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Lorelle VanFossen (Person of the Day #0031)

WordPress Person of the Day #0031

Name: Lorelle VanFossen

Country: United States

About her (from her about page):

There are many sides to Lorelle VanFossen. One is a public speaker, trainer, writer, and consultant on web writing, web design, and blogging, especially working with WordPress. Another is as a transient traveling the world as part of the duo team of VanFossen Productions, professional nature photographers and writers presenting workshops and programs on travel, writing, and nature photography.

Called a blog evangelist, on Lorelle on WordPress she writes about everything WordPress, blogging, and social media, covering more than you may want to know about how all this blogging business and social stuff works.

Lorelle is also the author of the popular Blogging Tips: What Bloggers Won’t Tell You About Blogging, a book covering the basic to intermediate tips you need to know before and during your blogging experience, the first book of its kind. She shares her many years of online journaling, web writing and publishing, and blogging experiences as one of the first website owners and publishers on the web.

Her first site, Taking Your Camera on the Road, is dedicated to providing educational and experiential information on travel, nature photography, travel photography, and life on the road. Lorelle also covers genealogy on Lorelle’s Family History Blog, focused on genealogy and her family’s ancestors.

Lorelle is also a regular columnist for the Blog Herald, Blogger and Podcaster Magazine, Darren Rowse’s Problogger, and a member of the 9Rules Network.

You can frequently find Lorelle and her husband, Brent, and their writing and photography in many national and international magazines, newspapers, ezines, and blogs such as Blog Herald, Outdoor and Nature Photography, Shutterbug, Photo Techniques, The Mountaineer, Jerusalem Post, Phenomenal Women of the Web, and Weblog Tools Collection.

Blogging since 1994, before the term “blog” was developed, Lorelle is also involved with WordPress as a volunteer helping to write and develop the WordPress Codex and assisting others on the WordPress Forum.

Lorelle has written over two thousand thousands of articles on WordPress, blogging, and web design and development, receiving special recognition for her early innovative explorations into the possible in web design elements with her series on CSS Unleashed – Experiments with CSS Designs and other web designs, development, and standards. She works with many individual businesses, schools, non-profits, and other agencies as a consultant and educator to improve their web standards, policies, and practices.

She is an outspoken leader of web standards, accessibility standards and usability, and travels extensively to consult and present programs and workshops as a program leader, teacher and public speaker on web design, standards, blogging, and writing. Recently, Lorelle presented keynotes and programs at WordCamp 2007, WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco, WordCamp Portland in Oregon, Podcamp and WordCamp Hawaii, WordCamp Dallas, WordCamp Israel in Tel Aviv (English) (you can read some of the WordPress Tips presented at the program), SOBCon – the Successful and Outstanding Blogger Conference in Chicago in 2007 and 2008 (and 2009), and many other blogging conferences.

If your company, association, or group would be interested in a training program or presentation, please ask.

Lorelle is currently back in the United States after five years spent living overseas avoiding terrorists and political leaders in the Middle East, and has been found in Hurricane Alley swinging a chainsaw and shovel helping the recovery from Hurricane Ivan and Hurricane Katrina, and whatever hurricanes kept coming. She recently moved closer (Oregon) to her native Seattle, where only earthquakes and traffic jams can terrorize her.