But now we enter the Q&A portion of the state of the word. By the way, if you want to hear more from me, photomat.tumblr, doing a podcast on distributed.blog, which is like talking about distributed work. I'm at Photomat on the Legacy Social Networks. And my blog is ma.tt. If you want to see the TS Eliot poem that I referred to earlier when I said they should have sent a poem. I just posted that, I think, last night. How the Q&A portion works of this is that there's no screening, there's no, we have no idea what's about to happen. But luckily, in this room, we have a lot of answers to things far beyond what I'm aware of. And if you have a question, I think this is the spot to go to, right? So please come on up. I guess I should have given you a little more warning that we were about to do this, but anything that's on your minds we can talk about. Michelle, yeah, do you mind grabbing the microphone for her? Yeah. Hi. Michelle for shut. I'm here with post status today. And say where you came from, just so everyone kind of around the world can hear where we're from. The other side of New York, not very far. I live in Rochester. So first, I want to thank the open source project for taking seriously my article on accessibility issues that I encountered at WordCampUS. And my suggestions, I put some suggestions in there that have been taken seriously, like creating a new section for the WordCamp organizer handbook, and creating an accessibility team for WordCampUS 2023. So kudos to you and those who are making web accessibility decisions more than just the web accessibility, but the community accessibility in all ways. So I wanted to thank you for that. But my question's unrelated to that. So last year at State of the Word, you announced the photo directory, which I was happy to give a bunch of photos to kind of seed that and get that going. We now have over 5,000, probably close to 5,500 photos in there. And we have several moderators. We're working real hard to get those published. If you've submitted, we're all here right now. You might need to wait a day or two, but we'll get to this. I'm going to call that a successful campaign in a year to have over 5,500 photos is amazing. And those are all the creative comments. So people can use them however they want. They don't have to attribute to us. It's just really wonderful. But the question is, where do we go from here? So we have a lot of people who have been putting photos in. I don't know that a lot of people know about the directory and can take photos out and use them however they'd like. So what are the steps to getting people to understand that they don't have to go to Unsplash. They don't have to go to Pexels or whatever. They can come to WordPress for those things. And then is there a way for the people who are contributing to have an idea, not necessarily like where did your picture get used because you just download them, but how many downloads for pictures and how successful are what we're doing? If I'm contributing 200 photos, are they just sitting there or are people using them? So I know that's a lot of questions. No, that's a fantastic idea. It is, right? You can credit me when you actually make that work. Definitely. Well, we just did. Yeah, it's true. One of the best things about contributing to Open Source is the idea, I still imagine this, like lines of code I've written are executing hundreds of millions of times per day across, like, millions of websites. It's one of the funnest parts. And we do have tools, for example, the plug-in theme directory that sort of say how often things are used, which is a contributor. And there's no reason we couldn't start to increment some stats, at least for how often a photo or something from the Openverse is downloaded. Yeah, absolutely. According to the API. Again, we won't know exactly how it's being used, because that's all run locally. We don't have any tracking. I think that'd be pretty exciting. Well, the other things I like about as we start to embed more of this is that we can sort of automate the giving of credit, whether that's required or not, by the license. Like if you insert a photo, it could have a little caption, like, photo by, you know, so and so, that sort of thing, which I actually think is a pretty neat also incentive. I know it's always fun. I've licensed a lot of my photography under the GPL before. And it's been built into themes and other things. And it's always kind of exciting for me to visit a website and, like, oh, there's my sheep, a famous one from the 2010 theme. So yeah, it's very satisfying as a photographer to think about my works now out there. So yeah, we should definitely do that. Thank you for the suggestion. And then how do we get people to use it and know about the director was the other question. Using the directory, I think we need a lot more stuff on there. So I think that, you know, relative to an Unsplash or Pexels or Shutterstock or something like that, our library is still relatively small. So I think combining our library with the open-verse library, like I said, has millions of things there, will make it just a lot more compelling that when you search, there's always something there for whatever you might be searching for. I think we also need to figure out how to have people in it. Right now, as you know, we don't allow faces or anything like that, because there's sort of additional laws and copyright around having a likeness of a person in a photo that isn't really well covered by, like, even creative comments licenses, like a model release or something. And we're still navigating what that would look like. When I think about what might be coming next there, I think some of the AI stuff we talked about could be really interesting. So for example, there's models that create faces that don't exist in real life, which is great, because then there's no person that's been affected by, like, the reuse of their likeness or something. So perhaps that's something we start to do is you can upload a photo of a person, and we'll be able to, like, create a fake person that gets overlaid over the face.  So that could be one thing. And then also just using all the library as, like, a starting point. So whether that stable diffusion or something else that we could build in, these open source models, that you can start to modify things just using commands, prompts. I think that would also get people to use a lot more. We already have some, like, built into Goodberg as, like, duotone, which changes the colors of photos. So we can do some stuff with CSS to style things, blur them, do other stuff like that. But what if, you know, you really like that photo I have of the sheep, but you wanted to be cows instead? In theory, this is something you could call one of these models, or tell one of these models, like, take this photo, replace the sheep with cows, and it does it. It's kind of wild. We should try that, actually, with that one, see if it actually works. But that is where these models are going. And like I said, they are getting quick, are better, so quickly. The models that GPT-3, chat GPTs based on 3.5, so like a middle one, the next versions of this are going from hundreds of billions of inputs to, like, a 10X on that, like, trurium plus. And that will just improve the quality that much more. So that's what I think will be next there. Thank you. I'm going to add a tag. Going to add a quick tag. Josepha, in case you forgot me, we also, when Openverse came over with us, did a little bit of research about how to do provenance with the Creative Commons folks, to see how that can work in kind of an open source CC licensing setting. We haven't done a lot with it, but we're aware. We're looking at it, so. Cool. I'll finally say, just like we want Gutenberg to be a gift to the web and used places more than WordPress, Openverse is a completely open API. And so is our directory. So if other CMSs, whether that's open source ones, like Drupal or Ghost or something, or proprietary ones, they want to build in the Openverse, that is completely open to them, too. Again, it's part of, like, as we are trying to create the web that we want to exist, it's going to be more than just WordPress, and we want to make the tools that we're creating available to others as well. All right, thank you. What's our next question? Hi, Allie Nimmins. I'm here from Austin, Texas. Woo-hoo! I think I can speak for everyone here when I just say thank you to you, to co-founder Mike Little, and to everyone else who followed for this big, beautiful, amazing thing that has changed my life and changed, I think, a lot of our lives. As a community member, I really enjoy looking at how we, all of us, everyone watching and listening, can improve, patch, grow all of these ideas and systems and practices that make up this community. And a big part of that for me is being uncomfortable and brave in addressing challenges, problems, doubts, and struggles that we might have. And as I grow as a community member into a leader in this community, I find myself inspired by people like Josepha who are able to do this elegantly and wisely and kindly. And so as our most visible leader, what do you think is the biggest challenge that WordPress is facing right now? And how can we, as a community of people, begin to or continue to lovingly address those challenges? That's a tough question. Thank you. I think what really strikes me about it, we have a lot of teams that work on different parts of WordPress. There's like an accessibility team, a security team, a translation team. And part of what I've become to appreciate is in kind of the systems thinking of addressing the problems that WordPress is trying to address. Like creating basically an operating system for the open web that you can build anything on top of. How every single part of that's important. And sometimes some of the struggles we have is one of those teams being like, hey, we're not getting enough attention. Or hey, we messed up on accessibility. Something like that. And it's true. Often maybe we didn't give enough attention to one of those areas. Or we didn't have our security program covering enough of the plugins or whatever it might be. But each one of those is almost like its own lunch pen that's supporting all the others. It's like a lattice work where they're all, actually all quite important. And part of what I think is so important about us having a broad and diverse group of contributors is that without one of those, the whole thing would collapse a little bit. And we can't pay attention to just like core and ignore the plugin infrastructures or something like that. So a little bit, we do shift attention and give more attention to some things some years and kind of move around a little bit. But as more and more people get involved, WordPress, the nice thing is that we can kind of work on them all at the same time. Divide up the problem essentially. In open source, there's a saying, with many eyes, all bugs are shallow. Basically meaning that like, yeah, any one of this would be overwhelming for any one developer, myself or whoever it is. But when you get like people specializing in lots of different areas, it's almost like an economy works, right? Where one of my favorites, I think it's Adam Smith who spoke about in the wealth of nations, the idea of a pencil and how simple a pencil is. But when you think about everything that goes into making that pencil, literally no one personal, no one company could have done it. There's the little metal thing. How is the metal found? The eraser, the lead, the shaping, the machines that shape it, the distribution, how it was distributed to stores and everything like that. When you start to think a pencil, even if it was maybe like a craft pencil, maybe a single person, the final putting together the pencil, all the things that went into that, including the feed and shelter of the person who made it, is like tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people, supply chain lines that go across everything. Something we've also been on people's minds now a little bit as supply chains are getting disrupted or got disrupted this year. So I think about it like that. So, but thank you for that question. That's a tough one. