Category Archives: Speakers

Meet the WordCamp Omaha Speakers: Marianne Worthington

Marianne loves super hero shirts, sequins, selfies and exclamation points! She is also the founder of Work Warrior LLC, a company that helps small business owners build highly functional teams by empowering their employees to become self sufficient. For over a decade Marianne has been fortunate enough to build teams that have exceeded benchmarks, saved client relationships, increased sales…done things most thought were impossible. By focusing on the tangible aspect of team building she has helped teams make the seemingly impossible. In 2010, Marianne received her Master’s in Organizational Development from Avila University.

Hometown: Kansas City, Mo.

Contact: work-warrior.com | @work_warrior

Session: Building Healthy Online Teams

Working on projects with other people can be hard. Working virtually on these projects can make it even harder. However, there is hope! In this session participants will learn how to ensure everyone working on a project is working together to make awesome things happen. Having an understanding of virtual teams and how they work is imperative to building a great project team. Practical tools will be given on how to utilize technology to open lines of communication, what to do when things aren’t go well on your project, and what you can do to “get the job done.”

WordCamp Omaha 2015 is happening Oct. 10-11 at Metropolitan Community College’s Fort Omaha Campus. Get tickets today!

Meet the WordCamp Omaha Speakers: Dave Navarro

Dave Navarro is the Digital Media Director for WIBW Radio in Topeka, Kansas and KGNC Radio in Amarillo, Texas where he builds WordPress web sites for the radio industry. He has specialized in mobile web development using PHP and CSS to build plugins and child-themes for WordPress. He is engaged to the love of his life, with whom he shares custody of their dog, Zoey.

Hometown: Topeka, Kan.

Contact: navarraojr.com | @dnavarrojr

Session: Improving the Mobile Experience

Responsive themes are great and they shift the data on your pages around to fit smaller devices, but they don’t optimize your pages for mobile devices. And Google now ranks mobile separately from desktop. So a high SEO rating on desktop does not mean a high rating on mobile.

I’ll show you some great plugins and tricks to optimize your site for mobile and even present data differently on a desktop vs mobile site.

WordCamp Omaha 2015 is happening Oct. 10-11 at Metropolitan Community College’s Fort Omaha Campus. Get tickets today!

Meet the WordCamp Omaha Speakers: Tyler Golberg

Tyler Golberg is a commodity trader by day and web design enthusiast by night. He started programming websites in 2005 working on bigger projects, like HomeSpot HQ. In 2011 he started using WordPress and discovered a love of using the platform to help small businesses and organizations find a home on the web.

Hometown: Alexandria, Minn.

Contact: cybersprout.net | @cybersproutnet

Session: Search Engine Optimization for WordPress

We will cover:

difference between onpage and offpage SEO
general WP settings for SEO
helpful plugins
picking a keyword
headers, alt tags, internal linking, meta tags
categories vs tags

WordCamp Omaha 2015 is happening Oct. 10-11 at Metropolitan Community College’s Fort Omaha Campus. Get tickets today!

Meet the WordCamp Omaha Speakers: Will Riley

Hi, I’m a full-stack developer and open tech evangelist. I’m a developer at the design company Grain & Mortar, and I’m Director of New Media at AIGA Nebraska, an organization focused on connecting designers.

I’m passionate about educating people on the direction tech has been, and is going, through good design.

Wearables, The Internet of Things, location-based services, mobile, and serendipitous social discovery: Those are my focuses among others, and tend to be grouped into the term “context.”

Hometown: Omaha, Neb.

Contact: williamriley.me | @bill_riley

Session: WordPress for Web Developers

WordPress is a great framework, but other frameworks have great ideas inside of them. In this talk, we’ll take a comparative look at the tools and philosophies in WordPress, and compare these to other PHP, Ruby, and .NET frameworks and how we can take advantage of those inside of WordPress right now.

WordCamp Omaha 2015 is happening Oct. 10-11 at Metropolitan Community College’s Fort Omaha Campus. Get tickets today!

Meet the WordCamp Omaha Speakers: Dan Beil

Dan Beil has been working with WordPress since 2009 and loves focusing on clean and performant code. At Alley Interactive, he spends his time making enterprise level themes and plugins for large media clients. His free time is mostly taken up with his two Siberian Huskies, video games, and the “joy” of home ownership.

Hometown: Minneapolis, Minn.

Contact: alleyinteractive.com | @add_action_dan

Session: Theme Building (The Right Way)

So you know how to write a theme, but do you know how to organize one? Let’s look at some techniques you can use to keep your code separated into logical groups, make it more reusable, and help you sleep better at night. This will not only help you to better maintain your projects, but it will also help with collaboration and the general speed of your work. Whether you are just starting to write themes and plugins, or have been doing it for years, these practices will add to your development chops.

WordCamp Omaha 2015 is happening Oct. 10-11 at Metropolitan Community College’s Fort Omaha Campus. Get tickets today!