Category Archives: Sponsor Spotlight

Sponsor Spotlight: GreenGeeks

Our Sponsor Spotlight series showcases the people and organizations who are supporting WordCamp Toronto 2015 through financial or in-kind contributions. Learn more about this year’s sponsors.

GreenGeeksWhat is GreenGeeks?

GreenGeeks provides eco-friendly cloud-based web presence tools and services to small business and developers. GreenGeeks specializes in WordPress web hosting along with providing environmentally-friendly web hosting using renewable energy.”

Why WordPress?

“Our favorite thing about WordPress is how easy it allows small businesses to create an online presence while at the same time being flexible and powerful enough to use in any application imaginable.” Continue reading

Sponsor Spotlight: NewPath Consulting

Our Sponsor Spotlight series showcases the people and organizations who are supporting WordCamp Toronto 2015 through financial or in-kind contributions. Learn more about this year’s sponsors.

NewPath ConsultingWhat is NewPath Consulting?

“We streamline your sales, marketing and business operations with simple to use yet highly effective software solutions with a monthly subscription fee. You never have to buy, install or manage software. And your business benefits through continuous innovation and growth.”

Why WordPress?

“We like WordPress because of it its infinite extensibility and scalability. It is a deceptively easy to use tool for an online publisher, but it can also grow to be customized for a very particular set of business needs. I love the community that has grown around WordPress in the plugins and themes ecosystem. It is most definitely the aspect of the product that continues to attract more developers and users to the platform. And I think it’s just getting started even though WordPress has been around for over ten years.”

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Sponsor Spotlight: ManageWP

Our Sponsor Spotlight series showcases the people and organizations who are supporting WordCamp Toronto 2015 through financial or in-kind contributions. Learn more about this year’s sponsors.

ManageWPWhat is ManageWP?

ManageWP is a service that helps you automate website management, so you could focus on things that matter. It helps you access your websites with one click, run scheduled backups, clone your websites, monitor uptime, and much more. With over a quarter of a million websites managed and 1.6 million downloads, ManageWP is the first and most successful service for management of multiple WordPress websites.

The team behind ManageWP consists of over a dozen developers, contributors, WordCamp organizers, speakers and volunteers. They’ve built over 30 plugins, several of them with over 1 million downloads. Overall a fun bunch of people.” Continue reading

Sponsor Spotlight: Camp Tech

Our Sponsor Spotlight series showcases the people and organizations who are supporting WordCamp Toronto 2015 through financial or in-kind contributions. Learn more about this year’s sponsors.

Camp Tech

What is Camp Tech?

Camp Tech offers half- and full-day in-person workshops for adults who want to learn web and digital skills. We create a welcoming environment for those who are hesitant around technology and we emphasize skills that can be put into practice right away. At Camp Tech, we have a good time at our workshops. This isn’t stuffy corporate-style training!

Camp Tech was founded in August 2012. We facilitate approximately 200 public workshops a year in Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, and Kitchener-Waterloo. Read more about Camp Tech, and how we got started, in this awesome Globe and Mail article.”

Why WordPress?

We love WordPress at Camp Tech, and are so happy to support the WordPress Foundation and Toronto WordCamp. In our wildly popular WordPress for Beginners workshop, we see students go from zero to hero, making their own site in just a day using WP. How awesome is that?”

Sponsor Spotlight: WooCommerce

Our Sponsor Spotlight series showcases the people and organizations who are supporting WordCamp Toronto 2015 through financial or in-kind contributions. Learn more about this year’s sponsors.

WooCommerce

What is WooCommerce?

WooCommerce is the world’s most popular eCommerce platform. Powered by WordPress and built by WooThemes, the goal of WooCommerce is to allow you to sell anything online – beautifully. You can integrate with payment processors, easily manage shipping methods and inventory, set up flexible tax rules, and view detailed store reports all from your WordPress dashboard.

With a free core platform and hundreds of premium add-ons available, WooCommerce allows you to set up an online shop with functionality catered to your store’s needs.”

Why WordPress?

“Our entire business model is built on it 🙂 Where WP goes, we go!”

Sponsor Spotlight: artifakt Digital Inc.

artifaktOur first Sponsor Spotlight for 2015 goes to artifakt Digital Inc! They’ve been supporting WordCamp Toronto since 2013, and we’re thrilled to have them back for 2015.

Who are you?

“We’re artifakt Digital Inc.; a Toronto-based digital strategy agency specializing in WordPress website design, development, planning, and migration, online presence, and complete digital strategy solutions. If your business needs to build Internet charisma and a positive online presence, we want to help you do it.”

Why WordPress?

“We love to push WordPress and see it do things it doesn’t typically do.”