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.

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..

Breaking news update: Feb 10 – Due to a surprise family event Melissa can’t make it on Saturday as planned – she/ & we apologise. In her place we have Gwen Walton-Wegener of Minimonos project giving her insights.

Special bonus is that we have @Vaughn Davis from tweet this book the Goat Farm (and previously Y &R) giving a lightening talk how he got 13,500 downloads of his book in less than 2 months.

Melsissa thinks, blogs and speaks about how to grow technology businesses.

Melissa has been CEO of two IT companies, and now leads the largest On-line Games company in NZ – MiniMonos.com. It has almost 100,000 registered users and is a virtual world for good green kids. Their kids blog has almost 3000 daily readers. MiniMonos has over 50 fan sites involving 100+ kid bloggers.

Melissa will be presenting Kidsplay – Monkey Blogs. Blogging with, for, by kids. Who is doing it? What’s it good for? Why do it? How do you make it work? Melissa will present the latest in research around kids & blogging, plus give her top tips for blogging with kids, helping them to blog, and creating kid friendly blogging material.

This year we have a super panel discussion planned with Lance Wiggs and Richard MacManus as special guests. Julie Starr and John Ford will also be on the panel.

Richard is well known as founder of Read Write Web where he is widely recognized as a leader in articulating what’s next in technology and what it means for society at large.

Lance is best known in NZ for his role as Head of Group Digital at Fairfax Media NZ in 2007 New Zealand’s largest media company and before that as sole adviser to CEO Sam Morgan and Board Chair Richard Abbott on Trade Me’s sale to Fairfax Media for NZ $750m.

WordPress itself has in many ways been a game changer, firstly with bloggers and now as a content platform and framework. We know that like Lance and Richard many of you are game changers working at the edges of media and redefining your specialist areas.

• Where does blogging, community engagement and media all meet?
• What are the smart trends in this space?
• How does mobile and gaming fit in with blogging and social media?
• How is your life and business being impacted by new ways of communicating with friends, strangers, customers, partners and suppliers?
• What are your questions?

We invite you to write in some questions for the panel in the comment stream below.

Does blogging have a future ?

Ibis Wellington.

Qualmark 3.5 star, Enviro Gold.

Ibis, the worldwide economy brand for Accor Group, operates over 800 properties across 40 countries offering customers best local value and location.

Ibis Wellington is conveniently located on Featherston Street, within a 2.2km drive to Mt Victoria and also close to Te Papa Museum, Westpac Stadium and Parliament.

Refurbished rooms are currently being introduced with all 200 rooms to be completed by mid September 2009.

Guests can now connect laptops, portable media players and game consoles via new 26″ LCD screen TVs in the comfort of their rooms.

Vivant! Restaurant is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.   A special rate of $90.00 inc GST per room per night for a twin or single room applies to delegates of the WordcampNZ event and valid for nights of 7, 8 and 9 August 2009.

This includes wifi access for 30mins in the lobby.  (Broadband internet is available in the rooms but that will be an additional charge).

Breakfast is not included but we can offer a $16.00 per person breakfast rate (normally $19.00) for a full cooked breakfast and the ibis buffet breakfast is something quite talked about..!  includes make your own waffles!

Rates are subject to availability so be quick and contact Sharyna, Reservations at Ibis Wellington:  PH: 04 494 7067 or email: h3049-re01@accor.com Quoting ratecode: WordCamp.

In the meantime here is very good limited offer if you are quick.