The other day I was asked to write about how I approach public speaking from an organisational point of view. Things like “do you have a general roadmap”, “how do you start creating your slides” or “do you use spreadsheets“ and so on. I thought this was really interesting, so here we are, without further …
Vancouver-Toronto train: Looking forward!
Just a few days and I'll jump on The Canadian, a train operated by VIA Rail that is going to bring me from Vancouver to Toronto. I'll travel 4,466 km (2,775 miles): 4 nights and 3 days through breathtaking mountains, lakes, waterfalls and picturesque towns. Here's a video that should give you an idea of what I'm about to experience: Follow …
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7 Tips to use Slack effectively
Both Human Made and the WordPress community use Slack as their real-time communication platform. As a result, I basically live on Slack. There’s more to Slack than just “chat”, but you have to know how to own it as opposed to being owned by it. Here’s how I got there. 1. Understand the difference between teams …
Where are you based?
Some months ago I watched this TED talk on YouTube. The key concept that Taiye aimed to share is a powerful description of the century we live in: we should be more interested in where people are local rather than where they—or their family, for that matter—are from. (click here for the transcript) During the …
WCEU, the Italian WordPress Community, here we go again!
WordCamp Europe 2016 is just two days away! It’s going to be the biggest WordCamp ever, with way more than 2000 attendees expected. Vienna—whose duty to organise this year’s edition was publicly announced at the end of WCEU 2015 in Seville—is already experiencing an abnormal flow of WordPress enthusiasts from all over the world. Make …
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WordCamp Torino: My report
Last month Petya, John and I went to WordCamp Torino, the first WordCamp in Italy since 2013, and I wrote a post about it on the Human Made blog. Check it out.
My Social Media Wishlist for 2016
2015 has been a big year for social media. Periscope and Snapchat exploded, Instagram became incredibly valuable for products and Twitter have been struggling to grow its user base. In 2016 the industry will keep evolving and renovating itself with its usual speed: predicting what's next in the industry is, at best, problematic. That's why I'm sharing a …
3 Non Obvious Ways to Improve your Slide Deck
Let's face it: we've all seen slides that suck. Business meetings, sales pitches, conferences, you name it, someone brought a terrible deck with poor colour contrast and tons of text, maybe written in Papyrus or C**** S***. Luckily those days seem to be over, or at least close to their end. At the last conferences I've …
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My talk at the Surf Office meetup in London
I've recently spoken at the Surf Office meetup in London. Surf Office is one of the most famous remote working-related experiments out there: it's a place that combines workspace, accommodation and surf, with currently three locations (Gran Canaria, California, Lisbon). If you're one of those human beings that can work from anywhere, or if your …
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WordCamp Sofia: My talk and slides
Last WordCamp of the year, for me, in Sofia (Bulgaria). Here's the video of my talk. The feedback I received was remarkably positive, people were interested on the subject and follow up a lot afterwards on social media and email. Looks like the people of Sofia loved me almost as much as I love them. …