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LightSpeed will be hosting WordCamp Cape Town 2012

This year WordCamp Cape Town has shown that the interest in WordPress runs deep in the South African community. As organizer of the event, Ashley Shaw and LightSpeed WordPress Development has learned a lot from organizing WCCT 2011 and has committed … Continue reading LightSpeed will be hosting WordCamp Cape Town 2012

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Winners of the Wren bags

Wren bags are very special because every bag has a history, like the Wren laptop bags that were gave away at wordcamp Cape Town 2011. The Laptop bags had a previous life as a packaging that has cement mixing instuctions … Continue reading Winners of the Wren bags

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WordPress as a mobile publishing platform – Matt Geri

Having developed MobilePress, I have unique experience and knowledge about using WordPress as a mobile publishing platform.

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Videos by Goosebump Productions ***Coming Soon

What do Goosebump Productions do? We offer affordable DVD video production and photographic services. We are based in Cape Town, South Africa. Why Choose Goosebump Productions? Goosebump Productions uses small, resourceful crews, resulting in affordable productions. We are open and … Continue reading Videos by Goosebump Productions ***Coming Soon

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WordCamp Cape Town 2011 a big success

WordCamp has come to an end and by all measures it was a great success. It was a day filled with insightful sessions by some very inspiring speakers and great networking and hobnobbing among WordCampers at a beautiful venue. We had … Continue reading WordCamp Cape Town 2011 a big success

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New DevPress vouchers

DevPress Vouchers URL: http://devpress.com/wordcamp/ Voucher Codes: CAPETOWN11 CAPETOWN111 CAPETOWN112 CAPETOWN113 CAPETOWN114 CAPETOWN115 CAPETOWN116 CAPETOWN117 CAPETOWN118 CAPETOWN119 CAPETOWN1110 CAPETOWN1111 CAPETOWN1112 CAPETOWN1113 CAPETOWN1114 CAPETOWN1115 CAPETOWN1116 CAPETOWN1117 CAPETOWN1118 CAPETOWN1119 CAPETOWN1120

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Lessons in online publishing from Fred Roed

These days it is very hard to keep up with the deluge of new social media offerings. What’s the next big thing and how are online publishers meant to keep up. In his discussion, “What a 60’s Rock n’ Roll … Continue reading Lessons in online publishing from Fred Roed

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The “Why I love WordPress” competition

This year at WordCamp Cape Town we are very fortunate to have many prizes to give away. WordCamp attendees will be walking away with some fantastic giveaways, and we wanted to share the fun with the many that cannot attend. … Continue reading The “Why I love WordPress” competition

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2011 Schedule

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Sponsor Spotlight: Wren Design

The WREN design’ is range of bags inspired by the possibility of materials and their stories. The brand started out of a want for a bag that had a story, was beautiful and was not mass-produced. The need was for … Continue reading Sponsor Spotlight: Wren Design

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Speaker Spotlight: Roy Foubister

Roy, started his career life as a network engineer in South Africa then moving to Botswana. A natural progression happened as he moved from networks to servers after gaining an “old school” MCSE qualification while managing the Barloworld Botswana infrastructure. … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Roy Foubister

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Speaker Spotlight: Nur Ahmad Furlong

Nur Ahmad Furlong develops Communications which are “Human Centric”, in other words, facilitating the new ways in which people are starting to interact and communicate by helping companies speak to people in their own language. Nur have been involved with … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Nur Ahmad Furlong

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Speaker Spotlight: Joe Botha

Joe Botha will share a few insights from his use of WordPress. He’s been using WordPress for about five years as a startup entrepreneur and photographer.   Tell us a bit about yourself I’m a Cape Town based serial entrepreneur, photographer … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Joe Botha

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Speaker Spotlight: Marc Perel

Marc Perel is the co-founder of Obox Design along with his brother David. Obox is a professional Premium Themes company also known for Obox Mobile, their WordPress Plugin which converts your site to be mobile friendly. Marc will be participating in … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Marc Perel

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Food, Refreshments and the WordCamp After Party

WordCamp will be a day packed full of WordPress goodness, giving attendees the opportunity to meet and rub shoulders with our amazing Speakers, Sponsors and each other. All this networking can be thirsty work and can definitely not be done … Continue reading Food, Refreshments and the WordCamp After Party

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