December 8, 2016 — WordPress now powers over 26% of the internet, yet WordPress development practices and tech infrastructure are still stuck in the past. If you are tired of bloated themes, losing code, slow sites, strange server bugs, and other WP headaches, this talk is for you. Come learn how to implement modern development practices and tech stacks like those in use at AirBnB and Facebook.

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December 8, 2016 — Dawson College with 10,000+ students and 1,000+ faculty and staff has adopted WordPress as our primary web publishing platform. We’ve mostly had success, but we’ve also had our share of failures and growing pains. In this case study, I’m going to talk about how we started out with WordPress in 2010, migrated our main website a few years later to a multi-site install and how it all evolved to what we have today. Since then, we’ve adopted the “lean and mean” mantra to building sites, while making them easy to update. This case study will showcase the front and back-ends of our higher profile sites to show how we achieved our goals. We’ll also explain how we manage expectations, do our development, choose plugins and tools, and which themes we’ve come to rely on.

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December 7, 2016 — You’re the boss of your company (even if it’s a company of one or two) and you need to blog. Your WordPress blog is all set up and ready, but…

Where do you start? How do you get ideas? And who has the time for all this?

Yes, you can produce content that will inspire and engage your audience, building your customer relationships and establishing yourself (and your company) as an expert in your field.

You’ll get the tech stuff everywhere else–in this talk, we break down the basics of blogging to make it efficient, effective, and fun. You will leave this talk with 10 solid ideas and the tips you need to blog like a boss!

December 7, 2016 — There’s so much mystery around web proposals. They’re hard to categorize, right? Are they a just a formality? Or should you put in the 40 hours it’s going to take to write a custom proposal? How can you write better ones? These are all good questions, and I’m hoping to provide some answers!

Web proposal writing is probably one of the most daunting, yet creative, activities one can do in the tech space. In the technology industry, especially in WordPress, so many agencies and freelancers compete for business. Your proposal is either the gateway to a successful project, or the precursor to a resounding “thanks, but no thanks.” Writing good web proposals is a must. Writing good custom web proposals can reinforce a client’s decision, make you stand out from the competition, and even get a prospective company to pay more money.

Proposal writing is a journey of discovery, understanding, mapping the right solution, and giving your potential client something to get jazzed about. I’d like to walk you through the blueprint for writing custom web proposals that’s been effective for me, and show how you can apply these principles to your own process. In addition, I’ll also talk about the proposal flow, text-heavy vs. image-based, the use of nomenclature, and linking benefits to their technical counterparts. If you write proposals in any capacity (as a freelancer or an agency team member), this talk will be beneficial for you!

December 7, 2016 — State of the Word – WordCamp US 2016 – Philadelphia

December 7, 2016 — This video is of panel discussion for WordCamp Kathmandu 2016. Here, three speakers Sweta Shrestha, Surendra Shrestha and Vishal Basnet shared their experience and gave idea to new WordPressers to how to start their career in WordPress, What kind of scope are there in WordPress.

December 7, 2016 — Amit Singh is a founder and CEO of WPoets Technology.
Amit shared a high level outline on what it means to “assemble a website?”, Identifying various components of a website required to assemble them, tools available to enable assembling of websites, future of developing websites etc.

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December 7, 2016 — Utsav Singh Rathour is a WordPress enthusiast and a developer by passion.
His talk on WordCamp this year has focused on why one should attend a WordCamp. While this might look a little odd, given that he be talked about this in a WordCamp, but he believes, he can provide a little something on how one can make the most out of this grand event.

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December 7, 2016 — Sushil is a youth and disability rights activist currently working to raise awareness on disability rights and issue in Nepal and beyond. He is also a computer instructor, sound editor, blogger, positive thinker, writer, and the founder of a volunteer-based youth-led venture called, Bright Star Society.
Sushil is visually-impaired IT promoter and the advocate for accessibility. Through his presentation he highlighted the importance of having accessible ready websites and why it is one of the rising issue in the digital world.

December 6, 2016 — As self taught web developers, we only know just what we need to know for the kinds of projects that we are working on just now. However; Growing as a company is hard because it forces us to grow wether we like it or not. This is the Tale about all the times we made mistakes and how, in spite of everything, we managed to look at Every failiure as a way to grow and improve.
The talk is part business, part devops for beginners and intermediate.