No episode last week as we were away

Wordcamp Europe 2024

A conference for WordPress users, developers, etc.

This year was in Turin, Italy

Contributors day – around 700 people working on making WordPress better

Themes, new pattern, and accessibility checking, design inspiration

First day, opening remarks, open source talk, workshops

Replays available (see if you can see us in the audience):

Talking to sponsors

Lots of swag available

Spending time with other professionals was a highlight

2600 people present at the event

Venue was Lingotto – the old Fiat factory – there is a race track on the roof!

Networking was the highlight

Hi to Jake and Emily, WPManage Ninja Team and Dan, developer of https://wpextended.io

Next year is in Basel, Switzerland – https://europe.wordcamp.org/2025/

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Setting Yourself Up For Success

Going to the gym means it’s going to be a good day

Routine will be affected when away

Taking gym stuff and using a local gym when away

Wordcamp 2024 – Turin, Italy

Meeting people I know for the first time

Keynote at the end of the event possibly

Exhibition floor will be interesting

Meeting up with the WP Manage Ninja team – https://wpmanageninja.com/

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Outside help for your own business

Personal projects designs (Thank you Jake)

No budget put aside, or time to do certain things

Objective viewpoint – plus it will get done as it’s customer work for the outside help

Investment in your business

Collaboration works really well

Talking through magic acts and web design with outside help

New personal website coming soon, as well as a customer website – watch this space

Your Workspace

Office is important for a home business

Clear out needed – when it gets messy

Things pile up and need dealing with

Working through paperwork / receipts

When working on a project, other things get put aside

Which are you – Tidy Desk and Inbox Zero person

Or someone who lets things build up around them

Clearing your workspace once a day

Dealing with emails if they will take 2 minutes or less

Leaving things out mean they haven’t been dealt with yet

Set reminders to flag things that need doing

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Children’s Entertainer’s Convention in Stoke on Trent

Alarms that didn’t go off, phone and Alexa

Lost confidence – re-evaluate the process

Phones with no battery charge will also not go off…

Check to make sure your systems are working

Check backups, make sure they are working

Fail to plan, or plan to fail

Alton Towers on a day off (very wet day)

Better understanding of people of days out

Out of office processes

The business still needs to run even if I am away

Plan for no signal – find wifi

Customers need your urgent attention as a small business

Team members need a communication method with you

Test the system, and have a backup

Google Podcasts are shutting down – move to a new platform

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Hi to Luke from Japan

Chat GPT-4o has been released – https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/

Responds to video and photos as well as audio chat

It will chat to you in a very realistic and nateral way

Lots of video examples on the link – like AI talking to AI

Interacting with the world around it

4o is faster, cheaper and give better responses

Will Apple announce AI functionality for their devices at WWDC – https://developer.apple.com/wwdc24/

Downloadable ChatGPT app for the Mac now available

Like-minded people

Collaborating with these people make things much better in the end

Best practises – get a combined general consensus

Pro’s and Con’s from different perspectives

Fresh eyes will also give you insights

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New version of GenerateBlocks – Classes system added

New Starter Site build needed

Creating default pages, and setting up default styles

Much easier to build new websites once this is complete

Great to prevent “missing” things like a 404 page

Get professionals to do the job

Time consuming when creating but will save time in the future

Always check to see if there are better ways of doing things

Talking to your customers in language they will understand

Don’t use jargon to people who are not used to these terms

B2C language should be consistent across all communications, website, quotes, documentation, literature etc.

B2B might be different, it might not.

Translating from lay-person to developer using specific language

Spell it out to people if there is doubt they will understand certain language

Always lean towards benefits when talking to customers

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Facebook end groups API access

This allowed us to post our videos automatically on our Facebook Group using Restream – and now we need a workaround.

We now have to create a Facebook event, which gives us a streaming key which we can then use in Restream

It does allow us to embed our live videos on our website should we wish to do so

Stream issues last week with the Facebook Group workaround – missed the beginning of the video

Frontly.ai – No Code website builder – all content comes from Google Sheets

Display and filter the data in difference ways

It is continually getting updates

Creating our own “Software List” for web apps we own

AI builder which builds the basis of the app for you from your text prompt

Developers can make or break a software solution

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Visit to Budapest – the end of 12 Months of Coffee

The Starbucks mug collection is still growing

Future Planning – creating a new starter site

Generate Blocks now has classes

The starter site needs to be flexible for different types of websites and tech stacks

Lots of work to create – but it’s a one off task with ongoing tweaks

It’s very individual, but could be used as a basis for others

Does this apply to you with any repetitive tasks

Documenting is really useful

Dropbox – https://www.dropbox.com/

Online storage and backup service

Third parties can change their rules anytime they like

Do you rely on a third party too much?

Check to see if these services are still relevant to you – is there anything else available that would be better?

Vimeo alternative – Adilo – https://adilo.com/

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Time Management

Set Daily Goals / Todo lists

Work expands to fit the time available

Set your own deadlines  so tasks don’t drag on

Use your time wisely

Do the things that are important first

Make sure to have down time

Prioritise your tasks

Decide what you are doing tomorrow, this evening

Give jobs to busy people

Scheduling

Getting ready for the next day, the night before

Set yourself up to succeed

Your energy changes as the week progresses

Accountability is so important

Get yourself accountability partners

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No Such Thing as a Fish – great podcast – check it out – https://www.nosuchthingasafish.com/

3D Printing – printing objects

PLA+ is our choice of material

Adhesion had been a problem in the past

Slower first layer and a higher temp fixed it

Remote holder – designed and printed

Very useful for creating replacement parts, and useful objects

AirTag holder – Toothpaste holder

Making gifts and presents for customers

Artillery Sidewinder – https://www.artillery3d.com/

Data Visualisation

Display flight arcs on a map

12 Months of Coffee visualisation

Adding extra data for flights

Cross referencing data, getting key metrics

Demo video of the Flight animation – https://share.zight.com/wbuBnAp9

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