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Sitemapping! Tuesday, August 31, 6 pm @ McFadden’s
The fifth WordPress Providence Meetup will take place on August 31, 2010, at 6 pm, at McFadden’s Restaurant & Saloon. We’ll be in their private room; food and drinks will be served. Free drinks for the first 10 attendees, with free finger foods for all, courtesy this month’s sponsor. Parking is free on and off street (starts at 5:30 pm).
Having just finished 6 hours of free WordPress 101 training in Providence, Amanda Blum will wrap up the day with a fun, informative talk that earned her rave reviews at WordCamp Chicago: Why Site Mapping is the Ugly Redheaded Step Child of Website Development. Amanda will explain:
- Why site mapping is the most important aspect of your website
- Why there’s a better way than “logical site mapping”
- How WordPress – especially in combination with a few plug-ins – has the right functionality to help you sitemap effectively
This meet up is sponsored by Attention!, a new, must have guide by Jim Kukral. What’s the one common factor among entrepreneurs who create and grow successful online businesses today? Attention. They know what kind they need. They know how to get it. They know how to maintain it. And they know how to make it pay over the long term. Want your business to get the high quality customer engagement it needs to thrive? Attention! is the only guide you need.
Doors open at 6 pm; we ask that you try to arrive no later than 6:30 pm for networking. The program starts promptly at 7 pm. The program includes introductions, a 30-40 minute long presentation, and a chance to pick the brains of your fellow attendees. Even if you can’t stay for the presentation, stop by for networking and drinks!
Special Event: WordPress 101 Training Day with Amanda Blum
Amanda Blum – a RISD graduate, semi-local from Cape Cod, and professional trainer – has generously volunteered her time for a special, exclusive event for the Boston and Providence WordPress Meetup groups. The Providence event will take place on August 31, from 10 am to 4 pm, the day of our next meet up (which will be in the evening, as always). Amanda will also be doing a special presentation in the evening at our meet up.
Intended for beginners still learning the WordPress ropes, just dipping their toes in, or simply eager to know what all the fuss is about, this all day event requires no special web development or technical experience. And best of all, it’s absolutely free. You’ll learn:
- What you need to get your own domain & hosting and make them work
- How to install WordPress using 1 click install
- How to install a theme and plugins without FTP
- How to find themes and plugins
- How to configure settings in WordPress
- The difference between a post and page, and how to use them
- RSS streams and basic SEO (search engine optimization)
- How to configure your sidebar and widgets
- Amanda’s top 20 plugins essential for any WordPress site
The class is limited to 35 spots – and as of right now, 12 spots have already been snapped up, so hurry up and register – we’re down to 23 spots available!
The session will be held in Room 269 in The Watson Center for Information Technology (aka the CIT) at Brown University. There is plenty of street parking available, in addition a visitor’s lot 1 block away.
Register now and get the full logistics over at our EventBrite registration page.
Did you Miss the Lightning Talks? Videos are now up.
About two weeks ago WordPress Providence hosted six fun speakers who gave Lightning Talks. Each speaker has written a post for this blog and I’ll link to each of them under their videos. For future talks I will make sure that I set up a camera to get not only the speaker but the screen.
Hop below the fold to check out all the videos!
Lightning Talk: WP 3.0 – A Great Online Magazine
What is the difference between an online magazine and print magazine? Sure, there is the whole dead-tree thing, but more importantly, online magazines are “designed for the web.” In other words they are ugly. It is geek-centric design. Efficient, fast, easy to use, adaptable… and boring.
Real magazines blend content and article-relevant design into a beautiful unified whole. Each page/spread is a work of art.
Luke Gedeon of Kdari Network will give you a sneak-preview of a project that he and his team are working on. The Kdari Network combines professionally edited content with work-of-art design. He will show how they use WordPress 3.0 technologies to achieve this, and to manage a multiple magazine network.
This lightning talk will be presented at the July 27 meet up.
Lightning Talk: That’s a WordPress site???
WordPress is nice and all, but it’s really just blogging software. You know it right away when you see a WordPress “site.” Right? Wrong! According to a study completed for last year’s DrupalCon, WordPress powers some 8.5% of sampled websites all across the web. They’re not just blogs, and they don’t all “look like a WordPress site.”
Let’s take a 5 minute walk across WordPress-powered websites of all shapes and sizes across the web. If you didn’t believe WordPress was one of the most versatile, customizable content management systems when you walked into the meet up, you’ll be a believer by the time I’m done.
Jake Goldman is Director of Client Services at local web-dev shop C. Murray Consulting and one of the organizers of the Providence WordPress Meetup. Between his 11 WordPress plug-ins, his articles for Smashing Magazine, the dozens of WordPress sites he has developed and supported, and the WordCamps around the country he speaks at, he’s starting to wonder if his head is a bit too deep in WordPress land…
This lightning talk will be presented at the July 27 meet up.
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