October 6, 2012

October 6, 2012

October 6, 2012 — Kate talks us through how a WordPress blog can provide a platform for individuals and small businesses to build profile and get noticed.

She outlines
* Key practices and principles for blogging success.
* How to use social media integration to maximise distribution of your messages.
* How to harness the power of WordPress and plugins for maximum benefit – the must-haves.

Kate is a skilled communicator who brings together ideas, technology, and business in practical ways. Her work as a marketer and technologist gives her insight into the nexus between innovation and technology, and the changes that these bring to society and organisations.

October 5, 2012 — People are tired of the spam, they want to really connect with you and the best way for them to connect is through your story.

This session reveals the power your story has to connect with your audience through a WordPress website and how social media can help spread your message.

October 5, 2012 — Anthony Hortin from the Easy WP Guide and Maddison Designs takes us through a Firebug Primer.

October 5, 2012 — Tracey introduces Custom Post Types and Taxonomies, outline why they’re so great and what you can use them for and introduces some of the cool tools available to make using them both easy and expedient.

Tracey is a designer who taught herself CSS, some basic PHP and MySQL to build a friend’s band a new website. After that, thanks to word of mouth, soon she was doing other band sites in her ‘spare’ time.

October 4, 2012 — Making a living as a WordPress professional is a lot of work, but it’s not only possible, it can be a lot of fun. We’ll cover some simple guidelines on how to make the commitment, market your services, communicate with clients, quote and bill your time and help contribute to the WordPress community.

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October 4, 2012 — A technical deep dive into performance analysis and optimisation for WordPress sites large and small, from the front-end to the back-end…

Jeff Waugh is a technology generalist and Open Source specialist who enjoys translating technology opportunity into useful outcomes. He gets to do that all the time as pre-sales engineer at mission critical hosting provider, Bulletproof Networks.

October 4, 2012

October 4, 2012 — A complete beginners guide to WordPress. Focusing on installing, setting up and customising a new WordPress installation (.org)

Wil has been involved in web development since 1992 and his company Gravitational FX has been delivering business web solutions since 2008 for clients in the UK, Ireland and Australia.