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Come on up, come on up. Hi. Hi, my name's Laura Byrne. I'm just from across the river in Montclair, New Jersey. We had WordCamp Montclair last year. I think we were one of two North American WordCamps last year. We're gonna have it again. And one of my favorite things we had at that camp is we had folks from the All Women Release Squad do a panel. We had Josepho, we had Michelle, Ebony Butler, and I am forgetting someone. Courtney, thank you so much. She's in the room.  I'm sitting next to her. This is very embarrassing. So anyway, I tried to dig myself out of this hole. I think that release squad was phenomenal. Can we do it again? Sure. When? When would you like to? I don't know. I'm thinking 2023, maybe the second half of 2023. Sounds like a really good idea. What do you think? Yeah, we could totally do that. All right. We just got a plan for it, I guess. So let's start planning out what's release. It's definitely one of those things. So for those who aren't familiar, each release of WordPress has kind of a different team that comes together that is in charge of it. So essentially I'm like the lead developer of WordPress, but really it's kind of like we're passing the torch from different folks, which allows different teams to have an impact. And we did this experiment with the All Women Release Lead Squad. That was a lot of fun. And what's that? And non-binary. And non-binary, thank you. So that sort of experimentation is I think part of the beauty of it. We all get some practice like creating a WordPress release, releasing and getting it out there. And folks can bring different aspects. It's part of why we name, if you don't know, we name actually every WordPress release in honor of a jazz musician. And part of the fun thing for me is looking at the characteristics of a release and what's jazz musician kind of matches that or complements it, or whose life story might be part of that. Actually, if you go around and look in the office, the records that are in some of the conference rooms here, they're all the jazz musician releases. Thank you, Tina. Thank you, Pablo. And thank you, my friend, Marcos, who's we have a professional jazz musician here actually, Marcos Varela. So yeah, thank you for this suggestion. We'll do it. Cool, thank you. And one last plug, WordCamp Montclair is happening in June 2023. We would love it if you might come. Oh, cool. Right across the river, you said. Yes. It's so much fun. June 23. And I guess we had two WordCamps last year. The slide said one, so we must have had at least two. Yeah, cool. Well, thank you for that back check as well. Okay, great. Thank you. I love New York. It really is like one of the great cities of the world. And so whenever here, I get really inspired in the energy and everything. The shops, the small businesses, like, man. All right, thank you. Hey, good afternoon. My name is Ryan Marks, I'm with Pantheon, and I'm here from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Cool. So two years ago with the release of WordPress 5.6, we introduced beta support for PHP. A week ago, PHP 8.2 came out, and at the end of November, PHP 7.4, end of life. We currently have only beta support for WordPress on the support grid, on the support chart. All of the yeses have asterisks with beta support. So what's the plan to get us to fully support? The request, the post from the make team two years ago said, there was a call for all plugin and theme developers to become compatible so that WordPress could be fully supported. What's the status on that? And at what level does all themes and plugins need to be fully supported, or compatible, for WordPress to be fully compatible? Cool, let me make sure I'm understanding this. So basically you're saying that the new versions of PHP 8 are sort of supports, like how WordPress Core supports them is still beta, or? So all of the PHP 8 columns, and all of... And where are these columns? They're in, they're on the make site of the supported versions of PHP and WordPress, so there's a grid, and all of the yeses for all of the PHP versions are yes, asterisks. And at the bottom it says beta support. And so it's for enterprise companies who are looking to use WordPress, today WordPress is only available in beta. Gotcha, do you know, because I know we have a lot of sites running WordPress on PHP 8 too. Do you know what this might be in reference to, or anyone have an answer? All right, right back there, let's pass the mic. And Barry, we are running WordPress on a ton of PHP 8s, our PHP 8 on a ton of WordPress sites, right? Yeah, and you have an answer, okay, well let's give both. Yeah, so Jonathan, I work a lot on Core, Core contributor. So the changes in PHP 8 are pretty foundational, there's a lot of really far reaching changes, and to properly support them is a lot of work. And so all of the unit tests for WordPress Core will pass on these, but we can't really speak for plugins and themes and how they use these features on PHP 8x. And so we can't really say yes, we fully support PHP 8.1.2 because we can't vouch for every plugin and theme. And so it's a real gray area where it's difficult to really own that and confidently say that, even though our contributor teams have put in the work and they have made Core itself running on its own, 90-ish percent compatible with these versions of PHP 8, with the exception of 8.2, which just came out, we're still working on that one. So yeah, does that answer your question? And Barry, did you want to add anything to that? Let's get the mic over to you. Yeah, so let's get the, yeah. Yeah, so I actually think that lack of PHP 8 support, whether it's like in practice or in theory, is really important for WordPress. And so I actually asked about this today because we still have all these asterisks and beta tags next to, and it's not only PHP 8.2, it's PHP 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, is all not officially supported by Core WordPress, not plugins and themes. So apparently, and I'm actually gonna talk to the PHP team, PHP Core team about this because part of the difficulty is the lack of backwards compatibility maintenance between PHP versions, but also there's not really a compelling reason for folks to upgrade to PHP 8. So those two things together make it hard to upgrade. But in Core, we do need to do a better job and of having complete PHP 8.0 support, at least in Core and also in these, what did you call them? Not community plugins, but canonical plugins. Cononical plugins. Yeah, canonical plugins. And Tanya Monk assures me today that is a top priority for her and her team in 2023. So hopefully that means in January. But yeah, we do need to, we do need to, I heard it was something with the requests library, do you know about that? Yeah, yeah. Well, that's, because so people not here can hear. Yeah, so I heard there was like a kind of a second party library. So it's something that was imported into WordPress that we didn't write, but we I think are one of the few folks using it. And so we kind of maintain it. There were some issues there. And I think that's why most of those asterisks are there. But we do, like you said, have thousands and thousands of sites running successfully on PHP 8, PHP 8.1 with tons of plugins and themes. So it works in practice, but I think in theory it has these asterisks next to it, which we need to resolve as soon as possible. Could be a fun thing for Playground as well. So people could spin up like a copy of their site in the Wasm version inside the browser and then test things out, see how it works. Although there could be other problems introduced by that because it's not using MySQL, which is the standard backend of WordPress. It's using SQLite and some translation layers for that. So yeah, it's interesting. PHP, and so the good news, it sounds scary when PHP says we're end of lifeing. PHP 7.4, even that terminology, end of life.  But in practice what happens is every major web host essentially continues to backport security fixes and other things so that older versions of PHP, even though they're not officially supported by the PHP core anymore, effectively get their life extended by quite a bit. So it's not yet end of life. Including automatic. So we have a PHP 7.4 fork on GitHub in which we have backport to not only security fixes, but bug fixes from PHP 8 releases. And that's available so that's on GitHub. Anybody can use it, anybody can download it. And we're committed to maintaining that backport until there is significant adoption in the WordPress community and other PHP projects in order to kind of officially EOL 7.4 and move forward with the eight versions. Cool, EOL, the nice way to say end of life. So that is continuing to go on. I will say that PHP 7 was one of my favorite releases ever. Like it doubled speed a couple of times. It was really amazing. The PHP project with eight has gone a slightly different direction. And I think they're gonna have an adoption challenge just in journal, not just from WordPress, until they add some more compelling features, as you said, and maybe work on some backwards compatibility. So perhaps it could also be something that as we co-develop and contribute and give feedback that in their PHP 8.3 or 8.4, maybe they can do some things that'll make it easier, not just for us, but for the entire PHP community to upgrade. Cool, thank you for that. Okay, so 12 minutes. So we got a couple more questions. I'll try to go through these a little faster. And if you have one, do you mind going up or getting in line? Hi, Matt. I work with you on Tumblr. It's Andy Rang from Oleand, New York. And I have questions from the internet for you, from the legacy websites, legacy social. Will WordPress be a thing after the entire focus is moved in Gutenberg? That's from Arland Nushi on YouTube. Wow, so will WordPress still be a thing? Yes, more than ever. So we talk a lot about Gutenberg, because like I said, it's something that is transforming WordPress. Like I said, when we started it, it's basically the biggest change in WordPress' whole history, to go to this block paradigm. But it's enabling all the core things we do in WordPress. So we're essentially using these paradigms of Gutenberg to create the next generation that hopefully makes WordPress more radically accessible, particularly the folks who might not have as much ability to code, which is always something. Like I said, we want WordPress to be radically accessible, regardless of technical ability. So if we want to democratize publishing, which has been our mission for 20 years now, we need to make it easier to use, and that is what Gutenberg does. So, yep, more WordPress than ever. And WordPress now, I believe, on the W3 tax is over 40% of all websites, and on built with, which is what we're switching to, we're at like a 33% or something. I think I spoke last year, W3 tax is going, or the data set is changing. So a third of all websites are running it, and that's about more than 10x the number two in the marketplace, which is pretty exciting. It's power of open source. Thank you. Thank you. And I'd like to just note for everyone that the rest of these questions will be posted on a .org blog post and answered there as well. So. Oh cool, so if we don't get the questions, we'll answer them asynchronously afterwards. This line is now longer than ever. I'll try to go quickly. Hey Matt, Courtney Robertson, GoDaddy Pro Dev Advocate, and