{"id":7,"date":"2015-02-25T01:38:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T01:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.omaha.wordcamp.org\/sessions\/"},"modified":"2015-09-20T14:39:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T19:39:01","slug":"sessions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/omaha.wordcamp.org\/2015\/sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<div class=\"wcorg-sessions\">\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div id=\"wcorg-session-899\" class=\"wcorg-session\" >\n\t\t\t\t<h2>\n\t\t\t\t\tBuilding Healthy Online Teams\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wcorg-session-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"wcpt-session-meta\">Presented in Business.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>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.\u00a0 Practical tools will be given on how to utilize technology to open lines of communication, what to do when things aren\u2019t go well on your\u00a0 project, and what you can do to \u201cget the job done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div id=\"wcorg-session-751\" class=\"wcorg-session\" >\n\t\t\t\t<h2>\n\t\t\t\t\tHow to Use the Jetpack Plugin to Build Audience\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wcorg-session-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"wcpt-session-meta\">Presented by <a href=\"https:\/\/omaha.wordcamp.org\/2015\/speaker\/christoph-trappe\/\">Christoph Trappe<\/a> in Business.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Jetpack plugin has come a long way and can help us grow our audience through:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enewsletters<\/li>\n<li>Automatic social sharing<\/li>\n<li>Build-in metrics that are easy to review<\/li>\n<li>Automated related posts<\/li>\n<li>And many other great features<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Master storyteller and global speaker Christoph Trappe will share how he has doubled his blog traffic through at least weekly content, keyword research and the strategic use of the Jetpack plugin.<\/p>\n<p><em>Christoph has no connection to the plugin or its developers. 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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.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div id=\"wcorg-session-710\" class=\"wcorg-session\" >\n\t\t\t\t<h2>\n\t\t\t\t\tBe Classless: Optimizing Your CSS for WordPress\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wcorg-session-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"wcpt-session-meta\">Presented by <a href=\"https:\/\/omaha.wordcamp.org\/2015\/speaker\/joshua-collinsworth\/\">Josh Collinsworth<\/a> in Designer\/Developer.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>It&#8217;s easy to get caught up adding HTML classes (and IDs) to each and every element we want to style, but the fact is, WordPress helps us out with specific targeting by adding its own classes and IDs to certain elements on every page and post. 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