Season 2 Episode 3: Beth Laing
In today’s episode, Beth Laing recounts her journey to and away from Infonautics. An early hire at Infonautics fresh from Atlanta and a role with The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Beth started in 1994. Admittedly green at the start she relished the role of building the impossible with like-minded people who were all willing to just figure it out.
She eventually found her niche landing content deals and then figuring out what to do with the content in all its varied forms. She put together a team that partnered with engineering to build a content pipeline, “chunking data” to make it searchable.
Two years after her arrival she moved West to California and the online portal of the San Jose Mercury News. As part of the Knight Ridder family she ended up in Minneapolis and then found her way back home to Atlanta.
Always moving onwards, Beth took a software development boot camp and became an engineer and is now a Director of Engineering at Atlanta startup, CallRail. While in Atlanta she helped create Refactr.tech, an organization and annual conference about growing and showcasing powerful voices of marginalized people and allies in technology.
Beth’s time at Infonautics may seem relatively brief but it had an outsized impact on her career and we think you’ll enjoy what she did, enjoyed and learned from her time there and what she carries with her today.
We enjoy talking to Infonauts and especially those we haven’t been in touch with to find out how their lives unfolded since, what it meant to you to be an Infonaut and how that affected (or didn’t) what followed. Reach out if you want to jump in or wait for us to reach you! We can’t wait to talk to you!
Contacts:
Beth Laing can be reached on LinkedIn.
And you can follow her organization, Refactr.tech on LinkedIn as well.
Jim and Sean can be reached at the Onwards! Infonauts LinkedIn page.
Sponsors:
JMX Advisors for Interim or Fractional CFO work.
Disclaimer:
None of these discussions are to be relied upon as professional advice.
