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In this spotlight, Adam Warner talks about GoDaddy Pro: what it is, how it works, and how they serve the greater community).
Allie Nimmons of WP Buffs and Michelle Ames from GiveWP have built Underrepresented in Tech, a tool intended to highlight underrepresented people‘s skills and specialties first and foremost as a hiring or recruiting factor. Explaining how this project got started, Allie said: Michelle and I have both been outspoken advocates for diversity. I am a…
If you attended WordCamp US last year, please fill out this survey to let them know about your experience and what you want to see this year in St. Louis. 🏕️
How do we give back? We all want a community of creativity, cooperation, and contribution — how do we get there?
Parents who are thinking about bringing their kids to WordCamp US will be pleased to learn the event will be offering free on-site childcare all day for children ages six weeks to 12 years. 👶🏕️ The childcare provider is “a licensed conference childcare service” that will allow parents to drop off and pick up their…
“WordPress as a platform is putting us on the enterprise path. But what got us here is what makes us irrelevant,” says Magne Ilsaas, CEO and Founding Partner of Dekode. Magne wants to start an overdue conversation about three big risks — and opportunities — for WordPress agencies: 1) A lack of spaces for professional conversations and knowledge-sharing, including professional events, meetups, and mastermind groups catering to enterprise WordPress. 2) Successful agencies that use WordPress extensively with little or no community involvement whose work would benefit from enterprise WordPress peer networks. 3) An over-emphasis in WordPress agencies on short-term engineering solutions to the exclusion of long-term business solutions. What’s often left out is design, user experience, and most of all the capacity to play a strategic advisory role in partnership with clients.
