Speakers: Mark Tilly

  • Mark Tilly: I’m So Busy With My Business, How Can I Get Content On My Site?

    WordCamp Atlanta 2017Speaker: Mark Tilly

    April 15, 2017 — Do you or your clients find it hard to generate enough content for your business site? Content curation can be a great way to overcome this ‘content famine’. Keeping up with your field is something you do regularly. Why not curate some of that content onto 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. With content curation and more of your own content, your site will be well on its way to ranking higher on Google. We will cover:
    – The basics of content curation
    – Is content curation legal?
    – How does it help my SEO rankings?

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  • Mark Tilly: Building A Cloud Service Into Your Plugin

    WordCamp Sacramento 2016Speaker: Mark Tilly

    October 30, 2016 — Akismet, Jetpack, Disqus, all of these big companies are utilizing the cloud to deliver services through a plugin. Can a small WordPress development shop even attempt this? Yes, you can, and it’s not that hard to do. Heavy volume processing, shared data across clients, AI and big data are just some of the services you can more easily deliver through the cloud.

    This talk will cover key concepts you need to know to get started, including:

    Identifying processing best delivered through cloud services
    Architecting a cloud service plugin
    Building a cloud service on Amazon with PHP/Apache
    Communication between your plugin and the Cloud Service
    Tips, volume metrics and other lessons learned in 4 years of supporting Artificial Intelligence and volume processing through a cloud service plugin.

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  • Mark Tilly: Building a Cloud Service Into Your Plugin

    WordCamp Salt Lake City 2016Speaker: Mark Tilly

    October 3, 2016 — Akismet, Jetpack, Disqus, all of these big companies are utilizing the cloud to deliver services through a plugin. Can a small WordPress development shop even attempt this? Yes, you can, and it’s not that hard to do. Heavy volume processing, shared data across clients, AI and big data are just some of the services you can more easily deliver through the cloud. In this talk I will cover some of the key concepts that you need to know to get started including:

    * Identifying processing best delivered through cloud services
    * Architecting a cloud service plugin
    * Building a cloud service on Amazon with PHP/Apache
    * Communication between your plugin and the Cloud Service
    * Tips, volume metrics and other lessons learned in 4 years of supporting Artificial Intelligence and volume processing through a cloud service plugin

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  • Mark Tilly: How Content Curation Makes You a Better Writer

    WordCamp Reno-Tahoe 2013Speaker: Mark Tilly

    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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