The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and The Future of Work

At this month's meetup we're going to do something a bit different and meet author, speaker and Automattic employee #56, Scott Berkun.

What’s it like to work at WordPress.com, the 15th-most-trafficked website in the world, where everyone works from home, no one uses email, and dozens of improvements launch every day? Berkun knows firsthand, and in The Year Without Pants (http://www.amazon.com/The-Year-Without-Pants-WordPress-com/dp/1118660633)his behind-the-scenes story—of his hiring, of his weeks on the front lines of customer support, of the year he spent leading a team of brilliant programmers designing and building new features—offers lessons about creativity, productivity, and leadership from the kind of workplace that just might be in everyone’s future.

GET ONE-ON-ONE ASSISTANCE AT OUR HELP DESK:

The experts from Tadpole.cc (http://tadpole.cc/) will be available throughout the evening to help you with your WordPress issues and answer your questions.

"WPNYC GIVES BACK" RAFFLE:

We will raffle off $1 for each user that RSVP's. This money will be split between:

• One WPNYC member.

• A WordPress developer that has donated a free theme or plugin to the community (chosen by the member winner)

Check out our past winners > (http://wpnyc.org/gives-back/)

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Scott Berkun is the author of four popular books, Making Things Happen, The Myths of Innovation, Confessions of a Public Speaker and Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds. His work as a writer and speaker have appeared in the The Washington Post, the New York Times, Wired, the Economist, Fast Company, Forbes, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, National Public Radio and other media. His many popular essays and entertaining lectures can be found for free on his blog at www.scottberkun.com (http://www.scottberkun.com/), and he tweets at @berkun (https://twitter.com/berkun).