June 5, 2013 — This presentation shows you ways to extend the capabilities or WordPress through other web services. WordPress alone is great, but “mashing it up” with other web services allows you to create new web applications that have never been seen before.

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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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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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May 31, 2013 — This presentation explains how to make it easy for someone viewing your site to engage with it socially, whether that includes links to your social pages, social sharing buttons or social plugins and how to make sure you’re tracking it all with Google Analytics.

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May 30, 2013 — This presentation is an introductory session that discusses steps that need to be taken before users pick out their ideal theme and install plugins. Mappping out a plan on paper and discussing planning for future problems.

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May 29, 2013 — This presentation session provides an overview of how small business owners can easily create an effective and efficient WordPress website from the ground up, including setting up WordPress, choosing the best theme, using the right plug-ins and developing SEO-friendly content.

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May 28, 2013 — Few accessible WordPress themes are available for free. Great things are happening @WPAccessibility now in core, plugins, widgets, and themes. This presentation talks about how to help people get involved, understand the situation, and perhaps form a Cities theme team.

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May 28, 2013 — Content curation can be a great way to overcome ‘content famine’. This presentation covers the elements of content curation and how its regular practice can build content for your site. An even bigger benefit is that regular content curation can lead you to feel more comfortable or become better at writing your own posts and articles from scratch.

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May 27, 2013 — This presentation shows you how you can achieve a custom look from an out of the box theme, and what’s possible with just a little imagination, basic HTML/CSS, and some image editing software. It discusses -what to look for when shopping for themes so you can keep your customizations simple but stunning—and steer clear of “the scary code”! Why reinvent the wheel when you can just make it beautiful?

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May 27, 2013 — We hear that the client is always right, but that may not always be the case. After all, only one of you is a web professional. But when we don’t manage customers and expectations, projects can quickly enter the “I lost all my profit” zone. Come find out how to protect yourself from that evil place.

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