{"id":1021,"date":"2011-06-29T16:20:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T23:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2011.sandiego.wordcamp.org\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2012-04-25T06:26:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T13:26:27","slug":"speaker-spotlight-john-hawkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2011\/speaker-spotlight-john-hawkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: John Hawkins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah yes, @vegasgeek<\/a>. If you’ve ever been to a WordCamp, pretty much any WordCamp ever, you’ve probably met John Hawkins<\/a> of 9Seeds<\/a>. He is a brilliant WordPress personality, and we’re excited to have him down for WCSD. <\/p>\n

With that said, here’s today’s Speaker Spotlight:
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\n\"John<\/p>\n

Tell us about your firm?<\/h3>\n

After working far too long in Corporate America, we founded 9seeds in order to focus on doing what we love; building projects with WordPress. The bulk of our business consists of building custom plugins, custom themes or a mix of both for small to mid-sized companies.<\/p>\n

How have you integrated WordPress into your solutions?<\/h3>\n

WordPress -is- our solution! We focus 100% on WordPress development. That being said, we try to remember that WordPress is NOT the golden hammer. If a client comes to us with a project that we feel isn’t the right platform, we’re happy to tell them so and send them on their way. Although, that doesn’t happen very often.<\/p>\n

How has WordPress changed your business?<\/h3>\n

We knew getting in to this that we wanted to focus on WordPress development. Over the past year couple years, we’ve taken on a couple projects that were outside of WordPress. What they proved to us was that it’s far more important to specialize in one area.<\/p>\n

What does the future hold for your business and WordPress?<\/h3>\n

Ultimately we’d like to create a set of products based around WordPress. We have no plans to stop doing client work, but products are the way to go long term.<\/p>\n

What are your thoughts on the WordPress community as a whole, including WordCamps?<\/h3>\n

We consider ourselves WordCamp groupies. Working from home and interacting electronically with the WordPress community is fine, but there’s nothing better than traveling to a WordCamp and hanging out with the amazing people in the WordPress community. By the end of this year, 9seeds will have been involved with more than 30 WordCamp events. Like I said, we’re groupies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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