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WordPress as CMS and Center of Your Social Media Life

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WordPress as CMS and Center of Your Social Media Life

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Many of us know that WordPress can be fixed and contorted into being used as a CMS system.

Why not make a WordPress that's not built only for blogs, but is built as an intuitive CMS system? Not everyone wants to make a blog...

WordPress, the hugely popular publishing platform created in 2003, now powers nearly 15% of the top million websites in the world and is the most popular CMS on the Internet. Paul Maiorana, Director of Platform Services at Automattic (makers of WordPress.com) will be joining us to talk about why WordPress is so popular, how you can deploy it to manage your websites, and why it should be the hub of your digital and social media lives.

Our Speaker

http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/3/c/7/9/thumb_50775481.jpegPaul Maiorana is the Director of Platform Services at Automattic (the company behind WordPress.com, Polldaddy, Akismet, Intense Debate, and more) and works on partnerships and business development in the company's VIP Services group.

Previously Paul was the Chief Technology Officer of Mansueto Ventures, publishers of Fast Company and Inc. magazines, where he was responsible for their digital design, production, engineering, and technology operations.

He is a part-time entrepreneur, having co-founded Wi.nr and Leavr, and regularly advises web startups on technology, design, and product.

Automattic Inc. (http://automattic.com/) is a startup from a handful of people passionate about making the web a better place. So far they are best known for their work on WordPress and other projects but they have a lot of other interesting things in the pipeline as well.

Agenda:

6:45 - Show up at the event, meet other members
7:00 - Meetup starts - Introduction
7:15 - Presentation + Q & A
8:30 - Networking

Location:
New Work City ( @nwc (http://twitter.com/nwc))412 Broadway Floor 2
New York, NY

(888) 823-3494 (http://bit.ly/q17o8e)

Directions: http://bit.ly/q17o8e
Entrance on street view: http://bit.ly/rtBQLl

See you all there!

Alice (https://www.meetup.com/Social-Media-NY/members/17126371/) and Sergey (https://www.meetup.com/Social-Media-NY/members/3657777/)

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About the Host: NWCU

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This event is part of NWCU (http://u.nwc.co/usmnyc), community-powered learning driven entirely by member participation. NWCU is a curated collection of classes, workshops, Meetup groups, and hackathons, all sharing one core common goal: help existing and aspiring independents build, learn, and share with one another, so more people can lead better, happier lives working for themselves.

NWCU is made possible by amazing supporters of independents and innovation: Google (http://u.nwc.co/gsmnyc), Blackberry (http://u.nwc.co/bbsmnyc) & New Work City (http://u.nwc.co/nwcsmnyc).

About New Work City
New Work City is a coworking space and community center for independents in Manhattan. We gather in a cozy shared environment to work, collaborate, learn, and socialize. All you need is some work to do and a friendly disposition!

We'll also have some books for raffle provided by O'Reilly (http://oreilly.com/pub/topic/socialmedia)!

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