Sep 30 & Oct 1
When not working with WordPress you can find me reading up on NFL football, trying to play bass guitar and attending concerts
My presentation will help you understand how best to organize your content using pages, posts categories and tags
This is a great presentation for those just starting out as well as a refresher for those who have been using WordPress for a while.
WordCamp Toronto is my home WordCamp, so I always enjoy attending it.
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John is a marketing strategist, graphic designer and writer by day, and the same by night.
He serves as a marketing consultant and content developer for B2B, Technology and Retail clients throughout the US. In 2006, John founded Creative Stream Marketing (www.creativestreammarketing.com), serving national retailers, tech companies, and B2B companies across the US. John has worked with numerous start ups, early stage, and established companies both strategically and in providing tactical marketing services, developing brands and increasing response to their businesses. #WCTO profile: https://2017.toronto.wordcamp.org/speaker/john-centofanti/”
BRAND POSITIONING: GROWING YOUR BUSINESS BY FINDING YOUR NICHE. If your marketing isn’t working, it might be because you haven’t properly branded your business. This session will cover how to develop your own brand, how to position it in the marketplace and attract the right clients. We’ll also cover ways to develop messaging for your business.
This session is interactive. We’ll test the branding principles presented with a volunteer to help a real business. This session will be a condensed version of the work we do with all new clients to prepare their business for effective marketing. This will be easy to understand and practical, regardless of your business size or your expertise.
As a US citizen, I’ve had the privilege of visiting Toronto many times. I love that it never gets old and I discover something new and amazing each time. The diversity, food and architecture are always a nice surprise. Plus, I’ve never met a person I didn’t like at a WordCamp!
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I am a technologist and product builder who has done work for large and small companies. Technology is my passion. Right now I am alarmed at the changes that technology is bringing, and the way it will hurt local businesses
My presentation talks about how new technologies will be impacting local businesses in the very near future. How many small business could well be extinct if not prepared. We discuss how local businesses can act to protect themselves better, and how they can join communities to work together.
This is an important and timely issue. Local businesses need to face up to this issue really really really soon.
Toronto is great place to live and work. It has a great variety of businesses and opportunities, and lots of people who want to make things happen.
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Outside of my professional life with WP Engine and SkyPress, you can find me hanging out with my lovely wife of 6 years or spending a night out and about with good friends and good food. I’ve also recently gotten into craftsmanship, building our dining room and console tables.
From this presentation, the audience will take away a deeper understanding of the trending solutions around the WordPress Rest API and Javascript by examining Limbless, Headless, and Brainless development styles. The audience will walk away with inspiration for using these technologies in their own web application projects.
Those who want to explore the possibilities of WordPress as a web application platform should come to this presentation. Ever since the WordPress Rest API was announced, even just as a plugin, I’ve been fascinated with its potential to interact with other technologies. This presentation will help developers understand how the different technologies work together when designing an application.
This will be my second time in Toronto, and I absolutely loved the diversity of people, culture, and food. Toronto is very similar to what I also love about WordCamps, the diversity of people, culture, and ideas.
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Paul is speaking Saturday morning at 11:00 am in Room 149. His topic is a comparison of meta box frameworks. Let’s get to know him…
I’m lucky enough to wake up to a view of the lake every morning – and get out on it in a kayak, canoe or motor boat whenever I can! See https://2017.toronto.wordcamp.org/speaker/paul-bearne/ for more about me.
Explore the options and frameworks for adding custom meta boxes to WordPress admin.
Custom meta boxes are a fundamental tool in customizing the functionality available within WordPress. This presentation will give you a deeper understanding of what they are, how to use and extend them and which methods are likely to work best for you.
WCTO is my WordPress home! And it’s great to tear myself away from the lake once in a while and come back to the city, visiting friends and familiar haunts.
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James is one of our local speakers. He is speaking Sunday morning at 11:00 am in Room 149. His topic is an introduction to online advertising.
I’m from a small town in Ontario near the GTA. I started teaching myself HTML when I was 12, things just picked right up after that. I have run a couple businesses, worked in a handful of startups, and I really enjoy helping people and contributing in multiple communities.
Growing up in a small town I have really come to appreciate the outdoors and nature. I will often set up my laptop out doors so I can hear the birds and feel the breeze while working.
In addition to web development and the outdoors I also like to build stuff with my hands. Metal, Plastic, Wood, Electronics, I’m always looking into ways to build new things.”
The online ad industry is insanely complicated. There’s no one stop solution for anyone. What I’m attempting to do in my presentation is give you the tools to be able to make decisions relating to your online ads.
My goal is that people can make informed decisions about how to optimize their ad revenue. And I do go over a little about how to put ads on a WordPress site too.”
If you have ads on your site, or you’re thinking of putting ads on your site you will probably get the most out of my presentation.
Even beginners with no coding skills should be able to follow along in the presentation easily.
If you work as an Ad Ops Specialist, then I don’t think you will get much from this workshop.”
Being from a small town, I like going to Toronto and seeing all the large buildings and fancy architecture. I like WordCamp because of the people I meet there.
