Dan Milward – Video WP E-Commerce

Written by Jason | Published on July 17, 2010

Dan Milward of GetShopped.org gives an introduction to the WP E-Commerce plugin, a look into future updates, and a sneak peek at the new WordPress Shop, running WordPress 3.0 and the newest version of WP E-Commerce.

Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.  WordCamp Location San Francisco 2010

Please enable Javascript and Flash to view this VideoPress video.

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Bill Bennett – Writing Online

Written by Jason | Published on July 12, 2010

Bill BennettBill Bennett is a freelance journalist living in Auckland, New Zealand. For about half of the time I work as the New Zealand editor for Communications Day. Bill is @billbennettnz on Twitter.

The rest of my time is available for freelance writing. I specialise in technology and business, but can handle most topics.

Clients often hire me to tackle difficult writing jobs. Most of my clients are in Australia and New Zealand, but I can work for anyone, anywhere.

I mainly write journalism: news and features. But I also take on commercial writing jobs – preparing company profiles, case studies and marketing communications writing. I’ve also been a ghost writer for many senior executives.

For WordCamp NZ Bill will be focussing on how we can all write better online.

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Sacha Dylan – Who Are Your Audience

Written by Jason | Published on July 12, 2010

Sacha DylanSacha Dylan is a strategist, consultant and advocate based in Auckland, New Zealand. He works with public agencies and partners from other sectors in the areas of community knowledge management, research and publishing, disability policy, health screening, and fostering innovation and social change.

Sacha is committed to the use of sound evidence and rich stories to support practical decision-making, and smart connectedness to draw on community strengths. He has been building a case that fair access to opportunity allows us to unleash everyone’s contributions, particularly the one on five New Zealanders who experience disability. Sacha is @kaupapa on Twitter.

His background includes communication, training, analysis, design and customer liaison roles in information technology companies; a variety of publishing projects including radio, magazine and web editorial and production; and voluntary community work. He has always been a sucker for good coffee and conversation.

Sacha’s interest in WordPress is from the business side, though he maintains a technical interest in user experience, information architecture and accessibility. For WordCamp he will encourage broadening ideas about who your audiences are made up of, drawing on some demographic data.

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Alex Shiels – Automattic

Written by Jason | Published on July 9, 2010

Alex ShielsAlex Shiels is a former Textpattern developer, ultra-low-speed communications engineer, corporate code monkey, and Python programmer, he has been writing software since before he even had a computer.

He enjoys taking photographs and finding old risque music. Briefly a Sydneysider, he recently moved back to Melbourne with his wife and son. He doesn’t eat shrimp or own a BBQ. He currently works for Automattic on Akismet where he spends most of his time dealing with spam.

See State of Web Spam for more clues. For WordCamp NZ Alex may talk about Is My Blog Working and other mysteries. Blogs: Threshold State, Flight Path

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Jeff Ghazally – extending WP e-Commerce through Plugins

Written by Jason | Published on July 9, 2010

Jeff GhazallyJeff Ghazally of  Instinct is a web developer who creates, updates and maintains (code) stuff.

“Sometimes I do the front stuff, most of the time I do the back stuff. At the moment I’m working within the Instinct Crew on their famous WordPress Plugin (Wp-e-Commerce Plugin)
Languages: English, Malay, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, mySQL, and various monkey noises.”

For WordCamp NZ Jeff will be presenting a Tech talk on extending Plugins and advanced plugin development. One of the other sites Jeff has worked on includes Vorn (music) which shows the ecommerce in action.

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Dan Milward – WP e-Commerce

Written by Jason | Published on July 9, 2010

Dan MilwardDan is the Founder of Instinct, the company behind of the world famous WordPress e-Commerce Plugin powering many hundreds of thousands of sites including the ticketing on WordCamp SF and WordCamp New York.

