{"id":288789,"date":"2014-05-24T18:02:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T23:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.kansascity.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=288789"},"modified":"2014-07-18T03:39:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T08:39:16","slug":"shane-purnell","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/kansascity.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker\/shane-purnell\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Purnell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2014.kansascity.wordcamp.org\/files\/2014\/05\/Shane-p.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-289274 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/2014.kansascity.wordcamp.org\/files\/2014\/05\/Shane-p-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kansascity.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/05\/Shane-p-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kansascity.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/05\/Shane-p.jpg 168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Shane is a full time IT professional who speaks part-time at special events and conferences. He&#8217;s been using WordPress for all of his websites since 2009. He has multiple blogs on technology, personal development and platform building. His current project is PlatformGiant.com, a WordPress site that provides speakers with tools and resources for becoming better communicators.<\/p>\n<p>Starting as a PC tech in 1998, Shane worked his way up the IT chain serving as a UI designer for web applications, a network support technician, a Network\/Systems Administrator and is currently a Senior Applications Engineer for an industry leading, national software company.<\/p>\n<p>He holds a degree in Speech Communication from the University of Missouri and has spent the last 15 years studying how to use the Internet to communicate more effectively.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bio\">\n<h3 class=\"session-title\">Sessions<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"session-links\"><a title=\"Telling Your Story with About Pages and Author Bios\" href=\"https:\/\/2014.kansascity.wordcamp.org\/session\/telling-your-story-with-about-pages-and-author-bios\/\">Telling Your Story with About Pages and Author Bios<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/PlatformGiant\/telling-your-story-with-wordpress-about-pages-and-author-bios\" target=\"_blank\">Session Slide<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"bio-title\">Bio Info<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"bio-short\"><strong>From: <\/strong>KCMO<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"bio-links\"><strong>Links:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.platformgiant.com\" target=\"_blank\">platformgiant.com<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanepurnell.com\" target=\"_blank\">shanepurnell.com<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/dialedinforsuccess.com\" target=\"_blank\">dialedinforsuccess.com<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeyShanePurnell\" target=\"_blank\">@HeyShanePurnell<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlatformGiant\" target=\"_blank\">@PlatformGiant<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImDialedIn\" target=\"_blank\">@ImDialedIn<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shane is a full time IT professional who speaks part-time at special events and conferences. He&#8217;s been using WordPress for all of his websites since 2009. He has multiple blogs on technology, personal development and platform building. His current project is PlatformGiant.com, a WordPress site that provides speakers with tools and resources for becoming better &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kansascity.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker\/shane-purnell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shane Purnell<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10573955,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_wcpt_user_name":"","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-288789","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f89c618d94bf5843209fc10cfbc82ced3bcb56de462299c54d25a14f6e61e938?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f89c618d94bf5843209fc10cfbc82ced3bcb56de462299c54d25a14f6e61e938?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f89c618d94bf5843209fc10cfbc82ced3bcb56de462299c54d25a14f6e61e938?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f89c618d94bf5843209fc10cfbc82ced3bcb56de462299c54d25a14f6e61e938?s=128&d=mm&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f89c618d94bf5843209fc10cfbc82ced3bcb56de462299c54d25a14f6e61e938?s=256&d=mm&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f89c618d94bf5843209fc10cfbc82ced3bcb56de462299c54d25a14f6e61e938?s=512&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kansascity.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/288789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kansascity.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kansascity.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kansascity.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10573955"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kansascity.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288789"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/kansascity.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/288789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290657,"href":"https:\/\/kansascity.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/288789\/revisions\/290657"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kansascity.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/289077?_embed=1&context=view"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kansascity.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kansascity.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=288789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}