{"id":522,"date":"2011-08-31T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T23:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2011.la.wordcamp.org\/?p=522"},"modified":"2011-09-01T08:12:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T15:12:56","slug":"speaker-spotlight-marcus-cohn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2011\/speaker-spotlight-marcus-cohn\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Marcus Cohn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very excited to be presenting at WordCamp LA.  While I&#8217;m based in NYC, I&#8217;m frequently in LA and am thrilled to meet the LA WP community.<\/p>\n<p>I run creative and website design and development at <a href=\"http:\/\/2tor.com\">2tor<\/a>, a company who partners with preeminent institutions of higher education to deliver rigorous, selective degree programs online to students globally. We currently work with 3 schools on 4 different programs.  We work with the University of Southern California on a <a href=\"http:\/\/mat.usc.edu\/\">Master of Arts in Teaching<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/msw.usc.edu\/\">Master\u2019s of Social Work<\/a>, Georgetown University on a <a href=\"http:\/\/online.nursing.georgetown.edu\">Master\u2019s in Nursing<\/a> degree and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on an <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinemba.unc.edu\/\">Online MBA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While at 2tor, I\u2019ve led the strategy, design, and implementation of a dozen websites for some of the nation\u2019s top tier universities, all of them WordPress. We love WordPress and use it to power all of our marketing sites. During my talk, \u201cWordPress for Education: How to build a kickass .edu site\u201d I\u2019ll be sharing many of the lessons we\u2019ve learned developing websites for universities in the past 3+ years.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about me at <a href=\"http:\/\/marcuscohn.com\">Marcuscohn.com<\/a>, or visit 2tor.com to learn more about what we do.  See you all in a few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very excited to be presenting at WordCamp LA. While I&#8217;m based in NYC, I&#8217;m frequently in LA and am thrilled to meet the LA WP community. I run creative and website design and development at 2tor, a company who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2011\/speaker-spotlight-marcus-cohn\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaker Spotlight: Marcus Cohn<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1182490,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6543],"tags":[12171,5015],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers-2","tag-marcus-cohn","tag-speaker"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Cz5E-8q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1182490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}