June 2, 2015 — “Great White Buffalo — A term for “the one that got away”. Used without explanation in the movie “Hot Tub Time Machine”.”
By the end of my presentation I hope to have provided you (and your team) enough knowledge, tools and inspiration to start hunting for your Great White Buffalo.
If you’ve already found your Great White Buffalo, here’s an overview of some of the technical things I’ll cover:
How we use WordPress and BuddyPress for our social network
Project management solutions like Slack, Trello and GitHub
Social Media Strategy
Crowdfunding (IndieGogo) and accepting donations on your WordPress site

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June 2, 2015 — Mike Sales and Ann Thanaraj discuss the use of WordPress as a platform to run Virtual Clinics in academic and business settings. Our implementation takes advantage of the inbuilt multi-site capabilities of WordPress for the creation of individual clinics, along with third party plugins including MultiNetwork to manage individual institutions and BuddyPress to provide the tools uses by individual clinics.

June 1, 2015 — Taking stock of the world of WordPress themes as going into mid-year 2015. Topics to cover include: next-generation themes, looking at Twenty Sixteen and beyond; lessons learned from 5 years of default themes; business of selling themes in 2015; theme support and maintenance; accessibility; mobile and responsive; JavaScript and REST API in themes.

June 1, 2015 — Guerrilla usability testing is an inexpensive and speedy way to put users at the centre of your design process. It can help to keep clients focused on strategic goals, over personal their colour preferences. Lily shows you how to design and run a guerrilla usability testing session to get valuable feedback from people on the street.

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June 1, 2015 — All too often when we think of colour we think of trends and palettes. But, colour should and does go deeper than that. It influences even how people interact with what we create. By simply changing the colour of a button you can change it’s meaning. With a bit of theory you can easily create combinations to enhance or activate moods. Colour theory is at it’s core about colour mixing. Beyond this there are human differences, cultural implications of colour. Colour is complex. Knowing even the basics of colour theory and psychology means you have a powerful tool in your kit.

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June 1, 2015 — Adrian presents the internal design workflow that used at Moove to ensure that they can work in so called ‘rapid development mode’ here. He explains how this internal design workflow is important for the team of WordPress developers. He also explains how this design process can make developer’s life easier in the html / css coding stage, shorten timelines and result in better development work.

June 1, 2015 — Personas are a form of synthesis and as such they lead as much value as much we can embed them in the existing discussions, design and development. In this talk we see how personas can be built in a lean approach, how to make them visible, and how they can be used in various stages of a product evolution. We are also going to see a real case scenario: the WordPress.com personas work, currently in progress.

June 1, 2015 — This talk takes a deeper look into the experience of the WordPress admin – how we can extend WordPress to make publishing content a breeze, and how a few changes to the way we approach the admin, plugins, and themes can help make the experience even better.

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June 1, 2015 — This talk looks at the options of being a sole trader or limited company, being VAT registered or not. It assesses just how much time you will really be doing billable work and what time you’ll need to spend on sales, marketing and admin. Will cover how to get to grips with your costs and how to calculate your minimum hourly rate.

June 1, 2015 — Learn some of the many ways to contribute to WordPress and why it’s important for your business. Find out how to get recognized at events, become the face of your company, and earn the trust of the community and clients.