January 4, 2019 — Content management systems (CMSs) arose in the early 2000s, revolutionising website design. The old-fashioned style, stale content and low compatibility with mobile devices have driven website creation into the future. Modern, interactive, consistent multi-device and multi-channel experiences are now necessities. To power these online experiences, large, enterprise-level companies once were limited to a single, proprietary CMS. Today, many organisations are starting to realise that there can be tangible benefits to having multiple, strategic CMSs, including faster time to market, ease of use, agility and the ability to experiment and customise quickly.

Join Jon Bird, head of Enterprise Sales and Strategic partnerships for WP Engine, and Jim Bowes, CEO of Manifesto, as they dive into the recently commissioned research, which surveyed 300 enterprise-level IT and marketing decision-makers in the U.S. and U.K. and look at what this means in practice for agencies using WordPress.

January 4, 2019 — I’m Japanese bloger who has lived in Tainan for 3 three years. I make traveling blog of Taiwan for Japanese people. How do Japanese get to travel information? How to make an effective SEO WordPress blog? Taiwanese people still use PIXNET. Few years ago, Japanese also use Ameblo which is like PIXNET. But now many people use WordPress blog. I want to introduce to Japanese WordPress blog history and SEO.

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January 4, 2019 — Attending and organizing local WordPress Meetups is a great and enjoyable way to learn a lot of things! I’ll share with you how my life has changed by organizing Meetups and how you can start organizing and being involved in local Meetups in your neighborhood or city.

January 4, 2019 — From idea to developing a product delights you as a developer. But how do you get it out there for others? How do you market and sell your product? How do you know what to price it at or how to support it? Enter the world of product management and in any software business this is a fundamental necessity to making your new product into a successful venture.

January 4, 2019 — What does it look like to deliver value in the first week of developing a new product or service? Instead of waiting months to see something working, how can we offer something “by Friday”? I’ll provide a practical example of what it looks like to build something new while continuously delivering value at each step of the development process.

January 4, 2019 — An intro course to navigating the command line using bash and wp-cli. From simple to complicated, with examples!

Learning how navigate via cli, how to improve efficiency by completing common (often time consuming tasks) via the command line and some useful code examples to understand how to write bash scripts. Nerdy goodness 🙂

January 4, 2019 — Google Data Studio allows you to build beautiful custom dashboards for a variety of data and analytics. You can pull in data from Google Analytics, Google Adwords, Google Search Console and even from other products such as Bing Ads, Facebook Ads, LinkedIn, Twitter and more. In this talk, we will walk through how to create your first dashboard and connect it to multiple sources.

January 4, 2019 — The freelance world can be an exciting life of waking up unemployed every morning, having a different view every week, and finding interesting clients.

When freedom is important, WordPress can allow you to live the life of your dreams with some of the best clients in the world. We will talk about the ups and downs of life on the road, finding clients, mixing fun, travel and code, how we get paid on the road, how we stay connected to the internet, and much more.

January 4, 2019 — Do you struggle writing project proposals to clients? Not sure what to include? Your proposal should set you apart from the rest of the herd while providing the client with all the pertinent details of the project. It should outline discovery though solution while protecting you against scope creep, abandoned projects, countless revisions, etc.

I’ll walk you through the templates and tools I use to quickly write custom proposals that win me projects time and again.

January 3, 2019 — Project communications are tricky. That’s the bad news. The good news is you don’t have to figure it all out from scratch. I’ll share templates, email examples, and communication cheatsheets that’ll help you run your next project with confidence. All you have to do is listen.

Warning: May improve project outcomes.