{"id":944298,"date":"2014-04-16T11:15:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T15:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/?p=944298"},"modified":"2014-04-23T12:22:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T16:22:09","slug":"speaker-spotlight-jasmine-vesque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker-spotlight-jasmine-vesque\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Jasmine Vesque"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Jasmine is a WordPress evangelist who enjoys helping people share their most important stories and ideas. She loves teaching and regularly contributes as both an instructor and a mentor to\u00a0The Ottawa WordPress Group<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Ladies Learning Code\u00a0<\/a>. This is her second year as a WordCamp Ottawa organizer, and if you\u2019ve ever engaged with @wpottawa<\/a> on Twitter, you were most likely talking to her.<\/p>\n

Jasmine is\u00a0a freelance web specialist, consultant, and trainer<\/a>.\u00a0Her work experience includes government, small businesses, arts groups, and non-profits.\u00a0She is also the\u00a0VP of Communications and Webmaster\u00a0for the charity,\u00a0The Forget for a Moment Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jasmine is passionate about digital communications, social media and web design. \u00a0She welcomes tweets\u00a0@jasmineVesque<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jasmine is presenting:\u00a0Introduction to WordPress<\/a>\u00a0and hosting:\u00a0WordPress Site Clinic<\/a><\/p>\n

1) Why do you like using WordPress?
\nI like using WordPress because it\u2019s flexible and easy to use. Whether you\u2019re a blogger, a small business, or a large organization, WordPress can be scaled to suit your needs. Anyone can use it, and it can help create an online presence for anyone\u2019s ideas no matter how big or small<\/p>\n

2) Why did you decide to speak at WordCamp Ottawa?
\nI am passionate about teaching. I just love sharing what I know with others! I really enjoyed presenting at last year\u2019s WordCamp Ottawa, and I knew I had to do it again this year.<\/p>\n

3) What is the one thing you want people to walk away with from your talk?
\nAt the Intro to WordPress session, I want people to get comfortable\u00a0with the WordPress platform so they can get the most out of the WordCamp weekend. At the Site Clinic, I want people to walk away with solid advice, great ideas, and inspiration on how to improve their websites. I\u2019ll be wrangling up some other WordPress experts to help me deliver on this. Even if your site is not one we review, I hope all in the audience will leave with some great ideas.<\/p>\n

4) What is your favourite WordPress plugin or theme? Why?
\nBackupBuddy<\/a>! It makes backing-up, migrating, and restoring websites a simple and relatively pain-free experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jasmine is a WordPress evangelist who enjoys helping people share their most important stories and ideas. She loves teaching and regularly contributes as both an instructor and a mentor to\u00a0The Ottawa WordPress Group\u00a0and\u00a0Ladies Learning Code\u00a0. This is her second year … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Jasmine Vesque<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8356622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-944298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker-spotlight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8356622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944298"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979574,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944298\/revisions\/979574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}