The Utah WordPress Computer Geeks… along with a few Nerds met in Salt Lake a few night ago. Now, I don’t consider myself a Computer Geek nor a Nerd because I don’t know enough to have the honor of such a title. I guess you can say… I’m a WordPress Nerd wanna-be.
My sister, Sheila and I decided to venture out of our comfort zone and network with some folks who might give us a little insight to all this WordPress business. When I first started to blog…my site was a Type Pad format… and that was a bit of a learning curve for me. But…Lordy… this wordpress business has me stumped. It’s a format for tech nerds for sure. WordPress plug-ins… what the… Plug them into what… and when I do plug ’em in.. they don’t work…so who do I call?
The WordPress forums are where the blind go to lead the blind. The last time I followed the forums advice… I eliminated my site altogether. You can just imagine how embarrassed I was to e-mail my webmaster and tell her my site was gone. “You did what?”
Come to find out… we were rubbing shoulders with some of the best. Joseph Scott works for WordPress… a bug exorcist. He’s considered a real guru… a true geek. You have to have an electronic twisted mind just to figure out his blog site joseph.randomnetworks.com. Way above my head.
Laura Moncur (she’s the gal in the red) of lauramoncur.org is the one responsible for putting the whole wordpress party together. A place where like minds can come together to chat and break bread. Thanks Laura for letting us wanna-bes crash your party.
Take a look at these two WordPress guys… they mean business. True to the cause!
We met a cracker-jack master marketer by the name of Jen. (she’s the blond)… She markets and launches products for the likes of HP…She and her two dogs workout of their home. She might be better known to folks as Naked Jen… from nakedjen.com She suggested I could be nakednana.com. Oh my gosh… not a pretty site. But…I would rate high in the search engines.
Geeks such as Matthew Reinbold of Matthew.reinbold@voxpopdesign.com were there… along with Stephen Shaw of sshaw@utos.com and Jake Spurlock from alpinepodcasting.com and overdriveblog.com. Stephen and Jake visited with us for along time and offered to be a resource for us. Thanks guys!
I wasn’t able to figure out who were the geeks and who were the nerds. I guess in time they’ll reveal themselves. Sheila and I plan to continue to rub shoulders with this little group… hoping a little nerd will rub of on us. Wish us luck!
Till later
Kathy Griffiths
Insightful Nana
P.S. Now that I think about it… I think my grandkids think I’m a little nerdy…but for different reasons.
P.S.S. If you know of any WordPress geeks around… let them know the big cheese of WordPress is coming to town in Sept. More on that when I have the details.
L
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