co-rep right now of the training team. Two years ago, during the Q&A for your state of the word address, we launched Learn that year. Last year we shared a lot of stats about it. We heard more today about it. I am really passionate about working with anyone that wants to learn WordPress on to getting them into the job market and help vet the things that are on our WordPress jobs board. So that question said, things like certification are starting to come up again. Our community talked about it and visited it in 2015. Myself at the time, I was opposed. And that tune has changed because I saw how hard it was as an educator to find ways to get people adequately trained for jobs and also seeing so many jobs being posted, people applying, and they don't have the skills with WordPress. They might know the other programming languages. Can you speak a little bit more about why certifications are something on the roadmap for Learn? Sure. I'll say that my thinking on this has evolved as well. Maybe it's similar direction to yours. Typically around certifications, it just felt like a lot of overhead to do. Like what does it mean to be officially certified on WordPress? And also changing every year. Like WordPress is evolving so quickly. What does it mean? How do you update that? But now, exactly like you said, I feel like as there's more demand for WordPress developers and experts ever, having some sort of standardized education that they go to. Not like many professional organizations. Like if you're a doctor or a pilot, it's kind of an ongoing training. There's something that's, be able to fly the plane in the first place and then there's like ongoing training that you go through every year. Real estate agents, every, many professional organizations have this. I guess mostly I just want to figure out how we can do it in a WordPress-y way. Like there's probably some de minimis cost because like an exam needs to be proctored or something like that. But we want to make this content, training material, everything as radically open as possible. So, but I think we can do it now. So there's some, we're in two ongoing conversations. And I think it's fine for there to be sort of for profit things doing this. And we can point to some of them, especially if they're aligned with their ESOS and philosophy. And then also hopefully there's lots of nonprofits around like retraining people and others. Maybe we can partner with some of them as well to point to. Thank you. Hi, Matt. Oops. My name is Bud Krause. I operate as Joy of WP. And first I'm up here because I want to, well I was up here last year and everybody saw me around the world and said, hey, I saw you on State of the World. So I decided I would do it. Hi mom. Exactly. But no, in all seriousness, I do have a question. And that is, what do you see it as the future of themes? Because with 2023, with all this design agnostic, it was style variations and I think you even alluded to the fact like one theme. Are we going to get to the point where there's a universal theme and that's it? And that's it. That's it. That's a great question. I think we're essentially going to have a bifurcation of themes. So they'll be essentially like for most designs and most like standard themes, I can see those being built on just maybe one or two different themes. Like maybe it's great block theme. Maybe it's like something else that comes up. But like pretty well standardized. I think there'll be some other kind of community themes that might do like either weird or stuff. Like I remember we've had like a command line theme before or something else. So there might be like sort of more radical designs that happen. And then I guess, but the real bifurcation will come is there's of course some themes, like let's say Divi or others, which are on the surface themes but are really almost like entire applications embedded. So they're using the distribution and kind of the bundling of themes to include basically a bunch of plugins as well and other stuff. These are really, really popular and actually do a lot to bring people onto WordPress because they bundle so many things that otherwise you might have to cobble together or assemble like a bunch of different plugins and things to do. So I think those are gonna be around for a long time because essentially they're almost like applications being bundled. They're using on the surface themes but they're really something else. And perhaps we need a new name for those as well. Just like we're starting to differentiate between community and commercial in the directories. Perhaps those we need a new word for because it's really kind of like a theme plus an app that's bundled as one. So a THAP, I don't know, we'll think of it. Sometimes naming is not my strong point. I come on up. Hello, I'm Nev Harris from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This might be a crazy question but the discussion about GPT earlier had me thinking about this. When I owned an agency for eight years, the biggest problem we had of our class that didn't have a big budget was content, getting the website written. We would call that the build the launch gap. Now, I'm thinking for like a mechanic who builds his website, gets it ready but doesn't know what to say about our world change. And if he goes to GPT and says, what are the benefits to getting your world changed every 90 days? Then he can get his website launched a lot quicker. Would there be any way or any thinking about implementing, integrating GPT with WordPress to get these websites launched quicker? Totally. I think so right now these models typically are, it's been like every query costs like a couple pennies. And so it might be something that sort of is more like integrating APIs with commercial services. Whether that's from WordPress companies or like more broader ones like OpenAI. And I think there's some specifically around like copywriting, like is it Jarvis is one of them? I'm forgetting some of the names, but there's already some like they have taken these large Angular models and applied them to like creating copy for marketing pages or something like that. Now, if websites were just being written by these things, I think that would be kind of boring because they have a style of writing, which is like the more you read it, you can kind of recognize it. And they're even talking about embedding some fingerprinting and things. So you could take part of text and like identify whether it was generated by GPT or some of these others. But I think if that is kind of like a creative grist that perhaps inspires you to rewrite something or something like that, that's pretty powerful. So again, I think just the AI created stuff has one level of coolness, but ultimately is not like raising the culture. And what humans do does do that, but there's sometimes that sort of blink canvas problem or the writer's block, like you're just staring at, you're not sure where to start. So if we can combine this, both for maybe giving you ideas where to start to write and edit something. And then finally on the backend, helping you edit. But there's been tools like Grammarly and other things, spell check, obviously, that have certainly improved my writing. And the next level of those where you might be able to say, hey, I wrote this essay. How could I make it a little bit shorter? Or how could I make this a little punchier or something like that? And you can get feedback where it analyzes your writing and maybe helps you iterate and improve it. I think that's actually pretty powerful. So there's these studies where they would show like just humans playing a game like chess, got to a certain level, just a computer playing it, got to a certain level, eventually the ultimate level. But for a while, the human plus the computer working together or the computer would suggest some moves and the humans would choose them, which they call centaurs. And you know, the combination human horse type thing is the most powerful. And I actually think that's the future of these creative works as sort of centaur creation. Thank you. Thank you. We'll make these the last three. Yeah, three and five minutes. We got it. Cool. Challenge accepted, Joseph. Michelle Butcher-Jones, I'm sponsored by Pageley and from Carbidella, Illinois. For the first 20 years of WordPress, it's been rather easy of getting like the older gen X generation, millennial generations, coming into WordPress and helping contribute, build and everything. And, but now in a way with the change of, for myself having a Gen Z daughter and then the Alpha generation is they're seeing more of wanting to be more of influencer when it comes to tech and different stuff like that than actually like work on code and stuff. And as one of the front people pushing for the kids camps and to bring them in to WordPress that way. And then also with our training that we're setting up. But what are we really doing and thinking of the future of keeping the in course of the younger ones and younger generations coming? Yeah. You alluded to it, but I think education is so important. And we need to get into schools at every single level, elementary, middle, high school, college. And teach these skills. Because when you learn these skills, they actually are lifelong skills. When you learn a little bit of HTML, a little bit of CSS, that this gives you much like learning an instrument or learning something else like a language you can use the rest of your life to be creative and express yourself. And sort of learning a little bit how computers work I think is in many ways like a new type of literacy that just opens up entire worlds in a really powerful way. Two, we need to make it easier to onboard and things like Gutenberg, everything we just talked about. I hope will help a lot with that. And the third thing, which is a little bit kind of a side personal project I've been working on. You might notice I've got the double verified check mark. That's a little homage to... We launched on Tumblr, this thing where for $8 instead of one check mark, you can get two. But Tumblr is something I've been working on a lot personally. And so automatic a few years ago, acquired Tumblr. I've been functioning as the CEO of that since February. Tumblr is social blogging, basically. So it's a cool thing about Tumblr is over half the user base is under 25. It's more female than male and more mobile. And it's doing 50, 100,000 sign ups depending on the day, every day. So a ton of new people are coming in and it's really fun. So we are transitioning Tumblr to be powered by WordPress. So it's not there yet, but you'll be able to use Tumblr like a social network on your phone or whatever. But the sort of what we call the web network. Where you have a subdomain or a custom domain on Tumblr, that'll all be WordPress themes. So what I'm hoping is that Tumblr can actually provide an on-ramp for an entirely new generation that has the fun blogging aspect. That's very social. So you can learn that part. But when you're ready to expand your web presence or portfolio or have a store or something like that, then when you learn that, you'll actually be learning WordPress. And that's a skill which you could take to any web host, to any part of the whole WordPress ecosystem. So I'm hoping that can be a new on-ramp as well. That's just kind of something personally I'm working on and with Automatic, so. Thank you. Thank you. Hey, Matt. Robert Jacoby from Cloudways. I did buy my two... Checkmark. Checkmark, so. You're double verified. Double verified. Inspired by the Pantheon question and PHP, will there ever be a backwards compatibility break if there is a technology sufficient enough to accelerate the WordPress ecosystem? Hmm, a backwards compatibility, so, yeah. And so Gutenberg is a backwards incompatible change. And remember in previous years, when