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Douglas Hanna

Douglas Hanna is a consultant, blogger, and speaker who specializes in customer service. He writes about customer service and the customer service experience on his blog, Service Untitled. Douglas has helped companies of all sizes improve their customer service since 2004 and has written numerous articles on how and why companies can use customer service as their competitive advantage.

When he isn’t blogging or consulting, Douglas works for Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and Akismet.com, as a “Communications Engineer.” At Automattic, Douglas spends most of his time running the day-to-day operations of the WordPress.org Showcase and helping to support WordPress.com users. When he isn’t doing anything related to work, Douglas enjoys reading and playing the piano and is a diehard Duke Blue Devils fan.

[WordCamp bios]

Douglas Hanna is showing us the WordPress Showcase which show different sites that use WordPress and how to submit sites.

Contains 390 entries with more then 2100 comments.

Requirements

• Using WordPress in a unique or innovative way.
• Attracting tens of thousands of regular readers.
• Being written by someone famous or especially notable in his or her particular field.
• Representing a notable organization, government entity, or corporation as an official blog or web site.

Overview of an entry.

Shows when entries where entered on the arhives and the tag cloud is good to see by type.

Going through a lot of different types, that even use WordPress simply, or so much so that he had to do some major digging to prove it.

Getting In

Things to think about

• Make sure it’s actually WP.
• Make sure you aren’t already in it.
• If it’s yet another blog, don’t.
• It’s needs to be up.
• Please only submit it once.
• Why should it be submitted in email

Meet criteria

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