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Aaron \u00a0is the owner and lead developer at Blue Dog Web Services, a WordPress focused web development company. He has over ten years of programming experience, and for the last several years he\u2019s been focused on WordPress. This focus has included building sites on WordPress, writing and releasing plugins, contributing to WordPress core, and generally becoming involved in the WordPress Community as a whole.<\/p>\n

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Amanda Quraishi<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Amanda Quraishi is a writer, blogger, interfaith activist and technology\u00a0professional living in Austin, Texas.\u00a0 She currently works full time at Moblie\u00a0Loaves & Fishes, a non profit organization that addresses the issue of\u00a0homelessness in the U.S. Amanda is a contributing blogger at Tikkun Daily and\u00a0The Religious Left; and she maintains her own blog at muslimahMERICAN.com<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her adventures on Twitter at @ImTheQ<\/p>\n

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I believe that a successful website doesn\u2019t just look great; it should be simple to maintain. When possible, I try to build client sites using a theme framework. This reduces the time and cost of developing the website. I use the WordPress platform, an open-source Content Management System. It makes editing your website as easy as editing a Word document. I focus on building visually stunning websites that are easy to maintain, using WordPress as a CMS. I\u2019ve been a web developer for 8 years and a WordPress developer for 5, and work with all business types, from individuals to startups to large corporations and universities. I collaborate with talented designers and customize WordPress to your specific needs.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Brandon Kraft<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Brandon started building websites in 1996 and hasn’t looked back. Maintaining a “weblog” since 2002, using Movable Type for many years before crossing over to WordPress. During his time at The University of Texas at Austin, Brandon focused on the impact of technology in a society, which actually does mean more than spending too much time on Facebook.\u00a0During and after college, Brandon directed the website and social media efforts of a local non-profit before\u00a0pursuing web consulting and freelancing, focusing on WordPress.\u00a0\u00a0Brandon is also on the board of Austin Catholic New Media and a contributor to their WordPress-based website (http:\/\/www.austincnm.com<\/a>).\u00a0Married and staying at home with two young daughters, you can follow Brandon’s quest on Twitter (@Kraft<\/a>) and on his personal site (http:\/\/www.brandonkraft.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Chris Olbekson<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Chris Olbekson is a WordPress developer and consultant. \u00a0He’s built enterprise level sites as well as high-profile blogs and also does server and client side WordPress performance tuning. \u00a0Over the past few years he’s been very active in the Houston WordPress Meetup Group, answering questions onwordpress.stackexchange.com<\/a>\u00a0and contributing to WordPress by releasing plugins and volunteering on the WordPress.org support forums.\u00a0URL:\u00a0http:\/\/c3mdigital.com\/wordpress\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Chris Wiegman<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Chris has been developing solutions for over 15 years with current projects ranging from WordPress plugins such as\u00a0Better WP Security<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0Google Chrome extensions including\u00a0Better Google Tasks<\/a>\u00a0and others.\u00a0Chris is employeed full-time as a web developer for\u00a0St. Edward’s University<\/a>in Austin, TX. You can find his projects and more on his blog at\u00a0Bit51.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Clark Wimberly<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Clark has been working with WordPress full-time for 8 years now. He’s built large client sites, high-profile blogs, and experimental playthings- all while learning new things everyday. In the past year he’s become highly active in the WordPress Austin Meetup Group, delivering a dozen or so talks to an ever-growing group of WordPress enthusiasts.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Corrin Foster<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Corrin Foster recently relocated to Austin from Chicago, has her MBA, a couple\u00a0of Bachelor\u2019s Degrees, and is pondering becoming a PhD in something. She\u2019s\u00a0the Marketing Director at an independent publisher and serious bookworm\u00a0thinks the internet is the best thing since sliced bread. She has a wiener dog\u00a0named Oliver, a weakness for sequin, and she can really cut a rug.<\/p>\n

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Crystal R. R. Edwards<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Crystal \u00a0writes the monthly magazine humor column WELL, THAT\u00a0WAS FUN, featured in Visalia, California\u2019s Direct Magazine. She also writes\u00a0NEXTGEN for Visalia\u2019s Lifestyle Magazine, a regular interview column focusing\u00a0on young, must-watch Visalia natives. She authors commissioned pieces for its\u00a0sister publication, Wedding Style, and other freelance articles in publications\u00a0across the country. She is a professional copywriter, copy editor, and humorist.<\/p>\n

