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.

That means he has 12 minutes including questions to show why “Tweeting this Book” has moved 13,500 copies in about 8 weeks.

“I’m a consultant creative director in Auckland, New Zealand, currently having no end of fun with social media.

When not doing this I raise goats and sons, and daydream about the brief and now distant period in my youth when I filled my days flying the C130 Hercules wherever in the world the Royal New Zealand Air Force needed it flown.

“Tweet this book!” is my first book.”

Vaughns website is The Goat Farm and on twitter @vaughndavis Vaughn posted this morning on What he is talking about at WordCampNZ and on the  Why He is coming to WordCampNZ & Why You Should Too

* Unfortunately Melissa Clark-Reynolds has a surprise family event that means she has had to cancel. We are still hoping that another Minimonos staff member can talk about that project and we will keep you posted.

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..

@simantics is Saquib Ahmed but my friends (and some of my more well acquainted foes) just call me Sim. I am a 20 year old student at the University of Auckland.

Saquibs website is Saquib.me and he used a live stream style tool called Coveritlive (thanks SocialMediaNZ) so that external people could ask questions and follow in the presentations in more detail. We said Status

“The live blog stream is very good if you were taking notes & wanted to check something Good work @simantics #wordcampnz http://ow.ly/2noMr”

There were many tweets from both rooms and much of that was also captured over at Be in the Room thanks to fine support by Lucy  @estateofflux and Be in the Room @eventsonfire.

• Rachel Cunliffe linked here saying, “Last weekend I had the pleasure of being the secon …”
• Jason Kemp linked here saying Thinking is What I Do and included some more photos by Kristina
• Kristina DC Hoeppner linked here saying, “WordCampNZ (Part 2). Aug 9th, 2010. by Kristina D. …”
• Kristina DC Hoeppner linked here saying, “(with apologies to Bill Bennett for writing 5 time …”
• Kristina D.C. Hoeppner. WordCampNZ (Part 3) My summaries of the presentations I listened to at WordCampNZ 2010 continues.
• Michael Brandon (Searchmasters) linked here saying, “Live Blog of WordCamp Auckland This page will be u …”
• Simon Young linked here saying, “WordCamp NZ, 7 August 2010 Unfortunately, I won’t …”

Here is another shot of Bill Bennett (by Kristina) whose presentation on Writing for the web in 300 words was a huge hit. (33,721 35,003 impressions on Twitter so far with clicks and FB actions not far behind)

From Be In the Room

Here are some of the speakers presentations & slideshow  – we will update this list as more links come in

1. Jo Couchman on A plugin for every occasion
2. @cjlambert: My #wordcamp preso on slideshare http://goo.gl/B9cy @wordcampnz (Courtney Lambert)
3. @Jghazally: Just added a quick post on my experience of #WordCampUK and #WordCampNZ http://bit.ly/dh4ADY (Jeff Ghazally)
4. @billbennettnz: My #WordCampNZ preso: “Writing for the web in 300 words” http://bit.ly/900iMi (Bill Bennett)
5. @darren: my slides from my Wordcamp presentation—HTML5 & CSS3 http://tinyurl.com/345d8sd (Darren Wood)
6. dialogCRM Thanks to all the wordcampers I wrote up some personal thoughts on the experience & the future http://ow.ly/2muYT presentation version is here- shorter and has the plugin links. (Jason Kemp)
7. @kaupapa PDF slides who-are-your-audience_sacha-dylan_wordcampnz2010_lo.pdf (Sacha Dylan)
   Senior Consultant/Disability Strategist Connectos Consulting Ltd
8. @anthonycole Just uploaded my slides from @wordcampnz to slideshare. http://bit.ly/cydLi9
9. My WordCamp NZ talk notes: Creating Custom Themes http://bit.ly/d8U3WO #wordcampnz #wordcamp (Rachel Cunliffe)
10. Part 2 from Rachel on Aquabumps is over here (awesome)

“I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

– Mark Twain” (really BP)

I have been so busy on #wordcampnz and other projects I wrote my presentation as a blog post and because it was a bit long I published it over at my blog as WordCampNZ 2010 Some Personal Thoughts. Comments on my presentation are preferred over there as I was listening to the SEO guy – thnaks Michael Brandon.

I talked a little about the logistics around organising a WordCamp and showed some stats and commented on some of the plugins and services that we used. My business is focussed at the marketing end of the scale and so I use email tools especially Campaign Monitor and MailChimp plus various other social media plugins to make it as easy as possible for customers and partners to engage with each other.

Again not having enough time (or sleep) I mentioned these WordPress plugins in passing.

