Describing why the WordPress platform is best for bloggers. Contract with Blogger/Squarespace/etc. Talk about different tools/plugins it has that are useful.

If you’ve ever had experience growing a community (WordPress, Open Source, or otherwise), you know that every community has its ups and downs. From trolls in comments sections, face to face name calling, and general toxic personalities, no group is perfect and no one knows how to deal with everything.

In this talk, we will discuss the basic principles of healthy communication as laid out by Suzette Haden Elgin and how you can apply it to your community growth to keep your community happy and engaged all while keeping you safe and healthy.

Many developers understand that git is important to use in their workflow, but don’t appreciate the advantages until late in a project. In this talk, we’ll be going over some common use cases for git in a bigger organization and examine how that can be applied to small agencies or teams. This ranges from internal code reviews all the way up to code debugging.

As any project manager will tell you – successful websites don’t create themselves.

In this session you’ll get an overview of how we run a project: planning, designing, building, testing, deploying, communicating with clients and team members, and the tools we use.