Sīlavāpi (Ruth Cheesley)

Today I am just heading home from a really wonderful few days full of energy, excitement, collaboration and enthusiasm like I haven’t seen in several years.

Rewind just over two years and we were about to organise our first ever Mautic World Conference - MautiCon for short - at Acquia’s head office in Boston.

It hardly seems that it was a year ago we were releasing the biggest major update to Mautic with our Mautic 3.0 release, but here we are just over a year later, and Mautic 4 has been released!

It hardly seems like three months have passed since the last roundup report on activity within the Mautic Community, but a lot has happened since then!

Another quarter has seemingly flown by and here we are again with a quarterly round up of everything that has happened in the community over the last three months.

Just over a year ago, I strained a muscle in my wrist while caring for a family member following an operation - little did I imagine the journey this would take me on over the course of the next year!

Another quarter passes and we mark a year of progress in the Mautic Community since we held our first in-person community sprint in November 2019 at Contribution Day in Amsterdam.

Another quarter has flown by, so it’s time for our round-up report of what’s been happening in the Mautic Community over the past three months!

This quarter has seen huge progress being made in many areas of the Mautic Community and some big changes being announced.

Having run the last two manual User Acceptance Test processes for Mautic 3, it was clear that relying on users to manually test every aspect of Mautic was both error prone and time consuming.

It has been a busy quarter in the Mautic community following the first Community Summit back in November.

It really doesn’t seem like it was only two weeks ago that I walked through the doors of the cleverly named ‘White Building’ in Reading (yes, you guessed it, it’s white!)

Have you ever watched discussions happening in your community where someone shares a thought or opinion, or responds with a message which does not appear to be thought through or doesn’t seem to have any substance?

Today is #InternationalWheelchairDay which has me reflecting just how much my life has changed since I decided to start using a wheelchair back in 2014.

A standing event in the calendar of any marketing and SEO professional has to be BrightonSEO.

When you are attending a business exhibition, it is important to consider digital marketing and social media as part of your wider strategy for promoting your involvement and bringing people to your stand.

One of the most fundamental tips I learned over the years was how to break the ‘Boom and Bust’ cycle of pain and activity.

You’ve got a great idea and you’re thinking that building a community around your idea would be a great fit … but where do you start?

A question I am asked regularly by visitors to my blog is how I am able to be well while I am working full time, often long hours, and mostly at a computer screen throughout the day.

I remember quite clearly, that moment when I saw a post on Facebook about the Runner’s World Run Streak while I was contemplating the icy cold morning I was about to launch myself into in order to get to the gym for my 6am personal training session.

Something I come across time and again with businesses I encounter is a real lack of strategy when it comes to their marketing efforts.

In the last few months I’ve had several people comment on how well I look, and how different that is to where I was even a year ago.

The title should really be ‘what are the Ehlers-Danlos Syndomes’ as since 2017 there have been thirteen sub-types of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.

Sadly, many people experience a lot of suffering before they are actually diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.

The month of May is a special month to me - it’s a month where the condition which I live my life with is showcased through Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness Month.

This weekend I had the great pleasure of attending my first BrightonSEO event - a twice-yearly gathering of the great and the good (and definitely the geeky) from the SEO and digital marketing world.

Exhibiting at an exhibition or conference for the first time can be quite a daunting prospect - especially if you’re a new start-up business or presenting a concept for the first time.

Picture the scene … just about to leave work, quickly checking something on a client’s Majestic report, when suddenly I discovered Majestic had launched a whole new element of fun on what is usually, let’s face it, a pretty nerdy platform where SEO folk c…

Small businesses are often heavily reliant on their marketing - particularly in the early stages - for generating interest, reaching out to potential leads, and keeping your message in front of their eyes.

Sometimes I find there are annoying little things that I don’t know how to fix on my Linux systems, but aren’t THAT bothersome that I can be bothered to dig a bit deeper and to find the answer … setting icons for custom desktop shortcuts is one of those.

Being British has it’s advantages.

Today’s quote from ‘Meditations for women who do too much’ is: “You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours.

A while ago, a good friend of mine gave me a lovely book of hers, slightly in jest but also out of compassion, at my busyness and tendency to do too much, called ‘Meditations for women who do too much’ by Anne Wilson Schaef.

I was largely motivated to write this blog post after reading this post - 6 things about chronic pain you didn’t know you knew - and just to be clear before I set off, I’m really not looking for ‘oh that’s so sad, you poor thing’ responses, or sympathy -…

Today is my first day back from the winter break, probably the longest proper time off that hasn’t involved chasing kids around the mountains for DofE or being on retreat since I started running the business full time three years ago.

Today is an important day in the Buddhist calendar - it’s Sangha Day, where we celebrate one of the ‘Three Jewels’ of Buddhism.

Things have been a little busy in the past month, with lots of international speaking engagements and of course, being part of the team behind Joomla!

As you may know I’ve been in Kenya this week, speaking at Joomla!

Just recently I was reviewing the systems in place for managing our social media accounts, and looking at new technologies that had emerged since we decided to use Hootsuite - quite some time ago!

Did your Ecademy profile suddenly vanish from your prominent page 1 position in search listings a few months ago?

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I am fortunate to have recently returned from a couple of weeks out in America, where I was invited to speak at the first Joomla!

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They say that a good boss should lead by example, so for the next week I am making a real effort to cycle into work each day, as part of ‘Bike Week’.

I don’t often work as a contractor on ODesk, mainly because when competing against thousands of other developers from other parts of the world who are charging $5 per hour or less, it is difficult to either be awarded a contract in the first place, and to…

As you may know, I’m Buddhist and am training for ordination in the Triratna Buddhist Order - quite a long process!