Speakers

Kelly Senyei: 10 Things I Wish I'd Known About Blogging

Kelly Senyei is a multimedia food journalist, stylist, photographer, and chef. She is the creator of the blog JustaTaste.com, author of Food Blogging For Dummies (Wiley, spring 2012), and is presently the Associate Editor of Gourmet Live at Condé Nast. Kelly received her master's degree from The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and a Diploma in the Culinary Arts from The Institute of Culinary Education, where she conceptualized and launched the school's first official blog, DICED.

Kelly makes regular, expert appearances in all types of food media and her work can be found on Gourmet Live, NBC, FoodNetwork.com, Glamour.com, Food2.com, and more.

Marissa Brassfield: Creating Supercharged Content to Drive Traffic and Build Your Brand

Marissa Brassfield is ridiculously efficient. She's a productivity expert, high-performance author and specialist in communication efficiency. Described as "a master of time management," "a force to be reckoned with," and "a symbol of motivation, talent and productivity" by clients, Marissa helps cutting-edge teams do more in less time. As an author, Marissa has written over 7,000 online articles, generating over 30,000,000 views for publications like Trend Hunter and Foodista. She also spent three years as the Editor-at-Large for TrendHunter.com, where she edited over 20,000 articles, which generated more than 120,000,000 views. Marissa is currently the Director of Content Strategy at Foodista, where she guides, trains and inspires the editorial team to execute campaigns that drive traffic, engage the community and bolster the Foodista brand. Marissa's skill at analyzing and hacking workflows extends beyond the startup world. She also ignites boardrooms and supercharges workgroups with her 10-step road map to being ridiculously efficient in the workplace. With her infectious energy, Marissa helps teams dramatically increase the effectiveness of meetings, align their colleagues with consistent communication, and save time with email and written messages. Follow Marissa on Twitter @efficient and read more about her breakthrough approach to productivity at Ridiculously Efficient.

Andrew Scrivani: Digital Food Photography

Andrew is a New York based freelance commercial and editorial photographer, food stylist, writer and blogger. He has been photographing for the New York Times Dining Section since 2002 as well as the Recipes for Health column by Martha Rose Shulman on The New York Times on the Web Fitness and Nutrition section since 2008. He most recently completed the photography for Melissa Clark’s new book Cook This Now and is one of the featured photographers for the recently launched GILT Taste website. You can read his columns on Food & Photography at The New York Times Diner’s Journal blog and his own personal blog makingSundaySauce. Andrew also teaches workshops and speaks nationally on Food Photography and Styling, which is a natural extension of his life before photography, as a high school teacher and coach.

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Rand Fishkin is the CEO & Co-Founder of the web's most popular SEO Software provider; SEOmoz. He co-authored the Art of SEO from O'Reilly Media and was named on the 40 Under 40 List and 30 Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs Under 30. Rand has been written about in The Seattle Times, Newsweek and PC World among others and keynoted conferences on search around the world. He's particularly passionate about the SEOmoz blog, read by tens of thousands of search professionals each day. In his miniscule spare time, Rand enjoys the company of his amazing wife, whose serendipitous travel blog chronicles their journeys.

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Warren Bobrow is the Food and Drink Editor of the non-profit Wild Table on Wild River Review located in Princeton, New Jersey. He has published over three hundred articles on everything from cocktail mixology to restaurant reviews to travel articles. You may also find him on the web at: http://www.cocktailwhisperer.com. He's also a published food writer. He's written food and cocktail articles and news for Edible Jersey, Chutzpah Magazine, Voda Magazine, Tasting Table, Serious Eats, Total Food Service Magazine, The Daily Basics, Leaf Magazine and Modenus. He also writes for Williams-Sonoma on their Blender Blog, and is a frequent contributor on Foodista.com. Warren was # 30 in Saveur Magazine's 100 for his writing about the humble Tuna Melt.

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