{"id":1042,"date":"2017-04-05T16:51:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T21:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.raleigh.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=1042"},"modified":"2017-04-08T08:42:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T13:42:44","slug":"doug-foster","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker\/doug-foster\/","title":{"rendered":"Doug Foster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I build short stories, proof points, &amp; engaging experiences that convince people to take action.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My best story? One <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Sunday<\/span><\/span> morning in Dallas I tipped the sale for 180,000 Cisco IP phones to Bank of America <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">in 10 minutes<\/span><\/span>. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2dlNPMB\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2dlNPMB<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thirty+ years in sales, marketing, IT, engineering, and manufacturing with companies ranging from startups to global high tech. What&#8217;s fun? Biking, kayaking, travel, stories, and geeky stuff &#8230; like WordPress, building a geodesic dome home, &amp; working with NASA.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>About me &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/dougfoster.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/dougfoster.info<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>About my work &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/convinsys.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/convinsys.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I build short stories, proof points, &amp; engaging experiences that convince people to take action. My best story? One Sunday morning in Dallas I tipped the sale for 180,000 Cisco IP phones to Bank of America in 10 minutes. http:\/\/bit.ly\/2dlNPMB Thirty+ years in sales, marketing, IT, engineering, and manufacturing with companies ranging from startups to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker\/doug-foster\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Doug Foster&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5870849,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_user_name":"","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-1042","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jotV-gO","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9d70e0881559bdc084c4205386635f86369b748618a8b44fa0d19d13a8e02bba?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9d70e0881559bdc084c4205386635f86369b748618a8b44fa0d19d13a8e02bba?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9d70e0881559bdc084c4205386635f86369b748618a8b44fa0d19d13a8e02bba?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9d70e0881559bdc084c4205386635f86369b748618a8b44fa0d19d13a8e02bba?s=128&d=mm&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9d70e0881559bdc084c4205386635f86369b748618a8b44fa0d19d13a8e02bba?s=256&d=mm&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9d70e0881559bdc084c4205386635f86369b748618a8b44fa0d19d13a8e02bba?s=512&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5870849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1150,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1042\/revisions\/1150"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1044?_embed=1&context=view"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1040?_embed=1&context=view"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}