The WordPress Evangelist

Probably the most gratifying compliment I got after my WordPress talk at the Asian Bloggers & Social Media Conference in Kuala Lumpur last 29 July 2010 was when a gentleman from an English-language training company left me his name card with this message scrawled in: “Great presentation! You sold me on WordPress!” In fact, the [...]

Thanks to the International Visitor Leadership Program fellowship I received from the U.S. Department of State, I was finally able to visit the physical offices of Automattic in San Francisco last 4 February 2010. I was in the States primarily for the IVLP from 21-25 January in Washington, D.C. Too bad, though, Matt Mullenweg wasn’t [...]

I’m very pleased to announce that a regional conference of bloggers is finally going to take place in Asia. It’s dubbed BlogFest.Asia, and is to be hosted by the Dot.Asia Organisation (the people behind the .asia domain registry). This isn’t specifically for WordPress, of course, but I’m hoping to connect with fellow WordPress advocates and [...]

This is the video greeting from Matt Mullenweg for the participants of WordCamp Philippines 2009. Unfortunately, he wasn’t able to attend this year’s WordCamp, so I asked him to send a video greeting instead. Very gracious of Matt to have obliged us with our request! We hope to see you in 2010, Matt!