This is the presentation given by David Coveney at WordCamp UK 2009 in Cardiff. It covers the advantages, problems and implementations of WordPress as used by the News & Media sectors.
If you need to view the slide notes (primarily for me, to be honest, but you may see some points that got cut during the presentation) you’ll have to visit the Slideshare site.
On the night of June 23rd, Telegraph Media flicked the switch on a new project they’ve been working on this Spring – the Telegraph Blogs, relaunched on WordPress MU.
And, proudly, we’d like to say we had a little bit to do with the project. Not a lot, mind – we provided some consultancy, some code snippets, advice and developer support now and then. It’s the kind of project we’d have loved to have taken on in full, but the in-house team at the Telegraph were perfectly capable of doing the work and we always say that if you have the in-house skills then you shouldn’t spend a small fortune on external consultants and developers. Read more
The current crisis in the world’s banking industry is causing my quite a bit of concern right now. Our web technology business is small but growing. When businesses are doing well they’re more likely to spend money on items such as web design and web applications and we believe we’ve benefitted from that over the past year or so.
But what happens if our clients and potential clients start to suffer as a consequence of an economic downturn? Read more
