 Thank you. Thank you. So welcome everybody. I'm so glad to see a full room I was like what happens if only one answer people come this is a very interactive class So the more people the more we're going to interact, which is a lot of fun We will have time for questions at the end, but feel free throughout the The workshop to be able to ask you know ask questions as we go Okay, so if this is so you're at a work camp now what how many people here? This is their very first time at a work camp Okay, so as he mentioned Okay Here we go So I eat up and like he said I am from love built life. I'm a mom and a grandma I actually have my daughter here. This is her very first word camp Milani and My that's my oldest daughter and in my youngest daughter That's the next reason and then I also have my granddaughter here also her first time I am a arts a creative arts and lifestyle blogger and also that's what I do I'm an artist so I teach people how to live life more creatively and this is part of what I do and as you see I don't mind showing off I'm also a Ford VIP blogger artist speaker designer, etc So This is how I started my work camp journey. So this is my love wapoo as you see In Miami when you go to Miami, there is a bot when anyone here on the slack on Here so, you know what slack is okay? So most work camps have a slack where you can follow well Miami means they change it to this particular wapoo, which is cafe. See the wapoo wapoo and he can I'm Latina So he says all the Latina words and you know like web bar and all that so I fell in love with him. So Now he's my boyfriend but actually This is my way friend This is the young the man who introduced me and he is the one who also introduced me to the world of word camp So he's been a word camper since 2014 a speaker since 2016 and I've been doing this since 2018 and These are some of the ones that we went to this one would be my 11th We just I'm also went to word camp Calgary and spoke there as well Why word camp so why are you here right? So word camp is for everyone it doesn't matter if you're a newbie of your you know Experienced if you've had a business forever, or you're just starting for the first time Everyone is welcome here a beautiful Keynote speech I heard was exactly that you belong here It doesn't matter who you are and no matter who you know I tell you invite them to a word camp because the community is amazing You meet all kinds of people from all over the world. So I met miss Carol Olinger from the German Eiffel She will talk about her later on. This is me at our word camp San Jose in Costa Rica with William. We went there last year and we just found out we're going to be speaking this year You get to geek out Okay, and it's fun for the whole family. So I already introduced you to my family This is me and my daughter at word camp Jacksonville and Who doesn't love swag right? So this particular picture here This is Williams old car Okay, that's all the stickers that you know you guys collecting as you're going along. He got a new car It's almost there again So and this is the wonderful thing about word camp right because we have looked at other Conferences like the attending like a social conference. There was one that was in Jacksonville. It was 250 dollars Just to attend that didn't include, you know if you we were coming from out of town and we've looked at others $300 a thousand dollars for 50 bucks. It's awesome and people are talking about and these are knowledgeable people So this is great, you know the price you get food You get after-party sometimes a before-party and you get to meet so many people and enjoy So the network probably networking possibilities are almost endless. So like I said at the after-party Here during the conference and we're gonna do some real interactive stuff So you guys are gonna get to kind of know each other Here, this is Bernard Ebola of think strategy. I met him in Atlanta twice and he spoke at another at word camp he is He's just an amazing guy and he was so knowledgeable and so free with his information Nathan Ingram, you'll see him walking around here. He has a talk today. He's very well known in the WordPress community Wonderful talker speaker. David Zimmerman another great speaker. He's also speaking here today And anyone know who Joshua Strebel is of page Lee? Yeah, I figured a pantheon guy would know I Really cool guys met him in Miami really down to earth Page Lee is like a what 15 million dollar company or something met the CEO. That was pretty cool So did I mention we mentioned meet people from all over the world? So remember I mentioned to you Carol Olinger from Germany from the German Eiffel She used to be the community manager of Plesk. She just recently retired So people who know her in the working camp community do follow her still she is at word camp Europe I think this weekend and her and her dog Have their own what who? I'm working my way that way And in this particular one, this is actually in memory of I met a wonderful lady from Nigeria, this is Catherine Iguali she was a five-time bestseller on Amazon and She was a national bestseller She actually came to Jacksonville and we had the opportunity to drive her around and we became really good friends Unfortunately, we did lose her this year. So this is in memory of her I struggled with whether or not to put this in here But she loved the community and she knew about this, you know before she passed She was so excited about it. So we keep her in there for for her Here in the middle, that's Carla Campos. So if you're into the Latin community, she is a speaker. She's also a celebrity Lindsay is one of the wonderful people in work camp San Jose These are just things that you get to do at the after parties you get to meet people So, you know here we get to talk but at the after party you actually get to sit and really get to know people and communicate with them So again, I'm going back near free to nearly free information for $50 