Speaker: Jordan Gillman – Questioning the Journalistic Status Quo

jordan-gillmanWe’re welcoming Jordan to our WordCamp Sydney speaker family.

Jordan is designer who started learning to code by necessity – and now considers himself to ‘know enough to be dangerous’.

For the past 7 years he has been working with churches and other faith-based organisations to help them communicate better online.

Jordan lives in Wollongong with his lovely wife, 2 daughters and insane Pug called Pixel.

He’ll be talking about the journey of taking a published magazine from printed copy to online with the relaunch of Eternity News from the Bible Society of Australia

Eternity News has been a print publication for many years – and are just now launching their own foray into the world of online news (after being part of the Bible Society website for many years).

With a crack team of ex Fairfax/ABC staff and a blank slate for what a ‘news’ site is – they are hoping to question the conventions of how a news website works – all on top of WordPress.

Jordan will be talking through some of the process, decisions and development they undertook to get there.

You can follow Jordan on Twitter.