May 22, 2017 — Racheal Dines is a Chartered Marketer (marketing professional) for Shake It Up Creative near London England.

Rachael attended and spoke at WordCamp London 2017. She brought her 10 month old son to the event and was able to take advantage of the Crèche that was being offered for the second year at WordCamp London.

May 18, 2017 — Every small business owner needs to be a master of their craft, but they also have to master all aspects of their business, including project management, marketing, sales, finances, customer service, time management, and more. In this talk, you will learn about desktop/web apps, mobile apps, and other hacks that will make you run your business professionally and efficiently, while not breaking the bank.

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May 18, 2017 — Learn the tricks designers use to make websites attractive and effective. We’ll teach you the Most Important Question designers ask their clients, and how you can use it to your advantage when doing it yourself. Then, learn practical ways to apply it yourself to create attractive sites (using good design principles and simple rules for success) and effective sites (through basic exercises that help you develop and showcase your primary call to action).

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May 18, 2017 — The most effective content marketers use a strategic approach to ensure that the time, energy and money they invest in developing content has a measurable return on investment (ROI).

Furthermore, for content to be effective, we often find that we need to distribute it in multiple ways: the web, social media channels, and email, just to name a few.

In this session, we’ll talk about how to translate your content marketing strategy into real results for your business, including:

* How to continuously improve your content based upon insights from your analytics & other sources
* How to ensure your content gets the visibility it needs (major starting hint: use WordPress!!)
* How to promote and “atomize” your content to get the maximum return on investment!

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May 18, 2017 — Mason is passionate about remote work culture and measuring support effectiveness. Mason manages customer expectations, troubleshooting, and consulting work with the same criteria – education to increase success.

May 18, 2017 — With plugin, theme and core updates coming out on a continual basis, keeping your websites updated and secure can be a daunting task. Steven’s presentation will focus on tools and processes to ease the burden of managing multiple WordPress websites and keeping everything secure, backed up and safe.

May 17, 2017 — The success of small- and medium-sized technology consulting businesses is heavily dependent on how the front-line consultants are perceived by potential clients. This personal/professional branding relies on communicating several key factors such as Expertise, Ethics, Effectiveness, and Efficiency. In this presentation, my goal is to move your personal brand, as well as your organizational brand, to where it needs to be to not only attract the right clientele or employers, venture capitalists, etc., but also to allow you to command the type and amount of compensation that will allow you to meet your various goals. We’ll discuss the What, the Why, and the all-important How to make sure that the right people understand your expertise in the right way.

May 17, 2017 — An insightful interview with several youths ages 6-14. The focus? How they publish on the web in 2017.

What tools do they use? What are their friends using, and why? Do they publish with WordPress?

Why are these questions important to the larger WordPress community? Because it’s vital for current WordPress users, developers, and product maker to know what the next generation is using. When it comes to technology, you don’t adapt – you die. And getting an insight to how youth is publishing on the web is one way to figure that out.

May 17, 2017 — This session is all about kids and code. We will discuss why you should teach your kids to code. We will cover how to teach your kids to code. We will even talk about how to keep your young bloggers safe online. We will cover resources and what you as a parent, or teacher need to know to make sure your child is ready for the future in code.

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May 17, 2017 — Kyle talks about managed hosting, product design and development, team collaboration to push technical products forward, and more.