Among the various e-Commerce related Plugins and WP communities that Instinct help foster, Dan’s company is in the process of building a WordPress social networking website where users get to create games for iPhone, Android and Flash Lite devices and then share them with their friends.

Dan is also one of the organisers for WordCamp NZ and has been to WordCamp UK, New York, SF, Raleigh, Australia and if you were in Wellington last year you may remember his Safari sui costume.

With more than 500,000 downloads for the e-commerce plugin it can be a wild ride sometimes. Geoffrey Moore famously described this (in his book) as being “Inside the Tornado” (Marketing Strategies from Silicon Valley’s Cutting Edge.)

The ecommerce plugin has put NZ on the WordPress world map in a big way. Anyone developing complex plugins needs to hear what it is really like and how to thrive and progress from all the user interactions.

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Robert Popovic – BuddyPress

Written by Jason | Published on July 8, 2010

Robert PopovicRobert is LERO9’s Technical Director and founder of LERO9. Robert has extensive experience in designing and implementing both small and large scale software projects.

Robert now focuses entirely on working with cutting edge open source web technologies and commits a percentage of his week to research and development, keeping him as the leading edge of the open source environment. More about Robert over here.

For WordCamp NZ Robert will talk about implementing BuddyPress and other advanced topics.

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Quintin Russ – WordPress Security

Written by Jason | Published on July 8, 2010

Quintin RussQuintin has carved out his own niche in the .nz hosting industry, having spent a large proportion of the last few years becoming an expert in both building and defending systems. Quitin works at Sitehost.

He now runs enough infrastructure to ensure he never, ever gets a good night’s sleep, and sometimes doesn’t even get to snooze through Sunday mornings. Quintin has a keen interest in security, especially as it relates to web hosting. This has ranged from the vicissitudes of shared hosting to code reviews of popular blogging applications. He has previously presented at ISIG and Kiwicon 2009.

WordPress and You – Security tips for 2010.

The security of your web app has traditionally been considered to be the problem of the company whose servers they were hosted upon. However, while you can outsource the hosting of web apps, you cannot outsource the responsibility of ensuring that those apps are up to date and secure. This talk will focus on common issues that can and have lead to security flaws in web applications including wordpress in the past. Quintin will explain and describe these in detail and show you steps you can take to protect yourself.

If you want to get an idea of what can and should be done have a look at Hardening WordPress.

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Grey Lynn 2030 – Community Management

Written by Jason | Published on July 7, 2010

Pippa Coom Suzanne KendrickPippa Coom and Suzanne Kendrick are online community managers for Grey Lynn 2030.

GL2030 is a Transition Towns project went online in Jan 2009.

After 18 months of activity that community now has more than 1000 members and is now are looking to establish a Grey Lynn Business Association.

The Grey Lynn 2030 site is here.  Pippa Coom is also active in other local groups especially cycling with Frocks on Bikes Suzanne and Pippa will talk about what is involved in online community management at WordCamp NZ.

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Courtney Lambert – Marcomms

Written by Jason | Published on July 7, 2010

Courtney LambertCourtney helps  people with marketing and communicating things.

She is currently consulting to mix of private and public sector in new media/social marketing and digital comms strategy.

current gigs: Rugby World Cup 2011, Momentum Consulting, govt PR 2.0 stuff, change mngt comms.

On twitter she is @cjlambert Courtney is prolific blogger and blogs for TV3 over at 3News Tech Blog Online Mostly

With new technologies and online communication growing, the way that people consume information is changing.

With all of the fragmentation of media, it can be difficult to navigate where people’s attention lies, and build a communication strategy to talk to people in the spaces that they’re actually in. During this workshop we’ll introduce the ‘Engagement Pyramid’, and look at creating and curating private label media channels online.

Courtney has a Masters in Management Studies from the University of Waikato and a diploma in eCommerce from Media Design School. She has worked on many leading brands in both the public and private sectors. Courtney blogs for TV3 News and has her own blog at http://courtneylambert.co.nz

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