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Bronze Sponsor: SiteGround

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SiteGround

We’re happy to announce another Bronze Sponsor for WordCamp Brisbane! SiteGround, with over 11 years in the business, provides managed WordPress hosting that does not miss a thing! Their servers, available in 3 different data centers across the world, are optimized for ultimate WordPress speed and security and they provide many goodies for the WordPress fans – automatic updates for the core WordPress and its plugins, WordPress SuperCacher for ultimate speed acceleration, staging tool for the coders and unique WordPress autoinstaller for the starting users – all crafted in-house by the SiteGround team. And still they do not forget the importance of the good old standard hosting features like the domain name registration, the email service, control panel and the reasonable pricing. They also have a support team that is not only available 24/7 by phone, chat and ticketing, but consists of WordPress enthusiasts who will help you with specific WordPress issues. SiteGround has been actively involved with the community speaking, supporting and attending various WordCamps around the world and by sponsoring WordCamp Brisbane they want to further contribute to the amazing WordPress community.

We have a Schedule!

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G’Day everyone!

Can you believe it? There’s only 2 and a half weeks until WordCamp Brisbane, wow the time has flown by!

We’re happy to announce that we’ve almost finalised the schedule for the weekend. We still have a few small things to tie up though, so a few presentations might get shifted around while we confirm everything.

Saturday, May 30th

Time Kindler Theatre P421 The Forum P419
10:15 am
Creative SEO Dan Petrovic
Favorite session: Creative SEO
These Are A Few Of My Favourite Themes Meryl McCay
Favorite session: These Are A Few Of My Favourite Themes
11:00 am
Morning Break
11:45 am
WooCommerce Case Study – coffeebeansdelivered.com.au Jen Jeavens
Favorite session: WooCommerce Case Study – coffeebeansdelivered.com.au
Plugin Paradise Selina Power
Favorite session: Plugin Paradise
12:30 pm
ROOOAR Magazine – The Benefits Of Publishing A Digital Magazine Nicki Mckay
Favorite session: ROOOAR Magazine – The Benefits Of Publishing A Digital Magazine
How To Get A Page Speed Score In The 90s Peter Wilson
Favorite session: How To Get A Page Speed Score In The 90s
1:15 pm
Lunch
2:10 pm
How To Get Visitors Marketing Tropical North Queensland With Us Kate Duffy
Favorite session: How To Get Visitors Marketing Tropical North Queensland With Us
Plugin Development 101 Wil Brown
Favorite session: Plugin Development 101
2:55 pm
Leveraging Your Skills – Moving From One-On-One Client Work To Creating Your First Online Course Helena Denley
Favorite session: Leveraging Your Skills – Moving From One-On-One Client Work To Creating Your First Online Course
Build on Chassis: Introduction to a Solid Development Workflow Japh Thomson
Favorite session: Build on Chassis: Introduction to a Solid Development Workflow
3:40 pm
Afternoon Break
3:55 pm
Wouldn’t Life Be Better Without Clients? Ben Maden
Favorite session: Wouldn’t Life Be Better Without Clients?
Once Upon An API Steven Cooper
Favorite session: Once Upon An API
4:40 pm
Closing Day 1 Remarks
6:00 pm
After Party Til 10pm
Favorite session: After Party Til 10pm
9:00 am
Registration Opens
9:30 am
Welcome Back To WordCamp
9:45 am
How to Freelance like a BOSS Dee Teal
Favorite session: How to Freelance like a BOSS
15 Cool Things You (Maybe) Didn’t Know WordPress Could Do Kristen Symonds
Favorite session: 15 Cool Things You (Maybe) Didn’t Know WordPress Could Do

Sunday, May 31th

Time Kindler Theatre P421 The Forum P419
10:30 am
Make WordPress Accessible Charlie Carter
Favorite session: Make WordPress Accessible
How To Tweak Your WordPress Theme Ricky Blacker
Favorite session: How To Tweak Your WordPress Theme
11:15 am
Morning Break
11:40 am
Modern Design: Browser, Mobile and Data-Centric Lucy Bloomfield
Favorite session: Modern Design: Browser, Mobile and Data-Centric
WordPress On The Command Line With WP-CLI Jamie Madden
Favorite session: WordPress On The Command Line With WP-CLI
12:25 pm
Why Isn’t My Beautiful Website Enough? Jo Grey
Favorite session: Why Isn’t My Beautiful Website Enough?
The WordPress REST API Ryan McCue
Favorite session: The WordPress REST API
1:10 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
Writing and Design for Successful Content Strategies – Words, Images and Interaction Tracey Porst
Favorite session: Writing and Design for Successful Content Strategies – Words, Images and Interaction
Contributing Back To WordPress – Why It’s Important For Your Business Kel Santiago
Favorite session: Contributing Back To WordPress – Why It’s Important For Your Business
2:45 pm
Email Marketing – The Secret Weapon To Grow Your Business Warren Denley
Favorite session: Email Marketing – The Secret Weapon To Grow Your Business
Building a Membership site with WooCommerce Anthony Hortin
Favorite session: Building a Membership site with WooCommerce
3:30 pm
Afternoon Break
3:45 pm
Panel – Future of Mobile / Mobile & Web Nik Cree, James Banks, Ryan McCue, Lucy Bloomfield
Favorite session: Panel – Future of Mobile / Mobile & Web
4:45 pm
Closing Remarks

