{"id":834,"date":"2011-10-18T13:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T18:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2011.philly.wordcamp.org\/?p=834"},"modified":"2011-10-17T20:50:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T01:50:35","slug":"speaker-spotlight-patrick-o%e2%80%99keefe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/speaker-spotlight-patrick-o%e2%80%99keefe\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Patrick O\u2019Keefe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickokeefe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick O\u2019Keefe<\/a>\u00a0is the founder of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifroggy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">iFroggy Network<\/a>, a publisher of websites. He has been managing online communities since 2000 and is the author of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.managingonlineforums.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cManaging Online Forums,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0a practical guide to managing online social spaces.<\/p>\n<p>He has been responsible for the cultivation of communities like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.karateforums.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">KarateForums.com<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpbbhacks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">phpBBHacks.com<\/a>\u00a0and<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.photoshopforums.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">PhotoshopForums.com<\/a>. He blogs about online community at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.managingcommunities.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ManagingCommunities.com<\/a>, his favorite record label at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.badboyblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BadBoyBlog.com<\/a>\u00a0and more at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickokeefe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">patrickokeefe.com<\/a>. On Twitter, he\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/iFroggy\" target=\"_blank\">@iFroggy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick will be giving a presentation in the Power User Track titled:\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2011.philly.wordcamp.org\/session\/building-community-around-your-wordpress-blog\/\">Building Community Around Your WordPress Blog<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you speaking about at WordCamp Philly?<\/strong><br \/>\nMy topic is \u201cBuilding Community Around Your WordPress Publication.\u201d I am going to talk about how you can engage with the community that exists around your WordPress powered publication, including the community you have by default, the community you can grow on your site and the engagement that takes place in spaces you don\u2019t control. If you are publishing, in one way or another, you have a community. The only question is: how do you engage with it?<br \/>\n<strong>What is your favorite thing about the city of Philadelphia?<\/strong><br \/>\nI have never been in Philadelphia! I am looking forward to taking a look around. What comes to mind when I think of Philadelphia is WordCamp Philly co-organizer Brad Williams, his fianc\u00e9e April Heline and the Angry Video Game Nerd, James Rolfe. I\u2019m a big AVGN fan and that is the area where he is based!<br \/>\n<strong>Why do you love WordPress?<\/strong><br \/>\nI like how it is regularly maintained, certainly, but the greatest thing about WordPress is the size and breadth of the community behind it, providing a seemingly endless selection of plugins, themes and resources. That\u2019s what makes WordPress great, for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick O\u2019Keefe\u00a0is the founder of the\u00a0iFroggy Network, a publisher of websites. He has been managing online communities since 2000 and is the author of\u00a0\u201cManaging Online Forums,\u201d\u00a0a practical guide to managing online social spaces. He has been responsible for the cultivation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/speaker-spotlight-patrick-o%e2%80%99keefe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaker Spotlight: Patrick O\u2019Keefe<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":811778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pheN0r-ds","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/811778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philadelphia.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}