2017 NTC WordPress Salon: Schedule

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Session Details for Thursday, March 23

10:30

Why We Chose WordPress

Anthony Naglieri, Cultural Vistas

There are so many platforms available to manage a website. Why should you choose WordPress? What makes it different? What makes it better? And what makes it so popular that more than a quarter of all sites use it? During this session, we’ll review some of our favorite features of WordPress and why it is best for your nonprofit website.

11:00

Holy Wow! That’s WordPress?!

Lesley Molecke, Cornershop Creative

Once upon a time, WordPress was just a blogging tool, and every WordPress site looked like a blog. But nowadays, WordPress is a full-fledged platform and host to all kinds of sites big and small, simple and complex, blog-like and futuristic. We’ll take a tour through amazing sites that will have you exclaiming, “Holy wow! That’s WordPress?!”

11:30

It’s Magic. How to Send Data to Your CRM from WordPress

Ira Horowitz, Cornershop Creative

The days of fumbling around with confusing and cumbersome code are over. During this session, we are going to demo several WordPress specific tools that are available to nonprofits and automatically send data to your CRM. While not all CRMs will be covered durting this session, we will focus on Salsa Labs, Luminate Online, Engaging Networks, and Salesforce.

12:00

Lunch

1:30

Don’t Be Scared about WordPress Security

Access Now

It’s commonly thought that WordPres is more insecure than other content management systems. This is not true. Anything as popular as WordPress, which powers more than a quarter of the web, is going to be vulnerable to attacks. However, with just a few quick steps and improvements to your WordPress site, you can prevent any unwanted intrusions.

2:00

WordPress + Salesforce: So Happy Together

Barbara Christensen
Percolator Consulting

Imagine you and me… Or rather imagine a world in which you don’t have to fight with your data transmiting from WordPress to Salesforce or vice versa. There are many tools, tricks, and plugins that help foster greater integration with your two main platforms: WordPress and Salesforce. Whether you are collecting donations, organizing leads or volunteers, or want to display information on map, we can show you the best trick to make sure your systems are fully integrated.

2:30

​Action-Oriented Search: Improve Your WordPress Search Results

Rebecca Wyatt and Joe Hilger, Enterprise Knowledge

It seems like it should be so simple. Users type a keyword in the search box and they see the most relevant results in an attractive list, right? Organizations spend millions of dollars on enterprise search tools and the results often fail to meet expectations. Action Oriented Search can help you achieve your search goals. Through examples of Action Oriented Search on two recently designed WordPress sites, you’ll learn what Action Oriented Search is and how you can use these simple principles to improve search results on your site.

3:00

WordPress + Multi-Language: Why and How to Broaden Your User Base

De’Yonté Wilkinson, Cornershop Creative

Want to reach users in different countries or make multi-lingual users feel at home? We’ll show you how to build a site to reach and speak to non-english speaking users who want to read your content.

3:30

Could Multisite Be Right For You?

Ben Byrne, Cornershop Creative

WordPress’s oft-forgotten Multisite architecture can be an efficient and effective tool for deploying and managing multiple websites, but only under the right circumstances. In this session we’ll introduce what multisite is and how it works, covering the basics as well as going over appropriate use cases for leveraging it. By the end, you should have the knowledge you need to know whether or not multisite might be a good choice for your organization.

4:00

 Break

4:30

Powerful Plugins You Must Install Right Now!

Sarah Fargusson and Nick Ortiz, Cornershop Creative

Looking for simple and easy plugins to use to make your WordPress site EVEN better? Join us as we take a look at some of our favorite and best-loved plugins to take your WP site to the next level. These plugins will not only make your visitors say “wow,” but will make your life easier in managing your site.

6:30 to 8:00

WordPress Saloon Happy Hour
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