{"id":1512,"date":"2015-08-07T19:46:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T23:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.nyc.wordcamp.org\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2015-08-20T15:38:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T19:38:11","slug":"second-round-of-speaker-announcements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nyc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/second-round-of-speaker-announcements\/","title":{"rendered":"Second round of speaker announcements"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again we are\u00a0working our way through all of the fantastic speaker proposals.\u00a0While the selection process is still active, we’re excited to have confirmed our second\u00a0group of speakersWordCamp NYC 2015.<\/p>\n

As before you may recognize some of the names from around the WordPress community, others may\u00a0be new to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\"laura-hartwig\"<\/a>
Laura Hartwig<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Get More Out of Gravity Forms<\/em><\/p>\n

WordPress Developer for the MarkNet Group in New York where I enjoy creating websites for a large range of clients. She loves the WordPress community and strongly support their \u201cgive back\u201d philosophy\u00a0and is\u00a0a co-organizer of the WordPress Westchester Meetup Group.\u00a0Laura also has\u00a0a blog full of free tutorials at WPDecoder.com<\/a>. I’m passionate about teaching classes, training people to use WordPress and spreading the WordPress love.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\"anthony-d-paul\"<\/a>
Anthony D Paul<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

War Room Collaboration Across the Internet Canyon <\/em><\/p>\n

Anthony D Paul an interaction designer, researcher, and prototyper. By night, you\u2019ll find me spread across the Mid-Atlantic meetup scenes\u2014evangelizing IA\/UX, accessibility, and a variety of open source dev projects. When I’m not doing responsible adult things, I grow the world’s hottest chili peppers, then tear gas my household while making hot sauce.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\"chrissie-pollock\"<\/a>
Chrissie Pollock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Community Consultation Creates Compelling Content <\/em><\/p>\n

Chrissie Pollock worked as a freelance professional writer for nearly two decades and is still active in a writing group. Now she works for Automattic as a Happiness Engineer, helping people set up sites and drawing readers to them. She also guides users through Writing 101, Blogging 101 and other courses at WordPress.com’s online Blogging University. Chrissie enjoys being a co-organizer for a local WordPress meetup. One of her favorite parts of working with WordPress is tapping into its vibrant community.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\"melissa-cahill\"<\/a>
Melissa Cahill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

SEO for WordPress<\/em><\/p>\n

Melissa Cahill is the owner of Panoptic Online Marketing, LLC, a New York City-based agency providing integrated marketing solutions for small businesses seeking to leverage their online presence through SEO, SEM, paid search advertising, email, social media and SMS (text message) marketing. She is also a founding member of the Tadpole Collective.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\"john-eckman\"<\/a>
John Eckman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Enterprise Disconnect: WordPress and the Complexity of Simplicity <\/em><\/p>\n

After a first career as an academic, John\u2018s been working in digital agencies for the last 15 years, and with WordPress for the last 8. He has been one of the organizers for WordCamp Boston since 2010, and is the CEO of\u00a010up<\/span><\/a>. He grew up in Richfield, MN but now lives in Salem MA with his wife and dogs. He blog is\u00a0Open Parenthesis<\/span><\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\"josepha-haden\"<\/a>
Josepha Haden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Using WordPress to Bridge Digital Divides <\/em><\/p>\n

Josepha comes from a long line of writers and was raised to be a life-long learner. She has a passion for language and storycrafting, a skill she practices on starsandthemoon.com. Josepha has over a decade of experience using SEO, data analysis, and content marketing to bring success and visibility to clients all over the world. Since 2010 she\u2019s been working in her hometown of Kansas City to increase digital literacy and get more women in technology. Josepha works at Automattic as a community organizer for the WordPress open source project.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\"tom-ransom\"<\/a>
Tom Ransom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gone in 900 Seconds <\/em>Tom Ransom (San Francisco, CA) is a freelance WordPress developer. Clients include web development agencies around the world, small businesses with unique application requirements, a few Fortune 500 companies and a celebrity or two along the way. Tom has been developing applications for small business since mini-computers were the size of a small desk.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\"boone-gorges\"<\/a>
Boone Gorges<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Shared Terms of Endearment: An Annotated History of the WordPress Taxonomy Component\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Boone Gorges is a member of the WordPress core team and a lead developer for BuddyPress. He is a freelance plugin developer and WordPress consultant. He was a New Yorker until the rent got too damn high, and now he lives in Chicago.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\"morten-rand-hendriksen\"<\/a>
Morten Rand-Hendriksen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Designing Websites for Human Beings<\/em><\/p>\n

Morten Rand-Hendriksen built his first website in 1997 and has used the web to further communication between people ever since. He’s a staff author with lynda.com at LinkedIn where he has published 60+ courses on WordPress and front-end development. His WordPress Essential Training course has been viewed by over 100,000 people. Morten also teaches web design and development at Emily Carr University of Art and Design and is a popular guest lecturer and lecturer at schools, events, and conferences.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Please stay tuned for more speaker announcements and follow us on twitter<\/a>.<\/h3>\n

We are working diligently\u00a0to ensure that WordCamp NYC 2015 will have something for everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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