Gutenberg was first being introduced, there was a lot of resistance to it. There's still some. It's getting better. People are really opened up to Gutenberg. It's on like majority new sites and everything. But I would talk a lot that Gutenberg was something new to learn. It was a completely different tech stack and ever all the plugins and everything are going to be updated. But I'd say it's hashtag worth it, right? Like, it's a big change, but we think that this is worth doing. And we don't do it that often. It's the biggest backwards, basically, you can run a theme written for WordPress from 2005 on WordPress 6.1 today, 17 years later, and it works. Which is why I think it's not like that kind of break. Like if you would say that WordPress 10 can't run on anything except PHP 4,000. Yeah. We'll see, you know, never say never. And we'll see what is coming in new versions of technology. This definitely features that, for example, require a newer browser in WordPress or things like this WebAssembly language that allows the playground feature. Like, that's not going to be supported in, you know, Internet Explorer 8 or anything like that. So we are definitely saying like newer technologies, but we try to make that a progressive enhancement. So saying, like for example, some of this new stuff, like the block interface is way more complex. So if you're using like a screen reader to interact with WordPress, there's a lot going on. And if you just want to do a post, maybe that's too much. So we always have like the classic editor if you want to switch back or alternative ways of posting the WordPress, whether it's the APIs and other things. So that there's more than one way to do it. And depending on what sort of like you need to do, there's many ways to post, many ways to edit, many ways to do everything, including all these APIs, both the XMLRPC and the REST API that are built in. So, but never say never. We'll see. Thank you. Last question. All right, hope it's good. We'll see, we'll see. Mike Melanson, I'm with the GitHub's the readme project. Oh, cool. When you were talking earlier about Project Gutenberg, I was remembering the beginning of this year, there was talk about the block protocol from Joel Spolsky. Yeah. And you responded that you guys were interested in helping out with that for taking somehow, I'm curious, what's happened since then, if anything? Yeah, so block protocol, and Joel Spolsky is like an incredible developer. If you're a developer, or I guess he's a leader now, but his Joel on software essays is one of these books that's like a little older, but so timeless. And New York City, I believe as well. And it was part of creating Fog Creek. What else did they do? Glitch. What's that? A stack overflow. Oh yeah. I forget the big one. So so much. Sometimes developers don't like to work together on the same thing. And so it's part of why there's like 200 CMSs and stuff like that. Like sometimes there might be a stylistic or a technical change that when you look at it, you say like, I can't use this thing that exists. I'm gonna start something that's different. And I think that's a little bit what's happening with Gutenberg and the block protocols. And so as we've gotten involved, like we're definitely communicating as the projects, but they feel like there's some things that are choices in Gutenberg or ways we develop things that just are incompatible with how they see it happening. We'll see where that goes in the future. Like I said, Gutenberg, we've tried to make CMS agnostic so it could be embedded in anything. And reskin, like you saw with the Tumblr example, that can be totally different. And everything we're doing is open. So I would hope that wherever they end up, Gutenberg blocks could maybe be embedded. Maybe there's a translation layer or something like that in their editor. And it's totally fine for there to be other editors. If we can do something for users, where if they copy and paste or just some sort of translation layer, I think that would be really ideal. And where I hope we end up. One of the cool things about that being more than one thing, like multiple editors as well, is maybe they create something really cool. That's open source. And then we're like, oh, let's bring that over to Gutenberg. So the innovation can flow both ways. And sometimes maybe that's only possible if you're starting something from scratch. So they're open source, they're doing open protocols, everything like that. So I consider them like a cousin project. And I hope that we can integrate more in the future. But if not, that's okay too. Maybe this will just be an alternative ecosystem that can experiment with new ideas or maybe things we would say no to. They can try and then we see how it's adopted by users. Cool. Well, thank you so much. We are going to end there. If you're here in New York, we'll now go. We'll have some snacks and just hanging out. We'll be pretty open if you want to stay for a while. And for those of you tuning in online, thank you so much for giving us part of your day. I'll see you next year, if not before. Thank you.


Hi, hi, everyone. I'm really happy to be here together with you in this lovely city rainy weekend, but still thank you for inviting me for such such an amazing Conference, and I'm really happy here to help you to learn more about augmented reality Advertisement and why it's always good to try before you buy My name is Anastasia Miroshnichenko. I am from Berlin, but originally I came from Ukraine I am an expert WebExcel developer, at least an expert in my sphere, and I'm responsible for augmented reality on a web I'm working at St. Elmos. It is an advertisement agency consisting over 200 of professional all around the Germany, and we are good in experimental Content and we bring storytelling and campaigns Different AR solutions to our brands So as I already said we are using multi-reality is storytelling to break up the rules and brings the new wow effects to show our clients what is possible and so one day people will wake up and realize that augmented reality is here and It happens a lot of question about this sometimes overhyped sector, but the biggest question is how it actually Make money How many of you have your phones in your hands right now? Yeah, as you see it's already 2020 and people still are keeping phones in their hands and everything that is happening right now in technological sector is going around phones so and Advertisement are really keeping an eye on AR because this is the next step This is a new level of how we can interact with our work Customers how we can help them to play around with the product to adapt it to your needs and see what is possible more than it's only shown and Actually XR can help that but what is XR? Do you know?  So but basically it's Your reality absolutely replace it with a virtual ones augmented reality is where the phones come on and this is An experience when you overlay your real world will worse with some type of With some type of digital layer on top of it and mixed reality all of you I guess have already heard about the Holo lens It's helps to interact with augmented reality for example with the gestures with the light estimations with object occlusions and so on So all of that together happens to name XR But still the key tech Technology in this sector is augmented reality and what do we know about that? It's that it contains about from native air applications web air and social media Let's get a bit closer Some of you probably know that you you need to install Applications to be able to see the augmented reality happening on your phone But we also have a web solutions for that like for example using only HTML and and a JavaScript we can bring the augmented reality experience right on your table Helping people use only their phones and nothing else is needed Also for web air experience. We can have air quick look with from Apple which is using use this set format and model model viewer for Android, which is using JLTF models The Apple is going forward into AR and they already implemented High definition 3d models, which can be placed where on every Surface you can get and the Google with our AR ads can already help you to visualize an object just right Typing in into a search like shark penguins astronaut and you will get them immediately Staying with you in your room so Going to a social media. Yeah, thanks It's it is about a Facebook and Instagram. I guess all of you already knows the spark studio from from a Facebook It's actually really good engine to who plays a augmented reality experience for almost of users But the problem is there's a new Generation preferred not to use a Facebook. It's more for our older people Yeah, if you want to show some product to a teenager, it's probably need to be an Instagram I guess all of you know about the face filters and spark your studio So as I already said, we also have a Google ads and a YouTube is Coming on with its own try-on features. So for example watching a video on a YouTube You can immediately experience some new products on yourself But talking about a makeup. It's really in interesting case Because when you are buying a makeup, you are not really buying a makeup you are buying a result that the makeup Delivers to you and it's always very difficult to buy for example lipstick on online because you never know how it will fit to you and Here the XR comes up because without No need of expensive headsets. No need of install and applications You can just grab your phone and already try it out Here with the newspapers experience is a more like worldwide used Example it it helps a people to extend the information behind the print Editions like for example if yesterday there were a football game and you Didn't a well and you wasn't able to see it. We're just just do not buy a newspaper and see the key Scenes which were happened So as soon as we hear at JavaScript room, let's see a bit of code But don't be scared. You don't need to know nothing specific like a national JavaScript It's really really simple and I guess everyone of you can do that Remember about Augmented reality on the web. We still remember that it's just a normal web page and everything that is built it in is happens not in 2d dimension, but in a 3d and just and Responsible for a 3d we have a web graphics a library Did someone try this out already webgl? Okay, you heard about that perfect you know that it could be quite like complicated right but and Actually, this all piece of code is required to write only one small triangle And you know that a 3d objects can contain a thousands of them So we are not going die dive deeper into this luckily for us a lot of frameworks were Created like for example three three gs or a frame a plague Hanvas Babylon gs and in many others which are build it on top of web jail and have and helps us just normal developers to create 3d graphics much more faster and There are different web AR extensions that help us to bring our 3d object into the real life like for example the AR Gs which example I will show you soon It's an open source JavaScript live Library you can find it on a github just using few lines of code you can immediately bring to your model into the real world it's all guys are also very interesting projects from the guys from California It's good for surface as estimating image targets and they are really state ahead of web AR solutions and And I already mentions mentioned It's an apple quick look and a model viewer from Google which is already building into your safari or chrome So first before we start creating a project we need to who defined which type of project we want to create 15 minutes on mine, okay? I will I will be fast. We have an image markers Which which is developed with free open source lab library ARGS. We have an image targets from it's wall It's free to