Mike Pratt

Session: BuddyPress: How to transform your WordPress site into a niche community [WordPress Track, Beginner Level]

BuddyPress adds complete social networking functionality to any existing WordPress install or you can even start from scratch. Build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community all based on the power, ease and flexibility of WordPress 3.0. Unlike other hosted services, BuddyPress allows you to stay in complete control of your site and users' experience. This session will introduce you to BuddyPress and its various components and explain how BuddyPress works and is integrated into the WordPress environment.

About Mike Pratt

Director of Business Development at Carrot Creative and former Goldman Sachs trader and hedge fund manager turned digital strategist, WordPress developer and BuddyPress community builder. Fashion technology geek and co-creator of his wife's sites: giftgirl.com and styleobserver.com. Co-founder of the 1200 person fashion 2.0 MeetUp in NY and the Style Coalition, an influential guild of independent fashion publishers with a new approach to brand campaigns. As a Buddypress developer, Mike has led the way with a new open source approach to community building via the West Point alumni site BugleNotes.com and is a speaker/consultant on the BuddyPress circuit.