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Debra Schmidt<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Debra Schmidt has been a Proseller on Zazzle.com since June, 2009 and a WordPress blogger since 2007. She loves learning, including WordPress meetups, Photoshop World conferences, Lightroom seminars, photography classes, wildflower conferences, books and webinars and enjoys the smell of cedars and the sight of water and mountains. She doesn\u2019t have a television\u2013the internet has warped her attention span beyond the ability to watch TV. \u00a0Debra has background in business, engineering, photography, finance, master gardening, herbs, wildflowers, permaculture and industrial design and has picked up photo art, computer art, digital painting, internet marketing, social media bits-and-pieces and WordPress blogging. And she can spot illogical thoughts a page away!
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Elizabeth Quintanilla<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Elizabeth is a positive, people-oriented, and performance-driven Marketing Gunslinger, consultant, and speaker who focuses on understanding the customer perspective. She consults on: market research, messaging, channel strategies, understanding the impact of emerging business trends, web technologies and strategies, social, and product marketing.\u00a0 Elizabeth actively serves as a Commissioner on the Austin Community Technology and Telecommunications Commission. On Twitter:\u00a0 @equintanilla<\/p>\n

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Eric Weiss<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Eric Weiss<\/a>\u00a0is a freelance writer, journalist and WordPress consultant. He is founder of\u00a0Skeptics On The .Ne<\/a>t and co-founder of\u00a0The Unofficial Kindle Fire Blog<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0FirstSp.in<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ilene Haddad (aka: IleenieWeenie) began using social media in 2008, and it\u2019s\u00a0been downhill ever since. Between updating her Facebook status and checking\u00a0in with friends on Twitter, she runs a successful graphic design business and\u00a0hosts various community events centered around blogging and social media. She\u00a0is probably best known for founding #BlogathonATX and for the time she forgot\u00a0to put noodles in a lasagna. Ilene resides in Austin with two lapdogs, eight Apple\u00a0devices and one husband.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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I am truly passionate about two things: making websites and WordPress. Combining these obsessions, I create websites that are professional, effective, and super easy for clients to maintain. I\u2019ve been using WordPress as a CMS for more than 4 years and have been developing on the Genesis Framework since early 2010. In working with WordPress, I specialize in the Genesis Framework and am an active member of the StudioPress community. I truly believe that Genesis is the best foundation for any WordPress site. I work with clients of all sizes \u2013 from WordPress VIP customers to small businesses and individuals. When I\u2019m not knee deep in code, my enthusiasm for WordPress continues.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Josh Ward<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Josh is currently the Director of Sales and Marketing at A\u00a0Small Orange. Here, he is responsible for overseeing the branding,\u00a0marketing, and sales strategy across all the A Small Orange Brands.\u00a0Going back in his past you\u2019ll find SEO, linux administration and\u00a0brokering network equipment. Josh is a husband, father of four,\u00a0occasional traveler, and bourbon drinker<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Laurie comes to EatShareLive from Lonely Gourmet, a food-related website that\u2019s enjoyed a big following for the last 2 years and continues to build.\u00a0 At EatShareLive, she\u2019s the one responsible for the content \u2013 from the recipes to the forums and everything in between.\u00a0Laurie\u2019s experience in training, development and radio\/TV brings a lot to the table in terms of providing readers the information they want and need, in a fun, creative way.\u00a0 Her experience also helps her to bring all that learning to bear on her view of writing for the web.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t

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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.<\/p>\n

Leslie has spent 15 years working with a variety of clients in fields ranging from textbook publishing to health care marketing.\u00a0Leslie\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s brand new Social Media Certification program..<\/p>\n

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A designer and entrepreneur for more than fifteen years, Nando combines his experiences\u00a0to help entrepreneurs, micro, and small business owners successfully market online. He is regularly featured in chamber of commerce events, and is regularly published in Seth Godin’s online magazine UpMarket. In his spare time, you can find him riding a bicycle, preferably in one of Austin’s many mountain biking trails.<\/p>\n

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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.\u00a0Nick 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.<\/p>\n

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Stephanie Leary\u00a0has recently left Texas A&M University\u00a0 to become a full time WordPress Consultant. She is very active in the\u00a0 web design community, mostly in CSS, standards, accessibility issues, and contributing to the WordPress Community.\u00a0She is the author of Beginning WordPress 3<\/a>, published by Apress<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0 has also published over a dozen plugins<\/a>. Most of Stephanie’s themes have been proprietary client projects, but she has published a couple of demos<\/a> from the book. She also publishes WordPress tips<\/a> on a regular basis.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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Thomas built his first website at the age of 13 and taught his first web design class at only 16 years old. He has been helping authors and small businesses use the web ever since. Thomas currently serves as the CEO of Castle Media Group LLC, a company that builds websites for world changers.\u00a0He runs AuthorMedia.com a resource for authors timid about technology. As an award winning speaker, Thomas teaches all over the world. His friendly speaking style blends multimedia and audience participation. His blend of experience and youth give him a unique perspective that can help you use the web in a whole new way.<\/p>\n

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