Archive for 2018

  • Laura Nelson: Easing the anxious mind: dealing with anxiety in the workplace

    WordCamp Europe 2018Speaker: Laura Nelson

    July 6, 2018 — 40% of disability worldwide is due to depression & anxiety. However, there’s still so much stigma surrounding the issue, that it rarely gets discussed. This has resulted in people with anxiety feeling like they have to suffer in silence, and employers not fully understanding the condition. Laura will share her personal experience of dealing with an anxiety disorder and how it impacted her working life. By openly discussing this issue, she hopes to diffuse some common misunderstandings of the condition, give practical advice on how anxiety sufferers can help themselves and what workplaces can do to support this, and give people the confidence to communicate mental health issues.

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  • Christina Varro: Staying Healthy In the Digital Space

    WordCamp Europe 2018Speaker: Christina Varro

    July 5, 2018 — Screen time, sedentary lifestyle and solo remote work can lead to a variety of physical and mental health problems. As a full time freelancer for almost 10 years, I have suffered a variety of sleep disorders, physical health problems, and anxiety disorders. Freelance designers, developers, and other remote workers rarely have access to occupational health specialists or know how to solve their health issues related to heavy computer work. Come learn a variety of tips for stay healthy when you work in the digital space.

  • Miriam Schwab: Content security policies: a whole new way of securing your website that no one knows

    WordCamp Europe 2018Speaker: Miriam Schwab

    July 5, 2018 — Content security policies (CSPs) are a relatively new security element on the web horizon. CSPs use browsers to detect and mitigate certain types of attacks like cross-site scripting (XSS), clickjacking and other code injection attacks resulting from execution of malicious content in the trusted web page context. CSPs can be used for simple purposes like enforcing https on SSL-enabled sites, to more sophisticated uses like authorizing only truly trusted sources and blocking others.

    Most sites do not have CSPs installed, but it’s important to be aware of them and how they can be used to add an additional layer of security to your website.

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  • Maja Benke: Accessible Design

    WordCamp Europe 2018Speaker: Maja Benke

    July 5, 2018 — The design of a website can support, but also hinder the accessibility of the site. In this taIk I would like to show the most common problems in the web in terms of accessible design and give an overview over good practices and also over potential conflicts between different accessible needs and how to deal with them.

    In the talk I will show you tools and resources to that will help you to design accessible websites and also how to integrate accessibility from the beginning into the design process.

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  • Paolo Belcastro: World of WordPress

    WordCamp Europe 2018Speaker: Paolo Belcastro

    July 5, 2018 — Leading a cross-functional group of skilled individuals from all around the world, in front of their computers, hands on the keyboard, a headset on, solving together complex problems in a limited timeframe.

    This description covers my activities for the past ten years, from online gaming to the WordPress community, to my work at Automattic.

    Technology has blurred the lines between playing, working, and contributing to an open source project, I will use my experience leading a distributed team to show you how to professionally grow while having fun, and giving back to the community that changed your life.

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  • A Summertime update

    WordCamp Europe 2018Speaker: Matt Mullenweg

    July 4, 2018 — A 50 minute session with Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress: it includes a 30 minute keynote, followed by and 20 minutes of Q&A from the audience.

  • Técnicas de venta zamoranas

    WordPress Meetup Collado VillalbaSpeaker: Alberto Lobo

    July 4, 2018 — Técnicas de venta zamoranas para micropymes, autónomos y vendedores de soluciones.

    Un entretenido recorrido por la metamorfosis del /homo venditoris/ o
    vendedor analógico en su proceso de desarrollo de credibilidad y
    herramientas para convertirse en un auténtico vendedor 2.0.

    Una presentación de herramientas y conocimientos útiles para todos
    aquellos que se dedican profesionalmente a las ventas, o, tienen que
    vender como parte del proceso de desarrollo e impulso de sus negocios.

    PONENTE
    Alberto Lobo

    Licenciado en Económicas, Alberto ha vivido y trabajado en España,
    Francia, Italia y el Reino Unido, y durante los últimos 15 años se ha
    dedicado a las ventas y a la búsqueda de clientes industriales en más de
    40 países. Es además el atrevido escritor de un blog de marca personal
    en albertolobo.com

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  • Michael Black – Preparing for Google’s Mobile First

    WordCamp Kansas City 2018Speaker: Michael Black

    July 3, 2018 — A major change to Google’s search results is coming. For the first time ever Google will be ranking sites across all devices based on how well a site performs on a mobile device. That’s right, ranking in the desktop results will be determined by how a site works on a mobile device. This change could have a dramatic impact on ranking and traffic. This session will give attendees tips for diagnosing the potential impact on their site as well as providing helpful WordPress tweaks, plugins and best practices for staying Mobile First.

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  • Taller de elaboración del plan económico financiero para freelances y PYMEs

    WordPress Meetup Collado VillalbaSpeaker: Juan Carlos Pérez

    July 3, 2018 — El plan económico financiero o presupuesto nos permite conocer con antelación qué necesitamos para que nuestro negocio sea viable económicamente. No sólo se debe realizar al inicio de la actividad, sino que debe incorporarse como una herramienta de gestión imprescindible.

    El objetivo de este taller es que cada asistente pueda realizar el plan financiero o presupuesto de su empresa o proyecto. A través de una plantilla en excel, realizaremos el presupuesto de inversiones, ingresos, gastos y tesorería. Te olvidarás de la idea de que no merece la pena hacer un plan financiero porque es imposible calcular las ventas

    Ponente:
    Juan Carlos Pérez, economista con más de 20 años de experiencia en gestión económica y financiera. La mayor parte como Director Financiero y Controller en una gran empresa. También ha sido responsable financiero en varias pymes.
    Actualmente, a través de Z1 Gestión, asesora a empresas y emprendedores en planificación económica y financiera y control de ingresos y gastos.

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  • Roberto Tuñón: Diseñas o plantillas

    WordCamp Irun 2018Speaker: Roberto Tuñón

    June 29, 2018 — Una exposición sobre la importancia del diseño en la realización de proyectos web.

    Comentando todo el espectro, desde la definición y misión del diseño hasta las posibles aplicaciones de este, trataremos de retratar por qué es conveniente aplicar un punto de vista de diseño y no atender simplemente a los estereotipos más habituales.

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