Archive for October, 2017

  • Laura Willis: Creating A Powerful Personal Brand For Connection, Communication & Success

    WordCamp Rhode Island 2017Speaker: Laura Willis

    October 17, 2017 — Are you ready to take your next step? Do you want to have a competitive edge? Do you want to do more work that you love and have more success while doing it?

    Learn how uncovering your personal brand can have a direct impact on getting more of what you want; it’s a combination of art and science.

    In this interactive, hands-on workshop with Laura Willis you’ll learn:

    What a personal brand is and why it’s important
    Why passion is critical and contagious
    Who your “target audience” is and the value you bring to them
    Identify how you “show up” and the perception you create
    Understand the science and power of connection and how it works
    Where it fits into all of your communications
    When you uncover your authentic personal brand, you get clearer about the vision you have for your life, how you want to live it and achieve it.

  • Jennifer Shaheen: What’s Your Data Story?

    WordCamp Rhode Island 2017Speaker: Jennifer Shaheen

    October 17, 2017 — Every time a visitor comes to your website or views your social media content, they’re telling you what they think about your business, products you’re selling and content you’re sharing. This information doesn’t show up in the comment section! Valuable insights are waiting for you in your website and social media analytics.

    Key Takeaways:

    – Data reveals what products and messaging attracts customer attention.
    – Learn how to discern your visitors unique path to purchase, including any stumbling blocks that may be slowing your sales.
    – Learn how to identify data duplication and other common system configuration errors that compromise the validity of analytic data.

    Intended Audience Type: Marketers, Content Managers
    Intended Audience Experience: Beginner to Intermediate
    Attendees should know the basics of Google analytics and metrics.

  • Lucas Cherkewski: Demystifying HTML: An Introduction For Bloggers

    WordCamp Montreal 2017Speaker: Lucas Cherkewski

    October 17, 2017 — HTML: for those of us who aren’t comfortable with code, we may have shied away from it in the past. Maybe you’ve seen it when you click the text/HTML tab in the WordPress editor, but quickly clicked back to the visual mode. Whatever your familiarity with HTML, we’ll use this talk to break down some of your fears. You’ll learn what HTML is, how it’s used, and why it’s worth learning. Together, we’ll see that HTML isn’t too bad at all—that it’s actually a powerful tool to help us better our websites. By the end, you’ll be familiar with HTML and know where to go to learn more.

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  • Jean-François Arseneault, Maxime Jobin: Pirates des CMS

    WordCamp Montreal 2017Speakers: Jean-François Arseneault, Maxime Jobin

    October 16, 2017 — otre site est lent depuis un bon moment et vous ne savez tout simplement pas quoi faire. Ce matin, en vous rendant sur votre site, celui-ci n’affiche tout simplement plus. Vous contactez votre hébergeur pour vous rendre compte que votre site web a été piraté. Ayayaye! La journée commence bien mal….

    Ce scénario qui semble irréaliste se produit chaque jour. Ne soyez pas la prochaine victime.

    Cette démonstration utilisera un véritable site WordPress hébergé sur le web, et le site sera “mal conçu”, “non-optimisé”, “non-sécurisé”, piraté, alouette!

    Venez nous aider à sauver un site web de sa terrible situation et surtout, vous préparer à ce que ça ne vous arrive jamais.

  • Max Kovalenkov: Exploring The Case For Serverless WordPress

    WordCamp Montreal 2017Speaker: Max Kovalenkov

    October 16, 2017 — A WordPress install that’s ultra-secure, lightning-fast, and near-infinitely scalable?.. What?! Turns out there’s a service to give us just that: Shifter. We will explore what it’s all about, its pros and cons, as well as possible use cases for it.

    P.S.: I’m not affiliated with Shifter in any way.

  • Miriam Goldman: Plugins And You: Finding That Perfect Plugin

    WordCamp Montreal 2017Speaker: Miriam Goldman

    October 16, 2017 — Finding the right plugins, and navigating through the large library can be hard. Come and hear about some personal tips and tricks I’ve found to make the selection easier. I’ll recommend some plugins based on what you need – and discuss the advantages of a paid plugin rather than just free.

  • WordPress Community InterviewWith Sandro Gilando

    WordPress Community Interview SeriesSpeaker: Sandro Gilando

    October 16, 2017 — Sandro Gilando attended his WordCamp this past June at WordCamp Kent. Although well versed in SEO practices, Sandro was new to WordPress.He attended the 2 day WordCamp and sat through the WP 101 sessions which were presented by Melinda Helt of the Training Team.

    Although I did not meet Sandro at the WordCamp, I happened to see a mention of a podcast talking about WordCamp Kent and that is how I contacted Sandro. You can listen to his podcast here: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/60-second-marketing/e/50612855.

  • Jennifer Doré Dallas: Article publié, je fais quoi maintenant?

    WordCamp Montreal 2017Speaker: Jennifer Doré Dallas

    October 15, 2017 — Conseils et astuces pour dynamiser et marketer auprès du lectorat l’article publié. Façons de le faire voir par plus de gens, conserver le lecteur sur notre site plus longtemps/à long terme et de faire revivre cet article pour qu’il reste evergreen.

  • Bernard Prince: Comment créer une stratégie numérique pour un site Web qui aura de l’impact

    WordCamp Montreal 2017Speaker: Bernard Prince

    October 15, 2017 — Avec plus d’un milliard de sites disponibles (dont 25% sont en WordPress), il ne suffit plus de mettre quelque chose en ligne en y ajoutant des mots clés pour performer dans l’univers numérique. Avec plusieurs ressources et outils que vous pourrez ensuite utiliser (inspirés entre autres des Startup Weekends), nous verrons comment bien identifier vos objectifs d’affaires, les clients à cibler et comment mesurer le succès en ligne. Nous pourrons ensuite voir comment créer une structure de site adapté et un référencement Web qui rejoindra les bonnes personnes. Bref, vous aurez en main ce qu’il faut pour créer le plan d’affaire de votre site Web!

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  • Wendie Huis in ’t Veld: Pagebuilder Galore

    WordCamp Nijmegen 2017Speaker: Wendie Huis in ‘t Veld

    October 15, 2017 — Aaah, Pagebuilders.
    Voor veel developers een doorn in het oog voor veel gebruikers een ware uitkomst.
    In deze talk leg ik precies uit wat een pagebuilder is, wat je er mee kunt en hoe je een pagebuilder het beste kunt gebruiken. Ook vertel ik over de risico’s, de meest gemaakte fouten en wat je vooral niet met een pagebuilder moet proberen. Persoonlijk heb ik een behoorlijke hoeveelheid pagebuilders getest en de resultaten daarvan deel ik natuurlijk ook graag.