tl;dr: Get the word out to anyone who loves WordPress! Tie social media accounts to your official email address.
A member of your organizing team should be in charge of publicity. There are many ways you can draw attention (and increase registrations) to your event. Here are a few that have been successful with previous WordCamps.
- MeetupMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our Meetup Organizer Handbook. groups. In addition to the local WordPress meetup group, there are probably related groups for blogging, web design, PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. https://www.php.net/manual/en/preface.php., etc. Drop in and let them know about the upcoming WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more.. Tell them about your meetup group while you’re at it!
- Badges. Make some graphics that speakers, sponsors, attendees, and volunteers can put in their sidebars to tell the world that they’ll be there. Provide HTMLHTML HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites. code that can be copied and pasted.
- Articles. Contact your local newpaper, alternative newsweekly, radio stations, TV station and tell them about your event. Some will not be interested, but some might be. More than one WordCamp have brought people in this way.
- Flyers. You don’t want to plaster your town with flyers (wasteful!), but a few in strategic locations could be helpful. The local coffeeshop with wifi where freelancers tend to work, co-working spaces, and the communications and computer science departments at local colleges might be worth it.
- Social Media. Twitter, Facebook, the blogs of your community members… get these activated in promoting your event. When someone registers, be sure to put information about your accounts in the confirmation email, and ask them to be sure to let their network know they’ll be attending. The easier you can make it for people to spread the word, the better.
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Past WordCamp Organizers: What methods of publicizing your event worked for you?
