A storyteller from a long line of storytellers, who decided to stop telling stories and to start writing them. Beaton helps run admin at Afrobloggers: Where the world meets African Bloggers
Beaton will be giving a talk titled “A Website Is A Conversation“.
Why did you decide to speak at WordCamp Harare?
I was an attendee of WordCamp Harare 2016. The first one in Zimbabwe and some of the speakers provided inspiring insights that have helped shape my blogging journey and this year I have decided to pay it back…..
What is your talk going to be about?
I will be talking about and sharing tips on things I have learnt so far and hoped someone had taught me about maintaining a web page, blog or digital identity.
Code might be poetry but a website is a conversation.
What is the one thing you want people to walk away with from your talk?
A website is conversation….. it has to start one. When I visit a website I expect it to speak to me, what is yours saying…..
How did you discover WordPress?
I was on the interweb trying to find a site I could create and customize a simple web page… and Google suggested.
How has WordPress impacted you?
I have met and interacted with individuals who use the same platform; I have become a better person for it and the wonderful opportunities to reach out mix and change the world; even if just the perceptions of how the world sees me and where I come from.
#MyAfricaMyWords
What do you do when not working?
When I am not writing, I read, I read twice more than I write and when I am neither writing nor reading sometimes I run and listening to music to always………