Category Archives: Speakers

Speaker information – who is speaking at WordCampNZ

TEDx Richard Hollingum

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Jason

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 … Continue reading →

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Dan Milward – Video WP E-Commerce

Posted on July 17, 2010 by Jason

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 … Continue reading →

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Bill Bennett – Writing Online

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Jason

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 … Continue reading →

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Sacha Dylan – Who Are Your Audience

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Jason

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 … Continue reading →

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Alex Shiels – Automattic

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Jason

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, … Continue reading →

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Jeff Ghazally – extending WP e-Commerce through Plugins

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Jason

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 … Continue reading →

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Dan Milward – WP e-Commerce

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Jason

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 … Continue reading →

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Robert Popovic – BuddyPress

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Jason

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 … Continue reading →

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Quintin Russ – WordPress Security

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Jason

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 … Continue reading →

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Grey Lynn 2030 – Community Management

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Jason

Pippa 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 … Continue reading →

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