{"id":678,"date":"2011-06-13T16:44:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T20:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2011.boston.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=678"},"modified":"2011-06-23T19:25:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T23:25:40","slug":"chris-penn","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/speaker\/chris-penn\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Penn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Christopher S. Penn. I\u2019m a bridge. I stand between different fields, professions, and ideas in order to help people on both sides understand each other. I can speak and sling code, but I\u2019m not an IT professional. I can design campaign strategies and write copy, but I\u2019m not a marketing professional. Where I provide value is in helping IT understand marketing and vice versa. The same is true for the martial arts, for education, for all of the different worlds I work and play in. I play World of Warcraft, but take the lessons from a virtual battlefield and apply them to business. I take solutions from the dojo floor and bring them to marketing.<\/p>\n<p><!--\n\nThe net effect of all this is that fresh ideas, insights, and solutions are never far away because I can take a problem in one world, look for a similar problem with a solution in another world, and find solutions when \u201cpure professionals\u201d in just one world get stuck. That\u2019s who I am, that\u2019s what I do.\n\nI\u2019m also the Vice President of Strategy and Innovation at Blue Sky Factory email marketing, a co-founder of PodCamp with Chris Brogan, a co-host of the Marketing Over Coffee marketing podcast with John Wall, a professor of Internet Marketing and lead subject matter expert, curriculum designer, and professor of Advanced Social Media at the University of San Francisco online. I\u2019ve been a practitioner of the martial arts for 20 years now, and currently hold a black belt in ninjutsu under the guidance of Sensei Mark Davis of the Boston Martial Arts Center.--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Christopher S. Penn. I\u2019m a bridge. I stand between different fields, professions, and ideas in order to help people on both sides understand each other. I can speak and sling code, but I\u2019m not an IT professional. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/speaker\/chris-penn\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chris Penn<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":284759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_wcpt_user_name":"tylerdurdeno9","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-678","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tTIn-aW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9740d106dd1be0d9c5f151a5aa66e45a94e1bc1f36c87a7c2d8f0ca73142e977?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9740d106dd1be0d9c5f151a5aa66e45a94e1bc1f36c87a7c2d8f0ca73142e977?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9740d106dd1be0d9c5f151a5aa66e45a94e1bc1f36c87a7c2d8f0ca73142e977?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9740d106dd1be0d9c5f151a5aa66e45a94e1bc1f36c87a7c2d8f0ca73142e977?s=128&d=mm&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9740d106dd1be0d9c5f151a5aa66e45a94e1bc1f36c87a7c2d8f0ca73142e977?s=256&d=mm&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9740d106dd1be0d9c5f151a5aa66e45a94e1bc1f36c87a7c2d8f0ca73142e977?s=512&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/284759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/678\/revisions\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}