{"id":384,"date":"2012-07-10T20:02:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T03:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2012.portland.wordcamp.org\/?page_id=384"},"modified":"2012-11-09T06:42:42","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T14:42:42","slug":"sponsors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/portland.wordcamp.org\/2012\/sponsors\/","title":{"rendered":"Sponsors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thank you to everyone who sponsored WordCamp Portland 2012. \u00a0Without you we’re… not nothing, but certainly not nearly as fun. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\t\t

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Digital Trends helps people make the most of the hi-tech lifestyle by providing sneak peeks, one-of-a-kind product reviews, editorials and technology news about trendsetting consumer products and services.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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ZippyKid<\/a> provides WordPress hosting for small businesses and business bloggers. The philosophy \u201cFocus on your content, not your content management system\u201d, allows you to worry about the important stuff, instead of system updates, security, and performance optimization. People who switch to ZippyKid from other hosting providers see their websites load 3X faster than before.<\/p>\n

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WP Engine is grateful to the WordCamp Portland Organizers, and is proud to be able to support the local WordPress community. We’d love to meet you and learn about what you’ve built in WordPress, and also offer all the attendees a free account for life on WP Engine.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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10up<\/a>\u00a0is a premium web agency that imagines, builds, and grows amazing websites with WordPress. They serve an outstanding collection of clients, ranging from small family businesses to diverse WordPress.com VIP clients like TechCrunch, Universal Sports, and Trulia, to universities like Bates College and the University of Rhode Island. With 12 full time employees and a network of contractors, team 10up has the talent and know how to conquer any project, and is also the only web consulting agency with a WordPress core team lead on staff.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t

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Blaze Streaming Media<\/a>\u00a0is your live, on-site streaming broadcast specialist.\u00a0 They work with events to\u00a0inform, engage and entertain\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>the online audience. \u00a0They offer a variety of technical solutions tailored to fit your needs and create the best viewing and listening experience for your particular community.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t

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If you use WordPress to build things for other people, we want to make your life easier. No matter whether you freelance on a solo basis, lead a small web shop, make plugins in a dark closet, or crack the whip at a large design firm, our aim is to become your go-to source of information and resources to help you expand your WordPress skills and know-how. To make you better at what you do. To make it easier to make your living and look great doing it.<\/p>\n

You’re part of a tribe of WordPress designers and developers over 10,000 strong, spanning the entire globe. CodePoet.com<\/a>\u00a0aims to bring the working knowledge and real world strategies of those people into one place, for you tap into.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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PageLines<\/a>\u00a0is a software development company founded to help people become successful online.\u00a0 Built on top of the open source WordPress platform; PageLines\u2019 Framework is designed to help people build fully-featured websites that are also easy to set up and manage.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t

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So, who the heck are 9seeds, anyway?\u00a09seeds<\/a>\u00a0is a web development company based out of Las Vegas, NV that focus exclusively on WordPress development. They build custom plugins, custom themes and applications that eliminate roadblocks for clients. In their spare time, they also produce a handful of plugins available for free in the WordPress repository.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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IvyCat Web Services<\/a>\u00a0is based in lovely Gig Harbor, Washington and provides web hosting and professional web design and development services to small and medium sized businesses.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Jumping Duck Media<\/a> is the business name of Eric Mann. \u00a0It\u2019s the name under which he builds websites, develops marketing plans, published books, designs media collateral, and helps other people launch their dreams.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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BraveNewCode Inc.<\/a> is Canadian company, and began in 2007 as a simple design & development portfolio for the work of Dale Mugford. In early 2008, software engineer Duane Storey climbed aboard contributing his extensive talents to the mix.<\/p>\n

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Silicon Florist<\/a> was started by Rick Turoczy as a side project (is there any other kind?) to help provide a repository for interesting technology startup news–particularly Web-based, mobile-based, and open source technology–from Portland, Oregon, and the surrounding area, affectionately known as the “Silicon Forest.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t

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Where would WordCampers be without StickerGiant<\/a>? Perilously sticker-deficient, we fear! Thanks so much to StickerGiant for always, always having our back. Even when we, to take an example totally at random, forget to order stickers until Monday. Ahem.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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