Keynote Speaker Spotlight: Kristina Halvorson

We are excited to announce Kristina Halvorson as our Friday keynote speaker at Do It With Drupal!

Kristina Halvorson is the founder and president of Brain Traffic, a nationally-renowned agency specializing in content strategy and writing for websites.

Widely recognized as one of the country’s leading content strategists, Kristina speaks regularly to audiences around the world about how to deliver useful, usable content online.

In 2009, Kristina curated the first Content Strategy Consortium to facilitate a national dialogue about this emerging discipline. She has appeared as a featured speaker at Web 2.0 Expo, IA Summit, Future of Web Apps, An Event Apart, Voices That Matter, Online Marketing Summit, SXSW Interactive, and many other events.

Kristina is the author of Content Strategy for the Web (New Riders, August 2009). The book helps to define the discipline and business value of content strategy, offering simple steps for introducing the discipline into the web project process. It also gives practical advice on staffing and resource allocation for web editorial roles and responsibilities.

Kristina is a past president of the Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association (MIMA), one of the country’s largest and most active IMAs. Her professional background includes marketing, sales, public relations, and playwriting. When she’s not traveling the country making the case for better web content, Kristina can be found hanging out at the Brain Traffic offices in Minneapolis, or chasing after her two kids in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Come spend some time thinking about the content part of the Drupal content management system.