Karen Alma

What I think about. Things that happen to me. Stuff I like. And other things.

Category: Events

  • 15 years blogging with WordPress.com
  • My daughter’s choir, the Sandia Youth Homeschool Choir, was selected to sing the National Anthem at the local Albuquerque minor league baseball game tonight. They did so great! Brought tears to my eyes 🙂

  • WordCamp Rio de Janeiro 2015

    As I mentioned here and here, I was recently in Brazil at WordCamp Rio de Janeiro. My colleague, Erica Varlese and I talked to the attendees about how to do great support. Here’s those slides:

  • WordCamp Lima 2014: the Better Late Than Never Edition

    I was looking through my post drafts and I realized that I never published this one about WordCamp Lima.  Am I the only one that types up drafts and never publishes them? Probably not. Go look in your drafts right now and publish something. Quick! Then come back and look at my pictures of WCLima2014. #betterlatethannever…

  • Visiting Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo

    I recently traveled to Brazil for WordCampRio followed by a series of speaking events and meeting with local tech folks. You can read this post written by my colleague Erica (also in Portuguese) for more details. Oh, by the way, we’re hiring. I never imagined I’d go to Brazil, Portuguese seemed really scary. As it turns out, since…

  • WordCamp Buenos Aires 2015: Presentation Slides and Notes

    This past Saturday I had the very great honor of speaking at WordCamp Buenos Aires 2015 about one of my favorite topics, getting involved with the WordPress community. Slides are here: They are also on the WCBA15 site. And if you want to read the presentation I put full notes in a PDF. Please forgive any Spanish typos.…

  • Press Publish, Phoenix

    This past Saturday, April 18th,  I got to hang out with about 130 amazing bloggers and 13 of my coworkers at Press Publish in Phoenix, a new WordPress.com offering. The first one was in Portland a couple weeks ago. I gave a 15 minute presentation about Blogging on the Go with the WP mobile app and spent the…

  • Hispanicize 2015

    Here’s my presentation for those of you who missed it. Feel free to stop by the booth and ask any questions if you’re at Hispanicize. We’re here today and tomorrow. Top 10 Secret WordPress.com Features: And why you won’t want to live without them. #WPlovesHispz15 #hispz15 Resources: Post by email: http://support.wordpress.com/post-by-email/ Widgets: https://support.wordpress.com/widgets/ Geotagging: https://support.wordpress.com/geotagging/…

  • Some friends of mine and I are putting together a workshop for Expanding Your Horizons, a conference for girls from 5th grade to 9th grade. EYH is all about science, technology, engineering, and math and bringing girls in contact with role models in those fields. The conference is February 7, 2015 and registration opens January 1st if…

  • My brother is in town and we brought him, my mom, and my dad to Sadie’s for nachos, guacamole, and the best guitar trio in Albuquerque. 

  • #balloonfiesta2014 so fun to finally make it to a legit not rained out balloon glow #hadablast