2017 Year in Review and a Look Ahead: WordPress St Petersburg

Our first meetup of the New Year! We'll be going over what we covered last year (including what folks wanted us to talk about) and making plans for 2018. Make sure you attend and get your feedback counted! We will ask everyone what they would like to accomplish/learn/teach this year and we'll put it on our list, just like last year. This is always a good kickstart to our plans and talking schedule for the year.

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 [case sensitive] 2017: Year in Review And a Look Ahead WordPress St. Petersburg
2. Jim True Support Lead & Community Manager
 Pods Framework pods.io | @podsframework jimtrue.com | @jimtrue
3. 14 Meetups
 (1/month and 4 months with 2!) 5 Guest Speakers Average: 20 Attendees/Meetup Videos! 8 Meetups on YouTube Launched New Meetup Page 
 (WordPress St. Petersburg) What did we do in 2017?
4. 2017 Review JAN
 Plan Before You Build FEB
 2017 Planning MAR
 Level-up Development* APR
 Networking
 Speaking Client: Projects MAY
 What’s My Role: Membership JUN
 Start With Why (Discovery) *
 Ethical Pricing: Burn Rate JUL
 Understanding WP Vulnerabilities
 (Security) *
 Workshop: Gravity Forms/Mailchimp AUG
 Grow Beyond Posts & Pages: Pods! SEP
 HURRICANE IRMA OCT
 Iron Yard Closed! :( NOV
 Agile Project Management * DEC
 Workshop: Ask Me Anything
 Matt Mullenweg Q&A *
5. WishList of Topics (Completed) Finding Your Niche • Start with Why Working with Special Website Cases: • Membership Sites Speaking Client • Ethical Pricing Strategies • Finding your Burn Rate and Pricing to keep you happy • The Project Lifecycle, Discovery and Handling Scope Creep • Explaining Technical Things to Non-Technical People Project Management • The Project Lifecycle, Discovery and Handling Scope Creep
6. WishList of Topics (Remainder) • How to make your business model unique • How to find the job that's going to make you happy (wake you up in the morning) • BuddyPress • Multisite • eCommerce +++ • Performance Tuning (Images, Pages, Speed, etc.) • Speed & Caching Tricks • Image Optimization / Plugin Optimization • Site Checklist for Healthy Sites • Too Many Plugins • Choosing Healthy Themes • Troubleshooting CPANEL, PHP & DB Issues • Malfunctioning Plugins & Themes • White Screen of Death (How to recover) • Effective Triage -> Get Back to Live (Recover the heartbeat first) • Stealing, (ahem), "Modeling" Great Sites for Design & Functionality • Minimum Viable Product, or MVP • Theme vs. Development: Choosing Themes & Plugins • Contract Negotiation
7. Upcoming Events Sponsored by TEC Garage
 & Tampa Bay Innovates StartUp Xchange
 Mentoring & Networking
 
 Next Event End of January
 Date TBD Location: TBD
 Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/startupxchange/
8. Upcoming Events Sponsored by TEC Garage
 & Tampa Bay Innovates Tech Talk
 Next Event: February TBD “Diary of an Entrepreneur” 
 Speaker TBD @ Microsoft
 5426 Bay Center Dr Ste 700, Tampa, FL 33609 
 FREE Registration Required: 
 http://www.tbinnovates.com/TechTalk.cfm
9. Jim True Support Lead & Community Manager
 Pods Framework pods.io | @podsframework jimtrue.com | @jimtrue
10. WordPress St. Petersburg Downtown St. Pete @ TEC Garage
 1st & 3rd Thursdays / Monthly Meetup: https://meetup.com/WordPress-St-Petersburg
 Web: https://tampabaywp.org
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