Speakers: William Jackson

  • Carry Your Business Into the Metaverse

    WordCamp Birmingham 2023Speaker: William Jackson

    January 24, 2024 — In this session, William Jackson will demonstrate how to set up virtual spaces in the metaverse to promote your business. Lots of live demo. Don’t miss it!

  • Understanding the Influence of the Metaverse and Future Development of WordPress

    WordCamp Birmingham 2023Speaker: William Jackson

    January 18, 2024 — As the Internet changes and is combined with the Metaverse and Web 3.0/Web 4.0, this will change the designing, building, creating, and hosting of websites. Web designers will not only build web sites, but design metaverse spaces and places for increased engagement. How will web developers, and graphic designers build for the Metaverse in spaces like Spatial and Altspace VR? This presentation will show you how to connect web development with Metaverse platforms to increase accessibility, scalability, and engagement.

    Two Oculus will be used to show Metaverse sites and how they are blended with WordPress.

  • William Jackson: WordCamp and HBCU’s: Building Your PLC and PLN for Success

    WordCamp Santa Clarita 2021Speaker: William Jackson

    November 18, 2021 — The talk explains why WordCamp conferences are wonderful events that can help Historically Black College and University (HBCU) students build their
    Professional Learning Communities (PLC) before graduation.

    Learn more about the opportunity to build a Professional Learning Network (PLN) with experts, business owners, digital entrepreneurs, and innovators, already in the business of web development, graphic design, and hosting.

  • William D. Jackson: Use WordPress to Amplify Your Authentic Voice In The Pandemic

    WordCamp Rochester 2020Speaker: William Jackson

    October 20, 2020 — WordPress helps in changing and empowering the way we engage, interact, and inspire others. Content needs to be communicated with authentic voices that have authority on digital platforms and beyond. If you are going to share your voice, where do you start? How should you think about the way your content influences other people? And how do you find your authentic voice?

  • William Jackson: Use WordPress to Build Your Brand and Share Your Authentic Voice

    WordCamp Santa Clarita 2020Speaker: William Jackson

    May 30, 2020 — There is a growing need for the creation of diverse content from diverse backgrounds. For people of gender, generation, color, culture, and passions to build their brands and tell their authentic stories. To share their experiences and to encourage the need for the ability to speak, write, teach, and deliver transformative content that tells a story. WordPress can help define the need for inclusiveness for men and women and build a Brand following. The stories from the diverse backgrounds of men and women, boys and girls, culturally diverse backgrounds, gender-neutral to gender-specific can be told.

  • Aida Marie Correa, Aisha Adams, Christine Laikind, William Jackson: Panel – Inclusivity on the Web

    WordCamp Birmingham 2019Speakers: Aisha Adams, Christine Laikind, William Jackson, Aida Correa-Jackson

    May 1, 2020 — The web is for all. This panel will discuss the importance of reflecting, informing, and celebrating the diverse communities that we influence and serve.

  • William Jackson: Use WordPress to Share Your Voice To Address Social Issues

    WordCamp Birmingham 2019Speaker: William Jackson

    November 4, 2019 — There is a growing need for content creators from diverse backgrounds to tell their stories. To share their experiences and to encourage the need and acceptance for diversity and using the ability to speak, write, teach and deliver transformative content.

    These stories are from the diverse backgrounds of men and women, culturally diverse backgrounds, gender neutral to gender specific. Youth, teens and young adults, American, African, Central American and European.

    The opportunity to share a voice to address social issues is easier with the platform of WordPress. WordPress inspires creativity, innovation, digital voice amplification and collaboration.

    WordPress provides a stable and scalable platform that can magnify a voice towards social, cultural and gender issues. The “Me Too” movement is not the only movement that is using Social Media to share its voice and supporting the voiceless, there are groups that are demanding attention and peaceful and united action.

    WordPress is a platform that allows and encourages the acceptance and tolerance of the human story. Share your voice.

  • William Jackson: Strategies Beyond SEO and Google to Build Your Brand and Market Your Social Media Awesomeness

    WordCamp Asheville 2019Speaker: William Jackson

    August 5, 2019 — If your involved in Social Media you must understand and be able to apply strategies that build public awareness and respect. Being involved, engaged and approachable in the public eye provides a solid visual element to drive attention and build followers and not just relying on SEO and Google. Being a content creator demands being visible to the public and understanding that perceptions are invaluable. The ability to connect with the diversity of Social Media can mean increased exposure, new clients, expanding your content into diverse markets, broadening the scope of your Brand. Social Media has grown to embrace the diversity, simplicity and even the complexity of the world. There is more to it than your personal perceptions of the content you create.

    Content creators and digital innovators must be aware of the perceptions that people are viewing, reading, digesting, and comprehending.

    Social Media is designed to be engaging, fun and different with thought provoking and interactive dialogue. Is your content including any of these elements?

    Everyone has the potential to be awesome on social media, but what are you applying to make it so?

    Takeaways:

    The difference between your and the public’s perception of how valuable and relevant your content is as a content creator.How to connect across generational lines for increased engagement.Accepting diversity in gender, culture, generational usage of technology and age is a good thing.

  • William Jackson: Use WordPress to Share Your Voice To Address Social Issues

    WordCamp Asheville 2019Speaker: William Jackson

    August 1, 2019 — Everyone’s voice is important and valuable. Sharing your voice and be liberating, exciting, sensual, evangelistic and transformative. What better way to share your voice as a content developer and creator on WordPress. Creating a local, national and global presence is easier and faster.

    Takeaways:

    Develop your storytelling skills.
    Building your personal self confidence.
    PLC and PLN abilities Personal Learning Communities and Personal Learning Networks

  • William Jackson: Strategies Beyond SEO and Google to Build Your Brand and Market Your Social Media Awesomeness

    WordCamp Birmingham 2018Speaker: William Jackson

    January 2, 2019 — The discussion topics will range in areas of:

    The difference between your and the public’s perception of how valuable and relevant your content is as a content creator.
    How to connect across generational lines for increased engagement.
    Defining and understanding the dynamics of SoLoMoCo Social engagement, Local activism, Mobile digital technology, Community perceptions and expectations.
    Accepting diversity in gender, culture, generational usage of technology and age is a good thing.
    Applying new learning to be a digital leader on and offline.
    Don’t rely just on SEO, conventional marketing, and analytics.

    The ability to connect with the diversity of Social Media can mean increased exposure, new clients, expanding your content into diverse markets, broadening the scope of your Brand. Content creators and digital innovators must be aware of the perceptions of others that are viewing, reading, digesting, comprehending and enjoying content.

    Social Media is designed to be engaging, fun and embracing the diversity of thinking.

    Everyone has the potential to be awesome on social media because of their authentic content.