One evening in July, four friends sat at a restaurant in Greenside talking about the recent start of the Olympics. There was such as a vibe from Cameron van der Burgh’s gold medal, the friends wondered if the news of his medal had spread to the whole of South Africa, or just those watching satellite TV?
The group decided to put an App on Mxit specifically around how South Africa was performing at the Olympics.
The first case study for mxPress was born, and 4 hours later they had launched the “SAGold” Mxit app, using the mxPress Plugin for WordPress.
WordPress was the natural choice, as one of the friends was a Journalist with experience in using WordPress , and Mxit was the ideal audience as it reaches more than 9 million active users in South Africa, and one of the friends had recently launched the mxPress Plugin. Over the next 3 weeks, four journalists contributed to the Mxit App via WordPress, posting news and SA medal standings.
mxPress is an Open Source (BSD-3 license) plugin created by Kazazoom (Pty) Ltd, a Joburg based Mxit 3rd party Design & Development House. The Plugin gives you the ability to integrate an existing or new WordPress site, as an App on Mxit. Kazazoom provides the Plugin for free (and open source license) and builds their business around maintaining the Plugin and associated Mxit Apps for corporate clients. So far, one commercial client (top financial institution) and one community project (SAGold) operates on Mxit using this technology, with many new organisations and developers recently having started experimenting with the Plugin.
Attend this talk if you want to find out more about what WordPress’s potential is for Content Management beyond that of a BLOG or Website.
What have you NOT thought of yet, that you could do with WordPress in your business?
Disclaimer: Eric has asked us to declare up-front that he is not a WordPress technical expert and would like to apologise for any non geek speak he might utter…..
Session: “Open Source mxPress Plugin”
Time: 09:00 – 09:25
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