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Speaker: Brian Casel, “How to Use Email to Grow Your Blog’s Audience”


If you blog, then you should be building an email list. Period. In this talk, we'll uncover ways you can grow your audience, keep them coming back again and again, and form strong relationships with your readers – by moving your blog to your readers' inbox.

Brian Casel is a web designer and entrepreneur based in Norwalk, CT. He’s also the author of Design For Conversions, and blogs regularly at casjam.com. Connect with Brian on Twitter: @CasJam

Speaker: Boone Gorges, “Across The Social Continuum: Three Surprising Sites Powered by BuddyPress”

We’re proud to announce one of our first headline speakers at WordCamp 2014 – Boone Gorges. Boone is an independent software developer and consultant, specializing in WordPress plugins. He is a Lead Developer for BuddyPress, and oversees development on such projects as Commons In A Box, Anthologize, and Participad. Boone is a former academic, and most of his clients are universities and other non-profit institutions. In his spare time, he is a competitive crossword solver, a jazz pianist, and an afficianado of pizza and barbecue. He lives in New York City with his wife and son, and blogs at Teleogistic.

Boone will be presenting on “Across The Social Continuum: Three Surprising Sites Powered by BuddyPress”. For those who haven’t used it, BuddyPress is a plugin that allows you to easily build a social community within your WordPress website. Boone is renowned for being an amazing presenter, and for those of us who saw him in October at the WordPress Stamford Meetup, we can all attest to that.

Boone Gorges at the WordPress Stamford Meetup, October 2013
Boone Gorges at the WordPress Stamford Meetup, October 2013