WordPress is an amazing free tool with unlimited potential. WordCamp Detroit is an event which celebrates the success and future of WordPress in all of our lives. Each of the following sponsors are making their contribution back to the WordPress community by sponsoring WordCamp Detroit. This event wouldn’t be possible without our generous supporting sponsors, so thank you to everyone of you!
Enterprise
The Nexcess WP-SIP web hosting platform is specially-designed for WordPress web hosting and comes with one-click WordPress installation. The Nexcess support team is available 24/7, working on-site at company’s wholly-owned data centers based in Dearborn and Southfield, Michigan. WordPress web hosting plans at Nexcess start at $14.99, and can be scaled seamlessly into managed dedicated servers and clusters for more high-traffic WordPress implementations.
Website: http://www.nexcess.net/
Supercharge WordPress with tools that help you to blog better and faster — all by activating a single plugin. Jetpack is a suite of great add-ons that are fully supported by the team behind WordPress.com.
With Jetpack… you can get better feedback on your site’s popularity with WordPress.com Stats never publish a typo again with After The Deadline readers will love the social features from Sharedaddy (including sharing posts on Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon and many others) Twitter Widget lets people know your latest 140-character thoughts and there’s lots more!
Find out more, and download Jetpack, at Jetpack.me
Liquid Web Inc. is a privately held managed web hosting company founded in 1997, with three wholly owned data center facilities located in Lansing, Michigan. Liquid Web is a leader in the professional web hosting market with an unwavering dedication to providing the best hosting products available. Liquid Web has over 20,000 clients served in over 120 countries. Liquid Web received the INC.5000 Fastest Growing Companies award in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.
Website: http://www.liquidweb.com
Business
Web Savvy Marketing is an internet marketing firm that specializes in WordPress website design, organic SEO, and social media management. We offer custom theme design, WordPress consulting, and ongoing WordPress maintenance and support.
Website: http://www.web-savvy-marketing.com/
Fleapay grants you all the benefits of a full e-commerce website without the headaches of a typical install or integration. All you need is a website and the ability to accept credit cards. Plus, we just launched a WordPress plugin!
Keywood Innovation Group, LLC : We are a web development company out of Fort Wayne, Indiana. We specialize in WordPress based websites for local businesses, along with custom PHP development. We are currently working on a project “DevPress” which will allow WordPress developers to manage all of their websites in one place, with many unique and innovative features. We are looking forward to meeting other developers and users at WordCamp 2011!
Website URL: http://www.kigwired.com/
Blog URL : http://www.kigwired.com/blog
Twitter: @kigwired
3.7 DESIGNS provides Great Design for Incredible Causes. We work with non-profits, schools and municipalities to help improve the world through design. We’re a design and marketing firm based in Ann Arbor, MI that believes small inputs can lead to large growth– and we work hard to bring that idea to life.
Website: Non-profit Web Design
Led by online marketing guru Brian Clark, Copyblogger Media provides web publishers 3 pieces of software that are critical to online success: the Genesis Framework, Scribe SEO Plugin and Premise Landing Pages.
Website: http://www.copyblogger.com/
Startup
Sportslife.me is an innovative sports-themed personal archive and social networking / blogging platform. Free memberships include a pre-configured, yet customizable sports themed blog with multimedia modules, inclusive of stories, images, video, map and routes all displayed on a personal timeline and geo-mapping interface, creating a visual chronology of the user’s memorable moments in sports. All stories can be shared and cross posted to members blogs as well as shared on Facebook and most other social media sites.
Website: http://www.sportslife.me/
In operation since 2003, SIX15 Solutions, LLC is a reliable, debt-free, straight-talking web development company that wants to help your business meet its objectives by utilizing what the World Wide Web has to offer. We speak fluent web geek, so you don’t have to. We have the tools to not only create your website, but also maintain it, giving you the freedom to concentrate on your business.
Website: http://SIX15.com
Wonder Web is a content strategy and WordPress web design agency based in Detroit and Kalamazoo, Michigan. After more than 10 years working in a variety of Web editorial roles at Fortune 100 companies such as The Walt Disney Company, Kellogg and Visteon Corporation, founder Jeff Greer decided to apply his big-company experience in a new way. Now he’s helping startups and stage-two companies take their next step on the web. Wonder Web builds content-rich websites and creates content strategies for a variety of clients in a range of industries. Learn more by checking out their website today.
Gameshow Prizes
Shopp Plugin
Website: https://shopplugin.net/
Gravity Forms
Website: www.gravityforms.com
Pippins Plugins
Website: www.pippinsplugins.com
3.7 Designs
Website: www.3.7designs.co
Maxim60
Website: www.Maxim60.com
TechSmith
Website: www.techsmith.com
Press 75
Website: www.press75.com
Digging into WordPress
Website: www.digwp.com
StudioPress
Website: www.studiopress.com