 Please help me put your hands together for the organizers of this event. We have been clapping for yourself. That is louder and it seems like it's the curses for yourself. But some people, they still are clapping for themselves. Can you clap for yourself? So now I know you can clap. We're just pretending that you can't clap. Thank you for having me. My name is Sunday. I'm a workplace professional. I focus on e-commerce. And when someone in the workplace community tells you they focus on e-commerce, the chances are that you're a workplace professional. I work with Automatik. Automatik is the owner of WooCommerce, Jetpack, WordPress.com, and a host of other stocked ways and plugins in the workplace ecosystem. Briefly, I will be sharing with you on building a global career with WordPress or building a global career through WordPress, depending on how you like to try to die. And my objective is simple. My objective is simple. We're basically to show you. I think someone is going to have to help me control the slide from there because this is not working. Okay, great. My objective is to give you an insight into the workplace ecosystem and show you how to liberate the types of opportunities in WordPress to build a global career. And if you're wondering why a global career, I believe David Hansard died and he said, you deserve to be at the global stage. Can you have me turn to someone by your side and say you deserve to be at the global stage? You deserve to be at the global stage. Thank you. All right. Just specifically to help you understand what I mean by a global career, because I know some of you are already curious about one thing. What does it mean to build a global career? What does a global career really mean? When I talk about a global career, I'm simply referring to a career that is cross-border. That basically means you're not limited to any geographical location. A career that does not limit you to enter there. And that could work in different ways. One of the ways that could work would be that you could be in enter there and then you are working with companies across the globe. That's one. Two, you decide to relocate from enter there to anywhere in the world you can think of. That could be the United Kingdom, the United States, or any other country you've been dreaming of living in. So building a global career doesn't need to ask you to work from any location. Two, when I talk about global career, I'm talking about global relevance, which is two words that my friends and I, we often play with. When we talk about global relevance, it basically means building skill sets and experiences that are relevant on the global stage. Meaning skill sets, your building experiences, your building are not just relevant in enter there. It means you can relocate to anywhere in the world and the skill sets, the experiences you've built over the years are useful, allowing you to transition to anywhere, to move to anywhere in the world. And the skill set, the experiences you've built over the years are still useful. So one, with global relevance, your skill set and experiences are useful, applicable anywhere in the world. Two, that you yourself as a person because you build relevant skill set, relevant experiences you become relevant when you find yourself. And we show you how you can do that using WordPress. How you can build skill sets, how you can build experiences that are relevant anywhere using WordPress. Okay, I think a bit of something, is I'm helping to test someone that controls this only. Alright, so how do you build a global career? One of the first things you need to know is that building a global career requires integrating yourself into the global ecosystem and community. If you're looking to build a global career, you have to integrate yourself into the global ecosystem, into a global community. You're simply looking to build a global career and your focus is on the ecosystem here. Your focus is working with WCEU. Except you're going to have to find where you can build skills here that you can transition. So building a global career, to do that, you have to integrate yourself into the global ecosystem, into a global community like WordPress, which you agree with me, is a global ecosystem, is a global community. But you go to anywhere in the world, you're going to find that there are people using WordPress. You go to anywhere in the world, you're going to find that there are companies, you're going to build around WordPress and employ people. All right. When my mother was sharing with you, she said that we use stories to build trust. One of the things I'd like to do, one of the things I'd like to do is to build trust with you by sharing my own story. And this is my WordPress story. So like every one of you, at some point that you don't know about WordPress, it was sometime in 2018 that I decided that I wanted to learn WordPress, specifically because I wanted to pursue a career in website design. So I went on the internet, and I said for how to build websites and with tons of options. Back then Adobe Primova was the industry standard, so it was Adobe Primova, and I also got to learn about content management system. WordPress was there as an option, Joomla was an option, Drupal was an option. I found it difficult back then to choose between WordPress and Joomla, because Joomla was also a very popular content management system. But I chose WordPress, you know, I started getting to think about the WordPress community, knowing that we have teeth people who support me if I run into issues, and choosing WordPress has been the best decision of mine. Like I've been using WordPress since 19 in 2013. But in December 2018, I also started helping out in the WordPress forum, because the way WordPress works is that a community like this exists to help people with them, and one of the way it works is that some people contribute, and you know, other people get help. So after getting help myself, I also started giving, and in 2014, that's a year after I began building websites for profit using WordPress. Back then, I was a young man who was just starting out, and I found out that, you know, literally everything I needed, I depended on family, I depended on friends, but I began building websites with WordPress, and at some point, I became independent after having done WordPress for