If you’ve been toying with the idea of speaking at WordCamp Fayetteville 2017, here are some reasons to go ahead and take the plunge.
- If you make your living or support your cause with WordPress, speaking is an opportunity to give back to the community. You know things that some of the other people coming to WordCamp don’t know. If you share your knowledge, they’ll benefit, just as you benefit from the other speakers’ willingness to share their knowledge. That’s the beauty of the WordPress community.
- Speaking at WordCamp can give you visibility, possibly in a new community you haven’t already reached. Not only will you put yourself out there in front of people in Northwest Arkansas, but you’ll also be seen on WordPress TV, by a potentially much larger audience.
- It’s a chance to make friends and influence people. WordCamp is a casual, friendly, fun place to speak. You can read prepared notes if you want to, but you can also make your presentation a conversation with other people. Plenty of good friendships — and business relationships — have started at WordCamp.
- Preparing your presentation gives you strong motivation to get your ideas really clear and to find real support for those ideas. You already have knowledge and expertise that can be useful to the community, but putting together a solid presentation with slides is the perfect way to develop that knowledge to the next level. That will benefit you as well as your audience.
- Helping make WordCamp Fayetteville a little more awesome helps put Fayetteville on the map. A rising tide in Northwest Arkansas lifts all our Northwest Arkansas boats, and you can be a part of that.
The Call for Speakers has all the details.