I am a Massachusetts native, although often my travels bring me outside of the borders of beantown. I am the host and producer of FilmSnobbery and also an independent film critic and small business owner.
Amanda Blum is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, and Creative Director of Howling Zoe Productions, a creative strategy firm involved in design, marketing and public relations. She is one of the three founding partners of Are You Socially Acceptable which teaches social media, technology and marketing classes. Helping microbusinesses, startups and non profits find new ways to reach their target demographic for over 10 years, Amanda bridges the gap between old school techniques and bleeding edge tech. Amanda has been active in community volunteering for almost 20 years and is dedicated to helping non profits utilize social media tools to help further their mission. Also: she's helping put this #wcbos joint together.
Joby Blume is a senior consultant at UK-based presentation design company, m62 visualcommunications. This being a small company, he seems to have picked up responsibility for the company website and marketing efforts too. In his role as customer and user, Joby is focused on the benefits and results of moving the company website to WordPress. m62's website has twice been featured in Smashing Magazine; more importantly, it has helped bring in substantial new business. We like WordPress so much we created a WordPress PowerPoint template in homage.
Sean is the Online Manager at MIT Sloan Management Review where he is responsible for the implementation of all MIT SMR web initiatives. For over 10 years Sean has led web application projects for organizations including Fidelity Investments, Nokia, Palm Inc., Titleist, Sun Microsystems, The Home Depot, NYU School of Law and Harvard Medical School. Sean has expertise in designing and implementing asset management, content management, e-commerce and social media platforms.
Jeff Chandler started using WordPress in 2007. Since then, he has become a great enthusiast of the software. He manages the website WPTavern.com as well as the forums attached to the site which are filled with like minded enthusiasts. He is also the host of a weekly podcast called WordPress Weekly which dives into WordPress as well as surrounding projects such as BuddyPress. He is also a contributor to WeblogToolsCollection.com, one of the largest websites publishing content about WordPress on a weekly basis.
Dan Collis-Puro has a long history helping non-profits via technology, specifically with user-managed database-backed web applications. He seems to fall into the role of a technical jack-of-all-trades everywhere he works, but he's happiest developing for the web or bending *nix machines to his will. He works at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and manages blogs.law.harvard.edu.
Miguel Danielson is founder and Managing Member of Danielson Legal LLC. He has advised hundreds of technology and IP-focused clients on trademark portfolio protection and strategy, copyright issues, licensing and technology transactions, due dilligence and corporate IP matters, domain name and Internet issues, and related matters. He holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.S. in Management Information Systems from the University of Minnesota.
Scott Dasse is the Creative Director for New Media at Boston University where he leads the effort to elevate the user experience of online communications during a major transition from traditional media. Since the late nineties, he has designed and developed websites for clients ranging from MIT to Exxon, and has been recognized by professional associations such as the American Institute of Graphic Artists and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Dasse has a master’s degree in graphic design from Boston University.
In May of 2008, BU deployed WPMU as its primary content management system, adapting WP to meet the wide ranging needs of of the university.
Jonathan is a designer & developer with 14 years of professional web production experience. He has worked on the WordPress platform for 5 years developing custom websites, themes and plugins for clients. His days are spent coding at Ingenesis Limited developing the Shopp e-commerce plugin for WordPress and trying to make the web a better place by advocating web standards and good design practices.
Juliet DeVries doesn’t know a lick of code - but she has a knack for communicating with people who do. Over the past 10 years she has helped clients, such as NetZero, NASCAR, VW, NBC, ESPN and others navigate their way quickly and easily through the new media world (yes - even before it was “new”). She now has her dream job at Audissey Guides Media, where she is the co-founder and Marketing Director.
Bill is a Web Technologist and Sysadmin at Wheaton College, where he is currently deploying WordPress MU for managing the school's web content. He has over 15 years of experience supporting the use of technology in higher education, including over 10 years supporting web technologies. Outside of work, Bill is an avid Red Sox fan and enjoys traveling to sunny, warm destinations with his family.
Jim Doran is a hybrid Web designer/developer residing in Baltimore, Maryland. By day, he’s a software engineer for Johns Hopkins University, where he maintains a slew of WordPress blogs, MU and bbPress sites. At night, he teaches Web design for the Community College of Baltimore County. When not doing these things, Jim makes art and uses WordPress to publish his ideas and experiments at http://jimdoran.net/.
