June 5, 2012 | Story by: staff | Categories: Business, Featured, News, Technology
Cary, NC – CaryCitizen Publisher Hal Goodtree has been asked to speak at WordCampNYC. It’s the largest WordPress conference in the world and is taking place this coming weekend at Baruch College in Manhattan.
WordCamps are a worldwide phenomenon of conferences about WordPress, a open source web publishing platform. CaryCitizen is published on WordPress.
Over 74 million WordPress-powered websites exist around the world. Notable users include TED, CNN, TechCrunch and the National Football League. According to WordPress.com, over 350 million people view more than 2.5 billion pages each month.
Hal will speak on Saturday June 9, 2012 about Hyperlocal Journalism – community news outlets like CaryCitizen.com.
CaryCitizen is a 2011 Knight Foundation Fellowship Award Winner and has been written about in the Columbia Journalism Review. Founded in 2009, CaryCitizen has grown readership to more than 74,000 a month.
WordCampNYC 2012 will be broadcast on WordPress.tv.
Check the website for times and availability.
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Michelle Gower
June 5, 2012 at 7:32 PM
AWESOME!!!! Good for you, Hal!!! Looking forward to sharing your information with my students. What an inspiration!!
Gower
Hal Goodtree
June 5, 2012 at 10:19 PM
Thanks Michelle!
Kimberly Conley
June 6, 2012 at 10:24 AM
What an honor! Can’t wait to check out the presentation on the timely subject of hyperlocal community journalism!
Congrats!
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Brent
June 6, 2012 at 9:10 PM
Congratulations Hal and CaryCitizen! It is great that WordPress recognizes a successful venture that they have helped to enable, and it’s also great that CaryCitizen is garnering awards and other press coverage.
CaryCitizen is an asset to the community.
Hal Goodtree
June 6, 2012 at 9:52 PM
Thanks Brent. And thanks for your contributions to community as well, my friend.
tom hart
June 10, 2012 at 3:07 PM
Good presentation and good luck.
Hal Goodtree
June 11, 2012 at 2:32 AM
Thanks Tom! Good looking work on your website. Love me some Jersey.
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