Some stats that blew us away:

• “22 of every 100 active domains created in the U.S. are running WordPress.”
• “14.7 percent of the top million websites in the world use WordPress.” (source: W3Techs)
• “WordPress now has 15,000 plugins and 200 million plugin downloads.”

We met a lot of great people in San Francisco – including a lot of international Word Campers (everyone knew and loved .tv!), who were a lot of fun to talk to. We took a lot of photos and video – check them out on our Facebook Page and our YouTube channel. One of our favorite interviews was this one with the author of The WordPress Bible, Aaron Brazell. Aaron discussed the Second Edition of his great book and also shared some terrific WordPress Top Tips:

We want to thank the great people at Automattic, especially Rose Goldman, who really watched over us, clued us East Coasters in taxis and great sushi, and really made #wcsf a great experience.

Thanks to everyone who came to spin the wheel at our table and talk to us about their .tv WordPress sites and all of the great video they’re creating. We had a great time and can’t wait till the next WordCamp!

We’re looking forward to this being another great WordCamp event. Getting to know the people in this remarkable community – from high-profile developers to the end users (like us) who use WordPress to broadcast our message into the online world – has been a fantastic experience. So if you’ll be there as well stop by, say hi and let us know what you already know about the .tv platform (or would like to learn more about!).

Let us know on Twitter if you’ll be there and make sure to follow us throughout the weekend as we bring you updates from sunny (and sometimes chilly) San Francisco!

We felt a lot of .tv love from the Boston WordCamp community – our sponsor table was always busy and the prize wheel never stopped. We gave away a lot of new .tv swag – lots of bags, t-shirts, pens and stickers – and we have more to give away soon.

We also had a lot of great conversations with really interesting people, all who had really great advice:

• Tom Catalini – talking about his Top Tips fro WordPress success
• Hanna Arnold on using WordPress as a CMS for Higher education
• Andrew Norcross discussing design for WordPress
• Chris S Penn discusses marketing your blog
• Tin Dizdarevic talking about Zemanta and link love
• Our own Tim Norris talking about why .tv loves the WordCamp community

Now we’re not playing favorites – but if we were, we’d say our favorite person we met on Saturday was Violet. 12-year-old Violet has a webshow called, “Oh Snap, it’s Violet“and we love seeing someone her age so confident and passionate about online video (also with a very involved Mom!). Watch this video and be totally charmed.

Thanks again to John and everyone who made WordCamp Boston so special!

One of the sessions we’re looking forward to most is the Lightning Talks on Saturday. We were lucky to be able to secure CC Chapman as the emcee of this session. CC is really well-known in the social space with his wide scope of work as an author (his latest book, Content Rules, co-authored with Ann Handley), blogger, Podcaster, Digital Dad photographer and entrepreneur. CC will be emceeing the talks and also give his own, “Video Content Rules”.

At .tv, we love WordCamps and WordPress – this is a passionate community who love sharing what they know about their favorite blog platform (which is what we run our own Watch.tv blog on!). We can’t wait to meet everyone in Boston, so tweet us if you’re going and be sure to stop by and say “Hi!”

We had a really great time at WordCamp Orange County this weekend! It’s exciting to be a part of an event with such a passionate (and welcoming!) community. Jeffrey Zin and his team did a fantastic job of organizing the event and we had some really great conversations with the speakers and attendees about how they are using online video in their blogs and businesses.

There’s a ton of photos and videos being posted about the event and you should keep checking the site to see the “official” stream. We were lucky enough to interview a number of the speakers, which can be seen on our Facebook page and our YouTube channel.

The best part of these interviews? Each of these really accomplished people took the time to share their Top Tips for blogging or making online video with us and we can’t wait to share them with you.

Thanks again to Jeffrey Zin and everyone at WordCamp OC!

A .tv address can be used in many ways. WordPress.tv is a great example of a customer that has a .com domain but added a .tv version of its name to point users directly to videos all about their products. There are great videos there showing — not just telling you with text — how to get the most from your WordPress platform. As you may know, WordPress is an open source, community-built platform and that applies to the videos also. There are lots of great videos from many WordPress enthusiasts. WordCampTV also lives at WordPress.tv with videos from the many WordCamp events held around the world.

We’re a new resident in the blogging neighborhood, but it’s a big place with Wikipedia reporting 200 million WordPress powered web sites worldwide. We’re pleased to join the community here at the Watch.tv Blog.