The sharpest ideas, honest moments, and quotable insights pulled straight from our conversations across OpenChannels FM.
The Value of Community Support
“One of the wonderful things about using an open source platform is that people are wanting to help each other. So if you any of things that we feature today, please do get in touch. We love to hear from you all about things that you want us to feature, more of, explanations you want us to focus on and we’re really keen that we make this as interactive as possible.”
— Abha Thakor, New Tools and Updates in WordPress 7.0 for Developers and Content Managers
The Role of Feelings in Decision-Making
“I was listening to a podcast and they were talking about data and statistics and that’s really not how we make decisions. We make decisions based on feelings. If we used just data to make decisions, nobody would smoke or drink or do things that are bad for their bodies. They would make all the good choices all the time. But we know that’s not not the truth.”
— Adam Weeks, Building Business Fortitude and Creativity in Digital Marketing
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The Challenge of Starting Something New
“So there’s the podcast creators, there’s the hosts, and then there’s the community that is building this thing. And like you said, if you’re just trying to get into an open source project, you don’t really know like how to get connected one into that community to be able to understand like the inner kind of like language and nomenclature. But then like, okay, how do I see the project and then how do I contribute to the project? So what does that look like for podcast 2.0?”
—Derek Hanson, Podcasting 2.0: The Open Source Movement Reshaping How We Create and Consume Audio
Agency Reputation and Risk
This is the agency responsible for getting your website online. So is the site going to stay up? You know, is uptime, is it going to be fast? Do you have optimized hosting environments or can I customize it to the way my agency likes to, to do that with the server? So. Those are some of the things that I would want to look for with a recommendation. Yeah. Also the support, you know, if. So some of the agencies, you know, they want to have it white label and keep that support. They want to be the ones offering the support for some of the, maybe the smaller agencies that are still scaling and maybe they have smaller clients that they’re working with, offloading, that kind of really hand holding technical support that they don’t have the time to, to bother with over to the hosting company. So does the hosting company have good support?”
—Carrie Smaha, How Hosting Companies Empower Agencies Through Effective Partnerships
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