P2 powers inner collaboration at WordPress.com — and now it’s free for everybody.
As extra collaboration is going on remotely and on-line — work sure, however more and more additionally college and private relationships — we’re all searching for higher methods to work collectively on-line. Usually, academics hand out homework to college students in individual, and challenge leaders collect colleagues round a convention desk for a presentation. All of the sudden all that is taking place in e-mail, and Slack, and Zoom, and Google docs, and a dozen different instruments.
At WordPress.com, our 15 years as a totally distributed firm with over 1,200 workers working from 77 nations depends on P2: an all-in-one staff web site, weblog, database, and social community that consolidates communications and information in a single accessible, searchable spot.
It powers work at WordPress.com, WooCommerce, and Tumblr. And right this moment, a beta model is accessible for anybody — to your newly-remote work staff, your homeschooling pod, your geographically scattered buddies. P2 is the glue that provides your group an id and coherence.
What’s P2?
P2 strikes your staff or group away from scattered communication and siloed e-mail inboxes. Any member of your P2, engaged on any type of challenge collectively, can submit common updates. Discussions occur through feedback, posted proper from the entrance web page and up to date in actual time, so your staff can brainstorm, plan, and are available to a consensus. Add photographs or charts, take a ballot, embed information, and share tidbits out of your day’s actions. Tag teammates to get their consideration. Your P2 members can see updates on the Net, through e-mail, or within the WordPress cellular apps.
Preserve your P2 non-public for confidential collaboration. Or make it public to construct a group. How you utilize it and who has entry is as much as you. And as people come and go, all conversations and information stay accessible on the P2, and aren’t misplaced in anybody’s inbox.
The beta model of P2 is free for anybody, and you may create as many P2 websites as you want. (Premium variations are within the works.)
What can I take advantage of P2 for?
Inside Automattic, we use P2 for:
- Companywide weblog posts from groups and management, the place everybody can ask questions through feedback.
- Digital “watercoolers” to assist teammates join — there are P2s for something from music to Physician Who to long-distance working.
- Mission planning updates.
- Sharing experience to our broader viewers. We’ve bought a P2 with steerage on the best way to handle distant work, and WooCommerce uses P2 to arrange their international group.
P2 works as an asynchronous companion to dwell video like Zoom or dwell chat like Slack. It’s an ideal accomplice for dwell video and chat — you might have these instruments when a real-time dialog will get the job completed, and P2 for reflection, dialogue, and commemorating choices.
How will you use your P2?
- Plan a visit with family and friends — share hyperlinks, ticket information, and journey particulars. (See an instance on this P2!).
- Create a P2 to your college or PTA to share homeschooling sources and manage digital occasions.
- Handle your sports activities staff’s schedules and share photographs from video games.
- Let youngsters monitor and submit homework assignments remotely, with an area for Q&A together with your college students.
How can I be taught extra?
Go to this demo P2 to be taught the P2 ropes! Try a variety of instance posts and feedback to see how one can:
- Put up, learn, remark, like, and comply with conversations.
- @-mention people and teams to get their consideration.
- Share video, audio, paperwork, polls, and extra.
- Entry in-depth stats and get notifications.
Prepared to your personal P2?
Go to WordPress.com/p2 and create your personal P2.
