering diverse WordPress-related topics throughout the day Oct. 10;
  • Lunch provided by Metropolitan Community College’s Institute for Culinary Arts on Oct. 10;
  • A secured spot at our after-party happening downtown (more details soon … ) the evening of Oct. 10;
  • Contributor Day and Community Help Room on Oct. 11, where you can learn how to help improve the WordPress Open Source Project and/or get free help on your WordPress projects from local experts;
  • A t-shirt and some surprise swag;
  • Our love and thanks for supporting WordPress and the Omaha WordPress Community.

We hope to see you there!