Metro Detroit WordPress April 2023: What’s New In WordPress 6.2

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Join our Metro Detroit WordPress meetup on Monday, April 3, 2023 for our discussion of What’s New in WordPress 6.2.

We’ll take a look at the new features in the WordPress 6.2 version and highlight some of the more interesting enhancements.

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Photo of the Week: The J.W. Westcott Company

Gray brick office building of The J.W. Westcott Co. Detroit River Station, with bright red door and chain link fence around part of the building. Blue sky with fluffy white clouds in the background.

Tucked on a street east of Riverside Park in southwest Detroit, on the bank of the Detroit River south of the Ambassador Bridge, you’ll find the small gray building of The J.W. Westcott Company.

If you’re not familiar, the company is known for its official U.S. Postal Service mail boat, a floating post office with its own zip code: 48222.

The world’s first non-military floating postal zip code.

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Takeaways from United Nations 2023 International Women’s Day Observance

Doreen Bogdan-Martin, a woman with blond hair stands in front of a podium speaking to a large conference room filled with hundreds of people seated in chairs.

In her keynote address this morning at the United Nations International Women’s Day observance, DigitALL: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality observance, Doreen Bogdan-Martin described how times are changing, highlighting personal stories of women and girls around the world:

  • Vidia, a young woman in India is helping thousands of visually-impaired students, mostly girls, to develop technology skills to pursue science, technology, and math
  • Helen, a Brazilian young woman, uses drones to photograph shifting vegetation patterns. Helen belongs to the Pankararu indigenous peoples and is working to fight climate change and save her people’s land.

In a field dominated by men, Doreen Bogdan-Martin is the first woman in 158 years to be elected by member nations as the Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

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