{"id":2680,"date":"2018-03-22T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.sandiego.wordcamp.org\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2018-03-22T17:55:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T17:55:21","slug":"meet-the-speakers-for-the-national-guard-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2018\/meet-the-speakers-for-the-national-guard-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Speakers for the National Guard Track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Increase your knowledge on a variety of WordPress topics with these fantastic speakers in the\u00a0National Guard track.<\/p>\n<h2>Michelle Ames<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speaker-avatar\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"d842be40e6b7de7a21fdf3d1f1701904\" class=\"avatar avatar-96 photo grav-hashed grav-hijack\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d842be40e6b7de7a21fdf3d1f1701904?s=100&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Overextended, overcommitted, entrepreneur, volunteer, and social butterfly. Avid Scrabble player. Photographer. School board member. Marketing enthusiast. 11th hour expert. WordPress fanatic. Lead organizer of WordCamp Rochester, NY. Co-organizer of WordCamp Buffalo. Michelle is the Head of Customer Relations at GiveWP.com.<\/p>\n<h2>Natalie Bourn<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speaker-avatar\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"1e2818406e3bd9cb06c051237678073a\" class=\"avatar avatar-96 photo grav-hashed grav-hijack\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e2818406e3bd9cb06c051237678073a?s=100&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Natalie Bourn is currently a freshman in high school. She\u2019s been a WordPress blogger for four years and writes about adventures, life lessons, her journey through school and being a teenager, and her friends and family. She has recently started a YouTube channel sharing videos about her life and travels. When she\u2019s not busy with homework and exploring with her family, she loves to dance and choreograph, read, write, and play with her brother. Check out nataliebourn.com for more.<\/p>\n<h2>Chris Lema<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speaker-avatar\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"282d599b414022eba5096510f675b6e2\" class=\"avatar avatar-96 photo grav-hashed grav-hijack\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/282d599b414022eba5096510f675b6e2?s=100&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Chris Lema is Vice President of Products &amp; Innovation at Liquid Web, a blogger (at chrislema.com and leaders.blog), the author of several ebooks and a public speaker. He loves to tell stories \u2013 helping people learn how to leverage technology for their business and personal use.<\/p>\n<h2>Mike Demo<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speaker-avatar\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"5a41b9906fb37ea67337e24a2a4767a7\" class=\"avatar avatar-96 photo grav-hashed grav-hijack\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5a41b9906fb37ea67337e24a2a4767a7?s=100&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Mike \u201cDemo\u201d Demopoulos is a longtime lover of Open Source Software. He currently works at BoldGrid (a WordPress Site Builder) as an Evangelist. He has spoken at numerous open source events around the world. Mike is also a contributor to Huffington Post as well as other publications. In addition, he volunteers as Treasurer for Open Source Matters.<\/p>\n<h2>Lindsay Halsey<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speaker-avatar\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"318df8135c26ef1daffc8030b4597865\" class=\"avatar avatar-96 photo grav-hashed grav-hijack\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/318df8135c26ef1daffc8030b4597865?s=100&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Based in Basalt, Colorado, Lindsay Halsey is a co-founder of WP SEO Hub, a do-it-yourself WordPress SEO platform, and partner of webShine, a search engine marketing agency. Her primary interest is search engine optimization for WordPress websites. Lindsay enjoys teaching business owners about holistic SEO practices with a focus on actionable tactics that create results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increase your knowledge on a variety of WordPress topics with these fantastic speakers in the\u00a0National Guard track. Michelle Ames Overextended, overcommitted, entrepreneur, volunteer, and social butterfly. Avid Scrabble player. Photographer. School board member. Marketing enthusiast. 11th hour expert. WordPress fanatic. Lead organizer of WordCamp Rochester, NY. Co-organizer of WordCamp Buffalo. 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