{"id":99105,"date":"2014-12-08T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.vegas.wordcamp.org\/?p=99105"},"modified":"2014-12-10T10:23:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T18:23:38","slug":"speaker-spotlight-charlie-bass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker-spotlight-charlie-bass\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Charlie Bass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2014.vegas.wordcamp.org\/files\/2014\/12\/Charlie-Bass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2014.vegas.wordcamp.org\/files\/2014\/12\/Charlie-Bass-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Charlie Bass\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-99115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/12\/Charlie-Bass-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/12\/Charlie-Bass-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/12\/Charlie-Bass.jpg 437w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong>Session:<\/strong> Taking Your Blog Global: First Conquer Locally then Dominate the World<br \/>\n<strong>Track:<\/strong> Sunday Workshop<br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> Sunday, December 14, 9:00 AM<\/p>\n<p>Along with <a href=\"https:\/\/2014.vegas.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/rosario-grajales\/\" title=\"Rosario Grajales\">Rosario Grajales<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/2014.vegas.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/scott-roeben\/\" title=\"Scott Roeben\">Scott Roeben<\/a>, Charlie Bass is a panelist on the <a href=\"https:\/\/2014.vegas.wordcamp.org\/session\/taking-your-blog-global\/\" title=\"Taking Your Blog Global: First Conquer Locally then Dominate the World\">Taking Your Blog Global: First Conquer Locally then Dominate the World<\/a> panel. Our three panelists describe their session as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMost of us have a simple goal for our blog:<\/p>\n<p>starting small and blowing up big!<\/p>\n<p>Of course we all know its not that simple&#8230;BUT it can be done through amazing content, personal branding, strategic marketing, and relationship-building.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all about blogging with a purpose. Laying the groundwork, starting modestly with small, attainable goals, content generation, marketing and networking, and cross-pollination with other audiences. Lather, rinse, repeat.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>About Charlie Bass:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Charlie has been an internet developer and entrepreneur since 1994 and is one of the original ASP developers in the country, foundin the ASP Developers Conference and the WEB Developers Conference in the late 1990s through 2002, when he moved to Las Vegas from Denver.<\/p>\n<p>In 2002, he founded the Las Vegas Internet Chamber of Commerce and built it to the second largest Chamber of Commerce in the Las Vegas area. Since 2004 he has run the very popular online entertainment oriented podcast \u201cVegas Talk Radio\u201d. Five years ago, Charlie moved all of his domains to WordPress and has never looked back!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your Company:<\/strong><br \/>\nVegas Talk Radio<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your Website:<\/strong><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/VegasTalkRadio.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you love most about WordPress?<\/strong><br \/>\nFlexibility and speed to implement<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are some of your favorite WordPress-built websites?<\/strong><br \/>\nAll of mine &#8211; LOL<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are some of your favorite WordPress plugins?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Contact Form 7 &amp; DB\n<li>Wordfense Security\n<li>Shareaholic\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What should everyone know about WordPress?<\/strong><br \/>\nDesign ease and extendability<\/p>\n<p>Where is your favorite place to visit in the world?<br \/>\nAustralia &#8211; 3 times<\/p>\n<p>What do you love about Las Vegas?<br \/>\nEntertainment and weather<\/p>\n<p>Favorite movie in 2014 and why:<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t watch many movies<\/p>\n<p>Favorite non-WordPress activity?<br \/>\nPlaying Racquetball<br \/>\nAttending shows<\/p>\n<p>What are three of your pet peeves?<br \/>\nPoliticians<br \/>\nStupid people (kinda the same as above)<br \/>\n???<\/p>\n<p>To register, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/2014.vegas.wordcamp.org\/registration\/\" title=\"Registration\">vegas.wordcamp.org\/2014\/registration<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Session: Taking Your Blog Global: First Conquer Locally then Dominate the World Track: Sunday Workshop Time: Sunday, December 14, 9:00 AM Along with Rosario Grajales and Scott Roeben, Charlie Bass is a panelist on the Taking Your Blog Global: First Conquer Locally then Dominate the World panel. Our three panelists describe their session as: Most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker-spotlight-charlie-bass\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaker Spotlight: Charlie Bass<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13075439,"featured_media":99115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/12\/Charlie-Bass.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13075439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99105"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99205,"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99105\/revisions\/99205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}