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Presentation Slides from WordCampNZ 2011

Jason — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:29:59 +0000

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.

WordCampNZ 2011 Party

Jason — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:00:10 +0000

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..

Wellington 2011 Schedule

Jason — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:24:34 +0000

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

2009 Schedule Archive

Jason — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:23:40 +0000

This schedule is just for archive purposes now.

Update: 1 August 2009 – there will be a optional dinner on Saturday night fine tuning but we expect it to be in $20 price range + drinks. Vote over on that post to help us with numbers planning thanks.

Saturday Speakers

Saturday	Title
9:00 – 9:10	Welcome to WordCamp	Dan Milward
9:10 – 9:40	6 ways for bloggers to stay out of legal trouble Some general guidance to bloggers about how to minimise risks of defamation, invasion of privacy, contempt of court, and other legal trouble.	Steven Price Media Law Journal
9:40 – 10:10	E-Commerce in under 5 Dan will show you how to easily setup an e-Commerce website using WordPress.	Dan Milward – Instinct
10:10 – 10:40	Coding Without Coding Web site owners should be able to modify their own site designs easily, without ever having to type a single line of code. Ryan will show us how its done.	Ryan Hellyer
10:40 – 11:20	Building Communities with WordPress The recent innovative and successful online virtual Zen retreats used WordPress and BBPress as the basis for creating a community. There were issues of privacy to consider, as well as helping those in the retreat to feel comfortable using the software. This session looks at what we did, and how, and what the challenges and solutions were.	Miraz Jordan
11:20 – 11:50	Xero News is Good News A big part of the Xero success story can be attributed to our blog. I’ll provide insights into our strategy on writing and managing a business blog as a team.	Philip Fierlinger – Xero
11:50 – 1:00	Lunch
1:00 – 1:50	WordPress Town Hall Matt Mullenweg the co-founder of WordPress will be running a general Q & A session on WordPress	Matt Mullenweg – Automattic
1:50 – 2:10	Re-defining mobile blogging: WordPress & the iPhone Gareth will discuss re-designing the user interface for the WordPress iPhone application	Gareth Townsend
2:10 – 2:30	Have WordPress, Will Travel	Craig and Linda Martin, Dan Roberts
2:30 – 3:00	Afternoon Tea/Coffee & Networking
3:00 – 3:30	How to be a Media Darling Building relationships and pitching for coverage with mainstream media	Doug Casement – Renaissance
3:30 – 4:00	Dragging government into the twenty-first century	Matt Lane – SSC
4:00 – 5:00	WorkShop: BBPress & WordPress Forums in WordPress	Sam Bauers – Automattic

Sunday Speakers

Sunday
10:00- 10:30	Befriending BuddyPress	Anthony Cole
10:30 – 11:00	The Business Side Business Fundamentals: Getting it right in order to make it big	Chris Lipscombe
11:00 – 11:30	Theme Development In this tutorial-orientated presentation, I will be running through the basic build of theme options, giving code examples and showing you a few creative ways that theme options can be used.	Harley Alexander – Baffle Inc
11:30-12:00	Educationally Speaking	Nicki Gemmell
12:00 – 12:45	Lunch	Lunch
12:45 – 1:30		Bernard Hickey
1:30 – 2:00	Turbocharge your WordPress	Jeff Waugh
2:00 – 3:30	Sam on bbPress Unconference/Workshops/Genius Bar

Saturday Dinner 09

Jason — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:11:41 +0000

We have been looking at the best way to arrange an optional dinner on the Saturday night of #wordcampnz .

For most conferences it is the informal hanging out before and after official events that is often the most fun.

The idea is to pick a venue that is not too formal, has a price range that is easy on the pocket and close enough to the venue so that transport is not an issue.

Update: The venue is http://www.thetemperance.co.nz

Located 8 Cambridge Terrace And 17-19 Blair Street, Wellington and about 10 mins walk from the Bowling Club venue.

A bonus would be if they have function rooms that can be private if needed and can accommodate anything from 40 to 100 people.( Note: We have a whole floor booked for wordcamp.)

If it has everyone’s favourite drink and some different menus that is also a double bonus.

Non-conference partners and friends are welcome.

The plan would be to wander down by 6 pm ish (or earlier) for a few drinks and stay longer to have some bar food or a meal. Kitchens usually like to plan ahead a bit so we will ask you to give us an idea of menu items and rough numbers.

Do you like this idea? Vote below.

Are you keen on an optional wordcamp dinner on Sat evening?

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