Corey Eulas has been involved in web development and internet marketing since late 1990s. He currently works at LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell as a Senior Search Engine Optimization Specialist and at Wine King as the Director of Search Marketing. Corey also runs Ninety Seven Media, where he helps small to mid-sized businesses increase their internet visibility via SEO & SEM.
Hopeless Starbucks addict. Internet consultant. Founder/CEO of StudioPress and AgentPress. Blogs here, skis hard and loves music. He’s been known to Tweet, compulsively plays fantasy sports and most importantly, is a loving husband and father. He has no college degree, never took any computer courses and learned everything he knows about WordPress by trial and error.
Steve is the author of Get Seen: Online Video Secrets to Building Your Business and one of the leading edge experts in online video and blogging. An early adopter of live streaming over the web and on cell phones, he launched his own regular video blog on January 1, 2004. Steve blogs regularly at Off on a Tangent, which has received over 1 million visitors, posts videos at Steve Garfield’s Video Blog, and can be found on twitter where he has over 18,000 followers.
He is also the founder of Boston Media Makers and has helped the group to spread to other cities including New York and Washington, DC. He was chosen as the Boston correspondent for the pioneering video podcast, Rocketboom, and he also provides citizen journalism reports for CNN iReport, The Uptake, and techPresident. Garfield lectures at Boston University, Northeastern and Emerson College.
Casie is currently the SEO Manager at Grasshopper, the company behind the "Entrepreneurs Can Change the World" movement. She has been in the search industry for five years, both on the agency side and in-house, yet her family still has no idea what she does for a living. Casie grew up in Western NY and has lived in Ohio, North Carolina and South Boston where she currently resides.
Jake Goldman is a web developer and strategist with over a decade of experience. Today, as Director of Client Services at C. Murray Consulting, he is focused on complete Content Management System integration and end user experiences. Jake has overseen more than two dozen highly customized WordPress implementations since mid 2008, two of which are featured on the official showcase. His “WordPress Power Tips” articles for Smashing Magazine consistently make the front page of Delicious. Between supporting clients, Jake has found the time to develop and contribute 9 highly rated WordPress plug-ins to the community.
Carl Hancock is a founding partner at rocketgenius, creators of the Gravity Forms plugin for WordPress. Gravity Forms is the premier WordPress form builder plugin. Carl has 14 years of experience in user experience design and product development. When he isn't working on product development at rocketgenius, he is researching the next big trip to feed his travel addiction.
Douglas Hanna is a consultant, blogger, and speaker who works for Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and Akismet.com, as a “Communications Engineer.” At Automattic, Douglas spends most of his time running the day-to-day operations of the WordPress.org Showcase and helping to support WordPress.com users. When he isn’t doing anything related to work, Douglas enjoys reading and playing the piano and is a diehard Duke Blue Devils fan.
Kimberley is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and a staff attorney at the Citizen Media Law Project. She received her J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 2000, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Law Record and President of the HLS Civil Liberties Union. Prior to joining the Berkman Center, she was an associate at law firms in Washington, DC and Richmond, Virginia.
Founder of Red Sweater Software, developer of MarsEdit, a desktop blog editor the Mac.
Amy Katz is CEO and co-founder of Nine Lives Media Inc., a online media company – built on WordPress – that produces five niche technology media platforms – MSPmentor, The VAR Guy, WorksWithU, and two new sites that bring together the best of WordPress and Twitter – VARtweet and MSPtweet. In addition to running corporate operations, Amy oversees sales, business development and marketing for the digital platforms. Amy grew up in advertising, PR and traditional media companies. In 2007, she and her business partner saw an opportunity to create a focused, online media company powered by WordPress. When Amy isn’t working, she’s outside skiing, swimming or kayaking with her family on the north shore, MA.
Scott Kirsner's column, Innovation Economy, appears in the Boston Globe every Sunday, and he also maintains a companion blog. Kirsner’s writing has also appeared in BusinessWeek, Variety, The New York Times, and other publications.
Scott's newest book is Fans, Friends & Followers. He's also the author of The Future of Web Video, editor of The Convergence Guide: Life Sciences in New England and a contributor to The Good City: Writers Explore 21st Century Boston. Kirsner was part of the founding team of Boston.com in 1995, and he is a graduate of Boston University’s College of Communication.
Hi I'm Jeremy, a 20-something technology and marketing enthusiast. I love to go out and do stuff: anything from golf to cooking, watching movies, concerts, playing sports, you name it! I also have season tickets to the Boston Bruins and love attending sporting events.
