February 26, 2018 — Chris Lema interviewing Alonso Indacocha, lead organizer of this WordCamp.

February 26, 2018 — Chris Lema interviews Ashleigh Axios

February 26, 2018 — The topic will focus on
– Visual Assets & Appeal
– Excerpts
– Omitting ‘Happy talk’
– Making relevant content ‘More Prominent’
– Call To Action (CTA)s

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February 26, 2018 — Many non-profits don’t realize that they have a problem until a volunteer half-finishes a website and disappears. Whether you create WordPress sites for others or as a non-profit employee or volunteer, this session will help you use WordPress to engage donors and volunteers, represent the organization as a good steward of donors’ money, and protect its security and reputation. Non-profits also have unique project management and maintenance needs, and we will discuss these as well.

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February 26, 2018 — My presentation will be ultra-visual, and I will be exploring actionable changes that attendees will be able to make immediately to improve their client relationships as well as their launch/site management workflows. Finally, I will address the financial benefits of offering a better user experience – in other words, how much more money freelancers and agencies can make by providing a solid user experience for their clients.

February 26, 2018 — You may have heard about React.js and the WordPress API, but how do you get started using these new technologies? We’ll cover a simple, practical example of how to start using React.js with the WordPress API in a traditional PHP templated WordPress Theme.

February 26, 2018 — Comunicare significa letteralmente mettere in comune. È qualcosa che facciamo continuamente, spesso senza troppo pensarci, e gli esperti di comunicazione ci dicono che è impossibile non comunicare.
Ma le forme di comunicazione sono molto diverse fra loro e ognuna ha le proprie caratteristiche e regole. Per comunicare in modo efficace occorre conoscere la forma di comunicazione che si sta usando, studiarne la grammatica, padroneggiarne i meccanismi.

Luca Sartoni, Growth Engineer a Automattic, organizzatore di WordPress Meetup e WordCamp, con una lunghissima esperienza come speaker in molteplici occasioni e di fronte a platee di varia natura, ci svela i segreti del parlare di fronte a una platea senza timori e, soprattutto, in modo efficace.

February 26, 2018 — This track consists of five short sessions focused on using themes and building sites.

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Help Us Help You. Things You Should Know Before Contacting Support.

Brooke Dukes

I’ve been on all sides of support. In that time I’ve learned a lot of the dos-and-don’ts of asking for (and providing) support. In this lighting talk I’ll go over some of the most commonly missing information when reaching out to support.

Slides: https://2017.seattle.wordcamp.org/files/2017/11/brooke_dukes_wcsea.pdf

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Creating A Knowledge Transfer Plan, or How To Really Go On Vacation

Hilary Fosdal

It’s surprising how stressful going on vacation or attending a conference can be. Are you ready to temporarily step away from the business relationships you’ve carefully built with your clients and handing over all the hard work you’ve put into your projects to someone else?

Learn how you can transition your projects and clients professionally and programmatically to co-workers during your temporary absence. Take the stress out of leaving for vacation by having a knowledge transfer plan – a.k.a. your vacation exit strategy.

Slides: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0bd6bji99p5cs6t/HowToReallyGoOnVacation.pdf?dl=0

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Sketches: The Universal Language

Joshua Wold

Anyone can sketch. You don’t have to be an artist. A few simple shapes can help explain a problem quickly and clearly. Sketching is a universal language that anyone can understand regardless of technical background.

Have you ever tried explaining a technical problem to a stakeholder, developer, designer, or customer? Has that ever led to miscommunication? A quick sketch can help validate that everyone understands the issue – or show that each person is thinking something completely different.

In this talk you’ll learn some very simple steps to create sketches and wireframes that you can add to any ticket or problem you’re discussing.

Slides: https://cloudup.com/c19N_0Hryii

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Quick Tips: Gain Mutual Buy-In and Inject More Empathy Into Your Projects

Justin Parra

Let’s discuss empathetic strategies that will ultimately help you create a more satisfying client experience, smoother creative process with less barriers, and help clients grant a new level of trust in your creative/technical concepts. Empathy is often said to be the most important quality of a UX professional. One can argue that it is the most important quality in a human being. While we won’t go quite that far, let’s talk about how injecting a higher level of empathy into your project management and client interactions can improve your final product.

Slides: https://2017.seattle.wordcamp.org/files/2017/11/justin-parra-wp-project-management-strategies.pdf

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Getting up to Speed on Build Processes

Jacob Wayne Smith

In this hands-on talk Jacob Smith will demystify Gulp, NPM, Grunt, and more so that you can work smarter and faster.

With code examples and live programming, we will work with a standard build process for WordPress development.

Slides: https://abravenew.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Jacob-Smith-wordcamp-seattle-2017.pdf

February 26, 2018 — En esta MeetUp conoceremos de David Pérez como iniciarnos en el mundo WordPress, con los conceptos iniciales y cómo crear tu propia web o gestionar mejor una web realizada en WordPress.

Aprenderás:
1. Qué es WordPress y qué representa hoy día
2. Diferencias entre wordpress.org y wordpress.com
3. Tipos de contenido
4. Estructura de directorios
5. Instalación wordpress.org automática
6. Instalación wordpress.org de forma manual
7. Acceso al Administrador y primeros pasos
8. Instalación de Plantillas y recomendaciones
9. Instalación de Plugins y recomendaciones
10. Fuentes de información

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February 26, 2018 — This talk will cover quick and easy methods to get feedback from your customers and increase the usefulness and usability of your website without needing a dedicated research team.

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