could develop on your Laptop, but you will need to pay for a license if you want to push it to the Audience and as I already said as well has a surface as estimation Next so I will show you the short example using the a frame. Did you already tried it? It's very good for us lazy developers Just to write your lines of code and do not go deeper into three gs and web and webGL It's also an open source and you don't need to learn a JavaScript to be able to write it so you just go to a website grab a CDN link and You are able to who create some experience I will show you where quick quickly how to put a basic 3d model on top of a hero marker Which is a default marker for AR and this is all the code which is needed How many of lines is 1 2 3 like 7 right which is seems not really on Complicated, let's go step by step First as I already said we are going to the a frame a web website grab a CDN link and add into our head then with an a frame we are creating a scene and Actually all AR magic which we want to create will be written inside After we are adding an entity with our 3d model What is good for a Frame they have a assets is an assets management the system. It helps our assets to Reload faster. So actually our 3d model will be Loaded as soon as our page is loaded. So it's quite the fast then Actually, if we load our model it could happen that it's very huge Like for example, if you just export it from unity or blender It's the nature one meter in in a unity is like 100 for a web So you will would need to scale it many many times down Also as soon as we have an animated model, we need to add an extension for animation and Here I use an a frame extras and add an animation mixer Attribute to my model So finally, let's add the augmented reality For this for that I already said I'm going to use a RGS and the hero markers He'll hero markers are default for augmented reality on a web and it is some sort of QR codes Which can be easily? Recognized by the camera on your smartphone For each markers we can define difference 3d scenes so To be able to do that. We will add a seed a CD a link to air. Just into the head Then we are calling our air G is just JavaScript into a scene and as an embedded at attribute which will remove full-screen style on canvas from our experience and The last we are a heading a market hug tag Just just just shows that we want as this model seem under this particular marker And this is just a few lines of code and you can already get the amazing experience on the web But it's actually not really practical for Advertisement because we are living in a new era when you want to get Everything at once like our customers all all always said that they need the information about the product Right here right now, and they don't want to click like a thousand buttons to be able to see that And it's possible like for example in this case with Modella beer you can Easily add 3d experience to a billboard So you you will not see the boring bill billboard Advertisement some bottles of beer, but you can already see a beautiful Picture of or maybe some piece of storytelling to get some atmosphere and try it on Or for example an advertisement of a basketball players Why just do not throw the ball in the basket together with him Like yep Yep, and you can throw it out Which is pretty fun I Will show you one more experience about a printing Advertisement that we already developed for our eternal client This this is how we can add augmented reality into a magazine and It's works pretty stable and as I said it's accessible to any Our user who has a phone at least not older than five years But here I will show you different potential issues you can face with like for example different magazines Have different for a format like for example the size of a page can Can vary it can be thinner it can be taller and for each Experience you need to load appropriate marker. So sometimes you have like a thousand Not a thousand a hundred image markers just to show one simple Experience, but how not not to get lost there here. We are using a url Like for example in the url. We can add which which issue a Customer will scan which page it will be and then Depending on that you can you can load appropriate marker and show appropriate video Also, the most common issue is very bad mobile connection It it could be really a Prop a problem ask your user to wait until your experience will load So please make it easy and light and simple do do do not put very huge freedom Models were very big videos try to make it Like a lighter than at least five megabytes Also, my favorite issue is a battery Low power mode Sometimes the iPhones or Android phones are going in this Battery saving mode and then you you realize that no experience is working and you start Panic and calling to the clients that nothing is works tomorrow is Is that the Deadline and everything that Don't worry stop. Just check your battery first because low power power power mode removes all air Actions from your phone. Just switch switch it off and it will run Also, don't don't create your experience very Complex try to keep it simple and clear to Do your user teach your user to? Connavigate with a basic steps like for example tap here move Move around flip your camera and don't ask a user to make a lot of a move or move Movements because it's still a new technology and we need and we Need to teach our customer how to use it so as Einstein said Everything should should be made as simple as as possible, but not simpler And for us as a developers, it's also very important to keep our code clean Please keep care about your consoles keep care about the arrows because any of you can can go and Check a code and all of us will will want to be able to read it to understand how it was Developed so keep your code in order And yeah with your help We we can make the invisible or visible and it's actually all what I wanted to say. Yeah, thank you Thank you. So who has the first question?  I It's cute. Ah, thank you. I have a question When you put this Marcus in in magazine in paper magazine How well used is it? I mean 10,000 readers how many use the your experience? How many users can use our AR experience in a different magazines, of course, we are using Google analytics and Google tracks to and metrics to count how many experience are running and actually it's like Maybe 20% of the users just because it's also very important to have a good design experience like if you if you point a QR code on top of off your ad Use a user will see it immediately immediately, but he might think that okay It's probably a link to a website. Nothing important will happen, right? So you need to leave like a small instructions like for example, hey look here is air a Experiment and also you you can promote your air experience in different Social media channels like for example you use an influencers. You you can just record a small life video talks about how he is he's using air how it's Seem easy how how it's light and working on Yeah, so unfortunately not a lot of people Hello. Yes. Thanks for the presentation with the yeah I've a very similar question like with the billboards. How do you attract the user to even know that there is an experience to be had? I wouldn't know if I was just walking past the like the beer billboard to even get my phone out to sort of absorb the experience Yeah, so how how we can attract a user for this this particular bill bill billboard It's all about that design a design should Navigate a user to come here to find a QR code to to be able to unlock a camera and and go to a Experience unfortunately, not all customers knows that for example to read a QR code You'd you'd need to download a specific app anymore. It's all already built in into a camera So yes, we need to educate it educate our customers first Thanks Yeah What is the conversion rate? I mean, you just told us that at least 25 percent of people use the The mobile application or at least their phone to to use VR and on these 25 percent How many user actually buy the product in generally speaking is it better than normal? No Yeah, it's also a good good good question how many Customers are finally buying a product after visiting air here experience. We also use a Tracking for a buy buttons here and using a history from where the user came and Actually with this t-shirt I show you in a make in a magazine it was sold out in two weeks Yeah, so Probably the percentage of users who finally buy a product is pretty high because the experience is new It's wow effect and it's super hyped Technology, yeah, thank you


Hello friends, I am Sanjay Gupta. In this video, I am going to demonstrate you how you can implement hashif, hashalif, hashelse, and hashendf directives for conditional compilation in C programming. Before starting, you can note how you can search my YouTube channel. You can type my name Sanjay Gupta in YouTube. My channel will be available there. You can watch various programming related videos here.  First of all, I am going to include a header file that is a stdi.h. Now I am going to define a macro. So here identifier name is number and its replacement value is 10. Now I am going to define main function. Inside main function, first I am going to implement hashif. So hashif checks value of a macro with the value defined by the programmer. So I am writing this hashif number greater than 0. So number is a macro. Its current value is 10. So that 10 will be compared with 0. So if this condition is true, then you can write some set of instructions here. So I am printing number is positive. Now if you want to check another condition, so in place of elseif, you can use hashalif. So hashalif works for both else as well as if. So if the first condition which is available at line number 6 is false, then control will be transferred to line number 8 which is implementing else and if together. So here you can write another condition that is number less than 0. So here you can print another message. Number is negative. Now if both the conditions are false, it means number is 0. So for that you can implement only else that is hash else and here you can print number is 0. So this way I have implemented all the three cases using hashif, hashalif and hashelse. Now to close this hashif else block, I have to use hashendif. So this way I have implemented all four predefined, sorry all four pre-processor directives that are implemented for conditional compilation. So here value of this macro is 10. So after execution it will be displaying number is positive. So now I am going to execute this code so that you can see the output. Here you can see it is showing number is positive as output. It means it is working properly. Now suppose value is replacement value of macro number is 0. Again I am going to execute this code. You can see the output. It is showing number is 0. So this way it is working properly for both the cases. Now I am writing its replacement value as minus 5. So this time we have to check whether it is printing proper results or not. You can see it is showing correct results. That is number is negative. So in all three cases these pre-processor directives are working properly. So this way if you want to implement more than one conditions using pre-processor directives then you can prefer hashalif along with hashif and if you want to provide last alternate then you can prefer hashelse and for termination you can use hashandif. So I hope you have understood the use of all four pre-processor directives that is hashif, hashalif, hashelse, hashandif. So this is all about this topic in this video. If you want to watch more programming related videos you can search my name Sanjay Gupta on YouTube. My channel will be available there. You can also download my programming app Takimiz which is available on Google Play. Thank you for watching this video.


