Aptly named title of Matt Mullenweg’s presentation Saturday at WordCamp SF. This event will be a model for our upcoming WordPress events. Before reading further, if you’re interested in learning more about WordPress, attend this month’s sustainable web class at the Hawaii Innovation Center on the 19th -pls preregister here. If you really want to get into the nuts and bolts of online marketing and social networking, two additional classes are must-attend events on the Big Island:
- Internet Marketing Workshop Coming to Hilo in September
In two hours you’ll learn the best techniques for marketing your business online. - Social Marketing and Networking 101 Coming to Hilo in September
In two hours you’ll learn the latest Web 2.0 tips, tricks and techniques for marketing your business online.
Back to the State of the Word.
If you’re a WordPress user, you can go read something more exciting, like better coverage of the recent event, here. If you’re new to WordPress stick around.
The facts are staggering. We all know about the “other” Internet, called, “Facebook” and the other one called, “MySpace” but did you know that WordPress is also a top-five social networking site?
That’s right and now that WordPress is being treated as a platform, we will essentially have access to our own version of a Facebook community. That’s a stretch at this point but at a minimum, WordPress will cause Facebook to “go open” or “go extinct.” not even Google has this much potential for creating large amounts of positive change within the social landscape.
We’ll actually, currently, you’ll need BuddyPress to make that happen. I’ve been following BuddyPress for about a year it seems and it’s not quite ready for the sustainable web community but it will be considered in the future.
Bullets from the presentation:
- Security - Over 20 government agencies use WordPress.
- Plugins - There are 4.96 average plugins per blog.
- Developers - 11.1 million downloads this year, 2.8 million downloads last year. One new release per month. Over 1,000 commits (changes).
- WordCamps - 20 worldwide. Look for a WordCamp event on Oahu October 24th-25th , see Podcamp Hawaii.com for details.
- Spam - 5 billion spams caught for a 99.925% accuracy rate.
Interesting quote from Om Malik, “I think the big impact would be lots of bandwidth. In the Internet Age, bandwidth is what processors were in the PC age.”
We agree and we’re focusing on strengthening Hawaii’s Digital Economies. Hawaii (Island) is already at 37% renewable energy sources for our electricity. As our local sustainability efforts lead the State into self-sustainability we’ll be looking to our ohana on other islands to proliferate the digital economy we’ll need to get to the next step in paradise.
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