{"id":1481,"date":"2017-10-06T12:09:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T17:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.dfw.wordcamp.org\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2017-10-06T13:54:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T18:54:08","slug":"wcdfw-speaker-spotlight-laura-dapkus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wcdfw-speaker-spotlight-laura-dapkus\/","title":{"rendered":"WCDFW Speaker Spotlight: Laura Dapkus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Topic:\u00a0WordPress for Non-Profit Organizations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I own a boutique agency in Van Alstyne, Texas, and built my first website in 1996. It was HTML and it was dial-up, because I wanted to share photos of my Pit Bull, Lucy. Lucy sent me down a path of advocacy and volunteering that informs my work today. My ideal project is one that helps people engage with local services or motivates them to give to a cause that lifts up our community. My passion is education. I support our public schools and serve on the board of a foundation that provides community college scholarships. My other job is as a shepherd of actual sheep.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you get involved in WordPress?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Blogger, Movable Type, Joomla, and WordPress came out, I started experimenting with all of them, discovered WordPress, and never looked back!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you do with WordPress?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have been using WordPress since 2007. I have been most energized over the last couple of years when I have been focusing on projects for local government and non-profit corporations supporting public service, public libraries, and education.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has your experience with the WordPress community been like?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This will be my fifth WordCamp as an attendee and my first as a speaker. When I attended my first WordCamp, y&#8217;all had -women&#8217;s t-shirts-. That thoughtfulness impressed me. And now, two women keynotes at WordCamp DFW 2017? Heaven! I wish this inclusiveness had been the norm in my early tech career.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you want to speak at WordCamp DFW?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I felt that I have gotten so much out of the WordPress community that it was time for me to give back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you decide to speak on WordPress and non-profits?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a volunteer, board member and communications professional I have seen non-profit organizations fail to attract the resources they could have because their websites made it difficult for people to engage. WordPress is the ideal platform to address this, because it&#8217;s highly adopted, flexible, easy to use, and allows multiple authors with different levels of permissions. Thanks to the e-commerce capabilities that have developed over the past few years, WordPress even makes it easy for donors to give non-profits money.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you hope the audience gets from your talk?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whether you create WordPress sites for clients or as a non-profit employee or volunteer, this session will help you use WordPress to engage donors and volunteers, represent the organization as a good steward of donors&#8217; money, and protect its security and reputation.<\/p>\n<p>We will discuss needs assessment, plugins, and project management and maintenance issues. This toolkit will also be useful for those who work with faith communities, local government, and education.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/2017.dfw.wordcamp.org\/tickets\/\">Tickets are now on sale<\/a>\u00a0for this year\u2019s WordCamp DFW held on Nov. 11-12. There are also plenty of opportunities to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/2017.dfw.wordcamp.org\/call-for-sponsors\/\">sponsor the event<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/2017.dfw.wordcamp.org\/call-for-volunteers\/\">help run it<\/a>. We hope to see you there!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topic:\u00a0WordPress for Non-Profit Organizations I own a boutique agency in Van Alstyne, Texas, and built my first website in 1996. It was HTML and it was dial-up, because I wanted to share photos of my Pit Bull, Lucy. Lucy sent me down a path of advocacy and volunteering that informs my work today. My ideal &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wcdfw-speaker-spotlight-laura-dapkus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WCDFW Speaker Spotlight: Laura Dapkus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8005857,"featured_media":1483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"WCDFW Speaker Spotlight: Laura Dapkus","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1158652],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordcamp-dfw-speakers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/09\/laura-dapkus.jpg?fit=2000%2C1200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8K1gz-nT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1188,"url":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wordcamp-dfw-speakers-round-one\/","url_meta":{"origin":1481,"position":0},"title":"WordCamp DFW Speakers: Round One","author":"Jacob Martella","date":"September 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"With WordCamp DFW just 52 days away, the organizing committee is ready to announce the first round of speakers for this year\u2019s event. 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