Over 450 WordPressers took The Future of WordPress Careers survey, and the results have been summarised and presented in the infographic below. Idea for my talk The idea for my WordCamp Europe talk came from my personal research around careers, and thinking about what kind of career I am looking to build. WordPress is my first digital community, before working in WordPress, I was working as an...
Be ready to learn and catch a CEO’s attention
Interview with Vukan Simić, CEO of FishingBooker Today, I had the opportunity to speak to Vukan Simic, the CEO of FishingBooker, the world’s largest online travel company that enables you to find and book fishing trips. They offer trips in over 100 countries, and nearly 2000 cities to hundreds of thousands of anglers each year. What’s most impressive is that this company was started by a new...
Val Vesa: Be yourself and tell your story.
Val is currently working as a Brand Evangelist, a job position that leaves a lot to the imagination. It’s about telling a brand story – a type of job a storyteller can only dream about, and the way he arrived to his position at Sucuri demonstrates how important authentic stories are. If you are looking to make your mark as a Social Marketer, this interview will give you first hand...
How to tell a story through movement
Stories are not just in words, they are also in movement. Danka Sekulovic, a circus artist from Belgrade, explores the storytelling elements of a performance. For a powerful performance you need to be able to express emotion, and take your audience on a journey. One way to do that is to tell a story with movement.
Carrie Dils on stories, being personal and growing your audience
How does storytelling fit in the big business picture? Carrie Dils in her interview on storytelling tells me what storytelling means to her, her most popular story, which happens to be on web hosting and email, her WordPress story and a story from her childhood.