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This month Refresh Mobile will feature Aubrey Swanson, who will share with us her experience working on TrialPad from a non-developer point of view. TrialPad is an application for lawyers made by Lit Software, that has been a stable presence in the top 20 grossing applications for the business category since its launch.

Aubrey Swanson joined Kaufman, Rossin & Co. in June 2010 as the Firm’s Social Media Coordinator. Aubrey is responsible for developing, implementing and maintaining the social media strategy for Kaufman, Rossin & Co. and TrialPad, a product of Lit Software, LLC, a joint venture between Kaufman, Rossin and Saurian Litigation Support.

We believe that mobile is a new frontier in human-computer interactions. We believe that mobile makes possible things that have never been possible before, and we believe that this creates opportunity.

Refresh Mobile is a new Refresh event aimed at bringing together entrepreneurs who are as excited as we are about these opportunities. We will discuss topics such as finding and evaluating ideas, cost-effective development strategies, user acquisition and monetization, to name a few.

This month, we are happy to welcome Carlos M Icaza, co-founder of Ansca, makers of the Corona SDK, a hugely popular framework for rapid game/app development for both iOS and Android devices.

Carlos has more than 20 years of engineering and management experience, including managing various teams behind highly visible products at Adobe. He was also responsible for creating and developing Adobe’s entire mobile authoring strategy, now deployed across the entire Adobe Creative Suite.

Today, Carlos describes himself as the “co-founder, and Chief this that and the other” at Ansca Inc. He has spent the last year meeting with top tier VC firms and raising capital for Ansca – they successfully closed a $1.5 million series A round from Merus Capital.

Carlos will tell us about using Corona for iPhone and Android app development, and also about his views on entrepreneurship.

WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog AND also update it without needing to hire a web developer or designer. WordPress is flexible, highly customizable and is a great content management system (CMS) for blogs, small business websites, online art galleries, and more.

Our beginner course will teach you everything you need to know to start and operate a WordPress powered website. Perfect for those who couldn’t attend WordCamp Miami or who DID attend, but wanted a more personal one-on-one training session to help them get started.

This is what you’ll learn:
- How To Pick A Domain + Hosting And Get Them Working To Prepare for your site
- How To Install WordPress in literally a few clicks
- How to Install Themes & Plugins Without Knowing FTP
- How To Find Cool Themes & Useful Plugins
- Learning About The WordPress Dashboard
- Writing Your First Post And Publishing It Live – Right In The Workshop That Day!
- Knowing the Difference Between Posts and Pages
- Learn About Sidebars, Widgets, and Controlling Your Own Menus – Without Coding
- How To Work With Media – Images, Videos, and Sound Clips
- How To Use Comments and Discussion, Including Moderating and Spam Control
- Time permitting, we’ll cover automated backups, scheduled posting, mobile, and more!

Prerequisites:
- Good general knowledge of the internet
- Great if you know some HTML, but if you don’t – no problem!
- You must bring a laptop capable of connecting to wifi internet.
- If you want to take advantage of some advanced topics, you might want to install an FTP client into your laptop.

Instructor Bio:
David Bisset is a freelancer in South Florida with over 10 years experience in HTML, CSS, PHP/mySQL, and scripting. He has been working with WordPress for over 4 years and has written themes and plugins for a variety of WordPress sites. He organizes WordCamp Miami, an annual event which draws hundreds of people each year to be educated in various subjects involving the web and WordPress.

http://refreshwp-april11.eventbrite.com/

5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Networking and Reception – Rathskellar
1330 Miller Drive Coral Gables FL 33146
Web & Tech Professionals Networking
Co-Hosted by MIT Enterprise Forum and RefreshMiami

For this event pre-registration is required at www.thelaunchpad.org/GEWregistration and it will grant a free drink ticket per guest.
Please note, the Rathskellar will ID all guests and reserves the right to refuse service.

7:30 to 9:00 p.m. – Storer Auditorium
5250 University Drive Coral Gables FL 33146
If you Build a Better Mousetrap – Case Study
Presenters: Jain Ankit, Ankit ergonomic earphones and Robert Flippo, MobileHelp medical alert system
Panelists:
Max Borges, Founder and President – Max Borges Agency
Wendy Croquet, President – Athena Marketing Inc.
Jaret Davis, Mergers & Acquisitions Attorney – Greenberg Traurig
Alex Furmansky, Director of Business Development – OpenPeak
Howard Gitten, Patent Attorney – Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge

This month we will also have our first Refresh Workshop in Miami. Ryan Abbott of Loudpixel will be taking us through a step by step hands on tutorial that will leave you with a fully functional web application on your hands.

We will start with Ruby on Rails basics, everything from what is Ruby to how to get your development environment started. We will then go on to setting up your database, your application structure and going through the steps you need in order to get a basic database driven application working. We will be building a basic blogging system with user authentication, user creation, comments, and content management.

For more information about this workshop please visit http://www.eventbrite.com/event/541119503/estwbreg