about three years, so WordPress basically changed my life, it changed my financial status, and what I did was that in 2017, when I realized that WordPress changed my life, I looked around me, and there were a lot of young people who were struggling, and I felt that if I could teach them what I, you know, had meant through WordPress that WordPress would also change their lives. And I started hosting WordPress meetups. I used to run a company called Express Technologies, so what I did was to turn my reception into a training hall, and I started hosting WordPress meetups, and in 2018, someone from the WordPress community saw my meetup and reached out, and told me that they are official WordPress meetups, just like we have the entirely WordPress meetup, the GDL WordPress meetup. Again, about the meetups, I just started my own meetup out of passion to teach people WordPress. So someone reached out, there's an official WordPress meetup, would you like your community to join, and I responded, yes. And my community then became an official WordPress chapter, which is out of the official WordPress meetups. At the beginning, I became the organizer of the new WordPress meetup. In 2019, I was located in Biggers, Nigeria, which is a Nigeria economic hub. And by then, I discovered that hosting WordPress meetups, hosting WordPress events on the African continent is a community. Because one of the problems we have is that of poverty, is that of crime, and I realized that one way to solve that problem was through digital skills, like people learning about WordPress. So I started a couple of WordPress meetups. I started the Elemental 912 community, which I run, and I started the Google Commons latest meetup. I started teaching people how to view online stores with Google Commons, and I grew both communities to thousands of active members due to my work with the WordPress community, with the WordPress Lagos people. Sometime in 2020, WordPress was looking for a regional mentor in Africa basically to oversee the meetup programs, the community leaders, and because I had experience as a meetup organizer, I signed up as a regional mentor for the WordPress community in Africa. I'm sharing my story basically to let you know that everything is gravel and no one starts with knowing it all. It's a journey. We all start without moving anything. In fact, I had a point that I didn't know about WordPress, but I just had to learn and then grow. So to wrap it up, in 2020, Automati was advertising the role of the Appiness Engineer and I read about it, and it's a support role, and I realized that what I've been doing in the community over the years is what Appiness Engineer has to do. So what do we do as Appiness Engineers? We provide support for people building websites, building online stores, the get-stores, and we help them. And if you realize, maybe if you see someone like Potom, who has been hosting the interview, what's the reason? If you want to meet the issues, if you have any problem with your website, you're going to reach out to him. Is that correct? Yes. So I realized I was already doing what Appiness Engineers do and then I applied. And because I had seen my experience with WordPress and with Google comments over the years, I got employed and I started working with Automatically. And as you know, Automatically is a global company. It's a distributed company, which also means being a distributed company means you can work from anywhere in the world. And since joining Automatically, I get to work from literally anywhere in the world. If I came to Taipei, I think about a few years ago I was working from Nairobi and from Nairobi and moved down here and originally I'm a Nigerian, but now, I'm actually on the global stage and now you can leverage WordPress to achieve what I've done over the years. All right. So if we move to the next slide, you're going to see the photo of this is the first Meetup, the real WordPress Meetup. And then we move to the next one. You're going to see the one for this is the Elemental Nigra Meetup and the next one is that of the WooCommerce Meetup. And if we move to the next slide, the next slide talks about why I'm interested in one in WordPress. Okay. So quickly, why I'm interested in WordPress. Three reasons. My passion in WordPress is driven by one WordPress and one of the easiest ways to build a career. So when I wanted to get into the web design world, options to be a coding and tons of other ones used to time. But I realized the content management system by WordPress which makes it very easy to build a website. So I'm going to find out like Cherina said, she was, you know, maybe she could be adding content and before you know you're learning about search engine optimization, you're doing different things. So from, you start out maybe just learning how to build a blog. Before you know you're doing search engine optimization, you're running ads to your site. So WordPress is one of the easiest way to build a tech career and WordPress gives me an opportunity to empower my community which I do through the Meetup program which I host. Let's say you're sharing my experience and getting other people to learn. WordPress is perhaps the easiest way to build a global career. That's because WordPress is a global tool and when you align yourself with a global tool, with a global technology you have experience with it. That experience is relevant anywhere in the world. All right. So you're going to find out that in every community there are people who don't like WordPress and I've grouped them into two categories of people. I'd like to say that some people don't like WordPress because it has a trait. I've seen people even in the Nigerian community who are the people who need to build websites and they need to do using code and they have to write code for one week to two weeks to have your full functional website. And you now you can just wake up and do it in a day or two days with WordPress. They try not to be don't like WordPress because they feel the next thing is too easy and makes them irrelevant. Or that's how people don't just understand how WordPress works and the opportunities within the WordPress ecosystem. And because they don't understand how WordPress works they criticize it. Saying that because for you to build a global career with WordPress you have to be open