Author Archives: Christopher Spencer

WordCamp Fayettevile and why I love this city

By Christopher Spencer | Published: June 3, 2010
[reprinted from Ozarks Unbound] I did something this weekend which was far outside my comfort zone – I organized a conference of almost 100 folks who love WordPress as much as I do. Since WordPress is free open source software I feel so strongly about, I got a contact high just from seeing people learn to [...]
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Be social at WordCamp Fayetteville

By Christopher Spencer | Published: May 28, 2010
SOCIAL MEDIA GUIDELINES Our official Twitter hashtag is #wcfay You can tag photos at Flickr with wcfay to appear on the WordCamp Fayetteville Wire We have a live video feed at http://wordcampfayetteville.com/live-video/ TURN ON TWITTER DEVICE UPDATES DURING WORDCAMP: Attendees, txt “ON WCFAY” to 40404 to turn on twitter Device Updates and receive live SMS [...]
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Yokohama, Turkey, Chicago … Fayetteville: What do they have in common?

By Christopher Spencer | Published: May 26, 2010
They are all hosting WordCamps in the next two weeks. A little shout out to two WordCamps which share our Memorial Day Weekend event with us. Hello WordCamp Yokohama and WordCamp Turkey. For a bonus, you can go to their sites and let Google translate the text. They are as jazzed as we are here in [...]
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WordCamp Fayetteville FAQs

By Christopher Spencer | Published: May 25, 2010
1.   When do I arrive? There will be an informal meetup from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday at Hammontree’s restaurant, 326 N. West Ave., in the Dickson Street Entertainment District. Everyone is invited to attend, whether or not you are attending the conference. Otherwise, we will see you Saturday morning at 9 a.m. at [...]
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My interview with Esra’a Al Shafei, founder of MidEastYouth.com and WordPress blogger

By Christopher Spencer | Published: May 23, 2010
My interview with Esra Meet Esra’a Al Shafei, a young woman from Bahrain who uses WordPress to push for freedom of religious and political speech within the Muslim world. She is also the founder and executive director of MidEastYouth.com. She also received the 2007 Templeton Freedom Award for Best New Intellectual Entrepreneur. I had the chance [...]
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WordCamp Fayetteville interview on central Arkansas’ The Cotton Club podcast

By Christopher Spencer | Published: May 17, 2010
Cotton Rohrsheib and Keith Crawford of The Cotton Club podcast were nice enough last week to let me come on their excellent show and talk about WordCamp Fayetteville. It was a great low-key and fun conversation. It’s apparent we are all enthusiastic about the software and love to spread the open source gospel of WordPress. [...]
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Steal these badges

By Christopher Spencer | Published: April 21, 2010
Super thanks to Blue Zoo Web sites, a sponsor of WordCamp Fayetteville for crafting these badges for us. Please steal them freely and spread them around the Interwebz with a link back to this site.
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Does Automattic have a conscience: My interview with Matt Mullenweg

By Christopher Spencer | Published: March 30, 2010
By Christopher Spencer An Interview with Matt Mullenweg Not my smoothest interview, but Matt was a good sport at WordCamp Birmingham. This interview happened at Shift Workspace in September 2009 when we got a few moments away from the unconference crowd. It’s interesting that Google’s stance toward China’s censorship is prominent in the news right now. [...]
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Meeting tonight from 5:30 to 8:30 at the Technology 101 Training Center in Rogers

By Christopher Spencer | Published: March 25, 2010
Tonight’s presentation: Eric Huber and Collin Condray of Blue Zoo Websites, will do a short presentation of their new business as well as how and why they chose the WordPress engine as one of the key elements. A short demonstration and Q&A will follow. Condray has launched Social Media Revolutionary as a business and Huber [...]
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Arkansas’ Freedom of Information Act pamphlets are in

By Christopher Spencer | Published: March 16, 2010
Many thanks to the Arkansas Press Association for giving WordCamp Fayetteville 100 copies of the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act pamphlet. I went to Little Rock yesterday and picked them up. These are going to be included among the giveaways for conference attendees. In this age of citizen journalism, it’s pretty important for civic-minded bloggers [...]
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