by JAK | Jun 16, 2014 | big ideas, industry futures
On Wednesday this week we have Matt Mullenweg in Auckland for a flying visit. Matt is CEO of Automattic which is the company behind WordPress. As the co founder of WordPress Matt has also learned a huge amount about how to grow a distributed business which is global...
by JAK | May 22, 2014 | culture, industry futures, WordPress
Matt Mullenweg will be in Wellington and Auckland on June 17th and 18th this year. It is Matts second visit to New Zealand and five years since he came to the first ever NZ wordcamp held in Wellington in 2009. Since then WordPress has continued to grow to the point...
by JAK | Aug 21, 2012 | culture, industry futures, WordPress
Two weeks ago I was at Wordcamp SF (#wcsf ) and given that I live in Auckland NZ it is rather a long way to go so why do I do it? Simply put – since 2009 I have been working mostly full time on WordPress based projects. I actually started using WordPress in mid...
by JAK | Jun 26, 2012 | online marketing, WordPress
On April the 21st we had a WordPress users event in Auckland called a wordcamp and, no – it has nothing to do with scrabble 🙂 It is a celebration of what WordPress users are up to. This year we wanted to make the talks as useful as possible for attendees and...
by JAK | Apr 23, 2012 | big ideas, WordPress
Wordcampnz is all about creating an affirming space with the best coffee, best people & looking for those magic moments and happy accidents. Why have a musician talk about his website when you can hear him sing a song he wrote ? And why say good bye when you can...
