Event Review: Digital World Expo

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This week I spent Monday and Tuesday Digital World Expo, the first of what will likely become an annual event here in Las Vegas. DWE was organized by Shawn Rorick who also founded the Las Vegas interactive Marketing Association. When I first heard about the event, I reached out to Shawn to find out about [...]

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Swearing online and in person

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This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending my third WordCamp Portland event. As usual, it was a great event. It is consistently one of my favorite events of the year. During one of the sessions led by Aaron Hockley, the topic of ‘personal brand’ (a term I’m not a big fan of, but [...]

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WordCamp Portland – Round 3

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One of my favorite WordCamp events each year is always the one up in Portland. No, not just because they had kegs of beer just inside the front door. Although that certainly didn’t suck. Their local WordPress community is awesome and invited in us outsiders with open arms. By the end of the first weekend [...]

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WordPress meetup date change

A funny thing happened while planning WordPress meetup. Turns out, I managed to plan it for a time when several of the WordPress peeps in Vegas will be out of town for WordCamp San Francisco. Oopsy. After a quick bit of rearranging, we are now scheduled for Wednesday, August 10th, 7pm – 9pm at The [...]

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WordPress Meetup Hits Vegas!

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Last week while attending my first Vegas Jelly event at The Beat Coffeehouse, I knew immediately that I had found what I’ve been trying to find for a long time; a place to host a regular WordPress meetup group. After exchanging a couple emails with the owner, I knew we were in business. Food, beer, [...]

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Hire an assistant. Now!

When we started the company, there were three of us. The other two guys did the bulk of the design/development and I did some development, but mostly I ran the business. I spoke with all prospects, I managed all projects, dealt with accounting… all of it. Then earlier this year, one of those guys left [...]

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