Running a Remote Distributed Company Powered by WordPress

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Gan Eng Chin Senior Software Engineer

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“What is WordPress?” 2

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3 - Blog - Company website, marketing, etc. - E-commerce online store - Bookings - Learning management system All these are public, external facing websites. How do people use WordPress?

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How about internal facing website? 4 aka. Intranet.

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You can build an intranet with WordPress. 5

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Running a remote distributed company powered by WordPress Gan Eng Chin Senior Software Engineer

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About Automattic - Fully remote distributed company. - About 2000 Automatticians work from around the world. - Our intranet: more than 1000 WordPress P2-themed sites running on WordPress.com. 7

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How? 8

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Automattic’s Intranet 9 - More than 1000 WordPress P2-themed sites running on WordPress.com. - WordPress.com is the world’s largest WordPress multisite network.

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10 https://wordpress.com/p2/

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11 https://automatticp2demo.wordpress.com/

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12 https://automatticp2demo.wordpress.com/

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13 https://p2guides.wordpress.com/how-organizations-use-p2/how-news-uk-built-its-intranet-with-p2/

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14 How we use P2 - Company news and announcement. - HR. - Legal. - Finance. - Employee handbook. - Leave application.

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15 How we use P2 - Partnerships. - Security incident. - Team website. - Project management. - Knowledge sharing. - Hobby and special interest group. - And many more!

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Why? aka. The Beneﬁts. 16

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People 17 - Open, honest, transparent communication. - Trust. - Culture.

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18 Source: https://automattic.com/creed/

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19 Most Loved Workplace Source: https://www.newsweek.com/rankings/global-most-loved-workplaces-2023 Automattic is ranked at #20 in the Global Most Loved Workplace list.

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20 Source: https://mostlovedworkplace.com/companies/automattic-inc/

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21 Source: https://mostlovedworkplace.com/companies/automattic-inc/

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Business 22 - All important communications happen in P2. - No emails, no WhatsApp messages, i.e. no information silo! - Information silo can be costly!

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Business 23 - Every decisions are documented and traceable. - Make better-informed future decisions based on past decisions.

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24 https://wordpress.com/100

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Who? aka. Can I use this? 25

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Can I use this? 26 - Democratize intranet! - Small business. - Large business. - Developer agency.

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This is not a sales pitch. 27

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WordPress for your own company and culture 28 - This is not a P2 sales pitch. - This is meant to be an inspiration or an idea pitch. - You can customize WordPress and make it work best for your own company and culture.

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Thank you. Gan Eng Chin Senior Software Engineer [email protected] LinkedIn / GitHub / Twitter: @ecgan