1. Google Analyticator is one of my favourite plugins as it gives a rolling 30 day view of GA on the WordPress dashboard. This saves going into the google account which not many of my customers want to do. The plugin has role settings and so that desktop widget can be rolled down to below admin and editors if that is what you want to do.
2. FB Like is Facebook like plugin that we use on WordcampNZ. I like it (sorry about the pun.) Much as I personally have mixed views about Facebook (privacy & commerce) there is no doubting the huge clout it has when someone that you know likes or comments on stuff we all care about. (see also my post from June 06 Trust & verify on trust cues.)
3. Backtype is another plugin that is used extensively to feed in the twitter and other social streams into blogs. Part of the reason we use it is that it provides some twitter analytics which is a growing are of interest for many businesses. Have a look at these analytics for the post on Richard Hollingnum.The other reason I / we use Backtype is that some of the automattic people invested in it.
4. In passing I also referred to VaultPress for backups and VideoPress for video hosting also very much worth checking them out.

What is Next?

WordCampNZ is a charitable trust with a core group of trustees plus volunteers who all helped out on the day. We registered a charitable trust and we need some accounting and other resource to keep all of that sweet. Thanks to all of those who did help.

I know some WordPress developers are working up to 18 hrs a day on keeping their clients happy. Often they are the very same people who help out on wordcamps and the like.

Many of us work on low budget projects cos we like them but that doesn’t cut it with the bank manager or the accountants so (as a community) we do need to get better organised.

Juggling passion and business is a balancing act. This morning my daughter asked me how much $ I make in my job and I did my best to explain that it is not always about the $. That for me and many of us with families we plan our day around being able to be there for them as much as possible. Being with your family and being “present” when you are there is not always easy but it is extremely rewarding.

Many of the #wordcampnz community are highly action oriented. For my own business I love working with non-profits and causes because they are highly focussed.  They don’t have the big budgets so they need to make every media interaction and contact work.

If you came along to #wordcampnz 2010 and didn’t get enough (technical) detail please be aware that the speakers & presenters do need to get paid for their hard won IP at some time. We will put up some slides from this years event however some of the slides will be slightly different that what was presented for that reason.

No one is complaining. However…

It would be great to get some new trustees & share the workload a bit better. Anthony is now living in Melbourne. To put it in perspective he was 18 when he co-organised WordCamp Australia in Nov 2008. Hats off for that. Dan’s company Instinct is sitting on a rocket ship with more than 500,000 downloads of the wp-ecommerce plugin. So Dan is way busy. I have some adventures of my own that I’m excited about and so it is a good time to get wider community involvement on the organising side. To help with that we will get a work list out.

We are extremely grateful for our corporate sponsors Unitec, MagnumMac, DPS, Sitehost, AllGoodBananas and others like TweetTwins, Vaughn Davis, Catherine Arrow, Fraser at BrightMindLabs, Idealog Magazine.

The person who bought in the chocolate cake deserves a medal

Berend de Boer says on twitter

“#wordcampnz was very political, far too many greenie causes, and even someone running for political office, potentially a $60,000 job.”

“A #wordcampnz was quite different from a #drupal event, far more for wordpress users than wordpress developers”  on twitter

But wait – the cake came from one those political greenies and was a really nice thing to do.

Thanks also Berend for the compliment about the event being more for users. That is exactly why so many “regular” non-developers use WordPress. But with a full day of tech related sessions in room 2 (also for designers) we did cover most of the development stream. There were also 2 open source developers that we had hoped could make it but in the end they didn’t.

We did have a couple of sessions that could have been swapped over e.g Security should have been in tech room and Dan’s e-commerce presentation was probably more general. However security is an important topic and we wanted to pay close attention to that.

In my personal view having content with a cause or causes makes it real and passionate people make better speakers. My personal highlights were Courtney Lamberts oprah exercise and Justin & Sam from Vitallink. Richard from Dept of Doing all made my top 3 but everyone was good.

Content anywhere and especially online is really hitting the spot when it gets people off their butts and prompts them into action.

With your permission we would like to send out a monthly email to keep the #wordcampnz conversation going.It would also be really useful if we can implement BuddyPress and use that locally in NZ and Australia to link up the WordPress communities here.

GigaOM Pro is the kind of BuddyPress site that we should be able to use and develop in ANZ

We will keep up the social media and there are well advanced plans for two wordcamps in Wellington and Melbourne in about 6 months time.

More about that later but the general plan is to combine resources for ANZ so we can cover more territory and get you some speakers from the US, UK and elsewhere.

Thanks again. Please let me /us know your comments. Keep in touch as we will load up photos, slideshows and other resources as soon as we can.

As always let me know what you think in comments here or via twitter.