August 14, 2016 — It is a fallacy that as a freelancer or small WordPress agency we should expect our income to be unpredictable. The open source WordPress software allows us to bake into our services ongoing website care plans to keep clients engaged with us and pay us monthly to care for their website. Setting up a recurring revenue stream caring for WordPress websites offers us the financial security we only hope for in our work as designers and developers.

In this WordCamp session, I’ll go over what that looks like from A-Z. We’ll explore what you should offer in your plans, how you setup payment for these plans inside your WordPress website with plugins, and how to carry out those basic website maintenance services from performance scans, security scans, backups, plugin updates and support ticket system for client requests. I’ll also touch upon some challenges you might face with push back from clients and how to address those.

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August 14, 2016 — I’ll give a brief overview of my background as a designer: working for ad agencies to in-house at Flywheel. I’ll explain what I do there, walk through why design is important for tech startups (and any company in general). I’ll dive into the brand evolution of Flywheel, and how it’s positively impacted our growth and outreach.

August 14, 2016 — If you work with or within universities, you know that building applications to support higher education is not for the faint of heart. We’re dealing with legacy systems, homegrown access management and of course limited resources and endless demands from the academic community. But I’m not here to scare you! Instead we’ll talk about how to defeat the higher-ed hydra with WordPress features like multisite, roles and capabilities, theme frameworks, and the REST API. All of these were used and abused to wrangle formidable foes like Boston University and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In this talk we’ll go through some strategies and examples that might work for you.

August 14, 2016 — Verslo konsultantas ir projektų vystytojas Giedrius Lužinas pasakoja, kaip efektyviai parduoti klientui idėją, kad vėliau jis jau pats pirktų Jūsų teikiamus sprendimus. Giedrius dalinasi savo įžvalgomis ir patirtimi, kaip suteikti klientui visas reikiamas priemones, kad jis apsipirktų, o ne kad jam prekė būtų įkišta. Šis pranešimas itin vertingas siekiantiems pagilinti žinias pardavimuose.

August 14, 2016 — You’ve built a shiny, new WordPress site. You asked your grandma and your client if they like it and they both do. However, you’re lying awake at night wondering if you’re missing something—because you know you’re not the end user. You yearn for actionable feedback.

In this talk, I’ll distill my background in usability research into a how-to framework for taking your site and conducting your first moderated usability test. I’ll cover what to look for, best practices in facilitation, tools on the cheap, and how to glean the most from a brief window of time.

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August 14, 2016 — This topic will cover how NonProfit Organizations (NPO) can make use of WordPress to track their constituents, donations, events, memberships and more. NPO have many choice, both open source and proprietary. This talk will expolre my journey with NPOs and technology from 1983 until today and how using an open source CRM has been a game changer. We will explore the integration of CiviCRM into WordPress as well as other options that exist for NPOs

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August 14, 2016 — Wireframing is an important first step in creating a website. From creating a napkin sketch to brainstorm ideas, to communicating quickly and effectively with other team members and clients, wireframes are at the foundation of creating a good user experience.

This presentation will be an introduction and overview of wireframing. Where we will go over the following topics:

What are wireframes and the different types
When to use each type of wireframe
How wireframes can help you communicate effectively with clients
The tools used (free and paid) to create wireframes

August 14, 2016 — Over the course of WordPress’s existence, PHP has evolved into a first-class language. Unfortunately, left-overs like the global namespace make it all too easy to write code that’s hard to test. I’d like to take you on a tour through writing a WordPress plugin in a way that makes testing easy. Using features like generators, dependency injection, spies, and stubs, you can write tests which rock and produce better code while you’re at it!

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August 14, 2016 — You don’t know it yet, but documentation is actually AMAZING. Channel your inner educator and get inspired! We’ll talk about the different ways developers and end users try to solve problems, where they look to find information, and how you can get ahead of those needs by putting your recommendations in those places. Documentation is an amazing and complex problem that doesn’t end at a wiki full of pages—so let’s talk about how we can use our UI, different ways of phrasing and explaining, and the features we have available in WordPress to be the best teachers we can be.

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August 14, 2016 — Panel discussion about Business.