you get all this information Workshops lectures all day for two days three days for those of you who came to pre-camp Other expertise other people send in with the expertise so you can go to what we're going to call sick bay, right? So it's the happiness bar But if you have a problem with your computer or your website someone is going to sit with you and not charge you and say Hey, yeah, this is what you can do and you can do the other thing. That's like that's a great thing I'm WordPress dot TV. So if you missed the other talks being here They'll be uploaded to WordPress dot TV. So you didn't really miss anything You can actually watch them on there and then there's hundreds if not more talks on there Plus the more often you go the more you learn But there's more yay So you're gonna be one of the first to know so the more you go to work camps the more you're gonna know I didn't know about Gutenberg and all of that. I was doing WordPress. I learned that in a word camp someone on Nathan In fact did a talk on Gutenberg and it was like, oh So we were the first ones to know this is what's coming and this is what's gonna come down the line I'm like, oh, that was pretty neat Inspiration is everywhere So you're gonna go online and the hashtag is and we'll go over that to hashtag WC AVL and follow all the other people who are tagged You know tweeting and sending putting things on on Instagram Volunteering actually volunteer this morning. That's my favorite thing to do is go to the work camps and volunteer So and it can build confidence this someone tweeted this out when we went to work Filly and they were saying I learned so much. I feel like an expert So I had to put this little tweet in there So it says on when did you become an expert in Google analytics and then it says last night I love that Okay, so you get it. You already know why you're here. You already know why you paid your money So what are you gonna do while you're here? So the very first thing I say is visit the sponsors So I don't get paid by anyone. I'm not this is not plugging any particular sponsor These are the sponsors that are actually here Blue House these are not the guys that are here, but Micah and William are here today. I went in went by to see what their names are Sometimes they're just really cool people but more importantly first of all this couldn't happen without sponsors and secondly They may have information that might actually help your business Just sit down listen to them, you know, and they may actually help your even your personal website or what you're working on So these are more sponsors here This is a actually Nate Jonathan and Mickey Chirrit. They're both here. So you can visit them at known halls Okay, so this is the interactive part. This is where we're gonna actually stop like I didn't mean come for homework But yeah, we're gonna do some a little bit of work today The next thing you can do is start posting Okay, so whatever your social favorite social media platform is We're gonna post right now like right now. So we're gonna get out our phones Okay And we're gonna start sharing an experience. So let's see phones. I want to see phones coming out So what do you post? Do you have to excuse me? I am a Latina from New York. So speak really fast So I'm gonna try my best to slow down a little okay All right, so if you're not sure what to post So what was your favorite quote of the day? So we are the first ones this morning, but you did anyone get to hear Chris Lima speak So anything special that he said that you're like, oh, that was really cool I want to remember that you could just quote it Say a great talk by Chris Lima and then quote it and then you can put it on a Twitter So remember here are the hashtags? hashtag WCAVL and At work camp Tag your favorite speakers now This is stuff that I want you to do through the the whole time that you're here Just tag them it means a lot to a speaker when you tag them on your end on your social media It just encourages them and makes them feel like oh wow, you know, they did hear me. Oh, they did enjoy it This was actually a recommendation from another speaker Take a cool picture and post it. So for now since we haven't had a chance to walk around anyone took pictures of the mountains Great take a picture the mountains and say hey, I'm in work camp Asheville Hashtag WCAVL. Here's you know a beautiful picture of the mountains. Let me say we come from Florida So the whole way here was kind of flat flat flat and in South Carolina was pretty and then we get up And then it was like okay exit one and just a little bit up there was the mountain It was like oh, yeah, North Carolina delivered on some mountains. That was beautiful Okay, so since we haven't had a chance you could take a selfie right now and share it and You could also share a video of your experience. So videos are really cool You could just grab your phone kind of talk and chat to yourself and it's fine I won't feel you know feel some kind of way if you're looking at yourself take a picture You're gonna feel like okay, great Anybody post you ready post? Don't forget hashtag WCAVL So if you don't know about hashtags and the at symbol so if you just do the at symbol at work camp Asheville that will only go to Asheville But if you do the hashtag WCAVL everyone will be able to see what you're posting Who's ever following that hashtag and it throughout the day? You might have an aha moment now Let me tell you this is one of the tricks that you're gonna learn what that you're learning is that you may not remember That aha moment when you get home It may be something great that someone said but if you post it you'll remember it so We're gonna talk with other campers and this is part of this interactive thing So what we're gonna do is because part of this is going to go on work camp TV We're gonna take about six or seven minutes and we are gonna speak to each other Because this is the most important part of being in a work