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Let’s get to know Jeremy…
I’m a Full-Stack Web Developer who has been developing websites for over 17 years. I have been developing WordPress sites and plugins for 4 years now. Currently i work for a company called Newcap Radio , a broadcast company that has over 100 broadcast licences across the country. I love coding , making my daughter laugh and in my spare time ( I’m a single dad i have no spare time…lol)
Add Some Sass to your Next Project ! An introduction to Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets
if you work on the front end of websites , find yourself changing css and you currently don’t use Sass you owe it to yourself to come to this talk…….it will change your life and make css so much easier.
https://github.com/mandozza/sass-examples-and-presentation”
Come to my presentation if you have never used Sass before…..it will change your workflow forever. Sass is amazing! Using it along with Browsersync will make you love developing in the browser.
Love coming to Wordcamp Toronto due to the quality of talks, the great WordPress Community Toronto has and how well organized the camp is.
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John comes to us from Austin, TX. He is speaking Sunday afternoon at 2:30 pm in Room 149. His topic is on how to navigate a censored internet.
One of my hobbies is collecting hobbies; knowing just enough to be confused as an expert by others. Primarily, though, travel is the most important as it feeds my other hobbies. Whether it’s a short road trip to go camping in the Texas Hill Country, or flying halfway across the world, travel is always my first choice. It allows me to take photos, write, hike, drink (and sometimes bring home) unique beer and build my collection of antique maps.
Navigating the Censored Web
Most of us enjoy the fruits of an open Internet: unfettered access to the web to share ideas, discuss changing landscapes and feed their passions. But not all are so lucky. With the experience I earned developing sites behind the “Great Firewall” of China, I will try to explain how WordPress and the Internet is censored in different corners of the world. You will learn how website owners and developers can best reach users and community behind restricted national networks.
I’ll be visiting Toronto for the first time for this WordCamp! I guess that means I need a selfie in front of CN Tower? I enjoy WordCamps because it shows the diversity of ideas and thoughts in the ever-growing WordPress communities. Talks and panels range in wide variety and help me look at WordPress in ways I never even imagined. I’m excited to see what Toronto will provide.
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Tamara is joining us from Rochester, NY, just south of the border. She is speaking Saturday afternoon at 4pm in the auditorium. Her topic is about making a name for yourself. Let’s get to know her…
I’m a little bit country and a little bit of rock and roll. I prefer the real talk about your online presence instead of encouraging you to follow the next shiny object or a “”best practice”” that is only best practice because someone with more followers than you said it was. I think those are the wrong questions to be asking when looking for a process for your online presence. The right question is how will this new thing bring value to my followers and does it feel right for me? A strong online presence isn’t about how many followers or likes you get – that’s for the popular kids. How many popular kids are now experts in their field? Not as many as you think. Be YOU. WordPress allows you to do just that with your website and blog theme. I show you how to put it all together so you can strategically rule your online real estate.
When I’m not doing online strategy, you can find me watching Football and participating in my Fantasy Football league. I love great conversations, online and off with a great cup of coffee or glass of wine and awesome people. Let’s meet up at WordCamp Toronto and I’ll help you breakthrough some of your blocks to being known in the social sphere.”
Let’s face it, unless people know who you are and what you do, nobody is going to know you are awesome, right? To do this means you have to have both online and offline strategies to become known in your community. My presentation will outline a process for you to follow and how to implement that process so that it aligns with YOU as a human being.
I have the solution to the problem business owners have about becoming Known in their industry or niche. To get the business, people have to not just know what you do, they have to know WHO you are. While there are a million ways to do this, having a strategy and following a process is where you will succeed. The most important question to answer though, is WHY? Why do you want to do what you do? Why do you bring value to your community. My presentation will help you find your space and place on the internet so you can focus – and grow yourself and your business. My presentation is for all levels, though someone with some content already created will have a head start. Never fear, though – that’s what I’m here for – hit me up before or after my presentation and maybe I can help you create some content we can then help you promote.
I’m visiting from Rochester NY. This is my second WordCamp Toronto and I loved the first one. I love TO because it is always evolving; it never seems to be the same city twice. Likewise, I find WordCamps always evolving too; and even going to the same city twice, I don’t attend the same WordCamp twice. I’m looking forward to this year’s #WCTO and am honored to be speaking again.
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Tech is what I do during the day, but music is my passion. At day I lead the Cloud DevOps PS practice at Scalar Decisions, and at night I run a music school. It gets me to switch between being super analytical and highly creative. The cool part is that there is an intersection – ask me what I am piano piece I am practicing at my talk (and it will show my inner geek!) 🙂
Containers are hot, and it’s not just the cool kids talking about it now. From your local computer to the public cloud, you can deploy containers easily and make idempotent deployments for a start-up or a bank. How does WordPress fit into this ecosystem and what are some of the considerations on deploying for mobility and high availability?
There’s something for developers of all levels in this talk. I hope by the end of the talk that everyone starts thinking about when it is the right time to use containers in your WordPress development.
I love Toronto for all that it has to offer – people, places and food!
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WordCamp Toronto 2017 is over. Check out the next edition!