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How I Built my Community ‘Radio’… …and my career in Digital media & WordPress
Nagesh Pai@nagpai
WordCamp Mumbai - 25 & 26 March 2017
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About me • Happiness Engineer with Automattic - Joined Jan
2017• Freelancer + Corporate Jobs + Moonlight Prof
earlier• Created and Managed a Community Website -
RadioIdli.net• ^^^ basis of my career in WordPress and Digital• Not good with coding yet!
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Why this topic?
• Building a community radio /publication with zero / small budget
• Learn and grow as a non-programmer• Growing to be a power user• Use the skills reaped from your interest → Career
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“
”ERIC RAYMOND - THE CATHEDRAL & THE
BAZAAR
“Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch.”
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Radio Idli • Began with Group of Friends wanting to have a
“Band”• Launched an Audio / Video blog showcasing our
talent (Remote band?)• Promoted within the Saraswat community via Orkut,
Yahoo groups, Google Groups… later Facebook / Twitter
• Project got covered in DNA Newspaper and then CNN IBN
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Over a period of time….• Recipes
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Over a period of time….• Traditional songs, poetry and lullabies
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Over a period of time….• Colourful cultural festival (Ganesh Chaturthi webcast
n Chariot festivals)
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Over a period of time….• Offshore community events
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Over a period of time….• Promoting Young Talent
Archana Kamath Balachandra Prabhu
Sunil Kamath Sanat Prabhu
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Platform? - Series of hacks
• Began with Blogger• Moved to self-hosted WordPress.org and got our own
domain name• Used Esnips, Muziboo.com to host audio • Youtube and Vimeo for videos• Picasaweb / Flickr for photographs • Extensive use of widgets and embeds• Social media platforms to communicate
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How did it help?
• Learnt everything about digital media / analytics and marketing - at my own pace
• Key Job @ Corporates• My first entrepreneural venture - CoreGray• My Job @ Automattic• All of this without being a Core HTML / CSS / Php
developer• By being a ‘level-up’ user
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Take aways…
• Be a power user , if not a developer- Click every switch without fear :) and learn
• Learn to Make your own medium• You will find many more that need help• Make it your career / extended hobby• Help others build their medium
…. Maybe ….
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Wrangle Happiness @Automattic !
https://automattic.com/work-with-us/