Just a quick post to announce - with great fanfare and glorious excitment - that I’m joining the good people at Automattic full time.
Automattic are the folks that make WordPress, (the blogging software that powers these very words), BBPress and Gravatar, among other goodies. I’ve been working closely with them recently on a series of screencasts, so was amazed and delighted to be invited to join the crew full time.
At Automattic I’ll be continuing my work with video how-tos in a big way. We have some awesome plans brewing for the weeks and months ahead as to how we’ll be putting video to use, alongside other handy-dandy documentation to make the WordPress experience even easier than it is already.
Look forward to seeing you over at my WordPress.com blog, and to updating the content here more often.
Of course if you have any ideas or feedback on the WordPress video tip, I’m all ears - send me an email at michaelp (at) automattic (dot) com
If you didn’t catch it already, you might want to check out the video we put together for the WordPress 2.6 launch. So far it’s been watched about 650k times, and is still doing some very nice numbers daily:
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I WAS SURE ABOUT THAT! I realized it when I saw your amazing video about Wordpress for iPhone.
You really deserve the best in your life and I am very very very happy for you!
Matt is a really inspiring man and such a nice guy.
Best of luck mate!
Super excited to have you join the team.
Can’t wait to see all the great work you’ll be doing.
cheers.
@Livia - thanks mate, really appreciate it. Great days ahead!
@Raanan - really excited to be here - thanks for everything so far, you’ve been a legend
Welcome to the party.
Thanks Matt!
Michael,
my sincere compliments to you and to your perseverance in going after improvement all the time.
I am very happy for you and for the Wordpress community. I think Matt really made a great choice.
Miss you lots here at MasterNewMedia - have a great one!
Thanks Robin, much appreciated! That means a lot to me.
Micheal that is very cool! You staying put in Japan or are you moving on? Break a leg… I’m really happy for you!
Hi Don! Thanks so much - I’m really excited about it.
I’ll be staying put in Japan - Automattic is fully virtual, and the folks are scattered about all over the place.
That said, I reckon I’ll be doing some more travel and seeing a few new places along the way.
Thanks again - hope this finds you well!
I wish you the best of luck in this new direction.
On a side note, it’s amazing to me how the working world is changing so much! For example:
1) You’re recruited via your screencast work.
2) Fully “virtual” work environment that allows you to remain in Japan.
The world is truly changing.
Lastly, congrats on the success of your Wordpress 2.6 launch video. You do excellent work.
Wow, thanks Israel - I’m a huge fan of what you’re doing with
Glimpster andIzzy Video and the formerly Glimpster shows. Keep up the awesome work there!Couldn’t agree with you more - the last year with Smashcut I didn’t advertise, cold call or request work once, it all came from links via Vimeo, YouTube, blog posts and other social media goodness. There’s a brave new world out there for video folks, for sure.
Weirder yet, this is the second virtual company I’ve worked for. Hopefully a sign of things to come.
Thanks again, and for your kind compliments - I’d love to compare notes some time, your work is incredible.
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