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“Now What?”: Context Switching Strategies
Presented by K. Adam White
Is anybody truly good at context switching? Our business culture values multitasking, but our brains just aren't built for it! Nonetheless, whether you are a manager or individual contributor, to move up in our careers we inevitably have to juggle more and more tasks of increasingly different types. Agency life requires more context switching than …
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Build Your Online Presence: 5 Brainstorming Exercises To Develop Your Content Strategy
Presented by Femi Lewis
Successful content marketing does not happen overnight. In this workshop, we will take a step back from actual content creation and dig deep into the foundation of your brand. After all, all great content begins with understanding who YOU are as an entrepreneur and the value of your business. We will: – Discover the purpose …
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Building a Generous Business
Presented by Ryan Clover
Being a "web designer" is like being in a constantly shifting storm of definitions, skills, and changes in expectations and demands. This is a workshop about building a design business around generosity and impact. Learn how Maple Creative creates successful sales frameworks for clients and how we've created our own list of qualified leads to …
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Empowering Afghan Women Through Coding: Challenges and Opportunities
Presented by Nayeon Kim
Afghanistan has one of the lowest rates of female participation in the workforce and education, which is further exacerbated by the recent Taliban takeover. The Taliban have prohibited most girls from attending secondary school, banned all women from attending and teaching at universities, and prevented women from working. Afghan women are left with limited options …
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From Classroom to Community: Empowering Business Students and Small Business Owners with WordPress to Build Sustainable Online Presence
Presented by Hanadi Alnawab
In this session, I will share my experience using WordPress at the Longo Faculty of Business, Humber College, as part of my teaching portfolio and applied research initiatives. Students’ Digital Portfolios: As part of our Web Development course, students are tasked with creating their own digital portfolios using WordPress as their major individual midterm assessment …
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Fun with the WordPress REST API
Presented by Sal Ferrarello
We typically think of WordPress as publishing information for humans, but WordPress is also quite good at publishing information for computers via the WordPress REST API. We'll look at how to write code to retrieve this information and how to extend the WordPress REST API so our WordPress site can serve our own custom information. …
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I Just Got This WordPress And Don’t Know How To Use It!
Presented by Tiffany Bridge
Have you been handed the keys to a WordPress site and don't know where to start? Maybe you got a new job or started volunteering somewhere and now your responsibilities involve caring for the website, so you have to get up to speed quick! In this session we'll talk about key concepts and skills for …
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Introduction to Web Accessibility
Presented by Gen Herres
Accessibility is about people. Web accessibility is about allowing people to use & understand your website without barriers. This talk covers the different types of cognitive and physical abilities that people have and how designers & developers create many unintended barriers to them using a website. It talks about a number of practical matters, such …
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Keynote: From mailman to WordPress engineer
Presented by Caleb Matteis
In this inspiring keynote, Caleb Matteis shares his remarkable journey of transitioning from a mailman to a software engineer in just three years, with the WordPress community as a guiding force. Discover how the power of WordPress and the support of its vibrant community propelled Caleb's career transformation, offering valuable insights and encouragement for others …
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So You Want to Launch a Podcast…
Presented by Michelle Frechette
That’s what I thought to myself back in 2019 when I launched WPCoffeeTalk. I learned by doing. (Which means I learned by making a LOT of mistakes.) Since then I’ve launched a few more podcasts, guested on even more, and co-host a few, too. Launching a podcast is amazing, but there’s a lot you need …
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Things Well-Meaning WordPress Developers Do That Hurts SEO in 2023
Presented by David Zimmerman
Have you ever launched a website only to return to find some annoying SEO has come after you and destroyed it? Has some obnoxious marketer bugged you for lots of little changes- outside the client's scope and budget? I'm sorry. That might have been my fault. Let's work together to help our clients. I’ll share …
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Using AI to Speed up your WordPress Development
Presented by Robbie Adair
We'll take a look at multiple ways to use ChatGPT to speed up your WordPress builds, from using it to give you content that looks better than "Lorem Ipsum" to helping you with your CSS. And, then we'll also look at using AI generated images for sites, both as main images and background images. Lastly, …
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We Are They: Fostering Belonging as a WordPress Contributor
Presented by Courtney Robertson
We’ve often been asked “why did ‘they’ make this change” or “when is WordPress going to do this?”. We are not mere spectators, but can find a place of belonging as WordPress contributors. For WordPress to become a better project and meet its philosophies, it needs a more diverse set of backgrounds. Your life experiences …
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