WordCamp Miami has had gameshows in the past (last year Matt Mullenwegeven joined in). This year we are having it again at ***5pm in Miami / 5pm EDT**** on Saturday March 16th. We will be live streaming the gameshow so that other people EVEN NOT ATTENDING WORDCAMP MIAMI can play. And maybe even win something.
How Can People Play Online?
Simply tune into the WordCamp Miami live streams. The stream specific to the gameshow is marked on the page. We use kahoot.it for our trivia games shows which means you enter a PIN number you see in the livestream to play the trivia round. When you enter your “name” to play, use a format like this:
“@DIMENSIONMEDIA (Paris, France)”
The first part should start with a “@” and your Twitter handle… The “()” should contain where you are playing from so we know you are playing from the livestream and not at the event.
We might award digital prizes to those playing online and communicate via Twitter if you win. It’s not going to be perfect – we are working on the details – but at the very least come enjoy a FULL DAY OF LIVESTREAMING and enjoy some trivia with your fellow WordPress folks!
Speakers want your feedback, and often you want to give feedback to speakers. Even if it’s a simple 👍🏻.
WordCamp Miami is building a tool that allows attendees to do just that. It’s MyTalk.Rocks. Since we couldn’t get the beta up in time for 2019, we have a simple concept on the site right now. You can:
Pick your day (Friday, Saturday, Sunday)
Pick your speaker (ordered by first name)
Rock them with an emoji! 🤣 ❤️ 👏🏻 👍🏻 💯
Take a picture of them speaking and send to them – they will appreciate it!
Give them some brief feedback or ask a question you didn’t get to ask in the session.
See how it works below!
Prizes
If you give feedback to a speaker you will be entered to win a SURPRISE PRIZE during closing remarks on Sunday March 17th. The more feedback you give to speakers (one feedback form per speaker is counted) the better the chances you win!
As I write this, WordCamp Miami is less than a week away. As an organizer who is been with the team for the past 11 years, I’ve been thinking about this particular year in the back of my mind for a long time. Which is odd, because you would think last year‘s big 10th anniversary with over 1000 attendees (including Matt Mullenweg) would have been still the biggest event in my mind through Miami’s history.
Some of the WordCamp Miami 2019 Organizers
After last year’s big event, and after everyone recovered, the team reflected on our history. We are one of the oldest camps, and one of the few to go on 11 years without missing a year. We gave thought where we started from, where we are now. In many ways (at least in my opinion over that time) it’s not only been successful but rewarding for those involved. But what does a successful conference (and especially a WordCamp) really mean?
Is it the number of attendees? Is it the amount of sponsorship dollars you bring it in? Is it the association that people put with you in the community for having a certain reputation of an event? Is it getting a certain well-known speaker to do your Keynote?
As you read these questions, you probably already know the answer. WordCamps are unique (that is the neutral state of that word) compared to many other tech conferences – no profit margin, speakers are not paid, everything is volunteer-based, primarily focused on the local community, etc. As a result the ticket prices make it affordable and provide a diverse attendance in many cases.
So if it’s not profits or spending money how do you define success? As an organizer sometimes you do these events for so long that question fades and it doesn’t regularly get the time it deserves. So think about it in terms of an attendee – what makes you look back on it event months or years later after you attend something and associate that with positive thoughts? For everyone it’s different but WordCamp Miami believes that it boils down to two main things: meeting new people and learning new things. That sounds like such a basic answer, but in the end it is THAT basic.
My daughter who, thanks to WordCamps and the WordPress community, is pursuing a career in STEAM/STEM and coding. She is the youngest WordCamp Miami organizer.
And that is what brings me back to WCMIA. In my opinion, we have been focused on the attendee experience and I believe for the most part we have done well. But as we have grown larger (and more shall I say complex in our lineup and logistics) I began to wonder if the focus on meeting new people or learning new things couldn’t be better. Especially so after last year’s anniversary stories: we learned a great deal about how many people got new jobs and new careers and even met business partners and started new companies all because they attended a WordCamp Miami. Very encouraging.
Large conferences – no matter how well they are done – often do not allow easy and organic access to speakers and meeting new people in general. Why do I say that? Well, if you haven’t been to a conference of more than say 800 or 1000 people, especially if it’s in one central location, the number of people in the crowds make meeting someone organically difficult especially for those who are shy and not outgoing. It’s more of trying to be social on a busy subway or baseball stadium.
