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Recap: Adam Silver and Kyle Maurer’s WordPress Experts AMA

May 9, 2016Recapdeveloper, freelancing, project management, wordpress communities, WP BusinessEmily Barney

Adam Silver and Kyle Maurer (@heyadamsilver and @MrKyleMaurer) gave a talk titled WordPress Experts AMA on Sunday, May 1 at 9:00 PM.

Note: this question and answer session was a last-minute addition when both of them volunteered to fill in an unexpected gap in our schedule. Here are the two sessions they came to give:

Breakdown of Common Beginner Struggles & Solutions – Adam Silver
Disastrous Deals to Profitable Projects: Comparing My Best and Worst Client Experiences – Kyle Maurer

Session Announcement

Hey @WordCampChicago! New to the schedule: at 9am today, @heyadamsilver and I will be doing a WP Experts #AMA in track 3. Join us! #wcchi

— Kyle Maurer (@MrKyleMaurer) May 1, 2016

Social Recap

Thanks to @heyadamsilver & @MrKyleMaurer for a very informative Q & A session! #WCChi pic.twitter.com/LyFjlQSxsQ

— Geoffrey Shilling 🌴 (@geoffreys808) May 1, 2016

Here’s our live twitter coverage that captured many of the questions at the session
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Recap: Adam Silver’s Breakdown of Beginner Struggles & Solutions

May 6, 2016Recapbeginner, Track 3, wordpress communities, WP BusinessEmily Barney

Adam Silver (@heyadamsilver) gave a talk titled Breakdown of Common Beginner Struggles & Solutions on Saturday, April 30 at 1:00 PM.

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Social Recap

Here are some of the highlights and tips our audience shared on Twitter: Continue reading Recap: Adam Silver’s Breakdown of Beginner Struggles & Solutions →

Communities and the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense

April 22, 2016WordCamp Speaker Interviewswordpress communitiesAndy Nathan

Josepha Haden is a speaker at WordCamp Chicago this talking about Communities and the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense. Get to know her below!

Bio

Josepha comes from a long line of writers and was raised to be a life-long learner. She has a passion for language and storycrafting, a skill she practices on starsandthemoon.com. Josepha has over a decade of experience using SEO, data analysis, and content marketing to bring success and visibility to clients all over the world. Since 2010 she’s been working in her hometown of Kansas City to increase digital literacy and get more women in tech. Josepha works at Automattic as a community organizer for the WordPress open source project and can be found on Twitter as @josephahaden.

WordPress Mini-Interview

My initial introduction to WordPress was at WordCamp Fayetteville in 2009 or so. I founded the local Kansas City community in 2010 and started hosting WordCamps in 2011.
I believe strongly that WordPress can be used to help everyone learn and perfect their 21st century skill set. One of the most elusive, but most important, is the skill that allows us to have more effective communication online. With better communication comes better collaboration which is, arguably, the heart of the WordPress project. I am motivated to speak at WordCamps to raise awareness of these skill-honing aspects of WordPress.
The people, hands down. I’ve never been to a WordPress event (Meetups, training workshops, WordCamps, you name it) where I felt unwelcome. The platform is made infinitely better by the support and encouragement of the people who build it.