Sometimes our work would be a lot easier if it weren’t for those darn people, right? Or at least maybe we’d enjoy it more.
Hearing snippy comments, receiving tough feedback, and sidestepping hard conversations can get in the way of our flow and drain us. But human interaction is part of the job, and the success of our ideas and what we deliver is defined by our ability to manage these relations (and our own reactions).
Let’s get together to identify the situations that deflate our energy so we can better understand how to maintain our stamina. Then, let’s head back to work feeling in control of how we choose to carry ourselves and carry out our work.
You’ll walk away with ideas on how to:
- React to challenging criticism or feedback
- Conduct difficult conversations
- Adjust to new roles or team members
- Let go of losing battles
- Not take blame and apologize for the wrong things
- Retain personal energy and worth
There’s no value in content your users don’t understand or don’t trust. In this presentation, Sarah Rhea Werner digs into the importance of having a fresh, authentic, and honest voice for your organization, and shows you how to create content that people actually want to consume. It’s time to stop kidding ourselves about who we are and what our users want from us. It’s time to re-think how we talk to people online. It’s time for honesty.
- Gain a deeper understanding of your audience(s) — the foundation for successful content both on- and offline.
- Learn how to create honest content with an authentic voice that will truly delight and engage your users, from web content to social media.
- Gain a slew of information architecture (IA), user experience (UX), search engine optimization (SEO), and web writing best practices that will work together to improve your web presence.
Frontend development has been rapidly changing over the last few years, with new frameworks and techniques appearing on a near daily basis. However, we continue to build backend architectures in nearly the same ways.
However, times are changing, and a new trend is emerging called serverless architecture. Some call it PaaS, BaaS, mBaaS – I call it awesome.
Being a frontend developer and an innovator has never been easier, as we now can build out applications at an all time fast rate without a team of devops and server side developers. Let’s look at some of the various tech stacks available, pros/cons, and how you can start using serverless architecture in your apps today.
Kelly J. Andrews, Principal Developer Evangelist at Syncano and contributing author, started coding at age 8 when he built a blackjack game in BASIC – and he’s never stopped. While he’s mostly been front-end focused for the last 10 years, his real passion is helping developers succeed by making applications as quick, efficient and robust as possible.
In his free time, he has sung in numerous barbershop quartets and loves karaoke, so don’t be too surprised if you see him singing later.
As Click Rain’s senior content strategist, Sarah Rhea Werner focuses on the intersections of technology, communication, and everyday life. Sarah is an award-winning writer and regional expert in web writing, information architecture, SEO, and UX best practices. She is also the founder of the Write Now podcast, which helps aspiring writers find balance while following their passion. And she maybe likes coffee a little more than she should.
Scott Bromander, a Minnesota native, is the Director of Instruction at Prime Digital Academy. Prior to embarking on Prime Digital Academy, Scott was a developer for The Nerdery, where he lead teams of developers to build interactive projects for companies like Target, Sony Entertainment, and Best Buy. Additionally, while working at The Nerdery, Scott taught for Sanford Brown for 5 years, writing Curriculum and Instructing courses in their Game Production, Web Development, and Animation programs.
A Minneapolis-based experience architect, Hannah loves working through problems–especially the ones that seem impossible to solve. She straddles the line between technical and creative, always trying to build empathy with her users. She is fulfilled by trusting relationships and the knowledge that, at the end of the day (or project), the internet might be a slightly better place because of her contributions.
Lauren is a software engineer, poet, and advocate for women in technology. In her spare time she’s a Lead Organizer of RailsBridge Chicago, teaches classes for Girl Develop It, and mentors students and graduates of Dev Bootcamp. She’s passionate about education, feminism, tabletop RPGs and a good dumpling.
Natalie is a consulting digital project manager living in Austin, Texas. Her work focuses on helping growing development/design agencies and in-house web departments manage digital projects, clients services, and implement processes that help design and development teams work better together. She also specializes in implementing project systems across remote teams. Natalie runs the PM Reactions blog (pmreactions.tumblr.com) and enjoys dystopian fiction, yoga, and drinking too much coffee.
Dana Scheider is a Ruby developer who is passionate about behavior-driven development and about teaching others how to use BDD to enhance their experience as developers. Dana is the founder of Tessitura, a SaaS company serving classical singers, and makes contributions to Cucumber when she can. A woman of many talents, Dana loves math and foreign languages and is also an operatic mezzo-soprano. She lives in Portland.
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