But even for those that are extroverts so often you are more focused on trying to get to the next track… or when lunch… or trying to find time for the sponsors area… or trying to meet up with people you we’re already going to meet in the first place… coworkers or business partners.
Large conferences can be somewhat intimidating for someone, especially if they are coming alone and they are somewhat new to the WordPress community. They know they want to learn. They know they want to or NEED to make connections… but a large crowd and complex setups make it hard for them to single out people they want to find in a timely manner.
I really don’t think after parties solve networking automatically either, at least not once they get to a certain point in size.
Kids Camp
I have honestly been getting that “big but not personal enough” vibe from Miami for the past one or two years. As an organizer you’re happy when you see people coming to an event. But more and more I’m thinking about what makes a successful WordCamp and it comes down to the attendee experience (including safety). While I think every WordCamp Miami has been better than previous, I sometimes look back to our event seven or eight years ago when it was under 300 people and think about how many new connections were made.
So for 2019 one of our intangible goals was to provide a more personal experience for the attendee. This year’s WCMIA will not be as large as the year before. It will be a smaller event. But for the reasons I stayed above, I think this is not only fine but healthy in terms of our venue and the attendee experience. We have so many people coming back to your after year and we want the event to be as fresh as their first time.
So if you are an organizer of any event, but especially a WordCamp, always ask yourself what the best experience is for attendees.
David Bisset (Quoting Himself Apparently)
Most low-quality (and even some high quality) swag will be wasted or stuck in a closet (although I believe there’s nothing wrong with providing memorable physical things that bring joy – and WCMIA has had unique things like Wapuu UNO Cards, Happiness Bars, Wapuu Domino’s… in fact, we had other WordCamp organizers come to Miami just to check out how things are organized which is a great honor).
Over-extravagant “after parties” with overpriced and unnecessary fancy food will be digested and pooped. Unless you eat the bad fish, long term it’s not memorable.
In the end, what makes a successful WordCamp is that feeling months later when you look back and you have a good feeling you invested your time and money and have that great feeling in your heart… as they say.
This year and for 2020, I would like to see Miami continue to focus on education and networking as part of our core experience. Our event started the tradition of tradable speaking cards, for example, and it has been one of our best things we came up with. Also not expensive to print. It’s more ideas like these that help people connect with speakers and encourage conversations and networking at the event. I’ve heard some people say that the speaker cards allowed them to go up to strangers to start a conversation by simply asking what kind of cards they had. Some people got a little crazy though, with one person telling me she was in a restroom stall and someone knocked on the door asking if she had any speaker cards.
This year marks my second year as lead organizer of the event, taking turns with others in the past for two-year cycles per the policies of the WordPress Foundation. Next year, I’m happy to say that there will be brand new lead organizers involved who have actually been involved with the organization at a top level. Those new lead organizers have actually been deeply involved in this year’s event – so you will have a preview in 2019 how the next two years might go.
I think it’s going to be an exciting start of a new decade for the event, as we have already talked about reinventing some things in a more drastic way. Interesting ways. I can’t wait to share them with you if they come to light, but I think the new blood and renewed focus I’ve talked about above will make Miami successful work camp for our community – which book includes both local and worldwide members – a successful one for another decade.
Spoilers: Will the next post I will write might be titled “retirement“?
After our sessions end on Saturday March 16th we will be going a gameshow hour with ALL attendees – plus we have booked an entire restaurant.
The best part is that all of this is happening at the same venue as WordCamp Miami itself. No need to worry about driving anywhere!
Gameshow Night!
After the sessions end on Saturday you don’t have to go anywhere. Before we head over to the restaurant for food, games, and networking – WordCamp Miami is throwing it’s second annual “Gameshow” night… and everyone is invited!
We have a number of different interactive things in store. Planning items include:
Trivia Contests – Any Attendee With A Wifi Mobile Device Can Play
Team vs Team Trivia
WPBingo
…and more
Gameshow hour is a family-friendly event. Fun. Prizes. WordPress.
We Booked An Entire Restaurant
We have booked Chili’s at FIU – a full size restaurant with plenty of space both inside and outside on the balcony. We will be updating this post with food information and any drink specials. The restaurant is literally a 5 minute walk from the speaking rooms at FIU.
