{"id":876453,"date":"2014-05-12T08:46:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T12:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.charleston.wordcamp.org\/?p=876453"},"modified":"2014-05-12T08:46:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T12:46:19","slug":"speaker-spotlight-maggie-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker-spotlight-maggie-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight &#8211; Maggie Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-876476\" src=\"https:\/\/2014.charleston.wordcamp.org\/files\/2014\/05\/WordCamp-Post-Image-Maggie-Hall.jpg\" alt=\"Maggie Hall\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/05\/WordCamp-Post-Image-Maggie-Hall.jpg 600w, https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/05\/WordCamp-Post-Image-Maggie-Hall-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/05\/WordCamp-Post-Image-Maggie-Hall-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333\">As a designer focused 100% on the user experience, Maggie&#8217;s found many ways to turn WordPress into a testing ground. She&#8217;s used it to develop website wireframes, conduct A\/B tests, create web graphics and even research audiences, virtually eliminating the need for all the extra software and monthly services that can easily eat up marketing budgets.<!--more--> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>And she can do it all behind the scenes while getting a new WordPress website launch-ready at the same time. Who knew?<\/p>\n<p>Maggie is a Senior User Experience Designer at <a style=\"color: #bc360a\" title=\"SPARC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sparcedge.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">SPARC<\/a>, where she&#8217;s led countless website redesigns as well as mobile app and product launches.<\/p>\n<p>Come see how Maggie&#8217;s marketing-first business strategies and creative WordPress uses have helped startups and small businesses create user-friendly, visually appealing, <a style=\"color: #bc360a\" title=\"Agile Design for Marketing Websites: Building WordPress Content Collaboratively with Startups\" href=\"https:\/\/2014.charleston.wordcamp.org\/session\/agile-design-for-marketing-websites-building-wordpress-content-collaboratively-with-startups\/\" target=\"_blank\">agile designs<\/a>. And how she uses a single platform\u2014WordPress\u2014to get a lot of the work done.<\/p>\n<p>Connect with Maggie at\u00a0<a style=\"color: #bc360a\" title=\"@maggieDixonHall\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maggieDixonHall\">@maggieDixonHall<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a designer focused 100% on the user experience, Maggie&#8217;s found many ways to turn WordPress into a testing ground. She&#8217;s used it to develop website wireframes, conduct A\/B tests, create web graphics and even research audiences, virtually eliminating the need for all the extra software and monthly services that can easily eat up marketing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker-spotlight-maggie-hall\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaker Spotlight &#8211; Maggie Hall<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6317516,"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":[248339],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6317516"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876453"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876564,"href":"https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876453\/revisions\/876564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charleston.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}