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We get it: it’s easier to post the same content on all your social profiles than it is to plan individually. But your audience on Twitter is likely not the same as your audience on Instagram or as on Facebook.…

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Social Spotlight: How Tim Hortons puts people first in its social strategy

Web Monkey3 years ago010 mins

Overview Tim Hortons and Canada have a symbiotic relationship. The restaurant chain has crafted a brand identity as the largest (and most recognized) coffee and donut franchise in the country.…

Join WordPress.com for an International Women’s Day Livestream Panel

Web Monkey5 years ago03 mins

On International Women’s Day this Friday, WordPress.com parent company Automattic is hosting four outstanding women tech leaders for a livestreamed conversation about professional advancement, technology, and mutual support as we strive for equity in the workplace.…

Field Notes: WooCommerce Workshop for Women

Web Monkey6 years ago08 mins

Automatticians, the people who build WordPress.com, participate in events and projects around the world every day. Periodically, they report back on the exciting things they do in the community.…

The WordPress Mobile Apps Now Support Right-to-Left Languages

Web Monkey6 years ago02 mins

As part of the broader open source community, we believe in building products that people of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and abilities can use and enjoy. We strive to create software that works smoothly for English and non-English speakers alike, and today we’re happy to roll out native support for right-to-left languages in both the iOS and Android WordPress mobile apps.…

Your Site, Now in Other Languages: Introducing the Google Translate Widget

Web Monkey7 years ago02 mins

Internationalization is very important to us, and we’re striving to make sites across WordPress.com accessible to all, such as your international followers and multilingual readers. Today, we’re thrilled to introduce the Google Translate Widget, which allows you and your site visitors to instantly translate your content into 103 languages currently supported by Google Translate.…

Field Notes: Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing

Web Monkey7 years ago04 mins

Automatticians, the people who build WordPress.com, participate in events and projects around the world every day. Periodically, we report back on the exciting things we do when not in front of a computer.…

Community Recap: Automattic’s Worldwide WordPress 5K

Web Monkey8 years ago07 mins

From September 19 to September 26, we invited members of the WordPress community to join us in one of our favorite yearly traditions: the Automattic Worldwide WordPress 5K (open to runners, walkers, cyclists, and hikers — and any other type of ambulation).…

Engineering Happiness en Español

Web Monkey8 years ago08 mins

As part of our effort to build a localized Spanish-speaking support team, the Happiness Hiring team at Automattic recently had the opportunity to connect with WordPress communities in Argentina and Spain.…

Field Notes: Grow Leadership Academy 2016

Web Monkey8 years ago05 mins

Automatticians, the people who build WordPress.com, participate in events and projects around the world every day. Periodically, they report back on the exciting things they do in the community.…

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¿Habla Español? Love Helping Others? Apply to Work with Us!

Web Monkey8 years ago07 mins

Karen Arnold, Deborah Beckett, Erica Varlese, and Pam Kocke work on the Happiness Hiring team at Automattic. They hire new Happiness Engineers who support users on WordPress.com…

Engineering Happiness in Brazil: WordCamp Rio de Janeiro and beyond

Web Monkey9 years ago05 mins

Karen Arnold and Erica Varlese work on the Happiness Hiring team at Automattic, where they hire new Happiness Engineers who support users on WordPress.com and Automattic products.…

Four Food Blogs to Follow Now

Web Monkey9 years ago03 mins

From sweet to savory, these four fantastic food blogs will satisfy your appetite. If you enjoy eating (and who doesn’t?!), check them out and follow them in your Reader so you won’t miss a dish.…

Web Publishing for All! Introducing Community Translator Tools

Web Monkey9 years ago04 mins

Publishing tools for everyone Roughly half of the content and traffic on the internet is in English1, yet English is the mother tongue of only about a quarter of internet users2, and less than 5% of the world’s population.3 We believe that WordPress.com…

Celebrating Poetry, All Month Long

Web Monkey9 years ago08 mins

April is National Poetry Month, and we love each day’s flurry of new posts tagged #nationalpoetrymonth in the WordPress.com Reader and across the internet. WordPressers are busy in the #napowrimo tag as well, participating in NaPoWriMo, Maureen Thorson’s annual project that encourages and challenges poets to write a poem a day in April.…

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A Year of Reading the World: A Q&A with Ann Morgan

Web Monkey9 years ago012 mins

Several years ago, writer Ann Morgan noticed that she didn’t read much literature from countries outside of the United Kingdom and United States — and had yet to dive into stories from around the globe.…

Im(Press)ive! Your Year in Review

Web Monkey9 years ago012 mins

Millions of new sites created and posts published later, 2014 is in the books. We could regale you with big numbers, like these… Total New Blogs 18,300,771 That’s 49,997 new blogs per day!…