June 4, 2013 — In 2003, Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg took control of an abandoned blogging platform – and turned it into the CMS which today powers 18% of the web.

In this interview recorded at the WordPress 10th birthday party held in Manchester, England, Mike tells Code For The People’s Simon Dickson the story of those early days – from his first exposure to computers in the 1970s, to the fateful comment left on Matt Mullenweg’s blog, to his rather slow realisation of what WordPress had become.

June 4, 2013 — We are already firmly in a social business paradigm but most have no idea what that means. Good personal branding is the foundation of leveraging the full potential of social business. This presentation explains both of these concepts as well as inbound marketing.

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June 4, 2013 — Everyone uses a web analytics package on their website – but how many people do anything beyond check the number of page views and where the traffic is coming from? You just need to work out where to find that information and what to do with it. I’ll show you how you can action your analytics data, giving you a better site.

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June 3, 2013 — With so much emphasis on a website’s look and feel, content is often nothing more than an afterthought. But to truly engage with our audience we need to create content that is clear, simply, succinct – and human. Special writing techniques are needed. This presentation will help people create more persuasive and effective online content.

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June 3, 2013 — John McKenna has a disability known as Arthrogryposis since birth. An electric wheelchair is his mode of transport, so naturally he has many views around the challenges this presents . John has been using WordPress as a useful tool in elevating the conversation between both the abled and disabled communities and with government and he comes to WordCamp to tell some of his story and how it is that WordPress has proven invaluable.

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June 2, 2013 — Two things shared in this presentation are (1) context is decisive: ie, being a blogger is not the same as being a writer; (2) there are cycles to being a blogger, and knowing that up-front makes a difference.

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June 2, 2013 — Most people go home from a WordCamp eager to install heaps of plugins, a new responsive theme, and guest post all over the place. The result is pandemonium of too much happening on your website. This presentation talks about the user journey through your website. If a plugin or feature on your site will distract the user from buying your product, remove it. It focuses on the absolute essentials of what you need, and then what gets in the way.

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June 1, 2013 — Using the free WooCommerce plugin, by WooThemes, I’ll step through the process of installing & configuring the plugin, for first time eCommerce users. I’ll also show how easy it is to add in all of your product data along with viewing your orders and sales reports.

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June 1, 2013 — When you have a great idea for a site, you need WordPress to scale with you. From your first shared host, through to racks of high powered hardware, how do you get WordPress to keep up? Learn about the tools and techniques you can use to keep your site running smoothly for it’s entire life, regardless of what the rest of the internet throws at it.

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May 31, 2013 — Discover how to attract more leads for your business and boost your brand as well as create new revenue streams. This presentation is for Designers and Developers that want to create a PASSIVE income (beyond trading hours for dollars).

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