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

Jim True
January 05, 2018

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.

Jim True

January 05, 2018
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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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