While some will be enjoying food and networking with attendees, nearby you can enjoy a quiet area to network and perhaps do some karaoke.
Last year’s after party feedback definately confirms that our attendees loved having the choice of two experiences – interactive entertainment and a ‘quiet place to unwind’. Based on that feedback we are providing areas for those want a quieter experience – either to just sit back and relax and their own or perhaps wanting to network without too much background noise.
Our after party starts at 7pm and ends at 11pm. Organizers and volunteers will be available at all locations should you have questions or need assistance. The entire after party is a family friendly event.
Tickets
In order to provide the best experience possible, please accurately answer the ‘going to after party’ question when you are registering your weekend ticket.
Badges
You must have your badge to attend the restaurant and game room after party experience. You do not need a badge for any gameshow activities prior, since these will be held in our main speaking room right after our keynote on Saturday.
More Information Coming Soon
Details about food and other information will be made available as we get closer to the event. We are excited to bring this new experience on our 11th anniversary.
If you are thinking about grabbing a WordCamp Miami ticket, be aware that you must do so by Feb 28th in order to guarantee yourself on our infamous (famous?) WordCamp Miami t-shirts. After Feb 28th, we send off our order to the t-shirt company who doesn’t guarantee any additional shirts on late orders.
This year, we have quite a bit of surprises for those who don’t wait until the last minute. Don’t be left out!
For the fourth year in a row, we are presenting our “Learn JavaScript Deeply” track which takes developers who are already familiar with JavaScript basics and guides them into more advanced topics such as Vue, React, Node, and headless WordPress.
This track is for anyone – regardless if you are a WordPress developer or not. If you are serious about getting deeper in to JavaScript and wanting to get a deeper understanding of modern JavaScript… then you need to be in this track. The focus will be on JavaScript, so no WordPress knowledge will be needed.
The “Learn JavaScript Deeply” track will be on Sunday, March 17th. It is a full-day PROGRESSIVE track… which means each talk will build on the one before it.
Speakers will be sharing all the code online. For this unique and exclusive track, there will also be a Q&A for those with questions. It’s a perfect time to get the feedback and suggestions from a group of experienced developers. No question is too basic or small!
A Slack channel (click here to signup) will be provided exclusively for developers at the conference so you can virtually meet developers before the event… and follow up with them after the conference as well.
More information concerning WordCamp Miami’s “Learn JavaScript Deeply” track will be announced the closer we get to the conference. If you are also a WordPress developer interested in deepening your knowledge in JavaScript, then you should definitely check out the our developer workshop ($17.50) on Friday March 15th.
Summary: WordCamp Miami needs some help. Can you be a hero?
WordCamp Miami has many types of heroes – from the volunteers that are giving their time to make sure a quality event is enjoyed by all… to the speakers who are donating their time and money to educating the audience.
Photo by Esteban Lopez on Unsplash
There is another particular type of hero are sponsors. Sponsors truly make the event happen (in addition to ticket sales). Without sponsors the tickets would be $100+ easily and programs like the Kid’s Camp likely wouldn’t happen at all (or happen at a smaller scale).
Of course, in this economy it’s tough to pay a relatively large amount to sponsor a conference. Even with a variety of ways to give financially back to the WordPress community ($99 to $350 to $4000 for a sponsorship), it’s challenging in today’s economy. So with that being said, WordCamp Miami over the past decade has deeply appreciated ALL sponsors – even the ones that are unable to give alot. It’s actually a little known fact that community and agency sponsorships can add up big time and provide a better experience for attendees.
Cutting To The Chase
With sponsors being as important as they are, we are looking for a few more. In fact, we are looking for a particular sponsor who can be fill the last open Gold Sponsorship spot and truly as as a WordCamp Miami hero.
Several unforeseen costs this year have risen, and WordCamp Miami has made adjustments to compensate. This has fit in with our new general goal of making the conference “simpler and more streamlined” in terms of cost and complexity after our last year’s 10th anniversary event.
Our event has made budget adjustments. Trimmed the fat. But even so WordCamp Miami needs your help.
– We have an open GOLD SPONSORSHIP but also sponsorships at other levels. Any sponsorship would be appreciated.
