Working remotely can feel creatively isolating. Switching from a brick-and-mortar agency, to pants-optional sounds awesome — but if you’re accustomed to joining a coworker at the whiteboard, to hammer out a UI concept over marker fumes, you’ll agree the back and forth in GitHub/Slack channels doesn’t cut it.

In this talk, Anthony D. Paul, Director of User Experience at idfive, share how our work-from-home team overcomes technical and social hurdles, to mirror natural, in-person creative ideation (sketching, wireframing, etc.) with a mashup of hardware and cloud tools. This talk is best for teams allowing or considering telework, as well as freelancers who want to impress their clients.

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Saturday, September 12, 2015
2:00 pm | Downtown Track

Venue

William H. Thumel Sr. Business Center
11 W Mount Royal Ave
Baltimore, MD, 21201
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Return of the Responsive Theme

This is a ‘sequel’ to the talk I gave at WordCamps last year; taking the principles I spoke about and putting them into practice, I will talk about how in Parsec, I made images responsive, lightened load time, and introduced Sass. While earlier talks focused more on design decisions and planing, I will talk about coding, implementing, and testing!

Joe Casabona is a Front End Developer at Crowd Favorite and author of the book, Responsive Design with WordPress. He is also a Yankee fan, plays the drums, and enjoys a fine cigar from time to time. You can find him over at casabona.org or on Twitter at @jcasabona.

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Saturday, September 12, 2015
1:00 pm | Downtown Track

Venue

William H. Thumel Sr. Business Center
11 W Mount Royal Ave
Baltimore, MD, 21201
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Baltimore native John Waters has a unique creative style. The writer-director built a cult following that’s spanned the last 50 years. Chris Ford, a freelance WordPress designer at Creativity Included and project manager at Crowd Favorite, explains what Divine, Domino Sugar and dog poo can teach you about becoming a more confident, creative and effective designer. Let your freak flag fly!

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Saturday, September 12, 2015
9:00 am | Downtown Track

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William H. Thumel Sr. Business Center
11 W Mount Royal Ave
Baltimore, MD, 21201
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Theme Selection, Donation Management, Event Registration, Email Marketing, CRM
WordPress can be a powerful tool in furthering your nonprofit’s mission. So many nonprofits are limited by small teams and smaller budgets. Tim Sisson, customer community team lead at InMotion Hosting, discusses the essentials for growing your nonprofit with WordPress. This talk will cover theme selection, donation collection/management, event registration/management, email marketing, e-commerce, Customer Relations Management(CRM), and finding a champion.

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Saturday, September 12, 2015
11:00 am | Downtown Track

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William H. Thumel Sr. Business Center
11 W Mount Royal Ave
Baltimore, MD, 21201
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Finding, Landing and Executing on 5 and 6-Figure Projects

Having trouble landing those larger WordPress projects? Bill Gadless, President and Co-Founder of Boston’s emagine, discusses how to identify the most lucrative prospects, how to pitch large projects and how to execute once you’ve landed the client.

If you’re looking for insights into crafting your value proposition, differentiation, overcoming objections or managing larger scale projects, this talk is for you. Bill’s responsible for sales and marketing for emagine’s 45+ person team. Their clients include multi-billion dollar, multi-national companies in tech, healthcare, and manufacturing.

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Saturday, September 12, 2015
10:00 am | Downtown Track

Venue

William H. Thumel Sr. Business Center
11 W Mount Royal Ave
Baltimore, MD, 21201
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