Jean Macdonald
Community Manager at Micro.blog
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJean Macdonald is a community-focused marketing and product advocate with over two decades of experience helping small businesses and mission-driven projects grow through pragmatic online marketing, PR, and product community-building. She founded App Camp for Girls to close the gender gap in tech and spent nine years shaping marketing and customer engagement at Smile Software before leading community efforts at Micro.blog, an open blogging platform that prioritizes user control. Known for blending traditional outreach with SEO, email, and content strategy, she also teaches and consults on web and design topics, bringing a rare mix of humanities-trained curiosity and hands-on technical design skills. Based in Portland, she pairs long-form storytelling instincts with tactical campaign execution and a knack for turning evangelism into sustainable communities.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
M.A., History, M.A., History at Princeton UniversityCertificate Program, Graphic and Web Design, Certificate Program, Graphic and Web Design at Pacific Northwest College of ArtExchange Student, History, Exchange Student, History at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im BreisgauB.A., History, B.A., History at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
French, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
emoji2
encode2
transliteration1
slugify1
unicode1
icu1
cldr1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
jeanmacd/help.micro.blog
May 2017 - Nov 2018
Documentation for Micro.blog.
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
microdotblog/help.micro.blog
May 2017 - Feb 2021
Documentation for Micro.blog.
Contributions:20 commits, 4 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 years 9 months
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