From across Automattic.
Updates from all of Automattic’s business units.
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Redesigned and Responsive Polls at Poll.fm
We’ve redesigned the poll taking experience at poll.fm, which is the easiest place to share a poll you’ve created with your audience. Here’s the new look: You can try out that poll here! We’ve updated the look to a modern design, and also made it responsive so that it looks and works well on any…
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Your Survey Stats at a Glance
We’re pleased to announce today an improvement to your Survey stats with the addition of a new overview page that makes it super-simple to see how your survey has been performing. Here’s how the new page looks: At the top you’ll find a chart of how many responses you’ve received over the past 30 days,…
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When Experienced Women Engineers Look for New Jobs, They Prioritize Trust and Growth
Automattic, WordPress.com's parent company, set out to learn how to boost applications from women and non-binary developers.
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Sharing the Data: How Technical Women Navigate Their Career
In May, Automattic’s engineering hiring team launched a user research study to better understand how our approach to tech hiring resonates with women and non-binary folks who may experience similar gender discrimination in the workplace and are experienced developers. We asked participants questions about how they saw their careers and next opportunities, as well as…
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Check out the New Dashboard
We’ve just launched a redesign of the Dashboard, the hub in Crowdsignal where you manage all of your content. Here’s how it looks now: The Dashboard should feel familiar — you can still search your content and change the ordering at the top of the view. We’ve moved the content filters from the left menu…
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The value of quick visual storytelling
Story telling matters as a foundational part of communication between people. You can tell stories by writing, speaking, filming, drawing, coding, and much more. When dealing with humans, assume miscommunication. If you’re trying to explain something, part of it will get lost in the transition from your brain to the other person’s ears. Count on it….
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How to Increase Image Load Speed on Your Website
How do you increase image load speed on your website? Try out these six strategies to improve overall user experience and keep visitors on your site.
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How to Build and Strengthen Distributed Engineering Teams
Our host Matt Mullenweg gets together with Cate Huston, Automattic’s Head of Developer Experience, to talk about the kinds of engineers that excel in distributed environments, and how companies can create the conditions that help engineers thrive.
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Gender and Racial Bias in Cloud NLP Sentiment APIs
Do natural language processing tools from Amazon and Google contain racial and gender bias? Charles Earl investigates.
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Leadership in Fully Remote Teams with Aaron Douglas
Aaron Douglas, one of our mobile team leads, has been with Automattic for six years. Almost immediately after starting here, he struggled to find the ability to focus and prioritize his work. He’s put significant effort into understanding how to change behaviors associated with Attention Deficit Disorder which have had numerous positive side effects. Those…
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The Second Edition of Our "Learn User Support" Workshop Is Open for Signups
Starting August 19, we'll offer another virtual course for women interested in a technical-support career.
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Leadership Coach Leo Widrich on Emotional Wellness for Distributed Workers
Our host Matt Mullenweg sits down with leadership coach Leo Widrich to talk about how distributed workers can build emotional resilience and stay connected. For more, go to Distributed.blog. Produced by Mark Armstrong and the team at Charts & Leisure: Jason Oberholtzer, Whitney Donaldson, Cole Stryker, Levi Sharpe, and Michael Simonelli. Theme music by Jason Oberholtzer. Cover art by Matt Avery.
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How to Stay Connected in a Distributed World
Our host Matt Mullenweg sits down with leadership coach Leo Widrich to talk about how distributed workers can build emotional resilience and stay connected.
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Automattic Developers at the Mid-Atlantic Developer Conference
Recently two of our developers, Brad Griffith and Jonathan Belcher, attended the Mid-Atlantic Developer Conference in Baltimore, Maryland. The conference is “designed to bring programmers from the region together, regardless of their choice of platform, for two full days of learning and community building”. We were excited to be able to show up, learn, connect,…
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Jetpack 7.6: working even better with the AMP plugin
Jetpack 7.6 is now available for download, and includes bug fixes as well as compatibility improvements.
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Every Bit(nami) Counts — Get Your Official WordPress Bundle for the Cloud with Bitnami and AWS
Are you a developer? Do you use Bitnami to install open source web applications? Automattic (the folks behind Jetpack, WordPress.com, WooCommerce, and more) has partnered with Bitnami to make it easier for you install official WordPress bundles that will help you meet your scaling needs.
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5 Tools to Help You Find Free Icons for Your Website
High-resolution icons help to convey professionalism. Here are online libraries to find free icons that don't require attribution to the creator.
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