Weza, Gula Patina. Most of the people have known me through that program as a digital skills trainer or coach. It's a program that helps the youth in Africa to acquire skills that are going to help them to improve employability and job creation. It's all about making the most from the web. There is too much information in the internet. ... until you get to know what you do with the information to leverage from that, ... people are finding themselves in a lot of issues, some of the has come. This program is definitely meant to make the skill become something that you can learn with ...and make a profession out of the same. Both in working for yourself or serving other people. So it's all about bringing the internet and the website to become the main tool that is going to both drive business and create opportunity. All right, and if someone is watching this conversation and they are wondering what sort of educational background do I need to have to learn about the digital skills, is it available for everyone? Brilliant. Digital skills, as many people when they hear about digital skills they think maybe they'll need to go back to class and start doing some computer studies or ICT courses or maybe some people think like maybe I have not done any computer, I don't have any computer background or marketing background so this could be something that I don't, I'm not fit for. But digital skills is for everyone, even somebody watching us now, you don't need to have any background in technology for you to to start you know interacting with technology and making the most from that because most of the things that you learn they are they don't have maybe what we can call a structure kind of a system that you must follow from point A to B to the end and maybe graduation but they are technologies that have been customized of course by even various organizations in the internet that are short term, you can just learn them within a very short time some can take even a day, some can take a week, others maybe a month there are various platforms and you are able to to get those skills and do something about them for instance. Did somebody teach you how to browse on Facebook? Nobody taught me that. Nobody taught you but you found yourself signing up an account even if people don't have an email they can use a telephone number but eventually you realize that you've learned something as you interact and now it's for you to make it more professional so that at least you can begin to leverage from the same. All right so how can my viewers learn about new skills or brush up on their existing knowledge about you know just digital skills and looking at the Google and does Google offer these courses and at what particular fee? Let me answer that question this way. I am a mentor with the PDTP, Presidential Digital Training Program where I mentor the flesh graduates from the university whom the government is attaching in various institutions in Kenya and even yesterday we had a meeting for the Kohot 5 that is that launched and we have new students who are joining those places and therefore as one of the mentors actually these are some of the things that we are supposed to help them understand and Anjira Digital for Kenya they have a program that they have partnered with like Kosera and those programs you know they have merged a lot of universities causes together from overseas and they are able to give those programs free to the youth and it's a program that you can just sign up and start learning by yourself from a smartphone and also they are others by Google like we usually when we are training we also make bring to awareness that people can learn a lot of skills from Google and by going to g.co slash digital skills and they will be able to to learn a lot of other skills or they can even Google search maybe train with Google or something they'll see how they can log in and this causes also provide a certificate but they are more practical they are more practical to make sure that they live you with a practical impact of something that you can do yes you spoke about you mentioned something but you said that the certificates which are going to be issued at the end of the program so how do students get certified and how long does this particular program take if i'm going to go online for them all right if you if you log into those platforms like the one that i'm very conversant with that because i is the one that i've been involved in training is for g.co slash digital skills which also information is available at immobiles limited website people are able to to get the link to do those causes and every module provides a certificate so you can get a an international certificate which after upon finishing it is generated in the internet and then you can download it in pdf so it's up to you either to print it or maybe to use it as an e-certificate whenever you are looking for opportunities yes for someone who's watching this this conversation of ours and they're wondering what is what is the importance of me learning about digital skills all right um you know one thing the world has gone digital absolutely and there is a generation right now the generation that is that found internet learning we call it generation 2.0 generation 2.0 is a generation of the kids who found technology existing so all they know is smartphones and all that meaning the way they do their things they did the way they see the world is totally different from the generation that was dislapped by technology and the internet has over 4.6 billion users at the moment actually by yesterday night i was checking the statistics it was at 4.69 billion users and the world has got about 7.7 billion people meaning the analog world is where is being you know is wearing out slowly with of like three quarters of the world in the internet and that again comes with a lot of opportunities and now people ask what can i do with this technology there are so many things that you can do with internet i know it's a big bush many people have lost money in the same others have gone and got disappointed there is a lot of cunning but there are several things you can do with internet to make money i usually say like maybe let's mention like the five things you can do for you to make genuine money for instance let's talk about youtube yes uh you see like the gospel artists and musicians nowadays they tell you subscribe to my youtube channel but people have never asked why is it that everyone now is talking about subscribe to my youtube channel it's because uh when you open a youtube channel which is free of charge you just need a gmail account and you start perpetuating the followers subscribers which you can do very well by sharing the social medias after getting 1000 followers and your videos happen to be viewed by 4000 for 4000 hours google partners with you for ants i think you've visited videos and you are an advert person and then it's ask you to skip now whenever that advert lands that is money to the owner of the youtube channel and as i speak this i happen to i'm one of the people who make money from youtube and i started this back in 2010 and i've made even to the tunes of 1800 us dollars sometimes in a month what sort of content do you upload in your youtube channel no the youtube channel you need to be very careful if you want to venture into that one you need to be very careful because you can't upload other people's content unless you have a consent otherwise the best thing is to have your own content you upload it there something that you know people can come to watch it it could be a comedy it could be a less hype teaching people how to cook this or that it's different interests on business yes yes it's different interests and of course you need some some skills also in the same because there are videos that have got more traction others don't have for instance any video that talks about how to is highly researched anytime you put a video and give it a title how to it has got a lot of traffic and that one can bring you a lot of money so i know people are making even have a million in a month from youtube and it's something that somebody can begin and you upload the videos and you continue sharing and eventually people will learn that you post nice content and you will start earning money with that maybe you can be asking or somebody could be asking how do you get that money and the most another question is the marketing strategy just to have like numerous viewers in your channel and also subscribers yeah if you want to have viewers this you have to share it widely you see it could be on whatsapp groups it could be on tria it could be on facebook uh or any other place you find an opportunity important in sharing yes sharing is very very important because when you share the link somebody will click it instantly so if it is not all the time that that video will learn for the advert the few seconds it will have learn that means money to you okay that's just one of the channels and if you want to get that money there is uh they call it um is called ante sense account and ante sense account is also free when you search search for ante sense account you'll see it and that is where you open and all the money is put there and it's up to you to decide you want it to transform to the bank or you want western union so for me i've been withdrawing through western union for about uh what's the advantage of that sorry what's the advantage of transferring to the bank or western union is because it's instant one time i was in rwanda and i was stranded without money in kigari and it was 21st when they used to send me money and that is when i received the mtc notification and i would do 57 000 equivalent kenya shareings so the other channel you can use maybe could be like content marketing people can decide to do blogs and on those blogs they are able to pass information to people so that uh as people and that they can also partner for ads i think you've gone to websites and you find some and fats pop up and yes it's come when you click it then you are paid per click because of that partnership all right so you can continue please yeah there is also such media marketing um people can decide to be marketing for other people like yesterday i under client we are meeting somewhere he deals with little estate so he told me i want to my company to embrace a full digital kind of presence so that i can be visible in the internet so i told him we are going to create a website we are going to create a youtube channel we are going to create twitter we are going to create facebook and i chat them for social media handles and i chat that for that kind of a consultancy and also making a provisional you know phase of the same all right so when we just still on matters pertaining content right so content is very crucial in driving the brand awareness to the market space so what is the importance of creating uh not just content but content that is relevant uh to keyword research and optimization optimizing them in in a strategy uh it's very key by the way if if you want you know when you are creating that content at the back of the