Developers have built an industry around the .org version creating and selling premium themes and plugins, offering membership to support sites, or creating custom sites for clients one at a time.
With the addition and growth of MultSite (formerly MU), WordPress is capable of a whole new way of doing things, bringing the best of the .com and the .org worlds together.

By creating a premium WordPress MultiSite installation targeted to a niche market, it is possible to provide an easy to use end user experience that provides premium themes and plugins and a level of customization tailored to that market.

Topics to discuss:

· How and why you should be considering charging for some content

· Pros and cons of various subscription strategies

· What content is best for subscriptions and why it may not matter

· And more!

• Architecting for scale
• Coding practices
• Performance tuning
• Launching

My presentation will take the audience step-by-step through the necessary HTML, CSS, and Javascript, covering what the code does and where it should go in a theme. Time permitting, I’ll discuss the more challenging aspects of mobile design in more detail, such as the difference between virtual and device pixels, how the behavior of view-ports affect page layout, and the different ways of detecting a device’s screen size.

Topics to be covered:

• What BuddyPress is, an overview of it’s features.
• How you can get BuddyPress?
• How to install BuddyPress, adding to an existing WordPress blog.
• How you can extend BuddyPress to add more features. Plugins!
• Examples of what you can do with BuddyPress.
• and more!

My goal with the second talk would be to pull key elements from this presentation, but introduce some new concepts that I learned during the process creating my second theme for public release. I intend to create a totally new presentation; not just recycle the old one

Pairing WordPress on-site SEO advances with an intelligent and realistic internet marketing campaign will generate new focused leads with minimal upkeep. If you can design beautiful and eye-catching websites and gear them for better search engine visibility, then you’re in business.

This presentation will cover basic design elements and best practices surrounding SEO strategy and content development. And having a kick-ass site is just half the battle. We’ll discuss ways to tackle slow-moving IT departments, secure buy-in from multiple stakeholders, and make your dream .edu site a reality.Additionally, we’ll examine examples of both good and bad .edu website implementations.

The theme-ing business has quietly become a multi-million dollar cottage industry where single designers (like myself) are making upwards of $200,000 a year just by releasing themes.

Much has been discussed across the net about design standards, coding best practices, and the ever changing theme environment – I’d like to take the conversation a step further by examining the entire theme-marketplace as a whole and suggesting a ”manifesto” for theme designers.

The main points will include:

• Context: An overview of the theme industry as it stands right now.
• The need for higher review standards across the market
• The vast array of deprecated themes that stick around (but should be put to rest!)
• The need for themes to move AWAY from heavy options panels that lock users down to one theme.
• Where the true future of WordPress themes lies…

Kapost helps editors assign stories to contributors, edit stories, manage their contributors with email notifications, track through an editorial calendar, pay their writers, performance metrics highlighting which writer brings in the most traffic,retweets and Facebook Likes and finally, posting directly to WordPress after pre-production.

With a background in online publishing, I will cover how to effectively focus on managing contributors and integrating WordPress with Kapost to help alleviate the often administrative tasks of managing contributors and content.

With almost 10,000 on the platform, I have probably made more mistakes than anyone else when it comes to using WordPress to launch a web site. From blog to corporate site, WordPress can do just about anything. So what should you know NOT to do? What are the best plugins to use as you get started? What other plugins might you want to consider? Should you use a free or premium theme, and is that even the right question? This and more is what we’ll cover as we talk about launching your site right.

http://www.slideshare.net/cflema/launch-right