For the 1st meeting of the year, I thought we’d try something a little different. I think we need a lot more member involvement to really get this group going, since as you can see from my dearth of blog posts you don’t want to be depending on me. To that end, this month instead of one person giving a presentation for an hour or so, I though we’d have multiple members volunteer to give one tip each on a subtopic within a general theme. The theme topic for January’s meeting will be WordPress performance.
We really need to get everyone participating, so if you haven’t presented anything yet, this means you should strongly consider stepping up. It’s not hard, we’re a very friendly audience, and a 10 minute talk is a great place to begin if you’ve never spoken to a group before. One benefit of this approach (dividing a topic into subunits) is that you don’t need to be an expert, you just need to present one idea that you use to make your site a little faster. If you don’t have one, you can look on the web and learn one, and then show it to us.
An example topic is the one I plan to present, namely, how to prepare images for use in a post/page. Easy/peasy.
If you’d like to present your tip, please leave a comment and claim your topic. There’s no need to give any detail; save that for the meeting. Unclaimed topics can be volunteered at the meeting, but it’s risky, since 2 or 3 of you might want to do the same one.
I hope you like this idea, and I look forward to seeing you all at CDB’s Southside on Wednesday January 12th at 7:00 PM.