minded. I think open minded means you don't see it as a trait and you have to need to understand how it works. So WordPress is the operating system of the web and I usually say that because when you look at data it actually that WordPress provides 42% of all websites on the Internet from news side, business side to global president about 42% of all websites on the Internet. So that's almost about half of the website on the Internet. And in terms of content management system WordPress is viewed by 65 about 65% of all websites using the content management system she has 65% of the content management system on the Internet. WordPress you said increases on an average of 12% per year so you are sure that if landing is something that is going to be rather long continuously and WordPress is just a WordPress blogging for income as income as as a market share of about 3% of income as platforms worldwide. All right, I'm going to quickly run through the slide because of time. So you can see this data shows the same as market share and you can see that all this great part belongs to WordPress. And you can see some popular content management system that you know or they may know you can see the little percentage they have and some of them I'm sure they look like they're very popular to you but just look at the market share. Okay, this is the income as statistics and you can see the percentage of income as a market share. Some people talk down on WordPress and they say WordPress is just for beginners you know people who don't know a lot of things and all that but look at I see some of the world we get brands using WordPress so 14-500 companies are using WordPress and I see some of them get there I'm not going to go over them because of time and I'd like to say that when in doubt of what that people would do WordPress the WordPress showcase the great source of work by showcase you're going to see some of the sites that are built with WordPress and we show you to note that the US White House that's the White House official website built with WordPress it tells you how powerful WordPress is as a content management system Okay, in case you're building a blue book with WordPress want to keep an open mind don't criticize don't see as a trend keep an open mind and you find that understand your skillset and passion so we're no more all to be developers now it's a general assumption that when people are here we assume that everybody is a developer who tends to be a developer most of us here are not going to be developers so you have to find where you're fitting and the WordPress ecosystem the opportunities for all for everyone so we can be a developer we can be a designer the icons of opportunities to use WordPress to do what you do and we're going to run through that to be clear alright so one of the ways to be a global developer is to identify where you can make any part and how because the ecosystem is large you speak you have to identify where you can fit in one when I said specialized I found that people that anymore globally approach the world are people who are specialists so when you go to hospitals and find out that you know specialists doctors are the ones that are specialized specifically finding an area where you can be a specialist in okay so building a global developer requires opening your mind to the opportunities in the WordPress system alright so let me run you through the WordPress ecosystem to help you identify where you can make an impact where you can fit in so this is what the WordPress ecosystem looks like we have managed posting because WordPress is a web software which means you have to post it so that's why to be the website you're going to need web posting so we have managed posting platform that you know a platform that have pre-installed version of WordPress that once we go we sign up you don't have to manually install WordPress WordPress is already installed so we have tons of web posting platform and they're always hiring people for support so they have team shops and market places I don't know a WordPress team shop anyone have you ever gotten from a WordPress team shop does anyone want a WordPress team shop can you just have one which one do you know the steam forest and you know major market place and a couple of them in the WordPress ecosystem they are plugging the robots so people say WordPress is just team I'm plotting people have to be building these teams and plugins and when you look at the ecosystem in fact there are tons of plugins up in them plugins and people are paying thousands of dollars for them and there are organizations and individuals that make billions selling WordPress plugins they are WordPress developers and designers so there's an opportunity if you are someone who is interested in development writing codes you can be the career asset designer there are WordPress agencies and consultants you know just say for WordPress agencies WordPress consultants will also be to you know don't much to some of them or my time is limited so we need to allow Google so that will be that there are WordPress educators sites that you know they are not building sites for people they are not building plugins there are tons of them and these sites you know are making millions in revenue by just writing and teaching people how to use WordPress so if you are an educator and you are not looking to be a developer that's also an opportunity for you there are people who like to call builders and creators and these are people who just have people spin off a WordPress website so they don't code they are just people that understand how WordPress works and quickly create a website for you there are also opportunities for bloggers for marketers so if you get a day job basically it involves writing new stories maybe you work with a newspaper you work with a radio or TV and you write new stories now what you think WordPress for you could be as a blogger which you are going to do what you've been doing over the years but basically doing it online and if you are into marketing and services even in the WordPress world marketers are committed to help promote WordPress themes so there are opportunities for everyone alright some opportunities for specialization because one of the things I advise people to do is to specialize and the way it helps is that the ecosystem is being