mind you you should ask yourself what do i want to gain from this do i want to drive traffic maybe you could be promoting someone else business and you want people for instance we can talk about how to eliminate pimples on the face i know many ladies when they have those things they need to travel them this how to have a smooth face maybe somebody is promoting some some beauty products so you create a content and you you write a great content that people can relate to and but then you can also like the solution the problem and the solution but then you can say if you want more information about how you can counter this click here and now they can go to the website of that business and they find all the products they sell maybe to bring about elimination of the pimples at all that therefore at the end of the day that one will mean business therefore when you do the content you must make sure uh it's relevant it's connecting and then what are you up to you know what are you up to so it's not just about entertaining people because now we are talking like making money using internet yes and that's a consistency i believe yeah consistency is important and um it's very very important all right uh when it comes to uh pastakia and uh what digital skills do you uh offer in your portfolio right uh to meet the not just your your students but also the industry needs all right uh my company is called digital age business solutions and we are more into helping people to market their products and services strategically you know like for instance we offer services to if you want maybe you are selling something and you want only to reach out maybe ladies only or men only which age and what kind of an income we we do digital marketing using google ants which is able to reach out to people depending with various you know the demographic is different it's for you to define it so we can literally get anyone that you want uh to become your client or to become you know your your partner is in business with you so we we offer that we also develop websites and uh our website is very crucial in our time we've got now almost 1.8 billion websites in the world and they are always increasing so the only way to be found online is by having a website that's like a home in the internet and um it's also another another field that people you can use to to create websites for people and money because we've got free platforms that people can use to create website for others so that's what our business our company does we also host domains so domain registrations we also do hosting and we also do like optimization of people's websites you can be having an existing website that people don't know about you can search online and your website will never be visible so we optimize it so that it also becomes part of the results when a client has keyed in the kind of a want that leads to your services and products and we also do such agile marketing putting you on top of competition just so that clients can have easy access exactly to your brand exactly okay going back to steel and matters pertaining branding and businesses need to reach out to allow to you know huge number of potential customers and they have to just effectively use social media to reach to these numbers what would be your advice to just have a traffic on their website what a couple of maybe top three advice you could give them just to bring traffic on their website one is you need to understand your audience because not everyone is interested with what you are selling so you know your client you know the people that need your services or products so once you understand them then you can develop a hashtag that is related to what you do so that every time people are searching for you they can use that hashtag and they can drive traffic number two you need to also maybe decide on a budget you can use to boost your your information in the internet like social media because sometimes organic organic organic results or organic publicity is not enough to bring you the kind of people that you want all the time you need to pay when you pay it means that your advert is able to reach even the people who don't follow you or even if you don't have any relationship with the friends who follow you it's able to appear to those people and they can find your products and services so you can decide on a budget digital is usually very affordable so the small budget you are able to reach out a very big number of people and specific people that's number two and number three it's good to have a professional approach so don't just go on in the internet and think because everybody is there it should be there think about your service and products which is the best platform for you some platforms maybe instagram is the best some to some platforms is Twitter depending with professionalist maybe it's to some platform is very professional it could be linked in you know so depending with the nature of your business or your services it's it's it's it's now going to dictate what kind of a social media platform you will use for you now to bring the results that you'd want to see all right it's uh there's one thing that you have kept on saying about the internet which is actually a bush like it meets all different kind of things on the internet and you won't be surprised meeting scammers sure one of the one of the many ways that people would like to share away from also online jobs is through there are a couple of scams that come through affiliate marketing people will tell you like we're offering this particular product or if you want to train with us you just click on this link and then they take you to a couple of so many other links which end up with you with nothing so how do we avoid scams scams on the internet uh like i said you need some some little skills which you don't need to go to school to do uh i've mentioned quite a number of of platforms you can you can use uh because i found this disturbing many people i also went through the same so maybe you how to make 10 000 sharing per day and you click click here you click only taking you to another page then now it tells you now you need to download this ebook for you to learn this strategy and it's costing 2000 you download the ebook you pay the money then the ebook is taking you to another classroom that is not bringing the results you give up already the owner of that one has made his 2000 but you are still struggling looking for help now what you should do is this um you should always try to find in the reviews what people are talking about certain platforms if you find a platform that is telling you make this money internet has got both good and bad information scammers and you know legitimate things so you can go to reviews page and see what other people are talking about maybe the kind of a web that you have seen and see the comments you see the complaints okay we've got others who post such to counter but always you'll be able to judge which one people which one is legit what people are talking about that maybe a website or a company and if you see the negative remarks then that one could not be something good but again when you see maybe like a company that is listed on like google my business platforms that can be a very legit company because if it is associated with that kind of a platform there which it's very common so it's it's likely to be very legit and therefore that can help you and also you can judge by the loading of the website any website that loads with attp without s one you should begin to question from there s means secure but if it loads up there with attps before the full column and there's the two slashes there then that tells secure but that again does not guarantee you everything is okay many youth by the way have lost a lot of money and they are still losing and they have noted gotten there the the experience they needed after it marketing is real i i know of many companies which sell online here in kenya i work with some of them so what you usually do you log in and click on become an affiliate and therefore you are given a specific a special code so whenever then you can use that link you've given a specific link so if you want people to come and buy from those people you'll see it maybe like they are offers for this kind of a fund with this company which sells online then when people buy using your link then if they click that link to check what is this you are some money you get others give up to i've seen some that give even hundred 400 bop per purchase others 250 depending on what the client will buy absolutely and you have got me 10 clients buying and you are getting 400 shirings per each client that is four thousand per day you never walk up to run around in the streets your money is working for you sure it's very real it's very very real going back to job opportunities for young people how does digital skills increase in opportunity for young person in the job market just ya kuwia-hisha, ya kuwia-hiza ya kuwia-hisa seni wa kwiu wa finelyimu na kuwa konstant стu mreinizi hlatsi kama miwa nul용 kwa hasa kwa kwa wafaa kwa hichu kwa hta nga kama yukistu kutila nga kampa kwa watahikus You set up a traditional shop. By this I mean maybe you pay for your rental shop and then you start quipping things. You can also sell things that you don't own. As long as you have that. There is one of my friends actually that's how he makes money. He sells laptops. He doesn't have a computer shop but he's very edgy. So what he has he has a page he advertises and when people need it, then he sells and even sells them by parcel services. And that's how he has managed to make a lot of money. We'll look at the digital space. What is the future like when it comes to digital skills? Is there a time when artificial intelligence will be much more into the economy system and we don't need digital skills from individuals? Well, with the trend of technology today, I foresee that time coming. This tells you that we cannot ignore technology. We cannot ignore technology because technology is evolving. Technology is never stagnant. Every day even now as we talk something new is happening. So I foresee a time when there will be artificial intelligence where almost everything will be happening now with the help of the technology. Therefore, what I would advise is that let people get in touch with technology and the things that are about to happen so that they can live up to date with the changes that are happening today. So looking back to since when you started this journey on digital skills consultancy and also training, you reached out to over 25,000 Kenyans in the period of 2019 to 2020.  