Post Status Excerpt (No. 32) — Diversity in Speaking, Organizing, and Events
David Bisset
PlanetPost Status Podcasts
"Focus on the skills people bring, what projects they've done that have been really great." — Jill Binder In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David talks with special guest Jill Binder about diversity and inclusion — how can people…
Post Status Excerpt (No. 31) — State of the WordPress Job Market
David Bisset
BusinessPlanet
"My best advice is to get to know as many people as you can — network." In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David talks with special guest Michelle Frechette about the current landscape of the WordPress job market. What…
5 Things You Can Do Today to Increase Your Chances of Getting Hired
Michelle Frechette
Get Hired BlogSecurity
You can increase your chances of getting hired. While there's no get-hired-quick scheme that works every time for everyone to find their dream job, there are certainly some things that can help — from knowing where to look to how…
WordCamp US 2021 Summary
David Bisset
BusinessPlanet
After deciding not to hold the event in 2020, WordCamp US 2021 returned for a single day on October 1st. The entire event was planned in eight weeks — which was not widely known until mentioned by lead organizer Jen…
Your Application Page and Inclusivity
Michelle Frechette
BusinessGet Hired Blog
Your application page may not be the first page someone sees on your site — but it will be the page where potential new hires make a decision as to whether or not to complete your application form. It's the…
Start a Project
Courtney Robertson
BusinessDesign
Welcome to the fourth episode of the Post Status Get Hired podcast! In it, Cory Miller (CEO of Post Status) and Courtney Robertson (Web Designer and Developer Advocate at GoDaddy) discuss portfolios. During the interview process, you should have a…
Diversity vs. Inclusion: Why Tokenization is Harmful
Michelle Frechette
BusinessCareers
Diversity is good. Inclusion is better. I had a beautifully illustrated book of children's nursery rhymes when I was a child. Of all the poems included, the one whose meaning has stayed with me my whole life is this: Good.…
Why and how you should leverage asynchronous communication with your team and your customers? Joining Cory Miller on Post Status Live, Brian Casel answered those questions and showed how his new startup, ZipMessage, performs in these scenarios. https://vimeo.com/580176117 About Brian…
Footnotes #456
Dan Knauss
BusinessDesign
Issue #456 “One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.” — Jean Vanier, Community And Growth Howdy! Thinking about WordPress history lately in terms…
Some Tumblr news this week: Ilya…
Dan Knauss
Hosting
Some Tumblr news this week: Ilya Kaminsky has been brought on board with Automattic to work on Tumblr as Director of Engineering, Ads. Automattic credits a new partnership with Hunt Club for the hire, no doubt one of several sources…
The Designer Experience (DesignEx) team at…
Dan Knauss
Design
The Designer Experience (DesignEx) team at Automattic is focused on hiring designers, onboarding new designers, and fostering the growth and development of the design team. Monika Burman wrote a great piece about their culture and community-building programs, which aren't often…
The SavvyCal Story with Founder Derrick Reimer
Karen Johnson
BusinessPost Status Live
What is it like to start a SaaS company when you're a small fish in a big pond? Watch Cory Miller talking with Derrick Reimer, the founder of SavvyCal. Derrick has a number of SaaS projects under his belt from…
The Kolbe Index A and How It Can Help Your Team Thrive — with Kathy Kolbe
Karen Johnson
BusinessDesign
For Post Status Live, Cory recently hosted brain research pioneer Kathy Kolbe, creator of the Kolbe Index A. The Kolbe A Index measures human instincts or "conative strengths." Rather than focusing on personality or skills that can be learned, the Kolbe…
CC0 Public Domain Image Search Coming to WordPress
David Bisset
PlanetWordPress News
Matt Mullenweg announced this week that CC Search, a CC0 (Creative Commons Zero) image search engine, is joining the WordPress project. Eventually, this will make over 500 million openly licensed and public domain images discoverable from over 50 sources within…
Hello CC0! Creative Commons Public Domain…
Dan Knauss
Hello CC0! Creative Commons Public Domain Image Search Coming to WordPress 📸 Matt Mullenweg announced this week that CC Search, a CC0 (Creative Commons Zero) image search engine, is joining the WordPress project. Eventually, this will make over 500…
