wordpress and opportunities for students

WordPress &Opportunities for Students

At Techcamp Saigon Uni 2014

About me and the companyDat Hoang

● Community & Support of OnTheGoSystems

● Marketing Online

OnTheGoSystems

● WPML● Toolset plugins● ICanLocalize

Agenda

● Amazing Trend

● Opportunities

● Where to start

WordPress.com stats

In 1 month:● 409 million people view 14.4 billion pages● 40.5 million new posts● 50.3 million new comments

Source: http://wordpress.com

Big brands using WordPress

Using both + WordPress.com (VIP) + WordPress.org (open source)

Source: http://wordpress.org

Big brands using WordPress

● CNN● New York Times● Harvard Business Review● Samsung

● Wall Street Journal● Forbes● Ebay blog● TechCrunch

Market share

Grey: all sites Green: CMS

● CMS: over 60% is WordPress. Far behind: Joomla 8.8%, Drupal 5.4%...

● 5 new sites are created over the world, 1 site is WordPress.Source: http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/all

How users make the trend

Source: Google Trend

What creates the trend

● Easy to learn

● Easy to use

● Easy to manage

● Easy to do SEO

Opportunities

● Jobs

● Freelancers/Startup/Self-employed

● Work remotely

Opportunities: Jobs

Opportunities: Jobs

Freelancers/Startup/Self-employed

● ThemeForest: designers + coders

● Freelance sites:

○ oDesk.com

○ freelancer.com

● Bloggers: thachpham.com

Work remotely

● Saving Traffic Time

● Work Anywhere in the World

● Requirements:

○ Smart brain and fingers

○ Internet

Work remotely: an example

● 45 members - over 20 countries - 4 continents● company conference: once a year● always moving● we are hiring

Where to start

● IT background● Soft skills: communication, teamwork...● English● WordPress Codex● Community

○ FB group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/wordpressviet/

○ Meetup:http://www.meetup.com/Saigon-WordPress/

○ Website: ThachPham, Izwebz

Big Thanks!Dat HoangCommunity & Support Vietnam E: dat.h@icanlocalize.comW: wpml.org | wp-types.com | icanlocalize.com

At Techcamp Saigon UniSaigon, June 21, 2014