I don’t often do hiring news, but I may as well do a second while I’m at it. Aaron Jorbin has joined Happytables as CTO after a time at Condé Nast. Aaron’s hiring is one of a couple of managerial moves that will further separate Happytables from Human Made, and they are in the middle of…
Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of WordPress, and founder and CEO of Automattic. In this interview, we talk about their new WordPress.com editor, and more.
Client feature section, woot woot! WebDevStudios built a hiring site for Uber. This is a nice marketing example of WordPress, for a huge brand. 10up Client and overall neat organization StoryCorp got featured on Google’s homepage for their Thanksgiving Listen campaign. I can’t imagine the traffic bump… I did an interview with StoryCorp back when they built a…
Kyle Neath isn’t a fan of Unicorn culture in tech-land. He would like to see more people aim to create what he qualifies as family businesses, and aim for smaller (more niche) customer bases, provide better service, build companies that are good to employees, and grow more slowly. People don’t start hacking on projects anymore, they…
A recent post on WPKube goes fairly in-depth on how to promote new WordPress products. Overall, it’s a pretty thorough guide, even if I don’t think every aspect of the guide is the best route. What I found interesting was that the author created a list of freelance writers that make the rounds in the…
Mario Peshev has a super thorough post on his blog that outlines a number of techniques for outsourcing and hiring remote talent. He discusses pros and cons of hiring industry experts, building up junior developers, and teaching interns. He also talks about outsourcing projects, hiring temporary consultants/sub-contractors, leasing employees from other agencies, hiring freelancers, or…
John Eckman has done a second annual post on what the WordPress community can learn from Drupal. It’s quite good, and quite thorough. Here’s his tl;dr version, but the whole post is certainly worthwhile: What can the WordPress community learn from the state of Drupal? The Drupal Association, which organizes DrupalCon and promotes Drupal adoption…
Gregory Ciotti has some really good advice for getting through the growing pains on your company blog over on Help Scout. Blogging for a corporate entity is damn hard. Most organizations have a hard time with it, if they even try. I really like the ending segment, where he talks about transitioning a company blog from…
The keys to being valuable: Be open. Be honest. Be willing. Be passionate. Result: Be valuable. Be employed. WordPress continues its dominance as a CMS. This is an obvious statement if you look at statistics for sites that use WordPress, but have you thought of what that means to you if you know how to work…
Matt Mullenweg talked to Tim Ferriss on Tim’s podcast for over two hours. It’s got a lot of good information, and I listened to it all for you. Why should you care? Well, Tim Ferriss is a WordPress advocate, member of Automattic’s board, and friend of Matt’s — so this podcast was able to be…
Pagely is celebrating their fifth year of business right now. They have just launched their newly designed website (note to early readers: it’s in process of launching at this moment, so some links may not work until later today) to reflect some of the ways they’ve changed over the years. They are also growing, rapidly….
I’m tired. Really, really tired. I’ve been tired for weeks. Those of you who follow this blog closely know that it’s been slow around here. I’ve only published ten blog posts since the beginning of August. For me, that’s three to four times less than normal. I’m not burned out, but I’ve definitely been on…
I have called it the future in the past, and it seems the future is here. I’ve always wondered why more people haven’t created their own little hosted WordPress platforms. In my view, there could be a hundred WordPress.com style platforms, each serving their own niche. Happy Tables (hosted WordPress for restaurants) helped pioneer the…
Stack Overflow co-founder Jeff Atwood writes why companies are not hiring the best and the brightest employees. While the title says the article is about hiring, it’s really about working. His points boil down to a promotion for distributed workforces. He even highlights Automattic, though he incorrectly refers to them as WordPress. One point I…
Recently, Dave Clements finished a trial at Automattic. In this summary, he describes the experience in detail, from his initial interview and test to his four week trial. There were a few things in the post I didn’t already know fully. The most interesting is that Matt Mullenweg still interviews nearly every candidate at the…
This is the fifth “Who’s hiring” post, and previous ones were very encouraging. I have seen multiple people start conversations that led to full time jobs and contract work from those posts. I consistently find people looking for WordPress developers and designers, for both full time positions and contract work. Periodically, I also see folks…
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