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WordCamp San Francisco and .tv

Michaela B., Verisign — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:48:37 +0000

We spent the weekend in beautiful San Francisco as a sponsor at WordCamp San Francisco. Not only did we meet amazing people and companies, but we also got to sit in on some really educational and inspiring sessions – including, of course, Matt Mullenweg’s “State of the Word”.

We’ve sponsored a few WordCamps this year (in fact, it was great to see quite a few people from other events in SF), but it was the first time we had a chance to see Matt speak. One of the things we really love about these events is how passionate this community is about blogging and WordPress, and watching “SOTW” it’s easy to see where that comes from.

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!

Recap of WordCamp Orange County

Michaela B., Verisign — Tue, 17 May 2011 18:57:47 +0000

Much like he did for NAB, Tim recently attended WordCamp Orange County and brought back the following report and video interviews.

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!

.tv Featured Site: WordPress.tv — Your Visual Resource for All Things WordPress

Michaela B., Verisign — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:32:03 +0000

It’s somehow fitting that the first .tv Featured Site be about WordPress.tv since this blog lives on a WordPress platform.

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.