State of the Word Keynote & WordPress 4.4

Agenda for this Meetup

6:30pm: Welcome and intro to group
6:40pm: State of the Word - Keynote Digest
7:50pm: WordPress 4.4
8:00pm: Q & A
8:10pm: End and thanks to the sponsors
8:15pm: Begin Networking
8:30pm: Time to go

Host: Eric Malcolm

Sponsors: A2 Hosting (https://www.a2hosting.com/) & Grand Circus (http://www.grandcircus.co/)

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State of the Word - Keynote Digest

Lead by Eric Malcolm

We will go over highlights from the WordPress State of the Word 2015 from Matt Mullenweg, presented on December 6th at WordCamp US in Philadelphia.

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Eric Malcolm

A web designer and developer, as well as a WordPress, user experience and search engine optimization enthusiast. He designs and builds websites, interfaces, apps, etc. to be aesthetically pleasing, developed properly, human-friendly and usable. He works full time for Optum and does freelance work on the side.

WordPress 4.4

Presented by Cam Cecchini.

We plan to go over the new features for WordPress 4.4.

Cam Cecchini

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Cam is a web designer and digital strategist. Founder of Motor City Mobility, a design and web development shop located in Eastpointe.

Volunteer List:

Set Up -

Greeting - Deborah Edwards-Onoro

Notes -

Photography -

We need volunteers... for photography, taking/publishing notes on our blog, greeting people when they arrive, setting up, and tweeting.

If you would like to volunteer to help with this, or any meetup, just let the host of the meetup know. You will get in the meetup you help at for free if you volunteer, we appreciate the help.

Parking and Venue information

Grand Circus is located in the Broderick Tower (http://www.brodericktower.com/), and you enter from the Woodward-facing doors.

Once inside, go to the end of the hall, and take the elevator to the third floor. Turn left when you get off the elevator, then turn right and look for the signs directing you to the room.

Parking is available at the Detroit Opera House parking garage, located on Broadway. Parking is $10 (unless there's a special event). There's also limited paid street parking on the streets.

The Detroit Opera House parking garage is a short walk up Broadway and around the corner from the Grand Circus space. Here's parking information from the Broderick Tower website (PDF) (http://grandcircus.co/GCParkingMap.pdf).

Note: with the M-1 rail construction downtown, it will be challenging to maneuver downtown streets and find street parking. Stay current on the construction by visiting the M-1 construction page (http://m-1rail.com/construction/).