March 22, 2015 — A new way of selling books and stories online. Use an ecommerce plugin to set up an author’s own online bookstore, incuding a member site for current works in progress. Why not tap into your fans’ dedication to your work in progress by publishing it before it’s done? Set up online sales of completed works as a regular online store, but treat your work in progress as a member site to generate revenue as you write. Establish a dialogue with your readers as your work progresses to generate new ideas and even change the course of your story. Let your biggest fans help you write your book. This talk will show you an example of how this can be done.

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March 21, 2015 — From copyright and trademark concerns to changing privacy laws to determining how to comply with the range of open source licenses software publishers use today, the number of issues that a web developer can face in trying to determine how to comply with it all can become daunting. This session presents best practices to avoid some of the common pitfalls, and how to make the process a bit less painful in the future.

March 21, 2015 — Today, working from home has become more of a reality than ever. Scott digs into the pros and cons of from working at home and if it’s right for you.

March 21, 2015 — John Parkinson interviews John James Jacoby about his thoughts on WordPress.tv

March 20, 2015 — Santosh shows pointers on how SEO can be used in WordPress to make your rankings high in search engines. He shares various tricks and tips, plugins that anyone can use to better the content and increase traffic as well.

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March 20, 2015 — Content Marketing is a marketing technique of creating and distributing relevant and valuable content to attract, acquire, and engage a clearly defined and understood target audience – with the objective of driving profitable customer action. WordPress is the top platform to deliver the content you’ve developed.

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March 20, 2015 — How you can secure your WordPress site against hackers

March 20, 2015 — What’s worse than a 9-5 office job? Hardly anything, right? But feeling isolated, unmotivated, and distracted as a person who works remotely isn’t much better. In this session, I’ll share my story about working remotely, first as a CPA consultant and now as a full-time blogger. Plus, we’ll talk about the three things I do every morning before 10am that keep me motivated, productive and energized throughout the day. Hint: only one of them is a drug.

March 20, 2015 — Many times when we develop something new, documentation is the last thing we think about. In this talk, Jeff Matson discussed techniques to write better documentation to improve user experience and decrease support tickets.

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March 20, 2015 — Start making small changes now. Automated testing, refactoring, documentation, design, style guides—even a little bit will have immediate returns. By paying off your small debts, you’ll find that you have the resources to begin tackling your larger debts. Let’s get started today, identifying the low-hanging fruit to get your technical debt snowball rolling.

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