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<\/p>\nAt 4PM on May 14th, we’ll be holding a special panel for bloggers and content creators. Our panel consists of bloggers with a lot of knowledge and experience. They also have wide knowledge in various niche.<\/p>\n
In this panel, you can ask questions about how to make money with your blog, SEO, and anything dealing with blogging. We’ll start off with some prepared questions, and then open the questions to the room, so have your questions ready!<\/p>\n
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(in Alphabetical order)<\/em><\/p>\n Hailing from Carbondale, Illinois (the other, prettier part\u00a0of Illinois), she\u2019s\u00a0also the lead organizer of the Southern Illinois WordPress Meetup and teaches beginners\u2019 WordPress at\u00a0John A. Logan College.<\/p>\n You can follow her blog at CantSpeakGeek.com<\/a>, and on Twitter at @Michele_Butcher<\/a>.<\/p>\n She also loves contributing to WordPress, and that includes speaking at WordCamps across the United States. She loves helping people and supporting Open Source projects.<\/p>\n In other news, Nile is a proud support member at Team Yoast<\/a>. She also runs a 8,000 member Facebook group dedicated to helping WordPressers, called All About WordPress<\/a>. Nile is also the 2014 and 2015 Community Choice Winner at the Small Business Influencer Awards, hosted by Small Business Trends. When Nile isn\u2019t knee deep in coding and design, she\u2019s spending time with her son, who is also a WordPress user.<\/p>\n You can follow Nile on Twitter at @blondishnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n (Nile started off as a hobby blogger over 14 years ago.)<\/p>\n You heard that right.<\/p>\n He tells stories about the importance of storytelling.<\/p>\n Until mid-April\u00a0the CTO and Chief Strategist at Crowd Favorite, Chris has spent the last two decades managing high-performing teams\u00a0who build software products. (Largely, by telling them stories.)<\/p>\n Usually, that\u2019s\u00a0been\u00a0SaaS products across\u00a0a variety of B2B vertical markets.\u00a0But the description also applies to his coaching practice, as he\u2019s helped startups\u00a0\u2013\u00a0in recent years primarily WordPress startups \u2013 develop more viable\u00a0products and take them to market faster. You can find his blog at ChrisLema.com<\/a>. Follow him on Twitter at @chrislema<\/a>.<\/p>\n In that short period, he\u2019s also\u00a0personally<\/em> written more than\u00a04,000 articles for clients and his own projects.<\/p>\n That level of productivity has drawn Andy\u00a0a lot of attention from news organizations of every size, including some major players: on the\u00a0national level, Fox News and WGN\u00a0have interviewed him about his approach to content.\u00a0Closer to home, AM 560 the WIND, and many more\u00a0have brought Andy\u2019s story to their audiences.<\/p>\n You can find Andy on Twitter at @andynathan<\/a>.<\/p>\n Our Moderator: Chris\u00a0Miller<\/strong><\/p>\n You can follow him on Twitter at @idonotes<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Don’t miss out on all the awesome information that this panel will unleash, buy your WordCamp St. Louis ticket now!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At 4PM on May 14th, we’ll be holding a special panel for bloggers and content creators. Our panel consists of bloggers with a lot of knowledge and experience. They also have wide knowledge in various niche. In this panel, you … Continue reading Meet The Blogger Panel<\/span> Michele Butcher<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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A self-styled, proud graduate of the University of Inspect Element \u2014 aren\u2019t we all? \u2014 Michele is a triple threat in the WordPress world:<\/p>\n\n
Nile Flores<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Nile Flores is a long time WordPress designer and Developer. While she grew up a military brat, she eventually settled in the St. Louis metro east region. Nile blogs at Blondish.net<\/a>, where she covers topics on WordPress, Blogging, SEO, Social Media, and Web Design.<\/p>\nChris Lema<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Chris Lema is a storyteller \u2013\u00a0and a storytelling evangelist.<\/p>\nAndrew Nathan<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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In the last five\u00a0years, Andy Nathan has\u00a0worked with hundreds of clients in more than 75 different industries, helping them improve\u00a0their blogging and social media.<\/p>\n<\/h4>\n
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Chris Miller is the founder of http:\/\/<\/span>SpikedStudio.com<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/a>. He’s a\u00a0social network and app reviewer, a videocaster\/podcaster, and a constant link giver.<\/p>\n
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