A lot of people in today’s world post-pandemic are full-time working from home. As a freelancer, WHF does become lonely and difficult to connect with the world. Hence this topic will cover the different communities around which you can engage and reasons why you should be activate and engage with others.
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How To Make Remote Work
Tips, tricks, and helpful resources about how to make remote work work. From playing online Tetris with teammates, cooking Zoom sessions, and trivia quizzes. It’s a lot of fun, even remote. Make it work!
Find the Funny
Suggesting ways that people can channel negativity in their lives by navigating to the bright side and finding the funny.
Bring a notebook and a pen!
WordPress For School Children – Onboarding To Contribution
An introduction to WordPress for school children and its application in their school life. It is a success story of a school teacher trying to teach WordPress and it’s use for his students. The students who learnt WordPress were able to contribute to WordPress by translating hundreds of strings in WordPress to Kannada.
Wait, wuuut? Where did my CMS go?
Static, headless, decoupled, Jamstack, serverless (geez, are there any more names for this stuff?!) sites have already made their way into the mainstream of WordPress and other CMS development. While these sites offer speed, scalability, and security, there are also inherent pitfalls and “gotchas” to be aware of when building in this ways for WordPress and other CMS platforms. We’ll define some terms, talk about how to frame the issues of working in this way, and look at several options for building out reliable and resilient solutions for customers and clients in this area.
Zero Waste Web Design
There is a growing movement of people embracing a “zero waste” lifestyle, seeking to minimize trash in every aspect of their lives. While it might sound like a life full of sacrifice in the name of saving the planet, proponents say it actually saves them time and money and enriches their lives.
In this talk, Tom Greenwood will highlight how embracing a “zero waste” mindset can help us create a web that is more enriching for the people who use it, better for business and better for the environment.
5 Quick Design Tips To Level Up Your Web Designs
This talk is aimed at making people better at design. This presentation will teach people some of the most essential but basic design principles to follow. It will also cover a few quick tips to make them almost instantly better at designing amazing looking websites.
Remote Leadership; How To Lead Humans In A Way That Makes It OK To Feel Human
The remote landscape allows leaders to really strip back to the fundamentals of guiding teams forward. And what has become apparent, is the traditional “cogs-of-a-machine”, “well-oiled”, and “everything-automated” focus on leadership is dying out. THANK GOD!
Leading in the remote world means having a greater awareness of and skills to manage the diverse, messiness, and wonderfulness of human beings. This talk will take a look into key principles that leaders in the remote world need to specialise in to successfully serve their teams.
Colouring for Relaxation (Yes you can!)
Colouring can be a great form of relaxation, and even meditation. I’ve heard lots of people say they wish they could colour but they are no good at it. I believe everyone can colour for relaxation if they want to. This talk will cover how to get started (materials and designs), tips for choosing what colours to use, and some different ways to colour.
Contributing to WordPress – How Working For Free Could Turn Out To Be One Of Your Smartest Investments Ever
In this talk I’ll share my WordPress story with your audience in an inspiring and actionable way. Your audience will discover:
- How contributing to WordPress as a self-sponsored contributor could help them get valuable work experience, boost their resume, build a healthy level of self-confidence, be seen as an expert and get doors to open they would never dare dream of
- How contributing can help you get out of a funk
- That there are dozens if not hundreds of ways to contribute, no matter how much or how little time you have available.
- Take home some tips on how to get started, how to deal with some of the negativity around contributing these days and how to set healthy boundaries.