{"id":3885,"date":"2012-08-07T16:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2012.capetown.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=3885"},"modified":"2012-09-21T15:32:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T13:32:32","slug":"mark-slingsby","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/speaker\/mark-slingsby\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Slingsby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ancr\" name=\"mark\">&nbsp;<\/a>Mark Slingsby is co-founder and Technical Director of local Internet Service Provider <a title=\"RSAWEB\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rsaweb.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">RSAWEB<\/a> as well as Financial Director of <a title=\"RAMP Group&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;Ideas are the currency of the future\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rampgroup.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">RAMP Group<\/a>, a holding company that invests in technology startups. Through his passion for entrepreneurship and technology, Mark has worked for over 11 years in a variety of technical and strategic consulting roles for various IT companies, including, RSAWEB, <a title=\"Even Flow Distribution - VoIP : Telecommunication : Networking : Wireless : IP Video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.evenflow.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Even Flow Distribution<\/a> and <a title=\"White Wall Web\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitewallweb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">White Wall Web<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mark also co-founded <a title=\"NetProphet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.netprophet.org.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Net Prophet<\/a>, SA\u2019s largest free to attend Tech Startup Conference.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"standard-icon social\" href=\"https:\/\/2012.capetown.wordcamp.org\/speaker-spotlight-mark-slingsby\/\">Speaker Spotlight<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Session:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/2012.capetown.wordcamp.org\/session\/scaling-wordpress\/\">Scaling WordPress<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> 13:55 \u2013 14:20<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markslingsby\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a> <a class=\"linkedin-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/markslingsby\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a> <a class=\"facebook-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mark.slingsby\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a> <a class=\"standard-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/markslingsby\" target=\"_blank\">SlideShare<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"standard-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.markslingsby.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Personal blog<\/a> <a class=\"standard-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slingsby.za.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tech blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Mark Slingsby is co-founder and Technical Director of local Internet Service Provider RSAWEB as well as Financial Director of RAMP Group, a holding company that invests in technology startups. Through his passion for entrepreneurship and technology, Mark has worked for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/speaker\/mark-slingsby\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mark Slingsby<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7694169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_wcpt_user_name":"","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-3885","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pheWZl-10F","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dc105e5e7bc8b7cf806ac09f75365af6b28ade4799d83a1b45ddb4b1d6d0be31?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dc105e5e7bc8b7cf806ac09f75365af6b28ade4799d83a1b45ddb4b1d6d0be31?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dc105e5e7bc8b7cf806ac09f75365af6b28ade4799d83a1b45ddb4b1d6d0be31?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dc105e5e7bc8b7cf806ac09f75365af6b28ade4799d83a1b45ddb4b1d6d0be31?s=128&d=mm&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dc105e5e7bc8b7cf806ac09f75365af6b28ade4799d83a1b45ddb4b1d6d0be31?s=256&d=mm&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dc105e5e7bc8b7cf806ac09f75365af6b28ade4799d83a1b45ddb4b1d6d0be31?s=512&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/3885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7694169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/3885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5641,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/3885\/revisions\/5641"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/5236?_embed=1&context=view"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}