web & mobile developer for biz + nonprofits in Naples, Florida. WordPress Meetup SWFL organizer, Netsquared organizer, #nptech, photographer.
Owner Pauli Systems, Naples , FL & co-founder NPTechProjects - Improving Nonprofit Impact through Technology
Birgit is also a deputy on the WordPress Global Community Team
My slide deck of last night’s presentation. How to connect your website to the social networks.
Video of Matt Mullenweg’s “State of the Word” at WordCamp San Francisco couple month ago. I always find listening to Mullenweg talk about WordPress fascinating. His poise and his passion has not diminished since he started out ‘Democratizing Publishing’ through Blogging and WordPress in 2003, when he forked an earlier blogging software and created an open-source community that span the whole world. Get yourself some coffee, sit back and listen in on “The State of the Word 2014”
If you haven’t installed 4.0 yet, don’t procrastinate any longer!
After his presentation, Matt Mullenweg stayed around for a 45 min Q & A session.
Chris Christoff, @chriscct7, WordPress eCommerce Expert will be in Southwest Florida and has agreed to be our speaker on November 26, 2014.
He has been a speaker at WordCamps through out the nation, and just recently at inaugural the WordCamp in Tampa last month.
Do you have a business that sells online, or do you have an idea you’d like to talk through? This is a great opportunity to quiz the expert on online shopping and online conversion, to make sure you are ready for year-end sales.
Chris Christoff works on on , @woocommerce and @eddwp. Part of Awesome Motive (makers of WPBeginner, OptinMonster, Envira Gallery, Soliloquy, List25, etc). Owner of Apyco (we’re hiring). Student at UF. I specialize in WordPress eCommerce. His code runs over a million online stores.
Big “Thank You” to Professor Tracey Lanham, Chair of the CIT Programs, Fisher School of Technology at Hodges University for collaborating to make this event happen on short notice!
Adam Gilardi and I went to WordCamp Tamp in October. Here are a few example slidedeck of sessions we found particularly compelling, interesting or just very, very helpful.
WordPress Meetup October Topic:
Slidedeck by Drew Barton
WordCamp Tampa 2014 from Southern Web
Interesting in other topics? Check out WordCamp Tampa website:
Just about all #wctpa presentations are on their respective session pages. We’re chasing down the rest! http://t.co/GVDEaBlCyI
— WordCamp Tampa (@wordcamptampa) October 10, 2014
Jeffrey Abbott, presenter at the upcoming WordPress Meetup in Fort Myers, mentioned he will use the plugin “seoslides” to create slides for his discussion on GravityForms. As I do quite a bit of slideshow producing, I am very interested in keeping the search engine discovery performance of my presentation slides on my own website and not give it all to slideshare.net.
Recently I started publishing on Google Drive, and their SEO is virtually non-existent. Yeah I was surprised about that, too. It’ll be worth investing into seoslides, having it all slideshows embedded on our company site.
I didn’t use the slideshow builder that comes with the plugin for this test post. The import feature of the plugin allows me to upload an already available presentation, held in January 2014. I needed to export the slides as PDF from Google Drive then upload via the plugin and then press the import button. It all worked rather smoothly. Take a look! Be aware, the plugin is still in beta, and as always, feedback is definitely welcome!
Let us know what you think in the comments below.
The inaugural WordCamp Tampa will take place at the Kaiser University on October 4th and 5th, 2014. The Call for Speakers went out in July and we hear the selection has been made for this event. Tickets went on sale couple of weeks ago, and only a few are still available.
The price is $ 30 per person for the 2-Day WordPress conference with multiple tracks for all skill levels, lunch for Saturday and Sunday, t-shirt, lots of swag, and a fantastic networking after party.
The groups of speakers promises a great array of presentations. Saturday schedule holds the two tracks:
And on Sunday it’s about “Business & other”
Of course, the party on Saturday night will be epic
Here is the list of speakers and I started a Twitter list with the speakers so you can follow them before and after WordCamp
Wordcamps are casual, locally-organized conferences about All-Things WordPress, the free and open-source publishing software powering millions of sites on the Internet. They are attended by people ranging from blogging newbies to professional WordPress devlopers, designers and consultants.
Hope to see you in Tampa. Leave a comment if you’ll attend, so we can connect during WordCamp, too.
On Wednesday, August 27th, I coordinated efforts with Chase Livingston via Skype to make WordPress Meetup Southwest Florida an official member of the WordPress community. “With great power comes great responsibility” in this case with a few good-faith rules for WordPress meetup, created by a group of volunteer meetup organizers:(quoted directly from the WordPress.org meetup up chapter program)
So far the good faith rules…