Schedule

Welcome to WordCamp Portland! If you’re looking for the livestream it’s you can find it here. Below is the schedule for the day. Enjoy!

	Upstairs Ballroom	Bergen Dining Hall (downstairs)	Nordic Room (downstairs)
8:00	Doors open
9:00	Welcome & Unconference Prep
9:30-10:15	Blogging as a Platform: Making a Name For Yourself in Your Targeted Community Kiersi Burkhart	_doing_it_wrong: Improving Your Development Skills Through Examining Bad Practices Zack Tollman	Why We Click Publish: Advocating for User-Centricity through Interaction Design Taylor Dewey
10:30-11:00	Must have plugins with @thetechchef	No one trusts the plug-in repo. Now what…?	Games: Promoting, Demoing & Selling Yours with WP
11:15-12:00	How to Build a Professional WordPress Business Grant Landram	WordPress + E-Commerce = $$$ Justin Sainton	Don’t Put That In Functions.php! (Or, How to Write A Basic Plugin) Kailey Lampert
12:00	Lunch
1:00-2:00	Town Hall Q&A with Matt Mullenweg in the Ballroom upstairs
2:15-3:00	Questions You’re Too Embarrassed to Ask Eric Mann	How to Blog Once a Day Laura Kimball	How to Use WP-Cron Ben Lobaugh
3:15-4:00	What you must know about WordPress	Round 2: No one trusts the plug-in repo. Now what…?	Migrating from Twitter to your personal WordPress
4:15-5:00	WordPress Security 101 (and beyond) Robert Rowley	The Art & Science of Premium Shane Pearlman	Frankenblog: Group Blogging with WordPress for Fun, Frustration, & Financial Gain Robert Wagner
5:00	Closing Comments, Thanks, etc.

WordCamp Portland 2012