Hello blog,
I have been quiet for a while, but I had a good reason. I have been busy preparing to give back to the amazing WordPress community as well as helping the Friends of FreeMe Free Wildlife get a website up and running.

Yesterday, I presented at the WP Joburg meetup on the Genesis Framework for WordPress. It is the first time in over four years that I have done some public speaking… which came as a shock when I realized. I had some initial nerves when I started presenting but after a couple of questions those settled down and I think that the talk went quite well.
The thing that I enjoyed the most while preparing for the talk was realizing that I knew more than I thought I did about the Genesis Framework. When preparing the talk I made use of Scrivener and it worked very well, and I think that I am going to keep on doing it when preparing for future talks.
Due to the nature of Genesis (being super awesome, and super-powerful). I only scratched the very, very surface and about the only code that we discussed was framework.php. The slides are available for viewing on line through Slide Share.
I only covered a fraction of the content that I had generated while preparing for the talk and so I am going to be making that available as well in the near future.
Love and WordPress Meetup,
Trisha