WordPress as a Collaboration Platform

TL;DR: Today countless teams are using WordPress to drive collaboration and facilitate inter-team communication. Ben Balter will showcase some of the creative ways companies and organizations are using WordPress as the central hub of their day-to-day workflow: To organize and collaboratively edit documents and other non-web content, track and communicate their team’s progress with one another, and extend WordPress to work with their existing tools and practices.

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Today countless teams are using WordPress to drive collaboration and facilitate inter-team communication. This presentation — given at the May WordPress DC Meetup — showcases some of the creative ways companies and organizations are using WordPress as the central hub of their day-to-day workflow: To organize and collaboratively edit documents and other non-web content, track and communicate their team’s progress with one another, and extend WordPress to work with their existing tools and practices

Slides

Recording of the presentation (starts at the 10:00 mark):

Plugins Mentioned

• WP Document Revisions
• Edit Flow
• Members
• Advanced Custom Fields
• Display Custom Fields
• Count Shortcode
• Faceted Search Widget
• Custom Taxonomy Generator

Originally published May 8, 2012 | View revision history

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Ben Balter is the Director of Hubber Enablement within the Office of the COO at GitHub, the world’s largest software development platform, ensuring all Hubbers can do their best (remote) work. Previously, he served as the Director of Technical Business Operations, and as Chief of Staff for Security, he managed the office of the Chief Security Officer, improving overall business effectiveness of the Security organization through portfolio management, strategy, planning, culture, and values. As a Staff Technical Program manager for Enterprise and Compliance, Ben managed GitHub’s on-premises and SaaS enterprise offerings, and as the Senior Product Manager overseeing the platform’s Trust and Safety efforts, Ben shipped more than 500 features in support of community management, privacy, compliance, content moderation, product security, platform health, and open source workflows to ensure the GitHub community and platform remained safe, secure, and welcoming for all software developers. Before joining GitHub’s Product team, Ben served as GitHub’s Government Evangelist, leading the efforts to encourage more than 2,000 government organizations across 75 countries to adopt open source philosophies for code, data, and policy development. More about the author →

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