{"id":588,"date":"2017-09-15T15:04:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T15:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.birmingham.wordcamp.org\/?p=588"},"modified":"2017-09-15T21:54:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T21:54:26","slug":"become-a-part-of-the-wordcamp-experience-by-volunteering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2017\/become-a-part-of-the-wordcamp-experience-by-volunteering\/","title":{"rendered":"Become a Part of the WordCamp Experience by Volunteering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You want to volunteer with WordCamp Birmingham. <strong>No&#8230;you NEED to volunteer with WordCamp.<\/strong> The WordPress community has always been one of helping and sharing, but the WordCamp experience takes that to a whole new level.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what your business, your niche, or your area of expertise, there are two things that must have your focus when it comes to marketing and growing success:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. Creating lasting connections with people.<\/p>\n<p>2. Focusing on being relentlessly helpful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When you volunteer, you will have the opportunity to meet some of the top WordPress people in the community, engage with business leaders, and connect with content creators and developers.<\/p>\n<p>When you volunteer, you step forward to be the one sharing and giving. You become the helper&#8211;even as you are learning and being helped along the way.<\/p>\n<h2>Are you ready to learn more?<\/h2>\n<p>Yeah, you are!<\/p>\n<p>Click the Volunteer link at the top of the page or follow the link <a href=\"https:\/\/2017.birmingham.wordcamp.org\/call-for-volunteers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0be a part of the WordCamp experience. You know you want to. So what are you waiting for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You want to volunteer with WordCamp Birmingham. No&#8230;you NEED to volunteer with WordCamp. The WordPress community has always been one of helping and sharing, but the WordCamp experience takes that to a whole new level. No matter what your business, your niche, or your area of expertise, there are two things that must have your &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2017\/become-a-part-of-the-wordcamp-experience-by-volunteering\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Become a Part of the WordCamp Experience by Volunteering&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15085685,"featured_media":599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[113,40,14],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-volunteer","tag-wordcamp-birmingham","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/09\/volunteers-2654004_1920.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8piUg-9u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15085685"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}