Presentation Slides from WordCampNZ 2011

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Jason
Dan Milward - photo by Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

Dan Milward - photo by Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

Thanks everyone for coming along. We had a wonderful time with speakers, the panel fired up, some podcasting fun and even an impromptu ukelele song.

As promised here is a list of presentation slides from talks. The list will be updated as we we hear back from 2011 speakers and more speakers here.

Kristina D.C. Hoeppner took photos here is her Flickr stream for WordCamp 2011 follow her @anitsirk

Sam Parkin @booleanvalue – WordCampNZ 2011 photo stream

Paul Gibbs – BuddyPress on slideshare

SearchMasters SEO #wordcampnz presentation ppt is on http://tiny.cc/ez5z2

Ryan Allen from Envato announcing http://scalingwordpress.com, a resource for managing your wordpress blog http://is.gd/7V63WE

Vaughn Davis -Why and how I created Tweet this Book!

Miraz Jordan Slides for my 3 WordPress Tips are over on iWork

John Ford on WordPress Security this link is to an earlier version – updated by John on March 3rd and now updated here as well.

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Sunday Sessions 2011

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Jason

On Sunday we are planning a number of workshop style sessions. These will include an Inside wordPress Intro / Refresher overview of WordPress with Miraz Jordan , Jo Couchman and Jason Kemp with plenty of time to ask questions and be hands-on.

Other sessions will cover off Themes & Design with Stacey Roche, Advanced Plugins with Dan Milward and Paul Gibbs. Ryan Hellyer will be showing us “Easier WordPress”.

Update: As a special treat Mike Dickerson, Sam Cooke and Liz Quilty did an impromtu Uke song called the Curly Bracket Blues about CSS. (Our impromptu ukulele band, the Shortcode Thesis Hooks or whatever, survived closing Wordcamp 2011) The #wordcampnz ukulele song about CSS can be downloaded from http://www.kiwiukulele.co.nz/songs as a pdf

Keep and eye on the main 2011 schedule to view times and more details

Miraz Jordan

Know - IT

Jason Kemp

Co-Organiser - Jason

Dan Milward

Co-Organiser - Dan

Stacey Roche

Design- Stacey

Jo Couchman

WP - Orientation - Jo

Ryan Hellyer

Easier WordPress

Ukulele jam session (1)

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WordPress, but easier!

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Jason

Ryan HellyerA wise man once said, “websites are like sausages, no one wants to know how they’re made”. On Sunday Ryan is going to show us how to make all of this easier.

Ryan Hellyer is a WordPress plugin and theme developer with specific interest in making WordPress easier for noob users. Owner of http://pixopoint.com/.

Noobs to WordPress, or web development in general, have to contend with many annoying facets of development including FTP, MySQL, cPanel, PHP and all sorts of other mumbo-jumbo they don’t really care about but need to know.

With that in mind, I’ll present a way to create your own WordPress powered site without having to dive into the nitty gritty technical stuff.

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Discourse in the House

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Jason

Morgan Nichol & Ben GracewoodMany of you will know Ben Gracewood and Morgan Nichol from the weekly discourse podcast / radio show.

We are really pleased to announce them as speakers on the Saturday afternoon for a short talk.

We all know there is a lot of comedy in technology (not all of it is intentional)  Morgan and Ben manage to walk that tightrope in their weekly podcast show.

“The Discourse Weekly Show is New Zealand’s best podcast. It’s also New Zealand’s favourite podcast.”

Ben Gracewood“Ben Gracewood, you’ve heard the name, and you’ve probably heard the voice too, but have you heard him constantly interrupted and talked over?

If not, and if you like that sort of thing, then The Weekly Show is definitely the place for you.

Morgan Nichol, a face that launched a thousand ships (and a thousand websites, and a thousand bad ideas), a singing voice that makes angels cry (and dogs whimper).

He brings it, and he brings it hard, every single time. Whatever that’s supposed to mean.”

So expect the un-expected and don’t miss these guys. Depending on timetable we should be able to fit in 2 or more lightening sessions before adjourning across the square to Macs Brew Bar.

We reckon it will be a brilliant end to the afternoon.

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Thank you sponsors

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Jason

An event like WordCampNZ relies mostly on our sponsors for funding. Our venue, WiFi, AV and tshirt costs all add up to a large number. Often we can get discounts as a charitable trust and that is brilliant too.

In the lead up there are volunteers on social media and promoting the event at various other groups and events. Ticket sales are essential and we rely on you guys to promote us to your friends, family and colleagues. On the day more volunteers help with their time.

You will see logo’s and links to sponsors in the sidebar and on our emails. We we really greatful to them all for help to cover costs and keep ticket prices down.

CafeNETJust this last week we have had 2 more sponsors confirm their support.

WiFi is a major cost and so we are delighted that CaféNET (CityLink) have kindly agreed to sponsor WiFi at WordCampNZ.

When you check in there will be some tokens / codes available for free WiFi.

WordCamps are a great way to give back to the WordPress community which is international. EventEspresso, VaultPress and Envato all take a bow.

We are not forgetting local sponsors like DPS, RadioActive, Openhost, Getshopped, who all provide services and cash to make the show happen.

There are other behind the scenes sponsors like, Idealog, FishHead magazine, RadioWammo, DialogCRM and groups like TCANZ, Wellingtonista, Webstock, SummerofTech and IgniteWelli who all spread the word for us.

We’d also like to recognise speakers time which is freely given. Many of our speakers are in high demand and command large fees so we are delighted with their generosity.

This year we have speakers from the UK and US who have all been funded by sponsors. We’d love look after them more by buying a few coffees or better.

