outside the wordpress bubble
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John Eckman • @jeckman • #wcphilly • 10up.com
G E T T I N G O U T S I D E T H E W O R D P R E S S B U B B L E
John Eckman • @jeckman • #wcphilly • 10up.com
T H E W O R D P R E S S B U B B L E
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John Eckman • @jeckman • #wcphilly • 10up.com
• Look at where you are spending your time
• If 95% of your podcasts, blog feeds, web reads, twitter follows, email newsletters, meetups, slack channels, conferences, friends, Facebook groups, and print reads have “WP” or “Press” in their names, you are limiting your experience
• WordPress is wonderful: a powerful, life changing, democratizing software project and a (generally) welcoming collaborative community behind it
• But, there is more to life than WordPress
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W O R D P R E S S D O M I N A N C E
http://trends.builtwith.com/cms
Automattic appears significantly less than other vendors in selection cycles where key scenarios require integration with other enterprise systems . . . some customers are cautious of the complexity — and quality — involved in employing . . . third party components.
The downside of WordPress' usability and accessibility is, in some customers' experience, content sprawl and reduced governance.
WordPress' simple elegance suits organizations with simple requirements, but the innovative aspirations of many enterprises . . . require more innovation and sophistication. WordPress lags behind . . . in areas such as context awareness.
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http://jboye.com/blog/wordpress-the-most-used-cms-in-the-world-and-still-not-good-enough/
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“Despite all these apparent strengths, very few organisations consider WordPress as an option when they go through a CMS selection exercise. Large and complex organisations seem to mostly ignore it.”
http://jboye.com/blog/wordpress-the-most-used-cms-in-the-world-and-still-not-good-enough/
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John Eckman • @jeckman • #wcphilly • 10up.com
B OY S I N B U B B L E S
“History repeats ... first as tragedy, then as farce"
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A D J AC E N T C O M M U N I T I E S
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-‐web-‐design/
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U N D E R T H E W O R D P R E S S D O M E ?
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John Eckman • @jeckman • #wcphilly • 10up.com
U N D E R T H E W O R D P R E S S D O M E ?
John Eckman • @jeckman • #wcphilly • 10up.com
John Eckman • @jeckman • #wcphilly • 10up.com
S U M M A R Y
• Be open to ideas from other communities
• Don’t focus so exclusively on WordPress that you miss the forest for the trees
• Widen your perspective
• Retain your balance
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http://everydaythingsetc.com/2012/05/11/holiday-in-a-bubble-literally/