{"id":2433,"date":"2018-04-22T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.raleigh.wordcamp.org\/?p=2433"},"modified":"2018-04-22T09:40:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T13:40:54","slug":"speaker-spotlight-brian-deconinck-jen-mcfarland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/speaker-spotlight-brian-deconinck-jen-mcfarland\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Brian DeConinck &amp; Jen McFarland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Brian DeConinck is a Boston-based front-end designer and developer with NC State University\u2019s Office of Information Technology. In all of his projects, Brian is committed to universal design principles emphasizing accessibility, usability and user empathy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Brian is also co-host of the WPCampus Podcast, where he gets to talk to interesting people about the interesting things they\u2019re doing with WordPress in higher ed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Jen Riehle McFarland has been working in NC State\u2019s central IT group for over 10 years, starting in the Help Desk, moving into web design\/dev and eventually, the agony of management. She\u2019s a WordPress fangirl, a champion for women in IT, a serious beer enthusiast, an adequate technical communicator (but she writes awful run-on sentences), and a proud geek chick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">Brian and Jen will be presentation &#8220;GutenReady for the Gutenpocalypse&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s2\">Join us as we recap our adventure so far into the world of user testing, communication strategies, site assessments, and overcoming resistance. This is a story of change management as we safely navigate our campus to the other side of the Gutenpocalypse.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">@BrianDeConinck @ncsumarit<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian DeConinck is a Boston-based front-end designer and developer with NC State University\u2019s Office of Information Technology. In all of his projects, Brian is committed to universal design principles emphasizing accessibility, usability and user empathy. 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