A few of you have become micro-sponsors which is fantastic – that is an option on the ticket page for $150.

We have just now have just over a week to go. Looking forward to seeing you all there.

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Tweet this Goat

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Jason

Vaughn Davis - The Goat Farm As a special bonus we are delighted to announce that Vaughn Davis is one of our lightening speakers and will be opening the “show”at 9:15am * on Tweet this book! How to publish, promote and distribute a best selling book for free

That means he has 12 minutes including questions to show why “Tweeting this Book” has moved 13,500 copies in about 8 weeks.

“I’m a consultant creative director in Auckland, New Zealand, currently having no end of fun with social media.

When not doing this I raise goats and sons, and daydream about the brief and now distant period in my youth when I filled my days flying the C130 Hercules wherever in the world the Royal New Zealand Air Force needed it flown.

“Tweet this book!” is my first book.”

Vaughns website is The Goat Farm and on twitter @vaughndavis Vaughn posted this morning on What he is talking about at WordCampNZ and on the  Why He is coming to WordCampNZ & Why You Should Too

* Unfortunately Melissa Clark-Reynolds has a surprise family event that means she has had to cancel. We are still hoping that another Minimonos staff member can talk about that project and we will keep you posted.

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WordCampNZ 2011 T-shirts

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Jason

WordCampNZ 2011 t-shirtThe 2011 WordCampNZ t-shirts will be black this year. Click on the shirt to view larger size. Special design shout out to @StaceyRoche who BTW will be speaking on Sunday about design.

Code is poetry is a tagline found on the main WordPress site. Shirts come in Womans sizes this year. As we had a print deadline if you didn’t buy tickets before 12th Feb we may not have a shirt for you.

We will see what we can do about printing some more if there is good response though.

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WordCampNZ 2011 Party

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Jason

Did we mention that we have organised an after party right near Te Papa for the Saturday night 19th at about 6pm?

It is upstairs at Mac’s Brew Bar. Fourquare checkin / map

You will need your WordCampNZ id as it is a private function and we will start straight after the last sessions on Saturday.

Food will be available so make a night of it and meet other bloggers, WordPress users and generally interesting fellow attendees on the night. Add this session to your diary now.

It will be a cash bar as most sponsors don’t have a #party code in their accounting systems. And yes we will be running some workshops on Sunday..

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Wellington 2011 Schedule

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Jason

Here is the #wordcampnz draft schedule. We don’t expect it to change much and we will add details for Sunday shortly. Enjoy. Registration is from 8:30am ish or sooner if we can get in earlier to the Oceania Room. Parking at Te Papa.

When Who Topic Notes
9:00 Organisers Introduction & Housekeeping 15 mins
9:15 Vaughn Davis Tweet this book 15 mins
9:30 Minimonos Gwen Kidsplay – Monkey Blogs 20 mins + 10 Q/A
10:00 John Ford WordPress Security 30 mins + 10 Q/A
10:40 SMOKO SMOKO 20 mins
11:00 Michael Brandon SEO for WordPress 30 mins + 10 Q/A
11:40 Julie Starr Evolving the News 15 mins + 5 Q/A
12:00 LUNCH LUNCH 1 hour
1:00 Paul Gibbs BuddyPress – WordPress social networking comes of age 30 mins + 10 Q/A
1:40 David Farrar Kiwiblog -NZ’s busiest blog 30 mins + 10 Q/A
2:30 Lance, Richard, Julie, John The future of blogging etc. Panel – 50mins
3:30 SMOKO SMOKO 20 mins
3:50 Ryan Allen Scaling WordPress for Performance 30 mins + 10 Q/A
4:30 Justin Sainton WordPress Group Deals 30 mins + 10 Q/A
5:00 DiscourseNZ & others Lightening sessions x 2 or 3 30 mins
5:40 END of Day 1 > to Macs Brew Bar

Sunday – Informal WorkShops

9:15 Jason, Miraz & Jo Inside WP – Intro & refresher 20 mins + 20 Q/A
10:00 Dan Milward Selling music online 30 mins + 10 Q/A
10:30 Stacey Roche Themes & Design 30 mins
11:00 SMOKO 15 mins
11:15 Ryan Hellyer Easier WordPress 30 mins + 10 Q/A
11:45 Paul Gibbs Achievements Plugin 30 mins + 10 Q/A
12:15 Wrap up Ukeleles in the house – tks @adzebill 15 mins
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Melissa Clark-Reynolds on Kidsplay – Monkey Blogs

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Dan

Melissa Clark-ReynoldsMelissa has been an entrepreneur for twenty years and finally feels she is emerging from her apprenticeship!

Breaking news update: Feb 10 – Due to a surprise family event Melissa can’t make it on Saturday as planned – she/ & we apologise. In her place we have Gwen Walton-Wegener of Minimonos project giving her insights.

Special bonus is that we have @Vaughn Davis from tweet this book the Goat Farm (and previously Y &R) giving a lightening talk how he got 13,500 downloads of his book in less than 2 months.

Melsissa thinks, blogs and speaks about how to grow technology businesses.

Melissa has been CEO of two IT companies, and now leads the largest On-line Games company in NZ – MiniMonos.com. It has almost 100,000 registered users and is a virtual world for good green kids. Their kids blog has almost 3000 daily readers. MiniMonos has over 50 fan sites involving 100+ kid bloggers.

Melissa will be presenting Kidsplay – Monkey Blogs. Blogging with, for, by kids. Who is doing it? What’s it good for? Why do it? How do you make it work? Melissa will present the latest in research around kids & blogging, plus give her top tips for blogging with kids, helping them to blog, and creating kid friendly blogging material.

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