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We had a student at our Cambridge class who put me on this trail of this ... apparently British Telecom are rolling out Joomla for nearly all of their customers' websites. With the exception of e-commerce,it seems to be their default system for building customer sites. For those of you not familiar with BT, it is far and away the biggest telecom company in the U.K.

British Telecom and...

It is that time of the year again ... I'm headed back the U.K. for a couple of weeks.

Mainly the trip will be family-orientated as I've sisters who are graduating, getting married and having babies. There's a lot to catch up on!

However, it's a rare vacation nowadays that doesn't involve Joomla in some way. So we're holding two Joomla training classes, one in Cambridge on June 25th and another...

Joomla Day Netherlands took place this weekend and by all accounts it was a great success.

There was the official release for Joomla's new Resources Directory, a presentation with useful security tips by Brian Teeman, and a really good overview of how to create a Joomla SEO-optimized template:

Rene Kreijveld from Webcreatives.nl does a great job of explaining how to create a basic...

People who teach Joomla know they feeling ... things have been going well, but suddenly there's a blank look. The student's stuck on one point. You've tried a few ways to explain it, but they're not getting the big picture. You rack your brain and start, "well, Joomla's just like a ... " and you try to dig out a comparison.

Here are my top five favorite analogies to help people grasp Joomla's...

Listen.. people be askin me all the time,
"Yo Mos, what's gettin ready to happen with Hip-Hop?"
(Where do you think Hip-Hop is goin?)
I tell em, "You know what's gonna happen with Hip-Hop?
Whatever's happening with us"
If we smoked out, Hip-Hop is gonna be smoked out
If we doin alright, Hip-Hop is gonna be doin alright
People talk about Hip-Hop like it's some giant livin in the hillside
comin...

I'm always on the lookout for business trends in our industry and I've spotted a significant new one in recent months. Increasingly CMS companies are supporting different platforms. The choice for each company is different, but the trend seems real:

Examples of Joomla Companies Supporting Other Platforms

• Rockettheme: Joomla and phpBB3
• Joomlart: Joomla and Magento
• JoomlaJunkie: Working on...

Alledia is based down in the south of the United States in Atlanta. We started our Joomla training classes here and by the end of June we'll have run almost a dozen Atlanta classes.

Its time to spread the Joomla gospel (the Jospel?) a little further around the south so early next week we're headed to Charlotte, North Carolina and the Music City of Nashville, Tennessee. We'll be in Charlotte on...

In the last two weeks I've been in Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Washington, New York and even Alaska. Just one more short trip to Charlotte and Nashville left.

The trip taught me something. For two weeks I kept in touch via email and cellphone but had no time for three things I'd been using every day. Two of them I really missed, the other ... not so much.

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One of the hardest things to explain to people when we're discussing SEO nowadays is that its not about the h1 tags, nofollow links and managing Page Rank. Aaron Wood summed this up well by saying that for the modern marketer, PR should stand for "personal relationships" rather than "Page Rank". Even more accurate is this quote from Seth Godin

"Yelling with gusto used to be the best way to...

This is an interesting review request that popped up in our inbox. WebHostingReport.com is a good domain name but a somewhat thin affiliate site. It aims to rank for hosting, blog hosting, cheap web hosting and other keyword terms.

The site doesn't have much going for it in terms of interest, but its a nice example of targeted lead generation. To me it looks like more a more sophisticated...