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Episode 16: Alison Knott
Introducing Alison Knott
Growing up as an extroverted nerd has paid off. Alison is a community leader and artist with a passion for WordPress. Her mission is to delight and engage people through raising the bar on web literacy. She is controlled by two tiny parrots.
Show Notes
Website | http://eraserheader.com
Twitter | @Eraserheader
Instagram | @drawstrange
Other mentions:
Meagan Hanes: http://meaganhanes.com/
East Coast Creative Collective: http://e3chalifax.ca/
‘The Artists Way’: http://juliacameronlive.com/books-by-julia/the-artists-way-a-spiritual-path-to-higher-creativity/
Johnny Cupcakes: https://johnnycupcakes.com/
WordPress Halifax Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/WordPress-Halifax
Episode Transcript
Liam: This is Hallway Chats, where we talk with some of the unique people in and around WordPress.
Tara: Together, we meet and chat with folks you may not know about in our community.
Liam: With our guests, we’ll explore stories of living – and of making a living with WordPress.
Tara: And now the conversation begins. This is episode 16.
Tara: Welcome to Hallway Chats, I’m Tara Claeys.
Liam: And I’m Liam Dempsey. Today, we’re joined by Alison Knott. Growing up as an extroverted nerd has paid off. Alison is a community leader and artist with a passion for WordPress. Her mission is to delight and engage people through raising the bar on web literacy. She is controlled by two tiny parrots. Hi, Alison.
Alison: Good morning.
Tara: Hello Alison, welcome. Can you tell us a little bit more about yourself besides that really creative and awesome introduction that Liam just gave?
Alison: Hahaha, sure, no problem. The birds let me out of my cage today so I can come and chat with you guys. I am a proud Canadian hailing from Halifax on the one side of the Eastern Seaboard of Canada, and I am a– I guess I’m kind of the go-to lady locally for WordPress and for just basically keeping communities together. I run a variety of things from artist meetups, I run a WordPress Meetup. I ran the first WordPress conference east of Montreal and essentially I really enjoy watching people become educated around the web. I think so many people use it but they don’t know– it’s like we’re all driving cars but we have no idea it has wheels. You just get from A to B. And I like to help people understand what’s going on there so that they don’t get frustrated and those of us that are professionals have a better time working with everybody because we’re all on the same page, that’s me.
Liam: That is excellent. What an intro! Thank you. There’s so much to unpack there and I really want to dive into it, but first, we’ve got to talk about the parrots. Is that cabal of evil, is it a coincidence? Tell us about the parrots.
Alison: The parrots are– that’s more like a personal story. When I was going through separation, basically– which is totally fine, we’re both still totally cool friends. My friend at the time, who would eventually become my boyfriend, he had owned birds before and he got two green cheek conures which are the little tiny green guys that are six inches tall. They’re the ‘quietest’ birds you can get. It’s not true, birds are loud.
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Introducing Alison Knott
Growing up as an extroverted nerd has paid off. Alison is a community leader and artist with a passion for WordPress. Her mission is to delight and engage people through raising the bar on web literacy. She is controlled by two tiny parrots.
Show Notes
Website | http://eraserheader.com
Twitter | @Eraserheader
Instagram | @drawstrange
Other mentions:
Meagan Hanes: http://meaganhanes.com/
East Coast Creative Collective: http://e3chalifax.ca/
‘The Artists Way’: http://juliacameronlive.com/books-by-julia/the-artists-way-a-spiritual-path-to-higher-creativity/
Johnny Cupcakes: https://johnnycupcakes.com/
WordPress Halifax Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/WordPress-Halifax
Episode Transcript
Liam: This is Hallway Chats, where we talk with some of the unique people in and around WordPress.
Tara: Together, we meet and chat with folks you may not know about in our community.
Liam: With our guests, we’ll explore stories of living – and of making a living with WordPress.
Tara: And now the conversation begins. This is episode 16.
Tara: Welcome to Hallway Chats, I’m Tara Claeys.
Liam: And I’m Liam Dempsey. Today, we’re joined by Alison Knott. Growing up as an extroverted nerd has paid off. Alison is a community leader and artist with a passion for WordPress. Her mission is to delight and engage people through raising the bar on web literacy. She is controlled by two tiny parrots. Hi, Alison.
Alison: Good morning.
Tara: Hello Alison, welcome. Can you tell us a little bit more about yourself besides that really creative and awesome introduction that Liam just gave?
Alison: Hahaha, sure, no problem. The birds let me out of my cage today so I can come and chat with you guys. I am a proud Canadian hailing from Halifax on the one side of the Eastern Seaboard of Canada, and I am a– I guess I’m kind of the go-to lady locally for WordPress and for just basically keeping communities together. I run a variety of things from artist meetups, I run a WordPress Meetup. I ran the first WordPress conference east of Montreal and essentially I really enjoy watching people become educated around the web. I think so many people use it but they don’t know– it’s like we’re all driving cars but we have no idea it has wheels. You just get from A to B. And I like to help people understand what’s going on there so that they don’t get frustrated and those of us that are professionals have a better time working with everybody because we’re all on the same page, that’s me.
Liam: That is excellent. What an intro! Thank you. There’s so much to unpack there and I really want to dive into it, but first, we’ve got to talk about the parrots. Is that cabal of evil, is it a coincidence? Tell us about the parrots.
Alison: The parrots are– that’s more like a personal story. When I was going through separation, basically– which is totally fine, we’re both still totally cool friends. My friend at the time, who would eventually become my boyfriend, he had owned birds before and he got two green cheek conures which are the little tiny green guys that are six inches tall. They’re the ‘quietest’ birds you can get. It’s not true, birds are loud.