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I heart WordPress “people”

You know what makes WordPress different from other “big” companies? The people are real. You can follow Matt Mullenweg and his family around the world through his blog. The boy just turned 25! You don’t even want to KNOW what I was doing when I was 25. :)

At this conference today there was an Automatic employee Lloyd who took time to answer questions. At a table were two people with “WordPress Help” scrawled on a paper and taped to the front. From my experience today, I can completely understand why everyone likes Mom Summit, and BlogHer and Blissdom Conferences. The only thing that would make this conference better is if it was full of friends and mommies! At Northern Voice 09, they DO, however, have a giant room put aside to accommodate childcare and encourage a childcare- ad hoc organization between parents. How cool is that?

So I do have a point to make here, WordPress brings to the table so much more than software, free software at that. It brings, at least to me, a human, approachable, entrepreneurial aspect. And I can really get behind that!

I got to discuss some of the world’s top designing firms with Jahzel Misner. She’s going to send me links. I got to get some top level help on our server migration from Lloyd at Automattic. And of course, this is a VERY important site for every. single. reader. 8Chocolate: a local chocolate fiend, and reviewer, and blogger of all things chocolate. You’re welcome.

By Cathy    February 20, 2009 Filed under: Website Software 3 Comments

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Cathy Tibbles is the WordPress consultant behind DSWP. Her favorite thing to do is work with clients to create goals and plans for their sites. When offline, she plays piano, playdough and barbies with her three girls. Follow Cathy at @dswordpress on Twitter.

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  1. 8chocolate says:
    March 9, 2009 at 1:27 pm

    Thanks for giving me a shout out! I thought the conference was great to meet other bloggers and to especially meet those with helpful blogs – like yours.

    Cheers and remember, everything tastes better with chocolate.

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  2. Jenny Fletcher says:
    March 22, 2009 at 4:18 am

    Hi, found you via Twitter and your ‘Sanity’ blog. I’m a Blogger blogger to date, but need to get acquainted with WordPress for a new project for Havant Literary Festival (havlitfest on Twitter, but nothing going on just yet. I’ll bookmark this blog as a source of help. Thanks also for the signpost to 8chocolate. I can’t tweet you direct at the moment. Does your ‘Review’ blog pay you, if so how please. b/wishes Jenny

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