October 3, 2015 — Web designers and developers are each specialists with their own priorities, needs, and focus. Sometimes there can be a communication gap between the two, leading to misunderstandings and frustration. How can you learn to speak each other’s language and ensure your projects run smoothly and without hassles?

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October 3, 2015 — It is critical to design your website to meet buyers’ evolving needs. Your website must engage them and be a valuable component of the process throughout their entire purchase journey.
This presentation will discuss specific methods for putting your omni-channel customer at the forefront of your site design in order to increase leads, sales and revenue.

October 3, 2015 — Tony Mazzarella likes to learn things the hard way. In this session, Tony will share entertaining anecdotes and real-life lessons from his 14 years of managing digital projects and the clients who accompany them. It’s all about balance—Yin & Yang. We’ll explore the balance between marketing yourself and under-promising so you can over-deliver. Tony will also cover the art of effectively pushing back while still being professional. Tony will illustrate the importance of finding good clients and getting your people in the right place.

October 3, 2015 — Você sabe o que são Child Themes? Se você é um desenvolvedor que está começando agora, essa pode ser uma boa forma de começar a entender como os temas WordPress funcionam. Mas se você for experiente e está precisando de mais agilidade em pequenos projetos, saber usá-los pode economizar muito do seu tempo.

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October 3, 2015 — Trabalhando em marketplace, reuni algumas melhorias e técnicas que podem ser aplicadas em qualquer projeto web. Apliquei as melhorias em um blog em WordPress. Nesta apresentação irei listar as melhorias aplicadas e os resultados obtidos.

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October 3, 2015 — Today, are you a WordPress designer, developer, marketer, user?

What about tomorrow?

Available technology and visitor demands are raising expectations for sites. Collaboration can help us tap into specialized knowledge to get our projects done more quickly, with better results. Understanding your role and the roles of others can make you a great collaborator, can help you find resources, and can show you a path to grow in the WordPress community.

Come learn about the World of WordPress and meet your neighbors from many lands each with specialized languages, cultures and funny customs. Find a role, find a collaborator, find your place in The World of WordPress.

October 3, 2015 — Keynote from WordCamp Rhode Island 2015

Jesse Friedman has been building websites for 17 years, and exclusively with WordPress since 2006. Since then he has written several books, taught 100’s of students as a professor, and organized dozens of local meetups along with a few WordCamps. He has spoken at tech conferences worldwide and has utilized his expertise as a consultant for small agencies and billion dollar international companies. Today he’s a proud team member of Jetpack at Automattic.

Twitter: @professor

October 3, 2015 — As developers and users of WordPress, we may get very comfortable using the software, and we may find ourselves getting nothing but WordPress jobs or only working with WordPress. This is wonderful, we become experts in our respective fields, yet there is a danger to this as well.

I would like to remind everyone and explore some of the ideas that come from outside the WordPress bubble. All too often it’s easy to get entrenched in one way of thinking (the WordPress way), and while this is very necessary to understand how to work with WordPress efficiently and correctly, it often helps just as much to step outside of our comfort zone and explore how other people are handling the same problems we run into.

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October 3, 2015 — The art of inbox 0, tools to supercharge productivity, and a way to master your tasklist that actually works. Being busy is great for the bottom line, but often leaves you in a constant state of scramble. So how do you effectively make progress without running yourself into the ground? Get out from under your email, stop drowning at your desk in a sea of to-dos, and start rawking the face off your goals.

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October 3, 2015 — It’s not sexy. It’s not flashy. But it’s one of the most important things you can do to improve professionally. Documentation. Don’t like that word? Fine. Call it what ever you like, but all throughout the creative, development, and business process, writing things down is critical.

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