Thanks so much to everyone who made it out to my talk yesterday in Chicago for WordPress 101. I really enjoyed it and am deeply humbled to have been accepted to speak. Below are my slides from yesterday, and I didn’t add anything to it. However, I would welcome any comments or further questions, including what resources you would like to see. Ask away!
I’m Speaking! I’ve landed the coveted WordPress 101 session to launch Foundation Friday at WordCamp Chicago. Some of the other noted speakers are Chris Lema and Lisa Sabin-Wilson. I’m deeply honoured and humbled to be lined up with these veteran WordPressers and really looking forward to meeting them both. See you there!
Thanks so much to everyone who took a chance on my workshop today at WordCamp Ottawa. When I took a look around the room, I got the feeling that everyone was a little skeptical about my methods. Turns out there were quite a few moments of “Satori”, a Japanese term that means “enlightenment”.
One of the biggest takeaways: Don’t use the term “Blog” as a category or a menu item. Tell me more about the content of the blog. I’ve also added a photo of the resulting menu that we crowdsourced through the session and my 3-5-7 rules since it seemed to be a really big deal.
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Would love to hear your feedback on this presentation as well as what you’d like to hear me talk about next! I’m going to be at WordCamp Chicago in June doing “WordPress 101” next and submitting a few more talks this year. You tell me!
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Welcome! If you want to find out more about Data Architecture to prepare for my Workshop Session on Sunday in Room 2000, take a look at my WordPress.tv talk from WordCamp Buffalo in September, 2013. I also did this talk again in Toronto a couple of months later. Click HERE to access my test site and watch along. Here is the slide deck from that session. I will post my session slides and maybe some photos from the session after the presentation.
Look who’s speaking at WordCamp Ottawa: This Gal! Big thanks go to my friend Shelley who was so proud of me, she decided to share my Speaker Spotlight on her own Facebook wall. And of course, a big thanks to the organizers for letting me in the door and lastly to those who have helped make me who I am today in the WordPress World.
Speaker Spotlight: Shanta Nathwani | WordCamp Ottawa 2014.
I’ll be running the Workshop on Sunday called “WordPress For Small Businesses“. If you want a place to pick a theme, this is not the place for you. In this session, I’m hoping people will bring their data architecture and menu questions (and lots of post-it notes!). While some of what we do will be dependent on the theme you choose, I will most likely use one of the standard themes to avoid confusion, so take it with a grain of salt. Would really like to have someone come in who hasn’t designed it yet and we can build it on the fly! But, as Al Davis says, “Never go live.”
Post-it Notes – Bring Lots!