Nur Ahmad Furlong

Category: Events

  • WordPress Meetup – 28 September 09 – Bandwidth Barn

    For way too long I’ve been talking to alot of the WordPress guys in Cape Town about organising the next WPCPT meetup, but it seems everyone is completely snowed under and we’ve put it off for more than 8 months now. So Joe of Frogfoot networks has given us a jump start and gotten the ball rolling.

    The Event will take place at the Bandwidth Barn in Buitengracht street in Cape Town’s CBD.

    Date: 28 September 2009

    Time: 16:30

    Talks: offer to speak

    • Talk about the next WordCamp in SA
    • The evolution of BuddyPress & Child Themes – Ashley Shaw
    • WordPress & SEO – Rafiq Phillips
    • Intro to WordPress Coding – Nur (depends on interest)

    Still Need:

    • Projector
    • More speakers
    • Any sponsors (snacks etc)
    • Ideas for talks & activities
    • Help spreading the word

    We know there’s very little time left so we’re hoping you’ll all pitch in with the promotion over the next few days and also attend yourselves. Loads ave been happening in the WordPress world over the last year and there’s tons to talk about so it looks like it’s gonna be a real fin event once again.

    Add your name to the wiki – http://wiki.geekdinner.org.za/wiki/WordPress.org.za_Meetup_4

    Come join the fun and meet the community, have your say and maybe learn a thing or 2.

  • Vote with your light switch – Earth Hour 28-03-09

    The fact that we are in the middle of a climate crisis might have slipped the mind of a few of us due to the economic crisis currently hitting us, so Earth Hour comes along as a nice little reminder while we’re all distracted by all the other challenges we’re grappling with.
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    2,848 cities, towns and municipalities in 84 countries have already committed to VOTE EARTH for Earth Hour 2009, as part of the worlds first global election between Earth and global warming. – www.earthhour.org

    The concept is simple, at 08:30pm on Saturday 28 March, if you’d like to cast your vote for the planet, switch off all your lights and go without electricity for an hour to do your little part for the environment.

  • Blog Action Day 08 Tackles Poverty

    Some of you might have heard about Blog action day last year. It’s an annual event setup by Envato (ex eden creations) to motivate bloggers to focus on a specific issue on a specific day by blogging about it in whatever way they see fit. By doing so bloggers worldwide created hype around environmental issues last year. This year Poverty is the main focus of the event.

    Global issues like poverty are extremely complex. There is no simple,
    clear answer. By asking thousands of different people to give their
    viewpoints and opinions, Blog Action Day creates an extraordinary lens
    through which to view these issues. Each blogger brings their own
    perspective and ideas. Each blogger posts relating to their own blog
    topic. And each blogger engages their audience differently.

    Blog Action Day 08 aims to focus the lens on the issue of poverty and change the conversation on the web on one specific day. The idea is to stimulate discussion, debate and hopefully come out with some solutions to tackling Poverty woldwide.

    Bloggers are playing an increasingly important role in tackling social issues through awareness campaigns and by influencing activism. This year’s blog action day has taken the effort a step up by providing resources for bloggers to understand the issues which contribute to poverty.

    If you’re interested in participating in this event you can register your blog to notify the site that you will be participating. The next step would be to work on your personal part of blog action day by writing a post/s, creating a podcast or video cast, and then posting these on 15 October 2008.

    Some Big web 2.0 names ave gotten behind the event this year including Tech Crunch & Read Write Web so make sure you join the effort to tackle Global Poverty blogger style.

    At the same time, in your local setting don’t forget to make the life of a poor person easier in whatever way you can by feeding, clothing or facilitating ife for them in some way.

  • Heavy Chef does Rob Stokes on e-marketing

    The Quirk e-marketing textbook has been doing it’s rounds locally and internationally. The textbook is jam packed with years of knowledge and experience and takes the reader through from the very beginning to more advanced strategies in online marketing.

    This month’s Heavy Chef session will see Rob Stokes, author of the e-marketing textbook and founder & CEO of Quirk e-marketing, giving an introduction to e-marketing.

    Heavy Chef sessions are run by the guys at World Wide Creative on a monthly basis. They’ve been hosting top events for the last 1.5 years. I missed the last one which focused on e-commerce but definitely don’t want to miss this one.

    Here are the details:

    Aug 31 (Cape Town), 5.30pm – 7.30pm:introduction to eMarketing

    Speaker: Rob Stokes, CEO of Quirk eMarketing

    Want to attend? Email Rowan to enquire about booking your seat.

    Seeya’ll there!

  • WordPress Meetup T-Shirt Design, what do you think?

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    I’ve become so bogged down with client work lately that doing this little T-shirt Design for the upcoming WordPress meetup was a nice little break from the norm.

    I’d like to know what you guys think of the design. Those attending will be receiving a free T compliments of the Sponsors (FormFunction, Radiiate & World Wide Creative), thanks to our generous sponsors. We’ve catered for 30 people attending.

    To register for the WordPress Cape Town Meetup which will be happening on 28th May, 4 – 7pm at the Bandwidth Barn, click here and add a comment saying you’ll be there.

  • How can we make WPCPT meetup #3 rock?

    All you wordpress superstars, Planning for wordpress meetup 3 is under way. We can’t do a thing without wordpressy peeps though. Check out the latest post on how we can make the next meetup Rock Big Time.

    We got some ideas to start you off, first off we’d like some feedback if you were at the last one and please send your photos to post on the site as well.

    Head on over to http://wpcapetown.wordpress.com/ and get involved.