camp is networking But that's hard. I will tell you when I first started. I didn't and I may be Excuse me. I may be friendly, but I'm not that friendly So when I started I would sit in the happiness bar. I kind of just sit and listen and kind of honestly eavesdrop on Conversations because most of it was about you know computers and stuff and people would be talking tech or whatever and you know Smile and just and before you know it someone starts a conversation with you and you start talking with them So if you're a little on the shy side, that's one way to do it But we're actually gonna take a minute or a few minutes to do this Now what I am gonna ask is that I could if I can get some people who would be willing to Volunteer to just speak While other people are speaking to each other so that when they're doing the work camp TV is not just dead space of people just murmuring Where you can actually come up here and share your business and who you are and what it is that you're doing Okay, so if I can get five volunteers So, okay, so we are actually gonna stop at this point And we're gonna talk to one another so this is very simple Hey I'm Iita. How you doing? So, what do you do? Okay, so this is where I do I'm an artist and this is what I do for a little bit see okay So exactly so I'm gonna give you guys five minutes to just kind of go up to each other And introduce each other So can I get a volunteer to come up here with me? The first volunteer Anybody come on Okay So some of your name Okay, so if you're in work WordPress TV and you're watching this make sure that you beat people Wherever you go, especially if you come out to a word camp, but this is easy to do wherever you go So we're gonna introduce this one person here. Okay, what's your name and what do you do? Do you go to school? Off for the summer. Okay, Naomi Sims is off for the summer. Okay. What else do you do? YouTube Instagram and Facebook. All right. So right Okay, thank you miss Naomi Sims. So that's miss Naomi Sims Do you have something else to share? Any other volunteers come on Okay Okay, so if you have been sitting with one person for a long time, I want you to get up and switch with someone else That's right. It's you choose So remember to ask Names, what do you do? Exchange business cards Everyone is introducing themselves I'm gonna appear So I was asking for volunteers So will you be one of my volunteers to speak into the camera? So we're gonna introduce miss April here So while they're talking So what I was doing was interviewing people so that people on WordPress TV are not just watching a bunch of people just murmuring They're just talking to the camera Okay, we're gonna start wrapping up our little conversations So if you wanted to introduce yourself to one more person We're gonna wrap it up Okay So now that everyone has had an opportunity to speak with one another it wasn't that hard, right? It wasn't that hard. Does anyone know what the number one pickup line in the world is? Hello, it's hey. How are you? And that's not really that hard, right? So you guys actually met a bunch of people and just that was just in five minutes Imagine what you can do in two days, okay? So I'm gonna ask that we have some volunteers that be willing to just stand up and introduce someone they met and Tell me about them Anybody? Okay, anybody willing to come up and tell me about yourself. Come on. All right. Yeah, some Because you're gonna be doing this too. Hi everybody, how are you doing? Okay, I'm Maria, but I want to introduce you to Amy Amy's a story writer. She's a creator and she loves Star Trek. She even brought her own Trevils Yes, thank you. Thank you so much Come on up. My name is Talia. I'm from Columbia, South Carolina. This is my first word camp. Yeah So But I met Dwayne he's right there and he's from San Francisco came a long way He also attends a lot of work camps and he is a speaker today. So if you get a chance, he'll be speaking on Markdown so for developers, but he also works with Pantheon Which is a hosting company and they help people that need Who need a lot of things done? So yeah, stop by their table and meet Dwayne She could be doing the talk look at that. Thank you Great job. You see how easy that is and it's not just about networking for each other But you know, I'm constantly saying hey, oh you do video. I know someone does video Oh, look, let me introduce you like this lady here. I have to I'm gonna introduce her come on She's a sweetheart. She would the first time I saw her speak. This is April. Why and did I say that right? We're April we're The first time I saw her speak was in word camp Jacksonville She speaks on business and how to really get yourself together and for me that was So important because the very most important thing that she talked about was you're not selling anything You're actually offering a service that's going to help someone and I was so it was so hard for me to charge For what I was doing that was so difficult But when she said that I was like That's it. That was my aha moment, right? And I still to this day and I'm gonna tell you guys how you go through these notes because you're gonna be going through all these Classes and taking all these notes. I still go through my notes and follow some of the stuff She has other talks and you're talking today this weekend. Yep. So when is your talk today at four? It is worth going to her talk, especially if you're in business No, but seriously, it definitely is Absolutely, so, you know, you're not only gonna meet people for yourself, but you may know someone, you know that needs that service Another place to meet people obviously is sitting during lunch During the after party these are great times and then like I said introduce you to each other Don't just keep people to yourself. Yeah us too. You know what we just like I said This is our 11th and it's like coming home to family like we are we get so we geek out like oh my god It's work camp. Oh