Saturdays: 8 week series starting Oct. 15 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon Build value into how you operate and grow your company for the long-term! Be in charge of your economic future. Find your most valuable market position Hone your value proposition Enhance the value of your products/services Build your stepping stones to success Audience: [...]
Taught by Susan Mernit of Oakland Local, this workshop will help job seekers (professionals, freelancers, and those re-entering the workforce) learn how to use social media tools to manage their online brand and connect to hiring managers.
Sept 13 5:30PM – 7:30PM FREE Sustainable Business Alliance, Oakland Grown and Created in Oakland will present a panel discussion on how to achieve sustainable business growth.
Host: Ken Tyler Cost: $5 Ken grew up in the central valley. He attended Stanford and spent 20 years working as a blacksmith. His experience includes: MSACCESS database consulting, web based database building, MS SQL Server, MySQL. He built and ran seedwiki.com back in the day when wikis were a new thing. He is looking [...]
Learn about the world’s most popular Content Management System (CMS), WordPress. Anca Mosoiu, who has been developing WordPress sites since 2006, will give a developer-focused overview of this LAMP platform, which is simple enough for your grandma’s bridge club site, flexible enough for a neighborhood business association, and powerful enough for a book publisher’s online [...]
Rails-focused monthly hackathon in downtown Oakland. Convenient to Bart. Less talk more code. RSVP
Thursday/Friday August 25th and 26th The workshop you’ve been asking for! Learn to build a WordPress theme based on the Genesis (from StudioPress) framework. Start from a Photoshop/Fireworks file or existing static HTML site – we will go through the basic steps to building a Child Theme that you can use [...]
A group for people in the SF East Bay who love/use/want to learn jQuery Schedule: 6:00-6:30 Intro to jQuery (in case you have heard of it but don’t actually know what it is or does) 6:30-7:30 Question and Answer about jQuery. Have a jQuery problem you can’t solve or would to know more about? Bring [...]
When: Most Fridays – Check the Calendar 12:30-2:00PM Cost: $10 This support group encourages beginners and intermediate WordPress users and developers. We probably won’t get into the nitty-gritty of the code, but we may do things like upload files to your server. We’ll answer questions from participants, and try to work through issues together – [...]
Friday – Sunday July 8th, 9th and 10th Are you ready to get your website done? Do you want to build better relationships with your customers through effective use of your online marketing tools? Start with Website in a Weekend Join a motivated group of business owners for an intensive workshop on website construction, operation, [...]