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#654 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech 17th of December, 2021 at 8:30 am PST #654 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech With Special Guests Chris Brogan & Robert Jacobi this is going to be our last live.show for 2021 way don't you join us? https://youtu.be/-mloAcObt_Q@chrisbrogan @RobertJacobi Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech round-table show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can also watch the show LIVE on our WP-Tonic’s Facebook Group Page & YouTube channel.   With Special Guests Chris Brogan & Robert Jacobi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Brogan https://chrisbrogan.com/ Robert Jacobi Director of WordPress at CloudWays https://www.cloudways.com/blog/wordpress-evangelist-robert-jacobi-joined-cloudways/   This Week Stories For Discussion #1 - State of the Word 2021 https://wordpress.org/news/2021/11/state-of-the-word-2021 State of the Word 2021: WordPress Passes 43% Market Share, Looks to Expand the Commons Through Openverse https://wptavern.com/state-of-the-word-2021-wordpress-passes-43-market-share-looks-to-expand-the-commons-through-openverse #2 - OSHA opens investigation into fatal Amazon warehouse collapse in Illinois https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/13/22833012/amazon-fatal-warehouse-collapse-osha-investigation-illinois-tornado Amazon employees speak out against controversial phone ban after deadly tornado kills at least 6 warehouse workers in Edwardsville, Illinois https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-workers-speak-out-against-phone-ban-tornado-warehouse-deaths-2021-12 Sonmi-451 Papa Song's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e4eP_g2E7w Niander Wallace Jr Blade Runner 2049 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgsS3nhRRzQ   #3 - Elementor: WordPress’ secret growth driver? https://joost.blog/elementor-wordpress-secret-growth-driver/ #4 - Saagar Enjeti: Tim Cook CAUGHT Capitulating To China In Secret Deal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFLFGybONAM   #5 - Wrestling with Capitalism https://accessally.com/blog/wrestling-with-capitalism/

The Title of the Interview "Community-Owned Headless Checkout for E-commerce Platforms" Main Interview Questions #1 - Maybe you can give the audience some background history info connected to founding CartHook and your new company Rallyon? #2 - Your company CartHook ingrates with Shopify and you have been quite public on the "good, bad and ugly" parts of semi relying on somebody else's eco-system can you give the audience some quick insights connectedto this? #3 - Can you give some 2 to 3 of the most important lessons you have learned connected to founding CartHook which would be the most important to share with our audience? #4 - Your new company Rallyon you state that it's a "Community-Owned Ecosystem" what does this really mean and why should people care? #5 - How hard was it to raise $6 million for the project and what are some of the things you have learned from the process? #6 - Can you give us three people of books that have influenced you the most in your business or personal journey?     More about Jordan Gal and Rallyon We're excited to announce that we've raised $6m in seed financing to build a world-class eCommerce checkout and a community-owned eCommerce ecosystem. You can read more about it here: https://lnkd.in/g55-u8BR A very big thank you to our investor group. The round was led by Rainfall Ventures with participation from Felix Capital, Long Journey Ventures, Afore VC, Commerce VC, and some extremely helpful angel investors. If you're a merchant on BigCommerce or WooCommerce, sign up for early access here: https://www.rallyon.com/ https://www.rallyon.com/ https://jordangal.com/  

#652 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech 10th of December, 2021 at 8:30 am PST With Special Guest Paul Charlton of WPTuts Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech round-table show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can also watch the show LIVE on our WP-Tonic’s Facebook Group Page & YouTube channel.  Join the tribe on WP-Tonic Facebook Group page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wptonicmastermind This Week Stories For Discussion #1 - Gravatar Says It Was Not Hacked After “Have I Been Pwned” Service Notifies Users of a Breach https://wptavern.com/gravatar-says-it-was-not-hacked-after-have-i-been-pwned-service-notifies-users-of-a-breach #2 - Better.com CEO fires 900 employees over Zoom https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/05/business/better-ceo-fires-employees/index.html   #3 - Black Friday https://justinferriman.com/bleeping-black-friday https://getellipsis.com/blog/unstoppable-black-friday-2021/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=issue-243 #4 - AWS appears to be down, and it's taken popular services like Ring smart-home systems, Netflix, and Disney+ with it https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-servers-are-down-and-its-affecting-dozens-of-services-2021-12?fbclid=IwAR3BBmfBq2AbJc4u8u11wxQqGzn7n5yzV-7Oh9nRY3cK1cEluNGhqtcrriU   #5 - State of the Word 2021 https://wordpress.org/news/2021/11/state-of-the-word-2021/

With Special Guest Stephanie Hudson of Focuswp.co Hi! I’m Stephanie - a geek, entrepreneur, inventor, craft beer lover, and notebook hoarder. I was fascinated by all things tech even as a kid, taking apart the family computer to see how it all worked.I have freelanced, worked full-time for a micromanager, and run my own successful Web Agency. So, if you are in the web game, chances are I've experienced what you're going through and get it. My current passion is helping freelancers and small agencies scale and thrive. Stephanie Hudson https://focuswp.co/

Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech round-table show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can also watch the show LIVE on our WP-Tonic’s Facebook Group Page & YouTube channel. This Week Stories For Discussion #1 - ACF Solicits Lifetime License Holders for Contributions, Urging Them to Purchase Annual Subscriptions https://wptavern.com/acf-solicits-lifetime-license-holders-for-contributions-urging-them-to-purchase-annual-subscriptions   #2 - How Jack Dorsey Failed Twitter https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/11/jack-dorsey-failed-twitter-parag-agrawal-will-be-way-better.html #3 - Ask the Bartender: Should I Use a Page Builder or Wait for Block Themes? https://wptavern.com/ask-the-bartender-should-i-use-a-page-builder-or-wait-for-block-themes #4 - On User Tracking and Industry Standards on Privacy https://css-tricks.com/on-user-tracking-and-industry-standards-on-privacy/

#649 This Week In WordPress & SaaS: With Special Guest Morten Rand Hendriksen Senior Staff Instructor LinkedIn Learning With Special Guest Morten Rand Hendriksen Senior Staff Instructor LinkedIn Learning "The Future of Online eLearning For Entrepreneurs & Educators" Since joining forces with lynda.com (now LinkedIn Learning) in 2010, Morten has published 60+ courses on WordPress, front-end web design and development, and web standards, reaching hundreds of thousands of viewers from all over the world. I also contribute to the web community as a public speaker, author, educator, web developer, and design philosopher. We going to be discussing the future of online education with Morten Rand Hendriksen senior staff instructor LinkedIn Learning, who is also a well-known public speaker and technologist. After COVID - 19 pandemic, the training and education landscape has been dramatically changed what are the medium and long-term consequences connected to online training how will technologies like virtual reality and AI (artificial intelligence) affect eLearning? https://mor10.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/mortenrandhendriksen/?originalSubdomain=ca

#648 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech Show on the 19th November, 2021 at 8:30 am PST #648 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech Show With Guests Matt Medeiros, Tania Quintieri, & Tom Fanelli Tania Quintieri of Mrs Divi https://mrsdivi.com/ Tom Fanelli of Convessio https://convesio.com/ Matt Medeiros of The Matt Report: https://mattreport.com/ Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech round-table show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can also watch the show LIVE on our WP-Tonic’s Facebook Group Page & YouTube channel. This Week Stories For Discussion #1 - Blocks, Boards & Fishing Reels – How Gutenberg has Divided WordPress by (Paul Lacey) https://thewpminute.com/blocks-boards-fishing-reels-how-gutenberg-has-divided-wordpress/ #2 - DAO bids on the Constitution https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/18/constitutiondaos-bold-crypto-bid-for-us-constitution-falls-short/   #3 - State of the Word 2021 https://wordpress.org/news/2021/11/state-of-the-word-2021/ #4 - Lost in translation: The global streaming boom is creating a severe translator shortage https://restofworld.org/2021/lost-in-translation-the-global-streaming-boom-is-creating-a-translator-shortage/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

#647 This Week In WordPress & SaaS: With Special Guest Vito Peleg Founder of Atarim https://streamyard.com/79v4mbyytd https://youtu.be/ps_ewTBlgpY   With Special Guest Vito Peleg Founder of Atarim Vito built his first website on "Geocities" almost 20 years ago - Featuring his friends' skateboarding crew when he was 14 y/o. As a former touring (and broke) musician, he looked for ways to allow him to work while he was touring the world playing my RNR to thousands of people and the web was, once again, therefor he. He started to build websites for clients from the back of the van (and sometimes the odd broom closet) and his passion for the field grew with each project. When the band finally broke up he moved from the van to a tiny room at home, then to a larger room with one employee sitting right next to him all the way to having his own agency with 12 guys on my team. Between then, through my WordPress agency years later, we created 600+ websites using WordPress. https://atarim.io/about/

Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & Tech round-table show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can also watch the show LIVE on our WP-Tonic’s Facebook Group Page & YouTube channel. This Week Stories For Discussion #1 - Pagely We did it. https://pagely.com/blog/we-did-it/   #2 -John Carmack issues some words of warning for Meta and its metaverse plans https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/10/john-carmack-sounds-a-skeptical-note-over-metas-metaverse-plans/?fbclid=IwAR10zxYTXxFXpTF1iQh1vfCbqPWlq6MUokqZXUJ85vaEfWzvv0GsOTTmS-k #3 - Google Drops Sites Hosted on SiteGround https://www.searchenginejournal.com/siteground-problem/426852/   #4 - Zillow Just Gave Us A Look At Machine Learning's Future https://vinvashishta.substack.com/p/zillow-just-gave-us-a-look-at-machine   #5 - New Block Plugin Displays Post Formats https://wptavern.com/new-block-plugin-displays-post-formats   #6 -The Market Is Never Too Crowded https://chrislema.com/the-market-is-never-too-crowded/

With Special Guest Paul Charlton of Wptuts YouTube Channel Paul Charlton After 10 years as an IT Tutor and 11 years as a web designer and business owner, Paul felt it was a great background to combine and start helping others improve their skills through YouTube.This is why the WPTuts channel was created - as an online outlet for me to share the skills and knowledge I'd acquired and was still acquiring with like-minded people.This has now morphed into an amazing online community of passionate individuals helping each other to develop their skills https://youtu.be/OmZxUCoHMpE