my goodness. I'm so excited and then we get here and it's like, oh, look, there's April Oh, look, there's Mickey. Oh, look, there's Nathan, you know, it's so all of this Nathan right there all the way in the back Everybody look it's so exciting. It's like it's like extended family. It's just wonderful Okay, so once all over what do you do? So you are going to be taking a lot of notes through this whole thing, right? So the first thing you want to do is continue to post okay what we did when we stopped and we did the selfie and we you know Quoted someone do that throughout the day do it throughout the weekend, but then afterwards continue to do it Keep it fresh in your mind What was your favorite workshop take pictures of the venue take the pictures of the city? It's a beautiful city Make sure that you tag the organizers and the speakers it means a lot to the organizers too Because they're volunteering their time they want to know you came here and you loved it and you love the people that they chose and that you enjoyed the Speakers that you enjoyed your time here that they did a good job. They will send you a survey afterwards Make sure that you fill it out so that they can do a better job for the next year or do the same job if you thought It was great And then if you have hashtags, you know with your buddies, I think I don't know if this one has it. Oh, yeah, so on your little Badges if you look underneath your badge it says at that's your Twitter handle that means if you want to follow someone Look at their Twitter handle. It's a little dark, but you can ask them. I'm sure they'll be happy to share it Follow each other talk to each other I didn't put the picture in here, but there's someone I met on Twitter Never met them in person and they were like, oh, you're going to work at Nashville. I mean to work camp Atlanta. So am I? Okay, great. He's like, I can't wait to meet you and that's what we did. We met each other in Atlanta We were like, oh great. Look, this is William and this is Iita. It's great. It's wonderful Can't you tell I like work him? That's why I do this talk so Break it down. You're gonna be taking a lot of notes throughout the entire time that you're here So how do you build a starship just like you eat an elephant? One part at a time and that's a little corny Make sure that you get speaker slides on most of the speakers will offer slides afterwards They'll let you know here's the link you can get the slides or they'll post it out on Twitter Some speakers only have their slides for a short period of time grab them while they have them Otherwise, you're gonna miss out on that Highlight the most important information in your notes So if you're taking notes today or you're taking notes, you know what right now Number one make sure you get the full name of your speaker Number two make sure you get the correct name of the talk because when you're looking for it on wordpress.tv If you don't have that information, it's gonna be very hard to find them It does not always come up as what the word camp is So you want to make sure you have the right name for the talk and the right name for the speaker Um decide right now how you want to use the information that you're gathering. Are you using it for your business? Are you using it for your website so that as you're writing what I do when I'm writing my notes is I'll make like sections and then I'll highlight that section where there would be like with a Big box around it if someone says something important. I have a highlighter in my bag I write it down and then I highlight it so then when I'm going back I can go Oh, that's yeah, I wanted to remember that because otherwise it becomes just the blur of words and you're not gonna remember Oh, that was important. That wasn't so Send out emails if you met people and you said, oh, yeah, I'm gonna email you email them Like I said, I'm gonna follow up with you follow up because if you really want to keep that contact You want to do that right away because three weeks four weeks from now, which I don't have to admit I can be bad that way. They're not gonna remember So unless you're like extra flamboyant and I can say I was the girl in the stature. I got uniform You're not gonna remember who I was right Follow up with your leads and connections And put contacts with notes in your phone So I tell people if you get a business card rather than having just a pile of business cards in Your bag take a picture of it. I I'm a I'm an Android girl. So I use Google keep but I think on iPhone has like Ever known or something take a picture of it and then underneath it make a note. Oh I'm an April in Jacksonville. She talks about this I remember she said this so that when I see her again I can put the face with the card and the whole thing comes. I'm gonna tell you I forget people constantly This is the only place where I actually go and I remember people's names. I remember what they do I remember where I met them. I'm like this must be my people because otherwise Remember anything Another thing is if you keep notes, I just keep a I used to you know, I'm old school So phones are new for me But I would take the business card and tape it to my notebook and then just drop down notes underneath So so these are other things that you can do Invite your new contacts to like you and follow you Make sure that you reciprocate, right? So don't say hey follow me on Twitter, and then you don't follow back You know, I mean like if you want people to follow you you want to follow them Whatever it is, you know, if you want them to check out your website check out their website It only takes a minute, you know to just say hey, I'll follow and later on if you feel like okay You know, we're not connecting you can always change that Consider collaborating in the future. So I do websites for startups and that's all I do I do not do big websites. That's not what I do. It's for people who are on a budget, you know Any developers