– Spreading the word. Perhaps you know of a great WordPress company or a great local company that would be interested in helping out (and in turn WordCamp Miami can see how we can help promote or thank them). Can you help promote this page on Facebook or Twitter?
– Can you volunteer to help with recording sessions with our video equipment or volunteer for any of the positions mentioned on our volunteer page?
What are the funds being used for? Specifically this is our focus:
– Covering additional venue costs.
– Sponsorships and discounted tickets for students and those in under privileged and under represented groups. We want to be able to provide an educational experience to as many people as possible. While the education is low cost (speakers are volunteering their time and are not paid), WordCamp Miami still needs to provide a quality experience in terms of recordings, food, and other basics.
WordCamp Miami is one of the highlights of SiteGround’s WordPress event calendar. It’s got everything: good content, great people, and a much-needed dose of warm weather.
This is the 8th year in a row that we sponsor, attend, and speak at WordCamp Miami. However, this time, on top of our usual strong presence, we also have three SiteGround Ambassadors attending and presenting: Michelle Schulp, Joe Casabona, and David Wolfpaw.
This speaker hat-trick is a big deal, since our Ambassador Program was launched just last year. The program’s purpose is to increase the exchange of knowledge by financially supporting individuals who are recognized for their expertise and dedication to the community so they can travel and speak at more events. That was a natural next step for SiteGround on top of sponsoring WordCamps, mentoring and sharing our know-how with WordPress users around the world.
We’re proud to be part of WordCamp Miami once gain. Be sure to check out these sessions by SiteGround employees and ambassadors and stop by our booth to say hi!
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The Advanced Growth Business Track is for freelancers and micro agencies (services & products) that have already been in business a few years are the primary target. This format allows attendees to ask and submit questions, of seasoned experts in their field, before and during the Business Track.
“If you’re already running a business that leverages WordPress, and have always wanted but could never afford a business consultant’s time, come ask your questions”
Wow, what a ride it’s been so far, you have been running your Product or Service WordPress based business for a couple of years, you have a client base, a general handle on the basics of your business, you have sales, and have a set of contractors or even a small team of employees and you are delivering value to customers. Sounds like you’re on track, good job!
Now, how do you get to the next stage in growing your business? Does it look the same to grow the next 50% the way you got here? Even if you have a slow and steady approach to growth, does your 3-5 year plan take into account how growth is never linear? What if tomorrow you had a new opportunity to get into a new product, or double your service agency’s revenue?
On Sunday Morning March 17th, WordCamp Miami is proud to build on the success of the last few years in bringing WordPress Community relevant business curriculum to our Community.
The Advanced Growth Business Track will be Hosted by Karim Marucchi & Rian Kinney who brought you last year’s “WCMIA 2018 (micro)MBA course”. Karim and Rian will lead an audience-interactive conversational session with industry-leading experts, in their respective fields, to assist you in growing your WP business.
We’ve assembled proven experts in the areas of sales growth, scaled customer management operational growth, pricing, vendor, contract negotiation, and team growth strategies to donate their time to share their wealth of knowledge and though stories of how they grew and made years worth of mistakes. This will be a guided, best practices for growth panel talk with moderated audience Q&A with well known and respected leaders Chris Lema of Liquid Web, Colin Dowling of Raincloud, Pat Ramsey of Crowd Favorite, Rian Kinney of The Kinney Firm and eCommLegal and Karim Marucchi of Crowd Favorite & ZenFounder.
Advanced Business Track Hosts
Rian Kinney
Rian Kinney, founder of eCommLegal and The Kinney Firm, is US Privacy and Tech Attorney, assisting businesses of all sizes from freelancers to enterprise, currently representing and working with some of WordPress’s biggest names.
Rian holds the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ CIPM and CIPP/E Designations and has spoken at conferences all over the US and Europe on issues ranging from contracts, CYA’ing your site, the future of open source, to ethics, and privacy.
Karim Marucchi
Karim Marucchi is the CEO of Crowd Favorite and Chairman of The VeloMedia Group. In the past 20 years, his career path has encompassed a variety of opportunities including founding startups, working for large web agencies and taking companies public. This wealth of experience in taking digital teams across the globe has provided Karim with the necessary foundation and institutional knowledge in leading Crowd Favorite into the growing multinational organization it has become today.
Get Your Tickets!
In order to attend, you need to purchase a weekend ticket. These are current on sale – act now, they will go quickly and always sell out!
