Miko Coffey has been building websites since 1995. Having first
been introduced to the Internet through cyber-art projects such as
SITO's HyGrid (www.sito.org/synergy/hygrid), she soon developed a
zeal for creating things on that new-fangled thing called the World
Wide Web.
After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, Miko moved
to London, where she continued designing and building websites as
part of her career in marketing. During these early years, she
spent a lot of time trying to convince her employers that this
whole "web" thing was really going to take off and that they should
definitely let her create websites for them. Over time, she started
to specialize in online marketing, moving beyond design and into
more tactical and strategic work in areas such as email marketing,
search engine optimization, content strategy, and user experience.
As she worked her way up to senior management positions by day, by
night, she continued to keep a hand in web design, building
websites and blogs for personal projects or for friends and
family.
By 2007, having spent 2 years as the head of Digital Media for
NESTA, the UK's largest innovation organization, Miko decided it
was time to use her skills and experience to work for a broader
client base by doing freelance work. She also wanted to get back to
her design roots. Through her previous experience of managing web
teams, she'd been exposed to quite a few content management systems
over the years, most of which were too complex and expensive for
her smaller business clients. Having been frustrated by the cost
and learning curve associated with these larger systems and the
lack of finesse offered by smaller ones, she started looking for
something that would be easy enough for her least-technical clients
to use, flexible enough for her to apply her custom designs, and
powerful but affordable. It was at this point that she discovered
Squarespace, and she hasn't looked back since.
Miko has spent the last 7 years using Squarespace to create
websites for her clients at Using My Head (www.usingmyhead.com),
where her focus is on "helping people do things better online." She
strives to keep her digital marketing skills as sharp as her design
skills, because the combination of the two is what allows her to
add the most value to client projects. She has worked with a range
of sizes and types of organizations, from The Royal Society for the
Arts to Channel 4 to small start-ups and nonprofits. Her passion is
to enable people to communicate better online by demystifying the
often confusing online landscape and giving people the skills and
tools they need to make their work easier, their bumps smoother,
and their lives better.
Half Japanese and half American, Miko currently lives in Brixton,
South London, with her super-creative husband / DJ / VJ / generally
awesome man, Mark, and their two cats, Kuma and Toshi.
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