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

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

12:45 – 1:30

1:30 – 2:00

2:00 – 3:30

Sam on bbPress
Unconference/Workshops/Genius Bar