Birmingham Web Designers Jeremy Flint

We are only a week away from WordCamp Birmingham 2009. This year, the weekend is really shaping up to be bigger and better than last year. First of all, we have Matt Mullenweg coming to deliver a keynote on The State Of The Word. With bits and pieces of 2.9 starting to leak out, I hope he offers up more information on the next major release of WordPress.

That alone is enough of a reason to be there. But it gets even better. Esra’a Al Shafei was recently announced as the closing keynote for Saturday. Esra’a was scheduled to be a keynote speaker at Social South, but had some last minute problems with her visa. Those were cleared up the week after Social South, and a local company has paid her way to come to Birmingham to talk about her MideastYouth.org site, which is built on the WordPress platform.

In addition to Matt and Esra’a, a great lineup of speakers will be talking about ethical blogging, setting up a dynamic site in WordPress, interactive branding and more. Some of the speakers scheduled to be there include Wade Kwon, Mitch Canter, Tammy Hart, and Dougal Campbell. I will also be speaking about essential SEO and analytics tips for wordpress sites.

Registration is still open as we are approaching the 150 attendee mark. That is more than doubling the attendance from last year’s WordCamp. Make sure you are there.