WordCamp Philly 2011

Marie Selvanadin is a Web Application Developer at the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship at Georgetown University (GU) where faculty, students, and staff have been using WordPress for about five years now. You can find some interesting case studies here. At CNDLS, she does Django development, writes WordPress plugins and helps manage GU’s multisite infrastructure which has about 3,100 blogs.

Marie will be participating in the Academic Panel – Socializing Higher Education through Content Management Systems.

David Schuff is Associate Professor of Management Information Systems at Temple University and is part of the MIS Community Site Project (http://community.mis.temple.edu). He is also the Director of Innovation in Learning Technologies for the Fox School of Business. David studies various topics in social media, including its use in political campaigns, political polarization in the blogosphere, and online consumer reviews. He can be found on Twitter at@dschuff.

David will be participating in the Academic Panel – Socializing Higher Education through Content Management Systems.

Helen Hou-Sandi is a Web Design Engineer with 10up and formerly served as Web Developer at the Eastman School of Music. She loves WordPress for its flexibility, extensibility, and community and largely focuses on CMS implementations. When not at the computer, Helen can be found practicing and performing as an accomplished classical collaborative pianist.

Helen will be participating in the Academic Panel – Socializing Higher Education through Content Management Systems.

Bill Dennen is a Web Technologist at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. Somehow, what started out as a part-time job as an undergraduate in college has turned into a 20-year career of supporting the use of technology in higher education. Bill remembers the first time he received a URL via email and wondered “what do I do with it?” and he has been focused on and fascinated by the web ever since. Prior to Wheaton, Bill worked at Brown University and Colby College. Outside of work, Bill is an avid Red Sox fan and enjoys traveling to sunny, warm destinations with his family. Follow Bill at @wjdennen on Twitter.

Bill will be participating in the Academic Panel – Socializing Higher Education through Content Management Systems.

Matthew Gold is Assistant Professor of English at New York City College of Technology and the CUNY Graduate Center, where he also serves as Assistant to the Provost for Master’s Programs and Digital Initiatives. He’s began using WordPress in 2004; since then, he’s gone on to direct several WordPress/BuddyPress academic projects, including the CUNY Academic Commons and Looking for Whitman. Matt’s especially proud that these projects contribute back to the WordPress community; the plugins developed by the CUNY Academic Commons team have been downloaded over 100,000 times.

Matthew will be participating in the Academic Panel – Socializing Higher Education through Content Management Systems.