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Meet the WordCamp Omaha Speakers: Christoph Trappe

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Christoph Trappe is a career storyteller who has worked as a journalist, a nonprofit executive, and a content marketing strategist and consultant. His digital initiatives have been recognized globally. He is currently helping hospitals across the United States share their authentic stories.

He is a globally-recognized content marketing expert who frequently speaks at global conferences – including Content Marketing World – about social media, blogging and executive buy-in. The Content Marketing Institute acknowledged him as a 2014 and 2015 Top 100 Most Influential Content Marketer. Among other awards, he was also named a most influential content marketer on Twitter by London-based Axonn Media.

Hometown: Marion, Iowa

Contactauthenticstorytelling.net@ctrappe

Session: How to Use the Jetpack Plugin to Build Audience

The Jetpack plugin has come a long way and can help us grow our audience through:

  • Enewsletters
  • Automatic social sharing
  • Build-in metrics that are easy to review
  • Automated related posts
  • And many other great features

Master storyteller and global speaker Christoph Trappe will share how he has doubled his blog traffic through at least weekly content, keyword research and the strategic use of the Jetpack plugin.

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

Register by Sept. 23 to Make Sure You Get Your T-Shirt and Lunch!

Make sure you get tickets to WordCamp Omaha by the end of the day Wednesday, Sept. 23 to ensure that you get a t-shirt and lunch delivered on Oct. 10!

We will have tickets available after Sept. 23 (as long as we don’t sell out!), but you must register by then to guarantee that you get an awesome keepsake t-shirt and tasty free lunch from Metropolitan Community College’s Institute for Culinary Arts.

Remember, just $40 gets you access to:

  • all of awesome sessions Oct. 10 and 11;
  • a t-shirt;
  • free lunch;
  • networking opportunities with WordPress designers, developers and writers from across the country;
  • Contributor Day and Happiness Bar Oct. 1;
  • WordPress swag;
  • our thanks for supporting the WordPress community;

… so sign up today!

WordCamp Omaha Just One Month Away

Our two days of WordPress awesomeness — Oct. 10 and 11 — are coming up fast! If you haven’t yet registered, get tickets before they’re gone.

Please share the excitement on Twitter, Facebook, by email, via carrier pigeon, or however you like. We’re spreading the news with the hashtag #wcoma and you can download and share our official poster, our website badge and registration shortlink, j.mp/wcotix.

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See you soon!

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Meet the WordCamp Omaha Speakers: Dave Navarro

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Dave Navarro is the Digital Media Director for WIBW Radio in Topeka, Kansas and KGNC Radio in Amarillo, Texas where he builds WordPress web sites for the radio industry. He has specialized in mobile web development using PHP and CSS to build plugins and child-themes for WordPress. He is engaged to the love of his life, with whom he shares custody of their dog, Zoey.

Hometown: Topeka, Kan.

Contact: navarraojr.com | @dnavarrojr

Session: Improving the Mobile Experience

Responsive themes are great and they shift the data on your pages around to fit smaller devices, but they don’t optimize your pages for mobile devices. And Google now ranks mobile separately from desktop. So a high SEO rating on desktop does not mean a high rating on mobile.

I’ll show you some great plugins and tricks to optimize your site for mobile and even present data differently on a desktop vs mobile site.

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

Meet the WordCamp Omaha Speakers: Tyler Golberg

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Tyler Golberg is a commodity trader by day and web design enthusiast by night. He started programming websites in 2005 working on bigger projects, like HomeSpot HQ. In 2011 he started using WordPress and discovered a love of using the platform to help small businesses and organizations find a home on the web.

Hometown: Alexandria, Minn.

Contactcybersprout.net | @cybersproutnet

Session: Search Engine Optimization for WordPress

We will cover:

  • difference between onpage and offpage SEO
  • general WP settings for SEO
  • helpful plugins
  • picking a keyword
  • headers, alt tags, internal linking, meta tags
  • categories vs tags

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