Fuel Your Blogging is very pleased to welcome Christopher Rice into his new role as Co-Editor.

Christopher is no stranger to the Fuel network. He has contributed several fantastic articles to Fuel Your Blogging, as well as to Fuel Your Writing, and has been an active member of the community for over a year. Moving into his new role, Christopher will join Brandon Cox in overseeing the passionate team and taking Fuel Your Blogging to the next level.

Christopher is an abstract painter and publisher by trade, and sells his artwork online at his gallery. He also spends much of his time on projects focused on helping to bring writers and bloggers together and giving advice on how best to promote their work. These projects include ScribblePlay, a site unleashing the power of collaborative fiction, and CreativeBlogger, a blog dedicated to helping creative artists make a living from their work through social media and the web.

Christopher believes in the importance of adding value, of engaging with people and making personal connections, which makes him a perfect fit in the Fuel family.

Everyone at Fuel wishes Christopher the best of luck in his new role!

With many of us currently celebrating the festive season, the Fuel team would like to take this opportunity to wish readers across our sites a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and to thank all of you, on behalf of our editors and writers, for your continuing support. We hope that those of you celebrating Christmas received plenty of awesome gear to help your creative juices flow in 2011!

All of us in the Fuel team are glad that so many of you continue to gain inspiration and advice from our sites, and we are pleased and proud to fuel your creative endeavors. Hopefully they have all been successful this year and, if not, that you’ve learnt valuable lessons and haven’t given up!

We hope that you have all been able to spend some time with your family and friends this holiday season, and our fingers are crossed for those of you who are having to travel through any bad weather in order to see your loved ones. Take care, relax and enjoy the holidays! Thanks to everyone for being a part of Fuel. Here’s to a great 2010, and an even better 2011!

Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!

Fuel Your Photography is proud to welcome Patrick Onofre into his new role as Editor.

Patrick has been a regular contributor for Fuel Your Photography for several months, writing articles covering a range of topics including working with clients and the importance of getting your work out there. Moving into his new editorial role, Patrick will oversee a passionate team of photographers, and work closely with them to take Fuel Your Photography to the next level.

Based in Arlington, Virginia, Patrick graduated from Johnson and Wales with an Associate’s degree in Culinary Arts and a Bachelor’s degree in Food Service Management, which led to a ten-year-long career in the catering industry. Recently, Patrick left catering behind to live his other passion, photography, and pursue a career as a freelance photographer.

Patrick likes to photograph every-day things, to remind himself and everyone who sees his photos of the beauty that we all encounter in our lives that we may not notice until we stop to look. He also brings his passion for food to his photography, aiming to take “stunning photographs that make you want to eat the picture you’re viewing.” Patrick shares his work and blogs about his experiences on his online portfolio.

Everyone at Fuel wishes Patrick the best of luck in his new role!

Fuel’s own Doug Neiner, editor for Fuel Your Coding, has just been officially accepted as part of the jQuery Project team.

The project team is made up from various volunteers who all desire to see jQuery, a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML documents traversing, event handling and animating, become the best JavaScript tool possible.

Doug specializes in jQuery enhancements and front-end design, recently sharing his expert advice on the jQuery Widget Factory UI on Microsoft’s new Script Junkie blog. He joins the jQuery Project as part of their Infrastructure and Design Team. He will be helping to design and maintain the jQuery online properties, which include http://jquery.com and http://jqueryui.com.

In Doug’s own words: “I just really respect the team, so to be a part of it is so tremendously awesome!”

Doug with most of the team at JQCon

There is no question that his love of all things jQuery put him in excellent company. Congratulations Doug!