December 20, 2019 — You’ve been thinking about writing a blog for some time now, but don’t know where to start. This talk is for you. A practical presentation on do’s and don’ts for starting a blog

Talk will cover platform selection, writing tips, how to find pictures to use, how to find content, length of posts, how often you should post, best practices and SEO.

October 31, 2019 — In this session, Tonyo Cruz will answer three questions: How bad is the problem of fake news? What steps are being taken to combat the problem? And what could bloggers do to help audiences parse and filter information?

June 4, 2018 — Joey Coleman discusses how he became one of Canada’s leading bloggers in the 00s, got hired by Macleans, and then decided to be Canada’s first local crowdfunded journalist, and how you can similarly use WordPress to be your online home instead of Facebook or another platform you don’t own.

February 27, 2018 — If you’re doing things right your website will be viewed all around the world. But what does that mean for you as a wordpress user and publisher? Internationalization is a buzz word among developers. We’ll talk briefly about internationalization, localization, and their various implications. In this workshop session, we will focus on talking about the basics of copyright and intellectual property, internet commerce, and best practices for website user and privacy policies when your website is being viewed around the world – we will address legal considerations for US, EU, UK, Australian, and Canadian based website visitors. This will not be legal advice, but rather offer general information.

October 17, 2017 — HTML: for those of us who aren’t comfortable with code, we may have shied away from it in the past. Maybe you’ve seen it when you click the text/HTML tab in the WordPress editor, but quickly clicked back to the visual mode. Whatever your familiarity with HTML, we’ll use this talk to break down some of your fears. You’ll learn what HTML is, how it’s used, and why it’s worth learning. Together, we’ll see that HTML isn’t too bad at all—that it’s actually a powerful tool to help us better our websites. By the end, you’ll be familiar with HTML and know where to go to learn more.

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May 7, 2017

December 1, 2016 — C’est bien connu, comme blogueur, on a plein d’idées, mais toujours trop peu de temps pour les mettre en oeuvre. Avec ces différents outils connexes à WordPress et à votre flux de travail, vous simplifierez votre quotidien et vos publications. Nous aborderons des sujets comme les extensions (plugins) essentielles pour vous assurer une publication de qualité avec moins d’efforts (SEO, calendriers, flux de travail, etc.), les différents outils que vous pourriez utiliser autour de WordPress et les ajouts incontournables à ce dernier! Vous repartirez en sachant que vous pourrez gagner du temps sans diminuer la qualité de votre blogue.

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September 15, 2016 — Сергей расскажет как правильно создавать и поддерживать журнал на WordPress, а также поделится своим опытом использования различных инструментов, которые позволяют оптимизировать процессы поддержки и развития журнала с большим количеством авторов.

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June 24, 2016 — WordPress has an origin story, two people in different countries, looking to improve their open source blogging software, that evolved into thousands of people working on or with that software. But who we are, humans, our evolution has been driven by our ability to tell increasingly complex stories.

Storytelling is not just at the root of who we are — it is who we are.

In this talk we will remind ourselves of what a story is. Once we are clear on the difference between a story and a statement, we will explore what understanding our stories means for us, as bloggers, business people and developers working in an open source ecosystem.

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April 11, 2016 — Cosa fare per targettizzare un blog che si rivolge alle mamme e quali sono i passi per sviluppare la parte commerciale del proprio blog.

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