{"id":1039,"date":"2016-09-20T10:59:22","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T15:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.dfw.wordcamp.org\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2016-09-22T19:35:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T00:35:49","slug":"our-qa-with-susan-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2016\/our-qa-with-susan-sullivan\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Q&amp;A with Susan Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Susan\u00a0will be joining us as a speaker for WordCamp DFW with her\u00a0talk entitled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/2016.dfw.wordcamp.org\/session\/discovery-and-design\/\">Discovery and Design<\/a>&#8221; on our Business\u00a0track.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Why do you use WordPress?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Before Sumy Designs started using WordPress we were using Joomla. We use WordPress because it isn\u2019t Joomla. We needed a CMS that our clients could easily manage and WordPress fit the bill.<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">When and how did you get started using WordPress?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">We created our first WordPress site for a client in 2006, we loved it and by 2009 we were using WordPress exclusively.<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">How do you stay informed about WordPress news, tips, etc.?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">We stay up-to-date about WordPress through twitter, blogs and podcasts.<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">What do you like most about WordCamps? (and which have you attended?)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Sumy designs attended their first WordCamp in 2013 and we walked away with so much information that it changed the way we ran out business. These changes made our small business boom.<span style=\"font-family: arial\">\u00a0T<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial\">he value of networking with other with people who have the same interests is immeasurable. (<\/span>I\u2019ve attended WordCamps in Las Vegas, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Boston.)<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 1.285714286rem\">Susan\u00a0will be speaking at WordCamp DFW 2016. Her\u00a0talk is entitled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/2016.dfw.wordcamp.org\/session\/discovery-and-design\/\">Discovery and Design<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.285714286rem\">&#8220;! Until then, find\u00a0Susan<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.285714286rem\">\u00a0online at\u00a0<a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sumydesigns.com\" target=\"_blank\">sumydesigns.com<\/a>\u00a0or tweet her\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/runnersusan\">@runnersusan<\/a>.<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan\u00a0will be joining us as a speaker for WordCamp DFW with her\u00a0talk entitled &#8220;Discovery and Design&#8221; on our Business\u00a0track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15031404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7pEJ2-gL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15031404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}