Drupalcamp

Addison Berry

BIO:
Addi (add1sun) has been involved with Drupal since 2006 and is the current Documentation Team Lead for the project. In March 2009 she was awarded a Knight Foundation grant to improve Drupal documentation. She travels around the world, speaking at events from local high schools to major conferences like OSCON, working to improve Drupal and Open Source software. She is also involved with organizing the Writing Open Source conference to get open source projects together to share ideas about how to improve documentation.

In addition to her focus on coordinating documentation efforts she helps maintain Drupal.org and is a permanent member of the Drupal Association General Assembly. She's provided core patches, maintains several contributed modules, and has been involved with the Drupal Dojo and the Google Highly Open Participation (GHOP) mentoring programs.

Addi currently lives in Maryland with her partner, Colleen, and four contrary cats. When not obsessively working on Drupal in one way or another, she loves to get dirty in the garden or spend time cooking up a batch of homebrewed beer.

Morning Keynote Session:
The Drupal Movement – Where Do You Fit In?

Drupal is much more than just a piece of software that you download.
So what are *all* the pieces to the puzzle and where do you fit in?

Whether you are a newbie, expert, coder, designer, or an end user, we all have an impact on the ecosystem where the sum is greater than its parts. We'll take a tour of the ecosystem and how you can have more impact than you think.

Ben Finklea

BIO:
Ben entered the world of online marketing in 1995 when he founded a web design company from his dorm room at Texas A&M University. Since then, he has worked in various capacities in sales and marketing, from tiny start-ups to Apple Computer. In 2001, Ben founded Sprysoft, an e-commerce store that successfully sold over $5M in software online to students, teachers and schools. Due to Sprysoft's success, Ben formed SpryDev Online Marketing in 2005 to use the techniques and processes learned at Sprysoft to help other businesses sell online. SpryDev grew quickly and changed names to Volacci® in 2008.

Ben and the Volacci® team provide Search Engine Optimization, Paid Search, and Conversions Consulting to a varied client base - ranging from local real estate agents to Fortune 500 companies. Volacci provides services for a wide variety of platforms and most recently has developed SEO tools and techniques for Drupal. You can hear the Volacci® SEO podcast (almost) weekly and read Ben's blog.

Currently, Ben is writing a Drupal SEO book for Packt Publishing scheduled to be released in late 2009.

Afternoon Keynote Session:
I Have Seen the Future of Online Marketing and it's Drupal Blue

In this interactive keynote, Ben will share 10 reasons why the marketing savvy are picking Drupal to meet their SEO needs and how this trend will continue as Drupal leads the way for the rest of the industry. He'll share examples of Drupal sites that Volacci has optimized as well as the modules, tips and tricks you'll need to maximize the return on your Drupal investment now and in the future.