Freelance Workshops have always been popular at WordCamp Miami … they always sell out and we have to create a waitlist. Last year we didn’t have one (thanks to a wildly successful e-commerce workshop). For 2019 we are happy to bring the FREELANCE workshop back with an all-new lineup featuring more focused topics and a greater diversity of speakers.
If you are a freelancer, want to become one, or want to be better at business this is DEFINITELY a must-attend workshop for you. Buy your tickets early to ensure your spot!
The “Freelancer” Workshop will be on Friday, March 15th. It is a single full-day track.
Allie is a self-taught freelance web designer and internet marketer. In 2013, she started teaching herself web design and coding out of books. Her first job as a junior designer introduced her to WordPress. She also learned about SEO, social media marketing, website security, and just how to run a business well. She struck out and started her own business (Allie Nimmons Creative) in 2016 and rebranded as Pixel Glow Web Design in 2018.
Talk: “How To Improve Your Client’s Experience”: The main takeaways are tips taken directly from Allie’s own process that have been used in order to make client workflows more fun and easy to understand. Designers and developers struggle sometimes with educating their clients and making the process overall seem less daunting. Allie will share a link to download a customizable Welcome Packet template that she has created.
Nathan Ingram
Nathan is the Host at iThemes Training where he teaches WordPress and freelance business development topics via live webinar.He is also the creator of >ADVANCE Coaching, working with WordPress business owners individually and in groups to help them become more successful in their businesses.
Nathan has been a freelance web developer since 1995, and is based in Birmingham, Alabama where he is an organizer for WordCamp Birmingham. You can learn more about Nathan at https://nathaningram.com.
Talk: “What I Wish I’d Known About Freelancing”: Our success as freelancers is built upon the lessons we’ve learned from our biggest mistakes. In this talk, Nathan draws on more than 20 years experience in the web business to share 10 important lessons he had to learn the hard way and common mistakes we all can avoid. Each lesson is summarized in a succinct, proverbial statement and then unpacked with examples that will make you laugh, cringe and think.
Gayle Williams
Gayle Williams, owner of Vision Marketing in Sarasota, FL, has spent the majority of her career as a marketing professional directing marketing operations for not-for-profits and small businesses. Gayle moved over to agency account management in 2002 and founded her own agency in 2008. From directing strategy and client relations she moved into hands-on design and development—growing in the opposite direction than most designers has had its strategic advantages. Today she runs a thriving digital marketing and WordPress design business from her home office, and enjoys the work-family balance it provides.
Talk: “Be Your Clients’ Hero”: Do you feel that part of your mission as a WordPress website designer is to enlighten and empower your clients? Sure, our bottom line is to build excellent websites that serve business goals, but we can build a better partnership and trust with our clients if we educate them along the way. How can we do this without wasting hours explaining basic concepts over and over? In this session we will discuss the website owner’s bill of rights and ways to bake the education into your client onboarding process.
We will cover types of content to leverage, email workflows, and recommended wording in contracts and project emails.
Michelle Schulp
Michelle is an independent graphic designer and frontend developer in Minneapolis. Prior to beginning her career, she studied Visual Communications, with minors in Psychology and Sociology. As her work progressed, she also branched into front-end development and user experience design to round our her skillset. This combination of disciplines led her to adopt a strategy-based approach to design, focused on solving tangible problems and achieving real goals based on how people think.
She loves the open source community, and when she is not working on projects she speaks/volunteers/organizes at events and workshops around the country. Her passions are communication and empowerment, and she believes in the power of “Why?”
Talk: “Fitness And Freelance”.
Rian Kinney
Rian Kinney is a Florida attorney, legal consultant, published author, and founder of eCommLegal and the Kinney Firm which represents and advises founders and businesses of every size, from freelancers to enterprise; across industries in the areas of: tech, e-commerce, privacy, intellectual property and corporate law, as well as business and marketing strategy. She is also a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals and maintains their Certified Information Privacy Manager and Certified Privacy Professional/Europe designations.
Talk: “Freelancer’s Guide To Contracts”: Tired of Contracts talks that start with “I’m not an attorney, but…”… Rian Kinney IS a Florida attorney here to answer your entrepreneurial questions such as: “Can I use a Template? If so, what should I look for?”