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Speakers Dinner Sponsor: iCreate

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iCreate Soluctions

We have yet another WordCamp Brisbane sponsor. Thanks very much to iCreate who are sponsoring the speakers dinner! iCreate is a studio full of designers, developers and marketers on Brisbane’s Bay side.  We’re full service agency offering services across both the traditional and digital spheres of marketing.  (Yes – traditional is still a thing). Oh, and we love WordPress!

Silver Sponsor: Conetix

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Conetix

We’re very happy to announce another Silver Sponsor for WordCamp Brisbane! Conetix  has for over 10 years helped countless businesses and developers build their own customised web hosting solution. Using a hands on business approach and years of experience, Conetix delivers a tailored, solid hosting environment that meets web professionals needs at every level.

With a continued focus on superior hardware and intelligent automation systems, Conetix is able to provide enterprise grade solutions ranging from basic web hosting through to advanced application and Managed WordPress Hosting. 

Speaker: Ricky Blacker – How To Tweak Your WordPress Theme

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Ricky Blacker

Ricky Blacker

We’ve got yet another speaker announcement for you! Once you’ve learnt about WordPress themes you’ll probably want to start customising and creating child themes so Ricky Blacker will teach you how you can get started doing that. Ricky will present a simple guide to bending your WordPress theme to your will! Learn how to tweak and change the design of your website without hundreds of plugins or years of coding experience. Using easy to learn skills, you will unleash your inner designer, and become a WordPress master!

Ricky’s presentation will cover some of the following topics:

  • Preparing your WordPress site for customisation.
  • Some of the tools needed to achieve amazing results.
  • Simple beginners tips to make basic changes beyond your themes customizer.
  • What a WordPress child theme is.
  • How to create a WordPress child theme.

Ricky is a self taught web professional who found and fell in love with WordPress, and the community behind it while looking for a CMS platform to build websites for clients. He soon fell down a rabbit hole full of plugins, themes and passionate WordPress devotees, which forever changed his life and has taken him on an extraordinary journey, filled with late night talks with equally enamoured Wordies and fueled by craft beers.

Ricky runs Data Guru, a small web design business based on Brisbane’s Northside, which develops sites for small to medium sized businesses, as well as doing Pro Bono work for not for profit groups.

He is a Co-Organizer for the Sunshine Coast WordPress Meetup Group, and also regularly attends the Brisbane WordPress Meetup and Brisbane Web Design Meetup groups.

In his spare time (not that he has much of that), he is a temporary Australian (motorcycle rider), plays keyboards and sings in a local Brissy band and tries to stay on top of the ever changing Web Development world. He is passionate about sharing his knowledge of WordPress with anyone who will listen, and loves helping newbies find their legs with the WordPress back end, and show them what can be achieved with this powerful platform.

You can follow Ricky on Twitter.

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Silver Sponsor: MailChimp

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MailChimp

We’re very excited to add another sponsor to our list of growing sponsors! MailChimp are Silver Sponsors for WordCamp Brisbane! More than 8 million people and businesses around the world use MailChimp. Our features and integrations allow you to send marketing emails, automated messages, and targeted campaigns. And our detailed reports help you keep improving over time.

You can follow MailChimp on Twitter.

Speaker: Jo Grey – Why Isn’t My Beautiful Website Enough?

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Jo Grey

Jo Grey

We’re adding yet another fabulous speaker to our lineup for WordCamp Brisbane! Jo Grey will be teaching you why having a great looking website isn’t enough. Jo will give you 3 tips to help web designers get the right content from clients and soome easy-to-use sites designers can refer their clients to, such as building infographics, images for their blogs, and topic ideas.

