Sponsors

Below is a list of the current WordCamp Grand Rapids 2012 sponsors. If you’d like to become a sponsor, just click through to our enticing become a sponsor page 🙂

Gold

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.

You’re part of a tribe of WordPress designers and developers over
10,000 strong, spanning the entire globe. CodePoet.com aims to bring
the working knowledge and real world strategies of those people into
one place, for you tap into.

ZippyKid provides WordPress hosting for small businesses and business
bloggers. The philosophy “Focus on your content, not your content
management system” 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.

The support team is comprised of experienced WordPress users and
developers, so they can help debug and optimize almost any issue that
arises. We live, eat, & breathe WordPress. We do WordPress so much
better.

Steelcase Inc. helps create great experiences—wherever work happens. Our brands offer a comprehensive portfolio of workplace products and services, inspired by nearly 100 years of insight gained serving the world’s leading organizations.

Learn More at Steelcase.com

Contact Forms for WordPress Just Don’t Get Any Easier than Gravity Forms

GravityForms is the best form management solution, period. If you’re putting forms on your site, you should be using Gravity Forms. Build and publish your WordPress forms in just minutes. No drudgery, just quick and easy form-building. Select your fields, configure your options and easily embed forms on your WordPress powered site using the built-in tools. That’s way more satisfying (and less fattening) than a peanutty candy bar any day.

Learn more: www.gravityforms.com

Silver

BackupBuddy allows you to backup, migrate, and restore your entire single or Multisite WordPress install including the widgets, themes and plugins. To keep your backups safe, BackupBuddy supports sending your backups offsite to Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud, Dropbox, FTP, and email. Quickly and easily restore your site on the same server or migrate to a new server with a different domain and database. The process is easy, fast, and reliable.

Builder is a theme framework from the folks at iThemes. Builder’s Layout Engine allows you to quickly and easily create any page layout you like without having to be a coder. With more than 60 child themes (and more always in development) it’s easy to find a design that fits your website. To customize your theme, you can use Builder’s Style Manager to tweak the design to your liking, all without ever touching a line of code. Builder also has built-in SEO options, to make sure your site can be easily found by search engines.

Bronze

We all know the old adage of if you build it they will come. However we also know this is no longer true of websites. Over 100,000 new WordPress sites are created daily, how will you and your clients stand out in the crowd? How well do you keep up with the Google Algorithm changes or the new rules of engagement on Facebook? We’re here to help!

Connex Social is a Digital Marketing agency specializing in SEO, Social Media Marketing, PPC, Data Analysis and Conversion Optimization. Connex develops content, manages engagement and advises in all inbound marketing tactics. We pride ourselves on long-term relationships based on trust and benefit for our clients with success metrics of actual conversions/leads/sales. We can work for you the web developer, or directly for your clients in making sure the site(s) you build are reaching the target audience and getting them to take the desired action.

In 2004 Vortala began providing website services to chiropractors through its
specialist brand Perfect Patients. Over time, licensed professionals from other
practice disciplines enquired about Vortala’s website services.

The word “vortala” is derived from “vortal” which is defined as a vertical industry
portal. This reflects what Vortala does in serving selected vertical markets (vortals)
with a world-class website design, development and content management service.
Learn more about the difference between a website product and a website service at
www.vortala.com

WebDevStudios is a website development company specializing in WordPress powered websites. With a full staff of developers and designers who live and breathe WordPress, we pride ourselves in being WordPress experts. We have the resources to support any client from a single blog to a WordPress Multisite network with thousands of sites to a BuddyPress site with thousands of members. WDS does WordPress!

In-Kind

StickerGiant Prints Custom Stickers for cool companies and people all over the world. We also maintain the largest sticker store on the internet: http://StickerGiant.com/

These guys are the reasons our event has awesome stickers. So, if you like your WCGR stickers, be sure to tell them “Thank You!”

Small Business

Software GR

Software GR was founded in 2003 with the goal of improving the competiveness of West Michigan’s software development community. In the years since then we’ve hosted speakers from all over the country and learned about a wide variety of topics. Software GR meetings are usually on the fourth Tuesday of the month. View our schedule at http://softwaregr.org and sign up for our RSS feed or mailing list.