There is other video and we wil track it down and get it up here or on WordcampTV for you at some stage.

Kemp says getting 100 people to give up a fine weekend to discuss a piece of software shows New Zealanders have taken WordPress to heart.

The organisers identified at least 500 New Zealand sites using the platform, including everything from the Stock Exchange to the AUT and Whitereia journalism schools to the Grey Lynn Community Centre and the Topp Twins.

The State Service’s Commission’s e-government site and the Te Ara Signposts site which points to the Encyclopaedia of New Zealand also use WordPress tools.

Kemp says people can’t just rely on one tool and effective campaigns are likely to employ a number of channels as they attempt to get the kind of viral lift-off that is possible in an internet-connected world.

“One interesting thing at the event itself was a guy volunteered to tweet live, and ended up doing 700 tweets over the weekend.

“We also had people with video cameras, so some of the presentations went up in various locations. We had live streaming, and at one point we had more than 100 people watching.”

Wordcampers keep up to date (as a single page)

Very special thanks again to everyone who made this possible especially Dan, Anthony, the sponsors, Xero, MagnumMac, nzwireless, CoffeeSupreme, Concept to Reality, Idealog magazine, Eziweb, MyHost, the Victoria Bowling Club and all of the individual helpers.

Brett Taylor @glutnix was the main tweeter for the two days and deserves a medal.

And special shout-outs to speakers who came from all over NZ, Australia and the U.S. (Matt and Janetti) for WordcampNZ. We’ve already had some incredible feedback from many of you.

Stay in touch with fellow campers and and the local WordPress community.

Organising activities for 100+ people is a lot of work, so thanks again to all the helpers and volunteers who made it all flow just that much easier.

We also have the twitter stream, video and a number of other sources to sort through along with slideshows and other presentation content.

Leave a comment or trackback to this post so we can tie the content together.

Here are a few we found so far.

Sunny Wellington
Wordcamp at a bowling club
Beyond a platform.

Podcasts from Saturday Morning show are here.

Update: Matts podcast is here .mp3 file

8:35 Matt Mullenweg Photographer, jazz musician and entrepreneur Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of the popular open-source blogging software and hosting service title=”WordPress, which runs millions of weblogs around the world.

Matt is one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, and Business Week’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web. He blogs at ma.tt, and is visiting Wellington for WordCamp New Zealand, an “unconference” for WordPress users (8-9 August).”

So what is Kim Hill, unquestionably one of New Zealand’s finest current affairs interviewers, really like?

The answer, if you listen to her programme long enough, turns out to have been obvious all along. I think I’m just like the way I am on the radio. I mean, you haven’t got time to put on a face, you haven’t got time to pretend to be anything other than you are – otherwise, you’d drive yourself bonkers!

So, in essence, what you hear on the radio is what you get in real life? Yeah, yeah. With a few expletives deleted.

Read more about Kim Hill. The Saturday show is Produced by Mark Cubey.

You can also follow Radio NZ – Saturday Morning show on  @RNZ_SatMorning on Twitter.

We’ve had to close off tickets tonight midnight NZ time. We reached our limit of 100 today

Thanks for the huge interest. We’re all looking forward to meeting you in person.

P.S If you missed on getting a ticket you can still come to the Saturday night

Wordcampers we will have a list of names but if you have a printout of your ticket order that would help speed up the registration process.

Mt. Victoria Bowling Club (125 Pirie St)

Thanks for the Friday volunteers – much appreciated. Still need a few helpers for Sat & Sun