I currently work in the SSL industry and for Yelp.com as well.
Currently, Rob is Principal Presentation Engineer at Cramer, where he manages a small team of front end/Flash developers. They build web sites. Prior to that he worked as a consultant for companies like Gillette, State Street, The Museum of Science, Boston and Compete.
He keeps a personal site, which features nearly complete archives of his art and writing, at DrunkenFist.com and writes on the web and web technology at his new blog HTML+CSS+JavaScript.
Director of Marketing for Twilio, a startup in San Francisco that is disrupting telecommunications.
Raphael is a former military scientist who can't write. To solve this he made a super-smart spell, grammar, and style checker using lots of data and RAM. A guy named Matt noticed this and said "hey, join the Automattic crew" and now Raphael makes super-smart proofreading software for you. Besides checking your spelling, Raphael works on the open source Sleep programming language and resides in Washington, DC.
Daisy Olsen has been working with computers since the Commodore 64, with php/MySQL content management systems since 2001 (Anyone remember PostNuke?) and has been dedicated to working with WordPress for the last several years. After starting a WordPress powered hobby blog in 2006 she quickly discovered that her heart was on the backend and developing blogs for others was far more fulfilling than actually blogging. Since then she has worked on many blogs and non-blog websites to create individualized website solutions built on WordPress as both a blogging platform and a CMS. She works as a blog/website development consultant from WP Mama. She is also the Director of Operations for Blissfully Domestic, a web-based magazine powered by WordPress with over 400 contributing authors.
Adria wants to empower the world through technology and knows Wordpress is a great stepping stone! Adria comes from the world of IT and has always made customer service a priority. This drew her to social media and blogging as a way to help people with technology questions. You can find Adria's main geek blog at http://butyoureagirl.com. She launched http://freshworkshops.com this year to provide live, online training for Wordpress blogging, website development and social media. She also does a weekly video show on technology in business at http://askadria.com.
Karen Rubin is a project owner at HubSpot, an internet marketing company whose visionary efforts have changed the nature of internet marketing for small and medium businesses. She has also worked in project and product management for some of the world’s top web 2.0 companies, such as MainStreet.com, Stockpickr.com, iVillageLive.com and GiftCertificates.com. Karen also is co-star of HubSpot TV, a weekly video podcast about marketing and social media trends. Karen has a degree in Computer Science from Trinity College. Feel free to follow Karen on Twitter. To visit HubSpot, go to www.hubspot.com.
Shayne has been working in the web industry for over 10 years, and with WordPress for the last 4 years. He is a partner at 9seeds, which offers WordPress development, plugin development and more. You may also know him from S-Tastic Designs where he offers WordPress support and troubleshooting. He is very active in the WordPress forums and well as the WP Ecommerce forums where he offers support for users of WP ECommerce.
He loves helping people and is an avid WordPress user/developer!
Joshua Strebel is founder of several web startups and lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona. Joshua most recently launched Page.ly, a premium WordPress hosting service.
Chris Traganos is a web developer for Harvard’s Public Affairs & Communications and is responsible for the university’s main webpage and WordPress-powered Harvard Gazette news site. He graduated with a degree in Management of Information Systems from UMass Boston. Chris is the Co-Chair of Harvard’s Web Working group, which connects University developers and designers through web-related workshops, training sessions, and guest speakers.
Ned is the founder of 1080d, an Information Systems Consulting firm based in New York City. He has developed and maintained WordPress installations for large companies like Viacom and Time Inc. Deploying WordPress alongside other CMSs used by large media companies presents interesting challenges and Ned would like to share what he has learned about integrating WordPress with Big Media.
I write about technology. I'm at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
Jane is the user experience lead for WordPress, and has worked in the web industry for 10 years. She spends much of her time traveling to WordCamps and meeting WordPress users to incorporate their feedback into each new version. Her resolutions for 2010 include turning wordpress.org into a community hub, increasing female participation in the open source project, and finishing the restoration of her 1969 Austin-Healey Sprite.
Brad Williams is the CEO and Co-Founder of WebDevStudios.com. He is also a co-host on the SitePoint Podcast and an Advisor on SitePoint Forums. He was one of the original co-hosts on the WordPress Weekly Podcast and still joins the show on occasion. Brad has given presentations at WordCamp Mid-Atlantic, Montreal, and New York City. He is also the organizer for the New Jersey WordPress Meetup Group. Brad is also the co-author of the upcoming WROX book Professional WordPress.
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