August 21, 2015 — Jen’s talk focuses on the essentials of the Jetpack plugin for the casual blogger, beginning with installation of Jetpack, connecting to WordPress.com, and how to get help from Jetpack Happiness Engineers. An overview of the benefit of using Jetpack instead of multiple individual plugins will be discussed, and Jen spends some time talking about the most exciting and important modules within Jetpack for the publisher user, such as Publicize, WordPress.com stats, Sharing, Photon, and beautiful Tiled Galleries and Carousel

August 17, 2015 — Inspiration can be a fickle friend. Miss the moment and sometimes it’s difficult to get it back. Why not write whenever inspiration strikes and embrace mobile blogging? This presentation will be packed with tips for posting from your mobile devices and managing your blog whether you use WordPress.org or WordPress.com. We talk about:
1. WordPress mobile apps
2. Writing posts, uploading photo and video from your phone.
3. Blog management from within the apps
4. Post by Email
5. Letting connected social accounts work for you

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August 5, 2015 — Lightning Talk by Syed Balkhi

July 28, 2015 — (How to stop ignoring that thing on your website called a blog.)
In this session we discuss the purpose of blogging for business (versus blogging as a business), how to make sure you are talking to the right people, how it can actually save you time in the long run, creating an editorial calendar, tips for using categories and tags, and easy ways for coming up with topics that will save you from staring at a blank screen wondering what to write about.

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July 26, 2015 — WordPress Meetup Potsdam 06/2015

July 16, 2015 — Jen’s talk focuses on the essentials of the Jetpack plugin for the casual blogger, beginning with installation of Jetpack, connecting to WordPress.com, and how to get help from Jetpack Happiness Engineers. An overview of the benefit of using Jetpack instead of multiple individual plugins will be discussed, and Jen spends some time talking about the most exciting and important modules within Jetpack for the publisher user, such as Publicize, WordPress.com stats, Sharing, Photon, and beautiful Tiled Galleries and Carousel.

July 14, 2015 — Detlefs Vortrag gibt uns viele wertvolle Tipps rund um das Thema Foodblogs.

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July 14, 2015 — Akki hat sich vom absoluten Laien zur semiprofessionellen Bloggerin entwickelt. In einem Interview möchten wir gerne mehr von Akki erfahren:
Wie bist du zum Bloggen gekommen?
Welche Veränderungen haben sich in den letzten 2 Jahren in
deinem Blog ergeben?
Wie wächst man als technischer Laie in die Nutzung von WordPress herein?
An wen wendest du dich, wenn du zum Beispiel Fragen zu Themes hast?

July 14, 2015 — Okay, so you have a blog set up.. now what?
What are the guidelines for Google?
How to get your readers to sign up.
What are dofollow links?
Ad what? Using Adsense and other sources to monetize your site.
Depending on the audience, either start with the basic setup and plugins needed to run a blog on your site or take things to a higher level with affiliate links, ads and sponsored posts.

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July 1, 2015 — It is an intimidating screen that’s empty. Telling you that writing will be tough. Telling you that the first sentence will be hard to find.

Everyone says you should blog. Except the white screen in front of you. Blank. Mocking.

Come hear my specific tips to help you find blog topic and how to get started writing without stress.