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This Issue's Wonder Woman: Laura Byrne

Laura’s first career was in nonprofit marketing, development, and communication where she created the organization’s first website in Microsoft FrontPage. In 2006, Laura found WordPress and never turned back. On the side, as a fan of all things sci-fi and fantasy, she was a website and forum moderator for a variety of very popular websites covering the entertainment industry. Flash forward a decade, and the hobby became her main career. She is currently an Account Manager at WebDevStudios.

What is your mantra?

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Tell us 3-5 tech tools that you swear by that make life & work a little easier.

• ​Chat GPT, seriously what did we ever do without this. It helps me jump start so many tasks.
• ​Yoast (they are not paying me to says this) literally all of their plugins make my SEO and content revision life easier.
• ​Panda Docs to create proposals, great templates, easy to use, love it. Saves time.

What's in your mug/glass/bottle during work hours?

Coffee with a splash of cream. Usually a French Roast. I like the medium to dark roasts best. But fall is coming and I live for the nut-based roasts: pecan, hazelnut, maple and nut blends, etc.

What's in your mug/glass/bottle after hours?

Wine. White and Rose in the Summer and Red in the fall and winter. Sauvignon Blanc, Gavi, Bordeaux, Malbec, Valpolicella, Montepulciano are a couple of favorites. Occasionally I like a good single malt highland scotch.

Knowing what you do now, what advice would you give to your younger self?

You were right the first time, go with your gut. If they don't make room at the table, find a better table or bring your own damn chair and squeeze in.

Your Twitter/X Link​
​https://twitter.com/NewYorkerLaura​

Your LinkedIn Profile Link​
​https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurajbyrne/​

Your Website​
​https://newyorkerlaura.com/​

Wonder Women Doing Wonderful Things

• ​Mumtahina Faguni writes about how becoming a volunteer helped her meet the world, & how WordPress leads the way today in a HeroPress essay.
• ​Alexandra Guffey will kick off speaker days at WCUS with her keynote, Reach for the Sky: Disney Experiences’ Magical Transformation with Gutenberg​
• ​Nyasha Green featured in an "unexpected conversation with a LinkedIn Learning WordPress instructor who has a glorious future no matter what she does" on the Seriously, Bud podcast.
• Episode one of the quarterly podcast ‘What just happened?’ show with Rae Morey and Nathan Wrigley has dropped.
• ​Kathy Zant and Michelle Frechette talk about "The Evolution Of Our Tech Stacks" on WPMotivate.
• In a recent episode of The WordPress Way, host Abha Thakor is joined by Laura Adamonis, Nick Diego, and Kathryn Presner to discuss the latest updates to the Learn.WordPress.
• Michele Butcher-Jones wrote a post on Why Every Website Needs a Privacy Policy​

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