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What We Learned at WordCamp Raleigh 2017

TheeTeam spent the weekend at WordCamp Raleigh 2017 learning about new plugins, Google Analytics and Tag Manager, frameworks, marketing, and engagement strategies. Here's a recap of what we learned.

by Sharon Dawson

Last Updated: April 26, 2017

Categories: Community

2 min read

WordCamp is a series of conferences held throughout the world each year that focuses on everything WordPress. They are community run events focused on educating business owners, marketers, developers, and users about the ins and outs of WordPress.

This year WordCamp Raleigh was held on April 22 and 23 at the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University. TheeTeam spent the weekend learning about usability testing, auditing sites, SEO, WordPress themes, and more.

What We Learned From WordCamp Raleigh 2017

Here’s a look at what we learned from WordCamp Raleigh:

“I learned some great insight about technical SEO within the WordPress platform. I learned how to be better maximizing productivity, and I learned not to eat so many [delicious Rise] doughnuts.”

John Bowman, Digital Marketing Specialist

Google is blind. Alt tags on images are important for #accessibility and #SEO. #wcraleigh @patrickstox

— TheeDigital.com (@TheeDesign) April 23, 2017

“Screaming Frog and Beam Us Up Crawler tools are great to use for website and SEO audits.”

Keri Giordano, Support Manager

Digging on the sweet swag we’ve seen @wordcampraleigh!

— TheeDigital.com (@TheeDesign) April 22, 2017

“I enjoyed learning tips for shooting better videos, like aperture settings, how interior lights warp the true color of “white”, zooms, and if possible, always record a subject outside or with as much natural light as possible. And I learned the crazy fact that some people are getting plastic surgery so they look better in selfies, but the thing to know is the selfie lens itself is flawed.”

Sharon Dawson, Marketing Manager

“It was great connecting with other project managers to trade ideas and learn the synergies between our styles and new ideas I can implement.”

Christopher Lara, Project Manager

“I got to eat tacos, bro. I also got to rail on code cruft with other developers that get it.”

Rocky Stone, Senior Web Developer

Ecommerce Training

Our Marketing Communications Manager Sharon taught people how to market their eCommerce website from Amazon to WordPress. She got some love on Twitter from attendees of her presentation.

@SharonADawson awesome session today at @wordcampraleigh. Thanks so much for offering your time. #youcantbeatamazon #wcraleigh

— Michael Baylor (@mjbaylor) April 22, 2017

A picture is worth nothing if it’s wrong! #WCRaleigh #EcommerceAdvice pic.twitter.com/UuWPvm1hX0

— Richard D Horvath (@RichardDHorvath) April 22, 2017

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