Blog entries tagged social networking

Happy 5th Birthday, Joomla!

Jen Kramer — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:04:05 +0100

Dear Joomla,

We’re all so proud of you and how far you’ve come these five years. Your 20 parents conceived of you because they wanted to have fun. Ever since, people have come to you looking for a good time, to make friends all over the world, to contribute to the greater good.

In dog years, or technology years, you’re actually 35. This is actually a better age to describe you. You’re old enough to have been around the block, and old enough to know better...

Social Networking at Joomla.org

Jen Kramer — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:49:07 +0100

Last night, the Joomla leadership announced that they were looking for request for comment on a social networking community to reside at Joomla.org.

We know it will either be called social.joomla.org or people.joomla.org. We know that it's been decided that JomSocial will run the community.

We are asked for input about whether this is something we'd use, what we want included, and how we think we'd use it.

Does anyone see a problem with that? We have the URL all pic...

Certificate in Open Source Web Development, featuring Joomla

Jen Kramer — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:00:00 +0100

The Marlboro College Graduate Center in Brattleboro, Vermont, just released its Open Source Web Development certificate in a wholly online format.

If you've been working with Joomla, but you want to know a lot more about it, this is the certificate program for you. The certificate introduces students to Joomla, as well as planning a website, understanding the code that runs it, and developing and executing an online marketing plan.

The certificate consists of 12 credits:

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Obama Launches iPhone App, Makes Everyone A Campaign Worker

Jen Kramer — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:00:00 +0100

Article is here.

Leave politics aside for the moment, and just consider the beauty of this application.

The problem: You need to get millions of people to vote for you in an election.

The details: You know that personal contact is the best way to win voters. But personal contact needs to happen regularly. It's just not possible to do this when you must reach millions of people.

You also know that voters can be influenced by friends and family, and that conversati...

Barrie North guest lectures at Jen's class

Jen Kramer — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:00:00 +0100

Barrie North, author of "The Joomla 1.5 book", came to lecture at my class over the weekend. We have been using his book as one of our textbooks, but he came to talk about social networking and driving traffic to your website.

He was an excellent speaker, and the students really enjoyed hearing from him. He had some great advice for SEO , and gave the students some new things to think about.

He's blogged about it on his site. This includes notes from his talk...