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Speaker information – who is speaking at WordCampNZ

Custom Post Types Anthony Cole

Written by Jason | Published on July 30, 2010
Anthony Cole is one of the co-organisers for WordCamp NZ this year and last year as well. Before that he co-organised WordCamp Au in Sydney 2008. Custom Post Types have been made much easier with WordPress 3.0. There will be several experts on custom post types at WordCamp NZ this year and so we expect [...]
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TEDx Richard Hollingum

Written by Jason | Published on July 22, 2010
Richard Hollingum is Director of Department of Doing – a company which commercialises innovation and also the local organiser for TEDx Auckland. Some of you will know about the excellent TED.com conference and videos. TEDx is a way towards the transformation business. The DOD website runs on WordPress although it might not be that obvious. [...]
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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 // PDRTJS_settings_29399_post_4020={"id":29399,"unique_id":"wp-post-4020","title":"Dan Milward: WP E-Commerce","permalink":"http:\/\/wordpress.tv\/2010\/05\/01\/dan-milward-wordpress-ecommerce-sf10\/","item_id":"_post_4020"} // WordCamp Location [...]
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Bill Bennett – Writing Online

Written by Jason | Published on July 12, 2010
Bill 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 [...]
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Sacha Dylan – Who Are Your Audience

Written by Jason | Published on July 12, 2010
Sacha 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 [...]
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Alex Shiels – Automattic

Written by Jason | Published on July 9, 2010
Alex 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 [...]
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Jeff Ghazally – extending WP e-Commerce through Plugins

Written by Jason | Published on July 9, 2010
Jeff 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 [...]
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Dan Milward – WP e-Commerce

Written by Jason | Published on July 9, 2010
Dan 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 [...]
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Robert Popovic – BuddyPress

Written by Jason | Published on July 8, 2010
Robert 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 [...]
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Quintin Russ – WordPress Security

Written by Jason | Published on July 8, 2010
Quintin 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 [...]
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