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or how they changed my career and life
Personal Projects run
by WordPress
Presented by
สวัสดี to
everyone at Shinichi Nishikawa
@shinichiN
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Personal Projects?
What are they?
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Personal Projects
WordPress drives us
They are something that are not work, or not just
play. They are Playful. It is run by you, your family,
and/or your friends who resonate your playfulness
and goal.
It can be one time thing or continuous effort to make
something new happen.
Today, I’m going to share you about my projects, and
why projects drive our lives to go forward.
@shinichiN
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A few projects
I have enjoyed.
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Shinichi Nishikawa / ৳Ұ
• WordPress enthusiast who lives on OGI island, an island of 150 people
in western Japan with my wife, 3 children, and two dogs.
• I used to live in Bangkok for 3 years with my family.
• Originally, I’m from Tokyo.
• WordPress Book author, WordPress news editor, podcaster, WordCamp
organizer, Meetup organizer, DIYer,
• Lead organizer of WordCamp Tokyo 2012 and WordCamp Ogijima 2018.
• Director of Client Services, Japan @ Human Made
WordPress drives us @shinichiN
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Capital P
Media website that talk about
WordPress community related news.
You get the idea if you call it a
Japanese version of WP Tavern or
Post Status.
Run by Fumiki, Miya, and Shin.
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Capital P Podcast
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Capital P Slack Team
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Colog
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Colog
- My daughter was growing so fast, I felt like
I’m losing her every day and wanted to store
the photos.
- It took me more than 1 year to develop and
release.
- I had the time to learn how to
- Search plugins
- How to customize them
- How to change the code of them
- How to write them myself
- Multisite architecture and functions
- I had the chance to communicate with
community people to learn more about
WordPress
- All these things led to my ability to run a
freelance business.
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Life Podcast
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- Me, my wife, our kids, friends on the island talk about our lives.
- A good way to record your thoughts. Fun to listen to it after
years.
- Explaining your thought makes you think.
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We did the same when we moved to Bangkok 6 years ago.
- Contents were our planning, research report of rent, school,
etc., and interviews to the people who run business there.
- This helped me getting understood and supported by
Japanese people in Bangkok
- Podcast gives the listeners more friend-like feeling compared
to texts.
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WordCamp Ogijima
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A WordCamp on the island I live on. 250 attendees.
Accommodation was the REAL Camping in tents.
- Focus on the thought of the those who use WordPress for
their business.
- Childcare, Barbecue, Camping, Ferry charter, English/
Japanese talks, male/female 50:50, local/non-local 50:50,
after-party in the city for those who dislike bugs, nurse, a lot of
ice and beverages for heat protection, etc.
- The first non-city WordCamp in Japan to encourage smaller
WordCamps to happen
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Click to see the video. It’s nice and not long.
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WordCamp Ogijima
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Bangkok WordPress Meetup
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WP ZoomUP
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- A Online version of WordPress meetup.
- Twice a month.
- One has sessions,
- Another focuses on communication.
- 50 to 100 attendees every time.
- Team of 6 members.
- After party!
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- A Online version of WordPress meetup.
- Twice a month.
- One has sessions,
- Another focuses on communication.
- 50 to 100 attendees.
- Team of 6 members.
- After party!
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- A Online version of WordPress meetup.
- Twice a month.
- One has sessions,
- Another focuses on communication.
- 50 to 100 attendees.
- Team of 6 members.
- After party!
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WordCamps, Meetups
To name a few, our team covers:
Maintenance, regular server care and
on-going 24/7 monitoring
Updates, server, Enterprise Kit and
WordPress updates
Improvements, constant work on server
optimisation
Emergencies, unexpected downtime
even at the application level
We are able to provide round the clock
coverage across all the major time zones.
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My life before I met
WordPress
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Apprentice of a billionaire –
Age 26, my mentor was
business consultant who had
sold his company.
I went to a lot of startup and
enterprise companies with
him.
I lost my job when I was expecting
my first child.
I didn’t know what I was doing.
Account Manager of a
creative agency – This is
where I heard of WordPress
for the first time.
I saw a lot of individual,
independent, and freedom
engineers that could
generate money by their own
skills.
WordPress drives us
Secretary of a member
Parliament – I ran volunteer
team of a Parliament
member’s election campaign.
My office was in the
Parliament.
@shinichiN
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After WordPress and
all Projects
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Friends –
You can’t do much things
alone. You need to work on
things with others.
Once you have done a good
project together, you are
ready to do the next thing
with them.
They drive our thoughts, relationship,
and life.
I didn’t know what I was doing.
Title of the Proposal
Thoughts –
Asking a lot of WHYs.
You come up with an idea and you start. But you will be forced to
think why you are doing it, for whom, what the value is, etc. Because
you invest your time. It’s like “I’m doing really a lot. I need to make
sure I’m not waisting my time.“
When you announce it, market it, and try to spread it, you need to
write up a nice statements. What it is, why, and how people can join.
When you talk to your friends to join, you need to thinkWhy do you
want them to join? What do they get from the project?
@shinichiN
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Questions? Or, tell me what’s your next
personal project!
WordPress drives us @shinichiN