Our business-trained minds still tend to think in terms of “experts” or “product owners,” which can be tricky with a community project like a website. It can be debilitating to have to rely on one single website administrator, especially in a group that changes membership rapidly. So why not set up your WordPress site to reflect that reality? Rather than having a singular Admin who is the sole point of contact for all site changes, how can you develop a strategy to shift the responsibility to an entire community? This talk will explain the pitfalls of information silos and present an alternate (and admittedly messy) approach of “Octopus” Admin rights. Using the community-based democratic F3 Cincinnati men’s workout group as a case study, Leif Fairfield will talk about how he trained a “multi-armed” group of computer illiterate men to share not only the responsibility but the enthusiasm of maintaining a well-functioning and intentionally designed WordPress.org site.
June 9-10, 2018