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Began computering long ago, before the internet. Started life as a journalist, then PR professional, then ran a graphic boutique and next a PR agency. I was a faculty member at two research universities, while I ran a PR shop with national clients. I was director of an innovation assessment center at one of those universities,director of PR for a rather awesome and large veterinary college and an assistant director of a graduate research program dealing with integrated management of water resources.

When the net came, I met it with joy. There were hours left for sleep so I took some of that time and began learning html. I remember the days of vanilla editors for coding, html, cgi, perl, and am awed at the evolution to a now of php, css, javascript, frameworks and cms’s and more. I love open-source and respectful communities where members contributions are valued and sought. I love collaboration among humans. I spend my days building businesses, promoting and coding and learning, learning, learning.

I left the busy metro markets and now live happily rural by forests and rivers and with fast internet. I am able to end my days by fishing, hunting or or hiking. I eat barrels of berries, after trapping crawfish or eating smoked steelhead

Life is good, very, very good.

WordPress Origin Story

I began my CMS life in Drupal, which to this day, I still enjoy. The community there makes my head light on fire. A client demanded that a site be built in WP and I caved. I wasn’t ecstatic. I mastered it pretty quickly and the benefit was seeing the difference between WP and Drupal. The tools need to match the job and align with client needs, client involvement with the site after launch. I now bounce between them but have also added ClassicPress, as some clients insisted. Community and collaboration are huge to me. Humans need to live nicely with each other and tap each other’s brains for more knowledge. I look for environments that help with growth of knowledge and technical skills. I look for environments where giving is valued. I look for environments where being a woman and one’s age isn’t a thing. I’m always looking — before and after eating berries.

  • Member Since: March 22nd, 2013
  • Location: on the border of Idaho, Washington and Oregon in the USA, at least for now.
  • Website: no self promotions
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