WordPress powers 22% of the web (or more - as much as 23.1% when I actually delivered this talk). However, as professionals in the WordPress community, we have to be wary of spending too much time talking to each other, and not enough time engaging with other communities. What are the people who don't use WordPress doing? Static site generation, lightweight hosted platforms, other open source platforms, proprietary software - there are thousands if not hundreds of thousands of other ways to solve the problems WordPress tries to solve. If we don't avail ourselves of the conversations happening outside the WordPress fishbowl, we'll miss out on opportunities for true collaboration and innovation.

1. Learning From the
Other 78%
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23% of the web!?
http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-wordpress/all/all

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23% of the web!?
http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-wordpress/all/all
“This information may be
incomplete and inaccurate
due to the vastness and
complexity of the matter in
hand"

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~80% are NOT using
That’s like 4 out of 5 dentists NOT
recommending sugarless gum.

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~80% are NOT using
That’s like 4 out of 5 dentists NOT
recommending sugarless gum.

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What are they doing?

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What are they doing?

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What are they doing?

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What are they doing?

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What are they doing?

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Even Drupal. ;)
https://prague2013.drupal.org/session/not-invented-here-proudly-
found-elsewhere-drupal-8-story

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Getting off the Island
“So, I put this
challenge to the Drupal
community: Make your
New Year's Resolution
to get off the island in
2013”
http://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/
off-the-island-2013

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Listen & Learn

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Listen & Learn
• Demo, Trial, Experiment

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Listen & Learn
• Demo, Trial, Experiment
• Talk to users - naive, sophisticated, in between

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Listen & Learn
• Demo, Trial, Experiment
• Talk to users - naive, sophisticated, in between
• Talk to developers

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Listen & Learn
• Demo, Trial, Experiment
• Talk to users - naive, sophisticated, in between
• Talk to developers
• And, of course, listen . . .

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Perspective Matters
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/03/tilted-house-san-francisco_n_3007042.html

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Thank You
http://blog.schipul.com/drupal-and-wordpress-at-schipulcon-one-stage-one-open-source-love/