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October 2, 2012
Got off to a slow start. I should have picked a different group to work with. I joined the "new users" group and didn't get much out of it. I don't know a lot about WP so I thought it would be good to fill in the gaps. I can honestly say that if I didn't know as much as I do, nothing they said would have made sense to me. As a class for beginners, I think there was too much assumed prior knowledge. I would also recommend that the presenters polish up on their public speaking skills. Everyone was super nice, and very helpful, but the lack of organization and insufficient planning was a distraction for me.
September 25, 2012
Are there notes from the new users workshop? I couldn't make it tonight.
September 24, 2012
A lot of it was Q & A but I can write up some notes tonight and post them at andrewspittle.net. The plan is also to do a new users workshop like last night on a regular basis. Perhaps every 3 months or so.
September 25, 2012
Very helpful tips all around, from the two other presenters AND from the group during my presentation!
September 25, 2012
Shoot, anybody got notes for all 3 presentations? Hate that I had to miss it.
September 24, 2012
Great, thanks for asking. I looked forward to it all day and my ride fell through and my job had wiped me out.
September 25, 2012
This was a great event. One of my favorite meetups that I have been to. Kudos to the presenters, I really liked all three. The ideas for generating lots of angles for a topic to form new blogging ideas was great. So simple, yet I think this will help me alot. And I learned some handy new plugins and extensions. And finally, I have been learning lately about typography, and the third presenter was so convincing I actually went straight to powells and bought the book he recommended.
September 24, 2012
I didn't realize that the Developers had started their own monthly meeting on a different day.
September 24, 2012
If anyone took notes during Kallen's presentation, please share them. Thanks!
September 24, 2012
Would I be able to meet with someone who can help me with a Wordpress problem? Thank you! I live in NE Portland. I can't make this meetup, but are there others?
September 11, 2012
@ahmed, We do quite a lot of e-commerce WordPress sites and I'd be glad to meet with you about your site this evening at the meetup.
September 24, 2012
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folks, i wrote up the notes in detail, with links, then andrew couched them in an intro post, and they're on the pdx wordpress site, here — http://pdxwp.com/2012/09/27/byte-size-workshops-recap/. always best to have a bit of patience and keep refreshing pdxwp.com for new news. ;) also, taylor dewey posted his slides from his typography talk here — http://tdd.li/pdxwp-2012/assets/player/KeynoteDHTMLPlayer.html#0
and jen unrain posted the slides from her wordpress workflow tools talk here — http://www.slideshare.net/jkunrein/wordpress-workflow, and her links are in a post of her own here — http://onehundredfortywords.com/2012/09/24/tips-for-wordpress-workflow/
hope to see you all at the meetings the month.