WordCamp NYC 09 presentation by Naoko McCracken. Photo credit is on the last page. You can click photos to view them on Flickr.com. (November 14, 2009)

1. WordPress Community
in Japan
Naoko McCracken
WordCamp NYC 2009 - November 14, 2009

2. Naoko “now-co” McCracken
Happiness Engineer
WordPress | Automattic
naoko@automattic.com
http://blog.detlog.org/
twitter: @naokomc

3. in

4. here.

5. Economy: 2nd largest
Population: 128 million (10th place)
Internet: High-Quality & Cheaper

6. Blogging is Big in Japan.

7. 27 million blog accounts.

8. 20.5 Billion Page Views.

9. Are Blogs different?

10. Gadgets/Tech
News
Celebrity
Diary
Translated Contents

11. Mobile Web is Big in Japan.

12. Cell Phone = Essensial Communication / Entertainment tool

13. WordPress Mobile Plugins
Ktai Style & Ktai Entry
Yuriko Ikeda (Yuriko.net)

14. Japanese
WordPress Plugins

15. Contact Form 7

16. wp-kougabu

17. TwitPic Clone

18. Cacoo.com

19. WordCamps &
Meetups

20. WordCamps in Japan

21. September 08: WordCamp Tokyo

22. April 2009: WordCamp Kansai (Party)

23. April 2009: WordCamp Tokyo

24. ... and Matt’s Autographing Session

25. October 2009: WordPress Kyoto

26. WordBench.org (Local Community)

27. Barriers and Differences

28. Language

29. Local Web Services

30. Why WordPress?

31. Freedom & Openness

32. WordPress in Japanese

33. Wahdo-Puresu

34. THANKS!
naoko@automattic.com
http://blog.detlog.org/
twitter: @naokomc

35. Photo Credit:
cocoarmani
waviaei
odysseygate
banjo006
takamorry
on Flickr