{"id":1843,"date":"2013-04-18T11:09:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T15:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2013.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/?p=1843"},"modified":"2013-04-16T11:20:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T15:20:52","slug":"speaker-spotlight-mary-kathryn-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/speaker-spotlight-mary-kathryn-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Mary Kathryn Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar avatar-102 photo grav-hashed grav-hijack alignleft\" id=\"grav-8246433f56bbd92d5c91dfdbc9c9a1b1-1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/0.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8246433f56bbd92d5c91dfdbc9c9a1b1?s=102&amp;d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D102&amp;r=G\" width=\"102\" height=\"102\" \/>MK is the Communications Advisor in the IT department at Carleton University.\u00a0 Back in 2009 she was brought in to help with the transition to CCMS, Carleton\u2019s WordPress-based content Management system. \u00a0As a web content specialist she designs and hosts Writing for the Web and Google Analytics workshops.<\/p>\n<p>Mary-Kathryn\u00a0 is participating in the panel <a href=\"https:\/\/2013.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/session\/building-your-business-cause-or-brand-using-wordpress\/\">Building Your Business, Cause, or Brand using WordPress<\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"483\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"157\"><strong>Why WordPress? Why do you like using WordPress?<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"325\">From a business perspective: We needed a system that was customizable and user friendly.\u00a0 The community was a big win and not only from a support perspective.\u00a0 The tool is constantly improving and we\u2019re able to stay current in our web offering.From a personal perspective: I blog using WordPress because it\u2019s easy.\u00a0 I\u2019m not a web developer.\u00a0 I\u2019m a comms person and I love being able to focus on my content without being bogged down by the technology.\u00a0 It\u2019s so easy to add widgets and to change the look of my blog.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"157\"><strong>Why did you decide to speak at WordCamp Ottawa?<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"325\">It\u2019s great to get out into the community and share stories and experiences.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"157\"><strong>What is your talk going to be about?<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"325\">Building Your Business, Cause, or Brand using WordPress<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"157\"><strong>What is your favourite WordPress plugin or theme? Why?<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"325\">The Carleton CMS theme. I work with non-techy people who need to just be able to work with web content.\u00a0 The CCMS theme is clean, simple and (soon to be) responsive.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MK is the Communications Advisor in the IT department at Carleton University.\u00a0 Back in 2009 she was brought in to help with the transition to CCMS, Carleton\u2019s WordPress-based content Management system. \u00a0As a web content specialist she designs and hosts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/speaker-spotlight-mary-kathryn-roberts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaker Spotlight: Mary Kathryn Roberts<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8356622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker-spotlight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2OVcL-tJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8356622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1848,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions\/1848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}