Get Recognized: Put a Face to Your Name with Gravatar

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What’s an avatar and who is Gravatar? According to the Gravatar website, “An “avatar” is an image that represents you online – a little picture that appears next your name when you interact with websites.”

WordCamp Cincinnati uses Gravatar to produce WordCamp Cincinnati name badges. These badges are multipurposed:

  • They show other conference attendees that you are part of the conference
  • Friends, old and new, can quickly steal a peek at your name (lest, in the excitement of the conference, your name slipped from top of mind…)
  • People who are interested in getting to know you, and who discovered you online prior to WordCamp Cincinnati, will be a tad more brave at approaching you at the conference because they already recognize who you are

WordCamp Cincinnati name badges are printed with the Gravatar profile picture associated with the email address of your ticket registration. If you haven’t already, now is a good time to make sure that yours is configured or up-to-date.

Getting started with Gravatar is easy; you’ll need to have a WordPress.com account and then authorize that account to connect to Gravatar. On the Gravatar home page, click on the Sign In button at the top-right of your browser window.

If you don’t already have a WordPress.com account, register for one using the same email address that you provided when registering for WordCamp Cincinnati. If you do have a WordPress.com account and used a different email address when registering to attend, you can Add a New Email Address after signing in to Gravatar.

Once you’ve made sure your email address is associated with your Gravatar profile, follow the link to Add a New Image. You can upload an image from your computer, or using a URL from another website. If necessary, you can then crop the image to only the portion of what you uploaded.

Finally, after finishing the process for uploading a new image, return to the My Gravatars screen, where you can associate the image with your email address. Select the email address, then under “Pick an image”, select the image you’ve uploaded in the previous steps.

And that’s it! When you arrive at WordCamp Cincinnati, we’ll have your name badge ready at the registration sign-in with your new Gravatar front-and-center. Friends, new, old, and those you haven’t met yet will be glad to see you in person so they can connect the digital you with the flesh and bones you. Register now so you and your Gravatar can be recognized by friends at all of the WordCamp Cincinnati festivities.

Name Badges

Help Connect Our Community — Become a Sponsor!

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Become a Sponsor

The success of WordCamp events would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors. Becoming a sponsor allows you a unique opportunity to reach and engage with the local WordPress community. WordCamp attendees are as diverse as they are passionate. Sponsoring WordCamp Cincinnati will enable you to connect with website developers, agency owners, SEO experts, online commerce proprietors, and other WordPress aficionados.

WordCamp Cincinnati will offer a wide variety of workshops, presented by speakers who are leading WordPress developers, marketers, writers, bloggers, social media specialists and business professionals from the greater Cincinnati area and around the country. Help us to connect the WordPress community and get visibility for your company at the same time.

Interested in learning more? Visit our Sponsorship Opportunities page for information about available sponsorship levels, and to connect with us today.

Call for Volunteers

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Sign Up to Volunteer

Volunteer Applications Now Closed

Thank you for your interest in volunteering for WordCamp Cincinnati. Due to the overwhelming response we have received, all volunteer roles have now been filled. However, volunteering is only one way to contibute to this event. Your very participation in the conversations which occur at WordCamp is what will make for a successful weekend and for fostering an ever-growing local WordPress community.

Register to Attend

Calling all volunteers! WordCamp Cincinnati is looking for the interested, the motivated, and the undeniably warm and fuzzy-feeling individuals who want to give back to their community! We plan on having a larger audience compared to last year, and thus will need more roles filled!

Roles we’re looking for include:

Setup/Cleanup – Coordinating with the University of Cincinnati to have the rooms and hallways ready for speakers and audiences alike!

Registration – These individuals will be tasked with ensuring that all attendees find their way into the event easily.

Emcee – Not afraid to speak publicly? Do you have a personality that will get audiences to see your side of things? Maybe an Emcee position is just for you!

Speaker Assist – Maybe they need their computer connected, or maybe they just need a bottle of water – the small things can lead to an overall much happier speaker and WordCamp experience.

Catering Setup Assist – Help ensure the catering process operates smoothly. Nobody wants to be around “hangry people”.

Happiness Bar – Due to overwhelming popularity, the Happiness Bar is back! Those who have a deep understanding of WordPress and/or web development in general can lend a hand to help others in need of a fix or opinion for their website.

Photography/Videography – To those of us who love sharing their experiences with the rest of the world, consider the role of a photographer or videographer! We need some people to help create awesome assets so we can spread the word about our community!

Volunteers will receive free admittance to the event, including all benefits therein and a special-edition “Cincy Crew” t-shirt.

Call for Speakers

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We’re happy to announce that WordCamp Cincinnati 2017 is officially accepting speaker applications!

The 2nd annual WordCamp Cincinnati will be held November 11-12, 2017 on the campus of University of Cincinnati.

We are excited to bring together WordPress enthusiasts from around the community to celebrate all things WordPress. We appreciate the varied talents and perspectives that developers, content creators, designers, etc. bring to the WordPress community. Following the great success of our 2016 event, we’re looking to build a program packed with amazing presentations which reflect the talent, creativity, and enthusiasm of our local WordPress community, and we want you to be a part of it!

What We’re Looking For

We’re particularly interested in hearing from those who have used WordPress in interesting, innovative, and significant ways. Whether the open source software was used to deliver something technically interesting, or whether WordPress was the foundation for creating something meaningful in the community, we want to know about it. We’re also looking for speakers to talk about how they use WordPress to grow their business, develop advanced plugins, tell their stories, and much much more. Everybody has a unique WordPress story to tell, and we want to hear yours.

Looking for more inspiration? Check out presentations from last year’s event.

Apply Today!

Welcome to WordCamp Cincinnati

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WordCamp Cincinnati returns! Continuing the tradition begun last year, WordCamp Cincinnati will provide two jam packed days of fun, knowledge, and networking. Join us on November 11-12, 2017 at The University of Cincinnati – Tangeman University Center. The cost is only $40 for the two-day event and includes lunch both days and a WordCamp Cincinnati t-shirt! Get your tickets here.

What is WordCamp?

WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. Attendees include aficionados, practitioners, website developers, agency owners, SEO experts, online commerce proprietors, and, hopefully, YOU!

Throughout WordCamp, attendees share experiences and insights about how they use WordPress to share ideas and execute business objectives.

What’s the Word on WordPress?

WordPress is a free, open source platform that enables quick and easy website, blog, or app development. The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine.

WordCamp Cincinnati will be held November 11-12, 2017 at the University of Cincinnati, in the Tangeman University Center.

Subscribe using the form below the homepage header to stay up to date on the most recent news. We’ll be keeping you posted on all the details over the coming months, including speaker submissions, ticket sales and more!