{"id":587,"date":"2016-08-24T16:53:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T16:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/?p=587"},"modified":"2016-08-25T02:33:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T02:33:04","slug":"speaker-announcement-garrett-heath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker-announcement-garrett-heath\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Announcement: Garrett Heath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-631\" src=\"https:\/\/2016.sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/files\/2016\/08\/Garrett-Heath-1024x683.png\" alt=\"Garrett Heath\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/08\/Garrett-Heath-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/08\/Garrett-Heath-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/08\/Garrett-Heath-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/08\/Garrett-Heath-450x300.png 450w, https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/08\/Garrett-Heath-1000x667.png 1000w, https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/08\/Garrett-Heath.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>About<\/h2>\n<p>Garrett has blogged about San Antonio food and culture on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saflavor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SA Flavor<\/a>\u00a0since 2009 and believes the best cheese enchiladas in town are found at Oscar\u2019s Taco House.\u00a0He currently works at Rackspace as\u00a0a social media marketer and has held roles as an\u00a0operations analyst, cloud project manager and content marketer. You can read his blog about digital marketing at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/marketingbytes.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">MarketingBytes.io<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Topic: Has your blog become a vampire?<\/h2>\n<p>Remember what it was like when you first set up your blog? You were full of piss and vinegar and incredibly excited. It may have sustained you during a rocky time at work or in your personal life. It was a life force that energized you. After all, people would be reading what you had to say.<\/p>\n<p>Then it happened. Your blog moved from being a life force to a life suck, taking away all the joy that you originally had. Updating it became a chore; you exhaled an audible groan every time you opened up wp-admin. Your blog turned into a vampire (and not of the Twilight variety).<\/p>\n<p>This talk is geared around the four types of blog vampires I\u2019ve encountered and strategies to help make personal blogging fun again. Regardless of where you are on your blogging journey, vampires abound, including:<\/p>\n<p>The No One Is Reading My Blog Vampire\u2014this is where a blogger becomes so despondent after realizing that no one, not even their friends and family, are reading their blog<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Keeping Up with the Jones\u2019s Vampire<\/strong>\u2014this is where a blogger starts comparing themselves to others and has a feeling of inadequacy\/jealousy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Getting Caught Up in the Fame of (Minor) Celebrity<\/strong>\u2014this is where the blogger gets an inkling of fame and PR people reach out along with the endless invites; but it\u2019s to things they may not care about<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Administrative Vampire<\/strong>\u2014this is where the blogger gets mired down in all the SEO\/tagging\/socialing\/posting minutiae and hates life<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All these vampires make you want to just give up. But that flicker of light from the life force still draws you in. You feel confused on what to do and mostly trapped\u2014I mean, isn\u2019t this supposed to be fun? Having personally experienced all of these types of blog vampires, I\u2019ll walk through strategies to vanquish them so you can enjoy the joys of blogging once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Garrett has blogged about San Antonio food and culture on SA Flavor\u00a0since 2009 and believes the best cheese enchiladas in town are found at Oscar\u2019s Taco House.\u00a0He currently works at Rackspace as\u00a0a social media marketer and has held roles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker-announcement-garrett-heath\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Speaker Announcement: Garrett Heath<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13941391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OFhM-9t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13941391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}