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Sponsor Spotlight: LightSpeed WordPress Development

LightSpeed WordPress Development (also known as lsdev.biz), is a specialist WordPress Web development studio based in Cape Town. LightSpeed and founder/owner Ashley Shaw are the organising sponsors of this year’s WordCamp.

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Sponsor Spotlight: Tokokoo

Tokokoo is an Indonesia-based premium WordPress e-Commerce theme provider and one of our bronze sponsors. The have been very generous in offering 10 of their Premium themes as prizes at WordCamp.

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Speaker Spotlight: Ashley Shaw

We are proud to announce the organizer of this year’s WordCamp Cape Town 2011, Ashley Shaw from LightSpeed WordPress Development as a Speaker on the Tech/Development Track. Ashley will be hosting a session on the art of scaling WordPress. Tell … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Ashley Shaw

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Sponsor Spotlight: Pro Theme Design on the Timthumb security issue

 ProTheme Design is a bronze sponsor of WordCamp Cape Town 2011 and have been kind enough to offer 10 lucky winners a license to a theme of their choice. It’s great to see such continued and generous commitment to the … Continue reading Sponsor Spotlight: Pro Theme Design on the Timthumb security issue

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Sponsor Spotlight: Missing Link

Presentations are often boring slide-shows of irrelevant, bland graphics slapped together by the hapless presenter 15 minutes before show time that have to be endured by captive audiences bored to the point of depression. One company decided to end this horror, to … Continue reading Sponsor Spotlight: Missing Link

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WordCamp Cape Town Waiting List

Are you still trying to get into WordCamp Cape Town 2011? The response and interest in this year’s WordCamp has been amazing, with the allotted seats selling out long before the event. This high demand shows that the South African WordPress community … Continue reading WordCamp Cape Town Waiting List

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Sponsor Spotlight: RSAWEB WordPress Hosting

We are very proud to welcome RSAweb as Title Sponsor for WordCamp Cape Town 2011. RSAweb is South Africa’s leading Internet Services Provider, specialising in Internet access, hosting and enterprise-class data centre solutions. Tell us a bit about your business. … Continue reading Sponsor Spotlight: RSAWEB WordPress Hosting

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Sponsor Spotlight: Web4Africa

We are happy to welcome Web4Africa onboard as one of our international sponsors for WordCamp Cape Town 2011. Tell us a bit about your business. How do you use WordPress? Web4Africa Ltd. is a web design & web hosting company … Continue reading Sponsor Spotlight: Web4Africa

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Sponsor Spotlight: freelancentral

Since it launched in early 2006, Freelancentral.co.za has become THE place for companies to find good freelance talent – and the go-to platform for freelancers to promote their portfolios. With over 6,500 members, Freelancentral aims to bring freelancers and clients … Continue reading Sponsor Spotlight: freelancentral

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Speaker Spotlight: Dan Milward

We are very happy to announce Dan Milward, founder and owner of Instinct Entertainment as a speaker at WordCamp Cape Town. Dan will be hosting a Tech/Development track session on the WP e-Commerce plugin and the Open Source community.

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WordCamp Cape Town 2011 T-shirts and Stickers

No successful conference is complete without some really cool swag for the attendees. WordCamp Cape Town 2011 will be no exception, and we are proud to unveil the official WordCamp CT t-shirt: The design is the brainchild of the excellent … Continue reading WordCamp Cape Town 2011 T-shirts and Stickers

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Sponsor Spotlight: Zedduo

Zedduo is a Design, Illustration and Multimedia studio formed by graphic designer twins, Zaheed and Zughdi Manuel.  We are very happy to have them on board for WordCamp Cape Town 2011 as Silver Sponsors. Zedduo have designed our official WordCamp Cape Town … Continue reading Sponsor Spotlight: Zedduo

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MC Interview: Jonathan Duguid

We are happy to announce Jonathan Duguid (@theDramaKing on Twitter) as the MC on the Publisher’s track. Jonathan will be keeping us entertained, assure that we don’t take ourselves too seriously and remember to have lots of fun between geeking … Continue reading MC Interview: Jonathan Duguid

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Speaker Spotlight: Neil Pursey

 Tell us a bit about yourself When I’m not working I enjoy a round of golf, it definitely keeps me sane. I am the owner of WebGrowth, co-partner in ThinkSEO and co-partner in the GROW Academy. I discovered SEO by chance in … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Neil Pursey

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WordCamp Cape Town 2011 Schedule

WordCamp Cape Town 2011 offers 2 Tracks of talks hosted by some of the most interesting WordPress professionals around. Each Speaker will host a 30 minute session with a short Q&A session afterward. There are two tracks on offer, the … Continue reading WordCamp Cape Town 2011 Schedule

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