In this talk you will discover what clauses are “boilerplate” and you should have in your contracts which will also help you better discern which templates are well drafted. Other legal questions and issues that will be addressed are e-signatures, credit card processing fees, privacy policies and terms of use
Adam Soucie
Adam Soucie is the founder and CEO of Impossibly Creative, a small business agency focusing on WordPress. He is also a member of the WordPress Orlando organizing team.
Talk: “How Freelancers Can Apply The Disney Basics When Dealing With Clients”: In this talk, Adam will discuss his time working at Walt Disney World in multiple roles, and apply the famed “Disney Basics” to working with web clients as a freelancer or customer-facing team member.
Jessi Gurr
Jessi’s love for website development started back in 1993, when at the age of 12 she learned HTML and secured her first dot-com. She has been working with WordPress since 2005, and today runs a WordPress website development company in Minneapolis, MN. Jessi lives in Anoka MN, and loves traveling for both business, and with her two young boys. She enjoys organic gardening and vegan cooking.
Talk: “Project Management”. Whether you are working as a freelancer, or as part of a team, chances are that communicating with customers falls somewhere in your job description. As a website developer, you love the part of your job where you get to develop – but you also need to develop communication and project management skills to help you stay on top of projects, interact with your customers, and make sure that projects don’t spiral out of control or take more money or time than you budgeted.
In this talk, we will discuss the basics of project management. You’ll learn techniques for getting a project started on the right foot – things like making sure that your customer contracts are crystal clear, and setting up clear timelines and project milestones. You’ll also learn how to handle scope creep, and how to deal with projects that have fallen off course.
Joe Casabona
Joe Casabona is a college course developer and professor. He also has his Master’s Degree in Software Engineering, is a Front End Developer, and hosts multiple podcasts.
Joe started freelancing in 2002, and has been a teacher at the college level for over 10 years. His passion in both areas has driven him to build Creator Courses, a school for those who want to create online businesses.
As a big proponent of learning by doing, he loves creating focused, task-driven courses to help students build something. When he’s not teaching, he’s interviewing people for his podcast, How I Built It.
Talk: “How Freelancers Can Diversify Their Income”: We’ve all experienced the feast and famine of running a business. There will be times where we are swamped with work, and times where there’s no work coming in at all. What if there were a way to ease the pain of both? In this talk, you will learn how you can prepare for the famine without breaking your back from the feast. All by diversifying your income streams.
We plan to have a Q&A session at the end of the workshop to cover as many questions as possible.
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Gayle Williams, owner of Vision Marketing in Sarasota, FL, has spent the majority of her career as a marketing professional directing marketing operations for not-for-profits and small businesses. Gayle moved over to agency account management in 2002 and founded her own agency in 2008. From directing strategy and client relations she moved into hands-on design and development—growing in the opposite direction than most designers has had its strategic advantages. Today she runs a thriving digital marketing and WordPress design business from her home office, and enjoys the work-family balance it provides.
Michelle is an independent graphic designer and frontend developer in Minneapolis. Prior to beginning her career, she studied Visual Communications, with minors in Psychology and Sociology. As her work progressed, she also branched into front-end development and user experience design to round our her skillset. This combination of disciplines led her to adopt a strategy-based approach to design, focused on solving tangible problems and achieving real goals based on how people think.
Rian Kinney is a Florida attorney, legal consultant, published author, and founder of eCommLegal and the Kinney Firm which represents and advises founders and businesses of every size, from freelancers to enterprise; across industries in the areas of: tech, e-commerce, privacy, intellectual property and corporate law, as well as business and marketing strategy. She is also a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals and maintains their Certified Information Privacy Manager and Certified Privacy Professional/Europe designations.
Adam Soucie is the founder and CEO of Impossibly Creative, a small business agency focusing on WordPress. He is also a member of the WordPress Orlando organizing team.
Jessi’s love for website development started back in 1993, when at the age of 12 she learned HTML and secured her first dot-com. She has been working with WordPress since 2005, and today runs a WordPress website development company in Minneapolis, MN. Jessi lives in Anoka MN, and loves traveling for both business, and with her two young boys. She enjoys organic gardening and vegan cooking.
Joe Casabona is a college course developer and professor. He also has his Master’s Degree in Software Engineering, is a Front End Developer, and hosts multiple podcasts.