Jo will cover some of the following topics during her presentation:

  • Why a pretty website isn’t enough.
  • Providing content slows the web designer down.
  • Content generating ideas.
  • Content moving with the times – not static.
  • Clients start off strong, then fade when novelty of being a blogger fades.
  • Strategies and tips to help clients manage their content
  • Ways web designers can help get the right content the first time.
  • Repurposing existing content.
  • Engagement.
  • Personality in content.
  • Stories matter.

Jo Grey has over 20 years of experience in marketing and communications. She is the director of a new corporate communications agency in Brisbane: Cornerstone Communications. Jo and her team know that every brand has a story, and their job is to help you (or your clients) build a content strategy to tell that story.

Content can be words, great infographics, videos, a blog, a digital magazine or ebook, or a short social media post. Whatever fits with your (or your clients’ business) is what the team of hand-picked experts at Cornerstone Communications can do.

Previously, Jo has managed the marketing, communications and media for a range of companies, including state government and tertiary education. In her spare time, Jo studies for her PhD in communications using video-conferencing, walks the dog and eats copious amounts of chocolate.

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Bronze Sponsor: Cornerstone Communications: Corporate Communications Agency

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Cornerstone Communications

We’re happy to announce our first Bronze Sponsor for WordCamp Brisbane! Let me introduce you to Cornerstone Communications: Corporate Communications Agency.

Stunning website? What about your content?

We craft content for websites, blogs, newsletters and social media.

“In 2014, 86% of B2B marketers used content marketing, and 70% of them are creating more content than they did one year ago*” *Ref Content Marketing Institute, 2014

It’s essential to get it right first time – and that means a solution tailored to you. Not Bob or Betty. You. We will help you identify the best possible content marketing solution that will fit well with your team, culture and customers. Our combined experience ensures that you get the right service, at the right budget, at the right time. And because we get it right, we have happy clients. 

When it comes to marketing and communications, we realise it’s tempting to ‘do it yourself’. But that takes time and while you may well do a reasonable job, is it the best use of your time?

Content matters. Get it done. Cornerstone Communications consultants all have a minimum of 10 years’ experience in their field. Most have more. We can help you with:

  • Marketing strategies 
  • Content marketing
  • Social media
  • Graphic design
  • Website design and content
  • Newsletters
  • Blogs
  • Editing

Visit www.cornerstonecommunications.com.au for content packages.

Speaker: Kristen Symonds – 15 Cool Things You (Maybe) Didn’t Know WordPress Could Do

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Kristen Symonds

Kristen Symonds

By the end of the WordCamp Brisbane weekend we’re aiming to make new WordPress new users leave the event feeling confident with themes, plugins and of course the WordPress admin dashboard!  Kristen’s talk is aimed at users to help them get the most out of their WordPress publishing experience.

Kristen’s talk will include some of the overlooked parts of WordPress admin such as:

  • The Help menu.
  • Screen Options.
  • Drag & drop media.
  • Inserting multiple images at once.
  • Use the Edit Selection section of media dialogue.
  • Page Ordering.
  • Bulk Edit.
  • Emoji.
  • And many more!

Kristen Symonds, (aka Kristarella) is co-organiser of the WPSydney meetup group, co-organiser WordCamp Sydney 2014 and a WordPress fanatic. She also loves photography, craft (especially knitting and crochet), Sci-Fi and Fantasy, and board games.

Kristen is married to Dave and has two pet rabbits named Kaylee and Monty; they all live together in suburban Sydney.

You can follow Kristen on Twitter.

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Speaker: Kel Santiago – Contributing Back To WordPress – Why It’s Important For Your Business

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Kel Santiago

Kel Santiago

Happy Monday all! You should read about our next speaker, Kel Santiago, while your second coffee is kicking in for the day. Kel will be talking about why your business should contribute back to WordPress why it’s important for your business. Your business will get recognised at events, you’ll become the face of your company and gain trust from the community and clients. You’ll fly the flag for WordPress which is globally-recognised and when you contribute, you gain new friends, meet new people and for company’s like Digital Cube, business is not about the money, it’s about the people!

Kel Santiago will show you some of the many ways to contribute to WordPress such as:

  • WordPress Tips from Users Around the World.
  • What it Takes to Contribute.
  • DigitalCube’s Five for the Future.
  • Contributing back via:
    • Plugins.
    • Speaking, Sponsoring and Organising WordCamps.
    • Translations / Polyglots.
    • Writing WordPress books.
    • VCCW.
    • VVV.
    • WP-CLI.

Kel is a Japan-based writer and evangelist of DigitalCube Co. Ltd. Advanced Consulting Partner of Amazon Web Services and Code Poet WordPress Consultant. They were the first in Japan and all of Asia.

You can follow Kel on Twitter.

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