{"id":485,"date":"2017-08-31T19:21:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T17:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.harare.wordcamp.org\/?p=485"},"modified":"2017-08-31T19:21:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T17:21:23","slug":"speaker-spotlight-beaton-mabaso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harare.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker-spotlight-beaton-mabaso\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Beaton Mabaso"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Beaton@Beatonm5<\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

Beaton will be giving a talk titled “A Website Is A Conversation<\/a>“.
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Why did you decide to speak at WordCamp Harare?<\/h2>\n

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…..<\/p>\n

What is your talk going to be about?<\/h2>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Code might be poetry but a website is a conversation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

What is the one thing you want people to walk away with from your talk?<\/h2>\n

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…..<\/p>\n

How did you discover WordPress?<\/h2>\n

I was on the interweb trying to find a site I could create and customize a simple web page… and Google<\/strong> suggested.<\/p>\n

How has WordPress impacted you?<\/h2>\n

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.<\/p>\n

#MyAfricaMyWords<\/strong><\/p>\n

What do you do when not working?<\/h2>\n

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………<\/p>\n

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