{"id":1399,"date":"2017-02-10T21:44:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T16:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.kochi.wordcamp.org\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2017-02-10T22:16:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T16:46:34","slug":"nagesh-pai-build-your-medium-with-wordpress-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kochi.wordcamp.org\/2017\/nagesh-pai-build-your-medium-with-wordpress-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagesh Pai Will Talk About Easily Building Your Own Communication Medium With WordPress.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meet our next speaker for WordCamp Kochi<\/strong> 2017, Nagesh Pai.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Happiness Engineer at Automattic<\/a>, Nagesh\u00a0started his WordPress journey as a freelancer, by building, and tinkering with WordPress websites between 2012 and 2016.<\/p>\n

Nagesh comes with\u00a0a rather diverse\u00a0career track-record. With a strong background in Banking & Finance, Nagesh has worked in the roles of Digital Marketing at Technology, as well as in Media houses. He has also served as a Media Planner in quite-a-few\u00a0agencies. The interesting part about his story is that,\u00a0despite his diverse background, Nagesh’s WordPress journey kickstarted from a unique\u00a0vertical:\u00a0by setting up and running\u00a0a\u00a0community website that he built,\u00a0without having any prior knowledge of programming. – RadioIdli.net<\/a>. He started it on blogger, and, migrated it to self-hosted WordPress. This journey, introduced him to a career in digital marketing, helped him learn to create beautiful websites, and eventually led him to\u00a0Automattic!<\/p>\n

Nagesh\u00a0will be speaking at WordCamp Kochi<\/strong> on the topic – Build your own Medium using WordPress.com<\/strong><\/p>\n

In today’s fast-paced world, it is\u00a0essential for every individual, or institution, to ‘own’ their place\u00a0in the World Wide Web, through a custom website in their own name. Whether one is a journalist or a teacher, an artist or an observer, having an own medium of communication with the world – through a website is exciting, to say the least. Through his talk, Nagesh will guide the audience on how to create a website through\u00a0WordPress.com . Platforms like WordPress.com\u00a0extend the functionality of the open-source WordPress software, and make it significantly-easy for anyone\u00a0to create their own website, and to gain popularity, with quality content, and by sharing unique ideas.<\/p>\n

Nagesh feels that a medium to express one’s own ideas through a unique website will be very relevant for the audience of WordCamp Kochi – considering the fact that Kochi (located in Kerala), known for its progressive socio-economic and cultural indicators, as well as its argumentative and democratic culture. Intended for all audiences, Nagesh will explain the ease, and convenience of making one’s own\u00a0website, through his talk, by drawing\u00a0references from how he made his own community website, with zero starting investment as\u00a0programming knowledge. He\u00a0will also share some quick tips and tricks\u00a0on how one\u00a0can create their\u00a0own medium of communication on WordPress.com, and then popularize it towards making it a well-read destination.<\/p>\n

Wanna learn more on how to blog, and set up your own WordPress website? Come,\u00a0grab a ticket<\/a> for WordCamp Kochi at the earliest!<\/p>\n

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Meet our next speaker for WordCamp Kochi 2017, Nagesh Pai. A Happiness Engineer at Automattic, Nagesh\u00a0started his WordPress journey as a freelancer, by building, and tinkering with WordPress websites between 2012 and 2016. Nagesh comes with\u00a0a rather diverse\u00a0career track-record. With a strong background in Banking & Finance, Nagesh has worked in the roles of Digital … Continue reading “Nagesh Pai Will Talk About Easily Building Your Own Communication Medium With WordPress.com”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11524990,"featured_media":1401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,29],"tags":[29,1012659],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-speakers","tag-speakers","tag-wordcamp-kochi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kochi.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/02\/nagesh-poster.jpg?fit=1024%2C795&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p81Vuz-mz","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kochi.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kochi.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kochi.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kochi.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11524990"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kochi.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kochi.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"https:\/\/kochi.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kochi.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kochi.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kochi.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kochi.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}