Speakers

Ilene Haddad (aka: IleenieWeenie) began using social media in 2008, and it’s been downhill ever since. Between updating her Facebook status and checking in with friends on Twitter, she runs a successful graphic design business and hosts various community events centered around blogging and social media. She is probably best known for founding #BlogathonATX and for the time she forgot to put noodles in a lasagna. Ilene resides in Austin with two lapdogs, eight Apple devices and one husband.

Josh is currently the Director of Sales and Marketing at A Small Orange. Here, he is responsible for overseeing the branding, marketing, and sales strategy across all the A Small Orange Brands. Going back in his past you’ll find SEO, linux administration and brokering network equipment. Josh is a husband, father of four, occasional traveler, and bourbon drinker

Leslie Hancock is an independent communications consultant and college writing professor with twenty years of professional writing experience. Her areas of expertise include social media strategy and reporting, content development, and professional education.

Leslie has spent 15 years working with a variety of clients in fields ranging from textbook publishing to health care marketing. Leslie’s first passion, though, is and always has been speaking and instruction. She loves to share knowledge and inspire others to reach their full potential as professionals. An award-winning educator, she excels at curriculum development, innovative instructional strategies, learning management, and delivery.

Leslie holds leadership roles among Austin professionals, serving on the board of the Social Media Club of Austin as Sponsorship Chair and on the governing committee of Freelance Austin as its Social Media Coordinator. She is very pleased to add her membership in National Speakers Association of Austin and the All Content Tribe to her list of professional associations this year, as well as participation on the Advisory Committee for Austin Community College’s brand new Social Media Certification program..

Nick Batik has been building websites since 1994 and has been a WordPress consultant and developer for over five years. He specializes in custom theme design using the Genesis Framework. When not lost in the poetry of code Nick contributes to the WordPress community by serving as Co-organizer for the Austin WordPress Meetup Group, as a member of the organizing team for the WordCamp Austin 2010, WordUp Austin 2012, and WordCamp Austin 2012. Nick is a lead trainer for the Hands-On WordPress classes. Nick has had a life-long love affair with design and typography and has written numerous training courses, articles and seminars on design, publishing and web development. He has presented at publishing conferences in over 100 cities across the US, England, and Scandinavia. His work with Pleiades WebCenter reflects his passion for elegant and effective information design and he is dedicated to using design technology to communicate, and manage Information in a way that is beneficial to his clients and the client’s customers.

Working with WordPress full time since 2010, Taylor has built dozens of WordPress themes for businesses of all sizes in the past 2 years. When he isn’t customizing/managing software for clients, you can find him out rollerblading, or spinning records. Taylor is a Graduate of Full Sail University.