I've been able to groom quite a number of graduates who graduate from the colleges and help them to understand the next steps they can take, maybe helping some of them to create remote offices where they are able to start working without having to incur too much costs. Maybe after they build up now they can have the traditional office so that they can start executing their services. Some of the institutions have trained, they have ended up developing websites and the websites are able to bring them students from other counties, especially vocational colleges, and they are able now to have people from other cultures. There is even a college that told me that they have students from some neighboring countries which came as a result of the website. Others technical institutions have got too much to display. I put now to display their products and services and you see them developing some household business like the vocational mostly because I've really been too much into vocational like last year. The people who are doing technical courses like beauty have been showing them how they can still be doing business part time as much as they are in courage studying the same skills and they can get started without having to set up a salon and others they can maybe costia a space with a salonist so whenever you have a client you direct him to a certain place you are the one who handles the client and then there is money you pay to the owner of the salon and then you are able to make your profit. So it has made it easier for people to get started without having to incur a lot of capital maybe to start moving on with your business life. So this is something I have seen and I've seen people graduating from that to having their own businesses. How can people reach out to you if they want to keep this conversation going and just also find out on mataspatini training and everything else? People can reach out to me using our website we are updating certain things it's dabs.co.ke or they can email me at wisenyaga.com or maybe call us by using 0720 968 638 maybe if they are watching us from overseas they can just add the plus 254 720 968 638 and we'll be able to help them. Alright, thank you very much Pesta Ken for creating time to being with us and just talking about mataspatini and digital skills and how it is important to just also improve an opportunity to get into the job market even start our own jobs in the social media platforms and everything else that does with digital spaces. Alright, thank you so much for coming and also I'm coming up with a website called yesuboku.com I want to create the first online Christian social media platform Yesuboku.com Yesu for Jesus IESU BWOK.com If they go to yesuboku.com they'll be able to find information and even numbers how they can reach out to me we hope to launch that social media site this coming month in the month of October 2020 Yes


Hey everybody, great to have you with us. Bob Lorenz, Jack Curry, John Flaherty. Guys, is there anything better than summer camp? Listen, some summer camps are up in the air, but we know Flash that the Yankees are coming up with a summer camp. Major League Baseball is coming up with a summer camp, but that feels good. It does feel good. I was never able to go to a summer camp, Bob, because I was always playing baseball. But these Yankee players now coming to spring training, part two is going to be called summer camp. I'm all for it. Can't wait to see them back in stadium. You know, we're excited about it. We're going to be in studio, obviously, covering a lot of this over the coming weeks on the Yes Network. And Jack, I want to ask you yesterday, Brian Cashman had a conference call with reporters. What are some of the bullet points that stood out to you? Yeah, I thought that Cashman struck a hopeful tone during this conference call, Bob, a couple of things that he brought up. As of now, as of the time that we are taping this, no Yankee players have opted out of the 2020 season. He gave injury updates. He said he's optimistic that Aaron Judge will be ready for opening day. They think they'll have Stanton as a DH for opening day, but they want to wait a little bit on the outfield call until they see him go through some reps. Aaron Hicks back from Tommy John surgery. Same thing with him. They believe he'll be ready, but they want to see if he's in game condition and ready to go. And they said they believe James Paxton is ready for game action. So at a dark, dark time, if you're looking for some silver linings from a Yankee perspective, they're going to have all those players back. I also thought it was interesting when someone asked Cashman, do you think you can get a 60 game season in? He said, that's Major League Baseball's intent. We're about to find out. All positive news there with all the injury updates, but until the manager Aaron Boone and Brian Cashman can't get eyes on these guys out on the field going through their workouts, you're not really going to know.  That's going to be something to pay attention to. But I was also thinking about the players who have all this excitement to get back to playing baseball. But I think that the new reality is going to hit very quickly on the testing protocols and what it's going to take to get into the stadium and go through your new routine. I think they're all probably curious. They all probably want to make sure that everybody's healthy and safe. But the new reality is going to look different. And there's going to be a transition the first couple of days on how do I conduct myself in the clubhouse with my teammates and out on the field? You know, one thing I was going to say before, Jack, we talk about this a lot, how certain points of a regular 162 game season, you kind of have those mile markers along the way, litmus tests, whatever, could be a Red Sox game in May, an Astros game in May, that kind of thing. Don't you feel like everything that the world and major league baseball right now is going through as these players on all teams get ready to ramp up this coming weekend, including the Yankees, like every day has one of those mile markers that you've got to get through, right? Got to get through healthy, not only COVID free, but then your entire body. And with the Yankees coming off a lot of injuries, as you mentioned, rested up, that's going to be doubly important. It absolutely is. And Cashman was asked about that, about the challenges that he faces. And some of the questions were about roster management. And he said, I think the biggest challenge is just handling what is going on with this pandemic. He brought up an example. What happens if your starting pitcher shows up on any given day? And that's the day where his temperature is 100.7. Well, you have to be able to scramble and be able to have somebody ready. But the more I thought about that, not equating the virus with a migraine or a queasy stomach, but a starting pitcher has shown up sick before and teams always have somebody ready. That's the short-term answer. The long-term answer is if your pitcher shows up in that situation, then people are going to have to be quarantined. You're going to have to get him tested. I think Flash hinted at this before, and I totally agree. There is going to be something, and this is not an exaggeration, every five minutes that a player hasn't experienced before that he is going to experience. It's collecting your own equipment. It's putting your helmet into the same cubby hole every time. You can't put your sweaty helmet into a different box in the dugout where another player's helmet was supposed to be. That's not what this is all about. I read that operations manual is more than 100 pages. It's voluminous in the amount of rules that everyone has to follow to make this work. Flash, how do you think that impacts the players? Because I think baseball players with their routine during a season are some of the most disciplined people around, especially when they're at the stadium. Is that going to be an easy thing for these players to do? It's definitely not going to be easy. It's going to be different from anything that they've ever experienced before, obviously, with what we're going through. But I mentioned before, I think they're all probably intrigued when they show up at Yankee Stadium the next couple of days. They go through everything they have to go through with testing and making sure that they're healthy coming in. Then it's going to be, what's my new routine to your point, Bob? It might be players showing up in the visitors clubhouse that they've never been in before, and they're going to be all spread out. They're going to be players in the auxiliary clubhouse where I spent some time for old-timers day. They're going to be players playing catch in the great hall. These are all things that are going to be obviously very different, but to your point, baseball players get on their own individual routine very quickly. I don't expect that to be much of a problem as they move forward in the next five, six, seven days, and then you're going to get to the point, are we going to have games? Are we going to have inner squats? What's that going to look like? It's going to change every day to Jack's point on who's available, what the routine is that day, and what do I have to do as a player to make sure I'm ready and healthy and keeping my teammates healthy. Guys, let me just pivot to one final topic, kind of off topic of what we're talking about. What are you most looking forward to as the game now? I think all sports are doing this evolves given what's going on. I think Jack of how we're going to change his broadcasters, how we're going to do it, how we get more creative in bringing games to Yankees fans on the Yes network. Those are some of the things that I'm looking forward to. How creative can we get? I think we can get very creative. We're going to hopefully raise the bar pretty high. I'm looking forward to the intimacy of these games. I've had opportunities to be in that third base, Camarwell doing the clubhouse reporter job, and from that vantage point, you see things on the field that you would never see in the press box. I think in this setting, with no fans in the stands, I think we're going to hear and see some interaction that we haven't seen in the past, and I very much look forward to being able to see some of that inside baseball stuff that might have been drowned out in the past by 50,000 fans screaming. Bob, we were just talking about what the players are going to have to go through and how different it's going to feel and it's going to look. I think everybody here at the Yes network in our industry is going to go into it with the same attitude. Day by day, where are the opportunities? What can we do? We have so many smart people that we work with. They're going to see something on day one and say, we could take advantage of that and bring something different to the fans who really craving baseball. As the players are going through this, what's our new normal? I think everybody at the Yes network is going to be doing the same thing and just looking for opportunities to do something different and maybe a little better. I think it's fair to say the three of us along with every Yankees fan and follower of the Yes network is re-energized right now with baseball about to come back and really start heating up. So for now, we'll sign off but tell everybody wall-to-wall coverage on the Yes network when the Yankees begin their practices heading towards the abbreviated 2020 season. We'll see you. Hope you enjoy Yes Network's summer camp.


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