disliked so you try not that there are millions of WordPress audience and it's literally impossible to master all of them so what you want to do then if you are starting out is to find the ones you can master maybe depending on your individual space and this is some example page viewers and here to specialize can be page viewers and even we don't talk about page viewers in WordPress page viewers they give you a draft and growing package that allow you to easily view websites Elemental is one of them the Bloopy Bakery is one of them I think it's impossible to be a master at all of them or you can choose and become a master like that and they just know the basics of the other ones how that will help to be our specialization is if you are trying to find work in the WordPress ecosystem or you are trying to be any day in the WordPress ecosystem you are able to specialize a master one of these maybe like a page viewer like Elemental people are going to see you as an Elemental expert and you can quickly and easily from that instead of trying to do everything so there is opportunity in leads and marketing people are always trying to get leads so these are nice things you can view what people view custom landing pages and so it will help people integrate features like Elemental team marketing email marketing into your WordPress website opportunities for automation one of my favorite automation is automation so you can have your store make a purchase your automation like reminding them to leave a review sending them to make a purchase after a period of time there are forms now people want to view dynamic forms forms that if someone selects these forms with conditional objects that if someone selects A give them B and so on so they are different from different platforms that people view so people want to make many forms and so on there is also opportunity in e-commerce and if you if you have noticed e-commerce is mostly on the rise in Africa already you have seen that we can see companies like Stripe coming in to you know invest in the e-commerce sector in Africa for instance Stripe Fortress Pistach which is one of Africa's top payment gateway and you can see that this one like Mastaka like Pista are also investing in companies like for short hours so everyone in the global scene can see that e-commerce is on the rise in Africa so you can also position yourself in the e-commerce industry using workplace and for that one of the problems you want to master is rule comments and with rule comments you can build online stores for people you can even more with organizations that use rule comments so the opportunities are subscriptions and memberships multilingual and translation performance and security and for that you want to familiarize yourself with plugins like Jetpack which helps you secure your website and helps make your website faster the second in optimization so you want to master plugins like USACO like Runmat and there are opportunities in international analytics education and learning management system which are basically people who want to have websites where people can sign up for a course and what you will do is just master how to create those websites where I want to sell my course online how can I get it done and then I come to you you check me and then you my master have that the opportunities in workplace maintenance and management people need people to help manage their workplace websites people to help them update plugins safely because you can do things like updating plugins updating teams you know managing their website performance and so on alright so there's also opportunities in the workplace community the workplace community is one place you can view experience you can get experience because literally every job in the world you have how many years experience do you have workplace community allows you to contribute and also the workplace documentation team and the workplace documentation team writes the entire documentation on how to use workplace so being the workplace documentation team which I've been for a couple of years when I applied for jobs I put up that experience that the workplace documentation contribute to I've been doing this for this number of years and when I go to my workplace profile and I see a documentation team member because it's actually how it is that I can advertise on the global stage so you can go to make the workplace available and you can find the different workplace teams you can contribute to there are kinds of them and when you go to make the workplace available you're going to get more information getting out of these teams so you just have to find the one that aligns with your career goal so if you're someone who is interested in coding call the people who view the workplace and it all starts with the design so they build the design interface for the workplace software what it goes to the translation workplace is translated into tons of languages so we can people join and people have translated the work place to the gang or one of your local languages there's the documentation team the support that help people in the forums so when people come on you can list that it's one of the things I've only said as my experience and when you know how you can have people with work place for this number of years it makes it easy for you to get in there are teams people who review teams that are submitted and appropriate there are plugins there's community which author and myself are part of the people who goes like the work camps who goes like the meetups usually interested in starting you to make sure that events like this work comes over like the the monthly meetups that they hold who want to be in the community and that can also count as an experience for you okay alright so I'm just going to wrap it up there and I'd like to say again that you deserve to be at the top you deserve to be at the global stage and you can achieve that using WordPress you just have to be open minded you just have to be willing to learn and once you do you find that your only limitation would be yourself because with WordPress as a content management system as an open source there's really no limitation and find out that all when you think of something that someone said maybe you don't have to achieve a second functionality you find that there's a work already