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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   2017: Year in Review
   And a Look Ahead
   WordPress St. Petersburg
   

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2. Jim True
   Support Lead & Community Manager

   Pods Framework
   pods.io | @podsframework
   jimtrue.com | @jimtrue
   

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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?
   

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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 *
   

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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
   

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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
   

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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/
   

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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
   

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9. Jim True
   Support Lead & Community Manager

   Pods Framework
   pods.io | @podsframework
   jimtrue.com | @jimtrue
   

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10. WordPress St. Petersburg
    Downtown St. Pete @ TEC Garage

    1st & 3rd Thursdays / Monthly
    Meetup: https://meetup.com/WordPress-St-Petersburg

    Web: https://tampabaywp.org

    Slack Chat | Facebook Group | Meetups

    A Member of Tampa Bay WordPress Network
    

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