WordCamp Cape Town 2011

Speaker Spotlight: Neil Pursey

August 26, 2011 by WordCamp.org • 2 Comments

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 a previous business of mine, and realising the need for SEO skills in South Africa I founded WebGrowth in 2006.

I have a deep desire for helping businesses succeed through search marketing as well as education & social development. I came across WordPress in 2008 and have never personally built a website in anything else besides it since then.

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WordCamp Cape Town 2011 Schedule

August 25, 2011 by WordCamp.org • Comments Off

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 Publisher track and the Tech/Developer Track.
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Show your Support for WordCamp Cape Town!

August 25, 2011 by WordCamp.org • 1 Comment

Show your support for WordCamp Cape Town by displaying our official WordCamp Cape Town badges on your website or blog. They have been crafted by The Forge, one of our Silver Sponsors.

Also remember to stay up to date with the most recent WordCamp Cape Town news by following us:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/WordCampCT

Twitter: @wordcampct – Hashtag: #WCCT
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Speaker Spotlight: Jess Green

August 25, 2011 by WordCamp.org • Comments Off

Not a WordPress expert, but a lover of WordPress – Jess has built a few WordPress websites, first by developers doing it for him, and then himself, and in the process learnt how clients should be handled.

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Interview: Nur Ahmad Furlong

August 24, 2011 by WordCamp.org • 1 Comment

Nur Ahmad Furlong, better known online as Nomad One, has been involved with WordPress since 2006. Nomad has been a lecturer at Friend Of Design and can be found online at http://www.nomad-one.com/ or on Twitter: @nomadone

How did you get into WordPress? How has WordPress been involved in shaping your career?

I first found WordPress when I became interested in reading sustainability blogs way back in 2006 and I noticed one of my favorite blogs has a “Built with WordPress” link at the bottom. That’s when I rushed off and did some investigation which resulted in my first WordPress.com blog site. In fact it’s still online, only has 4 posts, LOL. – http://nomadone.wordpress.com/

Later I used the blog to speak about my career, and when I could not longer modify it by merely adding sidebars I knew I needed to go the self hosted route.

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Speaker Spotlight: Matt Geri

August 23, 2011 by WordCamp.org • 2 Comments

The latest top notch speaker to official join the line up at this year’s WordCamp Cape Town is Matt Geri, self confessed WordPress Geek and Mobile champion. Matt will be blowing our minds on the Tech/Development track with a session on using WordPress as a Mobile publishing platform.

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WordCamp Cape Town 2011 Venue Change

August 18, 2011 by WordCamp.org • Comments Off

We are very happy to announce that we have secured the Atlantic Imbizo as the new Venue for WordCamp Cape Town 2011!

The positive response and interest in WordCamp Cape Town 2011 has necessitated that we upgrade to a bigger venue to ensure that this year’s WordCamp is the best we can possibly offer.

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Interview with Plugin Developer Shaun Alberts

August 12, 2011 by WordCamp.org • Comments Off

Shaun Alberts has written 2 plugins for NextGEN Gallery, NextGEN Gallery Voting and NextGen Gallery Custom Fields. With over 50 000 downloads between the two, the endeavour has not proven profitable, as he only has $32 in donations to show for it.

We caught up with him and asked a few questions on his perspective of the WordPress community and the level of support for free plug-in developers.

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WordCamp Cape Town 2011 on Twitter

August 11, 2011 by WordCamp.org • Comments Off

Follow all the updates on the Official WordCamp Cape Town 2011 Twitter account @WordCampCT

We’ve also changed over from the hashtag #WordCampCT to #WCCT as the new official Hashtag for WordCamp CT.

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Speaker Spotlight: David Mugo

August 11, 2011 by WordCamp.org • Comments Off

We want to welcome David Mugo as an official speaker at WordCamp Cape Town 2011. David is one of our international speakers, all the way from Kenya. The organizer of WordCamp Kenya, blogger, and social media & technology consultant, David will be hosting a session on WordPress as a CMS.

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Speaker Spotlight: Fred Roed

August 10, 2011 by WordCamp.org • Comments Off

We are very happy to confirm Fred Roed, of World Wide Creative and the Heavy Chef project as a speaker at WordCamp Cape Town 2011. Fred will be hosting a session on Community, and it’s place in marketing strategy.

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Speaker Spotlight: Jeff Pearce

August 8, 2011 by WordCamp.org • Comments Off

We are happy to confirm Jeffikus Pearce – Jeffikus for those in the know – lead developer at WooThemes and WordPress wizard as speaker at WordCamp Cape Town 2011. Jeffikus will be hosting a session on our developer track on viewing WordPress as a development framework.

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Speaker Spotlight: Craig Strachan

August 5, 2011 by WordCamp.org • Comments Off

We are happy to welcome and confirm Craig Strachan as a Speaker at WordCamp Cape Town 2011. Craig will be hosting a session on our Blogger Track and sharing his knowledge on syndicating your blog across platform and growing your readership base.

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Speaker Spotlight: Oluniyi D. Ajao

August 3, 2011 by WordCamp.org • Comments Off

We are very happy to announce that Oluniyi D. Ajao of Web4Africa will be joining us at WordCamp 2011 all the way from Ghana. Oluniyi will host a session on the Blogger track and tell us all about maximising WordPress for publishing multimedia without plugins.

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