in here? Yeah, okay, so so you know most of them won't take it under a certain amount I'm usually the one that's like, okay I'll take those only because I'm only doing super super simple So I don't Manage websites and those kinds of things so I find I meet people and they go what management websites great I'm gonna take your car so that next time I have a client that needs management. I'll give it to you I don't do that. So this is a great way to to delegate, you know If you have too much on your plate There's plenty of people who do what you don't do or as you grow who do the things you don't want to do later And you can say okay, I remember connecting with such and such. Let me give them that Local word press meetups are also a great way to a Meet other people but also be to speak so anyone here have an expertise I'm sure there's plenty of you and no one's raised their hands. So what do you do? So tell me some of some of the things that you guys do sales training, huh? Contracts wow great. See so that's an expertise that trust me a lot of people who are in business would love to hear about And what it what were you saying? Selling also selling that's great. And you know and here's the thing You can speak about selling and she can speak about selling but you're not going to talk about it in the same way and You may have information She doesn't have and vice versa and there may be something that I'm going to get from your talk That I didn't get from her talk. So don't be shy This is you know, it's I know it's your first for a lot of you your first time but think about as you're here Who can I share my expertise with who would be interested and trust me? This is a wonderful community. There is from very beginner stuff on bloggers One of my talks is starting a blog even if you think you can't write so beginner bloggers Community stuff. There was a wonderful talk on how to manage your time how to balance your time So if you're good at balancing and managing time management, which I'm not That's a great talk Those kinds of things think about as you're going along like how could I contribute to the WordPress community? And WordPress meet-ups are a great way to get your feet wet So if you're like, oh, I don't want to do it at a word camp Do it at a meet-up the groups are much smaller if you go there often enough of people, you know And it'll give you good feedback and then you can apply to go to a word camp If your city doesn't have one and I know Asheville does But if you're coming in from out of town anyone here from out of town from another city. Oh So, where are you from again? Would stop Georgia, okay, where are you from? Oh, wow, you came while to the way to who else was from out of town Do I'm North Carolina, okay, who else had their hand up? Okay, and okay, awesome, okay Oklahoma Wow, it's coming way to anyone else want to share, you know, you go ahead Knoxville, Tennessee. So we went to Where did we go? What was on us? Nashville, Tennessee. Yeah, so we went to a word camp us is it wouldn't in Nashville this year will be in New Orleans St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri. That's right. That's right. It's gonna be in Missouri So, you know people come from not all over the country, but like I said, sometimes we went to I think it was in Birmingham there was someone from They were from out of the country. Do you remember where they were from? South Africa Yes, there was someone from South Africa who came to work camp Birmingham last year. So They can come from wherever so that's wonderful But if you're in your local area and you do not have a WordPress meetup you can certainly contact WordPress central and let them know we're interested in starting one and you can start one in your area and And then make plans to go to another word camp this particular area is very bustling, you know, you see people come from all over Workham Greenville was in March. I think it was February March is I guess a blur after a while, but it was not too long ago But there was one in Greenville Atlanta's not too far away, but there are several that are still coming Lehigh and and that's in Philadelphia, which is not too too far Yes, and Jacksonville is in two weeks if you want to come on down to the sunny state of Florida William and I are actually going to be doing the kids camp. So that's another thing kids can get involved If you don't if they your local word camp doesn't have a kids camp You can contact them and let them know. Hey, we'd be interested in bringing our kids Kids camp generally is from ages seven to fourteen and they learn how to use WordPress and do a blog so Everyone can get involved. Remember, I told you it's great for the whole family so Apply to be a speaker like I said, if not, you know, at least in your local WordPress meetup No experience necessary. You do not have to be a speaker and know how to do that Plenty of people in the work camp community be more than happy to help you listen to your talk Even if you don't want to do it publicly just yet and say hey, you know what I think that's great Maybe you want to add this maybe want to do the other thing Consider tag teaming with another speaker. My very first talk ever was with him I Was so nervous. Oh my goodness. And let me tell you see this talk here See how I'm kind of like talking and we're interacting my very first time doing this. I did in 15 So embarrassed, but I did I was so nervous. I did it in 15 minutes But I got a lot of good feedback afterwards people were very happy. So that was a good thing. So that's why I continued it And don't forget to volunteer because everything that you see here the organ The people who are seeing the people who helped you get your swag the people who helped you register People are volunteering at time and that's what makes this a great community And like I said keep going to work in So this is the part if you guys have questions be more than happy to answer some questions for you