Agenda
Posterboard 
Month 
Week 
Day June 2013
Curious about WordPress and how it can help you build and manage a better blog or website?
WordPress is a state-of-the-art web publishing platform, developed by hundreds of community volunteers and used by over 25 million people. Best of all, WordPress is free! With thousands of themes and plug-ins available on the web, anyone can launch a feature-rich website in minutes. First, you will learn the fundamentals of how WordPress works, how to get it up and running, and how to start publishing content immediately. Then we will explore the Administrator’s Dashboard, including how to organize your content and configure certain features & behaviors of your site. Finally, you will learn how to install themes and plug-ins to alter the appearance of your site and add additional functionality for improved social integration, search engine optimization, and backup/security. (Note: We will be working with the self-hosted version of WordPress at http://wordpress.org, not the hosted service at http://wordpress.com.
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Our Workshop Presenters:
Kurt Eng is a co-organizer of the Boston WordPress Meetup and Founding Organizer of WordCamp Boston. Kurt has been very active in podcasting and video, publishing free content to enable others to learn. Kurt focuses on people beginning WordPress and blogging, empowering them with the knowledge and enthusiasm to get started from installation to themes to writing.
Jon Bishop is a Web Developer, Public Speaker and Internet Marketing Specialist from Boston, MA. I specialize in the understanding and developing of up and coming web technologies. As a social-networking analyst, my expertise with online social patterns and the usage of interactive communication technologies allows me to provide value when discussing strategies with customers.
I’ve been developing websites since 1999 and developed an early fascination with interactive technologies like Flash and JavaScript. Over the years I have acquired in depth knowledge working with a variety of assorted web, mobile and software specific languages. A lot of my work is with WordPress where I maintain several plugins in the WordPress repository. In an effort to educate and enable others with WordPress, I help run the local WordPress meetup and speak at conferences and meetups.
Afternoon: Intermediate WordPress Workshop
Intermediate WordPress Workshop
Do you already have a self-hosted WordPress site? Do you know the basics, but want to harness the power of WordPress? Do you want to step up your skills, find out the capabilities of WordPress. Then this is the workshop for you.
You will learn:
- Plugins: how to select and test
- Review of some basic and advanced plugings
- Themes, how to choose and properly edit themes
- Theme evaluation
- SEO – on-site preparation and how to
- Security – how to protect your site from Spam, robot attacks
- Backup and Recovery – updates, how to implement your own process
This class assumes you know the in’s and out’s of navigating the WordPress Dashboard as an administrator, and have a self hosted site (not WordPress.com)
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Our Workshop Presenters:
Kurt Eng is a co-organizer of the Boston WordPress Meetup and Founding Organizer of WordCamp Boston. Kurt has been very active in podcasting and video, publishing free content to enable others to learn. Kurt focuses on people beginning WordPress and blogging, empowering them with the knowledge and enthusiasm to get started from installation to themes to writing.
Jon Bishop is a Web Developer, Public Speaker and Internet Marketing Specialist from Boston, MA. I specialize in the understanding and developing of up and coming web technologies. As a social-networking analyst, my expertise with online social patterns and the usage of interactive communication technologies allows me to provide value when discussing strategies with customers.
I’ve been developing websites since 1999 and developed an early fascination with interactive technologies like Flash and JavaScript. Over the years I have acquired in depth knowledge working with a variety of assorted web, mobile and software specific languages. A lot of my work is with WordPress where I maintain several plugins in the WordPress repository. In an effort to educate and enable others with WordPress, I help run the local WordPress meetup and speak at conferences and meetups.
Morning: Beginners WordPress Workshop
Now that you know how to use Google analytics from last month, this month we are going to be talking Google Adwords with Dave DeBlasio:
An AdWords campaign can either cost you a lot of money or it can make you a very large return on investment. When done properly it can be the final piece of a well managed online presence. In order to get the most out of your money when it comes to AdWords spending it is absolutely necessary to understand how AdWords works and how it can consistently bring new customers into your business.
Presented by: Dave DeBlasio
Working directly with business owners since 2005, I help large and small companies grow their customer base using the latest new media marketing technologies. I understand that you have enough going on without dealing with designing and managing your website, getting your business seen and found on Google, updating FaceBook and Twitter, all while maintaining your current client base; that’s why I am here to help. Learn more about Dave and DeBlasio Marketing at,DeBlasioMarketing.com.
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We are holding a social media tweet up to chat about business, social networking and social media here on the South Shore..anyone interested in social web, or learning about it is welcome!! Free - just purchase your own food & beverage.
Join other savvy, sophisticated women & men at i-Network for Cocktails and Conversation. Our next event is hosted by Bernard Kinsella, of Good Life Kitchen.
Bernard will do a few demonstrations and have light appetizers available for us.
Come mix and mingle with other professional women (and men) meet some new people.
If you’d like an opportunity to speak about your business for a minute, feel free to donate a little something that an attendee may win when we do our free raffle drawings. See me when you arrive!
$10 for friends and future members of i-Network
*FREE for i-Network members. A member means you have paid the yearly fees at i-Network.biz and have a listing on the web directory on the i-Network.bizsite. Joining this meetup group as a “friend” means you are on our mailing list, but are not a member of i-Network.biz(yet).
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Creative Cooking Classes & Exquisite Catering
Good Life Kitchen is a place where culinary enthusiasts can experience the convergence of artful cooking and healthy living. Our state of the art kitchen is home to professional chefs and nutritionists guiding you through innovative techniques for cooking smarter and eating healthier. Work side by side with friends, relatives or co-workers creating elegant, healthful dishes using locally grown ingredients and the latest in cooking technology.
It’s fun. It’s delicious. It’s healthy. Join us for a bit of the “GOOD LIFE”.