WordPress Toronto - North Edition

Did you ever feel that attending a downtown event was too much of a travel commitment because you live in North Toronto or Vaughan? Are you interested in an event during business hours rather than after hours?

Well this is the WordPress meetup for you!

In order to defray the meeting costs we ask for a $5 donation to each event. This money will be used to pay for meeting space rental and/or refreshments at each event.

Please donate $5 via PayPal. (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=WN3PNEWYAX7NC)

Agenda:

• Introductions (max 30 min)

Take 2-3 minutes to explain who you are, what you do and where you may need help.

• Site Review (30 min)

We will be doing a site review and provide recommendations to the site owner. This month is Peg Perry's knitting pattern ecommerce website.

If you would like to do a a site review in the future please provide your site in the comments area.

• Business Discussion: Alex Sirota/Robin Macrae from NewPath Consulting (60 min)

​Building a Digital Workplace with WordPress

​The cloud, mobile and social media developments have made the Internet into a vast and ever expanding bazaar of business automation and service capabilities. Where once we thought of the Internet as web sites, we now see it as a far more useful and complex landscape in which we live and work every day.The most successful SMBs spend close to 10% of their annual revenue on digital technologies and are building high-performance digital workplaces. But most small businesses spend very little time or money on digital technologies— less than 1% of annual revenue.In a digital workplace, the core business processes — management, marketing, sales, HR, accounting and operations — are automated to help deliver the business’s value proposition consistently, delighting customers and prospects in the process. Customers, employees and prospects have improved interactions with your business both from an external perspective — how customers and prospects find and interact with your business — as well as from an internal perspective — how your staff sell, market your products and services and run the business.

Think of a digital workplace as a private Internet running within the digital confines of your organization and consisting of a secure and massive repository of dynamic information pertaining to the organization and various group and individual work tools available to those working within it.WordPress is a tool that has evolved into a key component of a digital workplace strategy working along side several small business friendly, cloud products that can help a small business compete more effectively and run more efficiently.

The most popular CMS in the world, WordPress, is an exemplary platform on which to build a digital workplace for your business for a number of reasons. With its tens of thousands of extensions, addons and themes and an army of inexpensive developers to customize it, WordPress is capable of integrating a vast array of business services and processes. Here are a few examples:

Advertising & Promotion

Content & Experience

Social & Relationships

Commerce & Sales

Data

Management