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Joomla Training Class in Vancouver

Published on January 31, 2009 in Announcements, Rastin Mehr, joomla and social media. 1 Comment Tags: , , , .

There is a Joomla training event happening in Vancouver and we would be happy to spread the word for our good friend Steve Burge from http://alledia.com

You can find our more details here: http://www.joomlatraining.com/vancouver

They’ve got enough sign-ups already to confirm that the class is run. If you have any questions, please feel free to email Steve via steve@alledia.com or call on 678-516-4410.

To participate in the forum discussion you may go here

Class Details

Date: Friday March 27, 9am to 4pm
Place: On-Track Computer Training, 1600 – 650 W. Georgia St
Price: $299

Subjects Taught

You’ll learn how to build a Joomla website, from content and user organization, to working with extensions and basic web marketing:

  • Part 1: Introduction to Joomla including 1.0 and 1.5.
  • Part 2: How to setup and organize content on your Joomla! site.
  • Part 3: Choosing and working with components, modules and plugins.
  • Part 4: Choosing and working with templates.
  • Part 5: Building community websites with Joomla!
  • Part 6: E-Commerce for Joomla!
  • Part 7: Search-engine optimization for Joomla!
  • Part 8: How to manage Joomla! websites professionally

Additional Items Provided

  • Lunch and coffee / snacks throughout the day
  • 6 months of free Joomla support after the class
  • A flash drive full of tutorials and best-of-breed Joomla components
  • Free membership to the alledia.com SEO Club. ($99 value)
  • Free copy of the Alledia.com Bolt Template. ($60 value)

Vancouver Joomla Day was a major success!

Published on June 19, 2008 in Announcements, Networking, Rastin Mehr, WordPress, joomla and social media. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

Vancouver Joomla Day

I should have made this post on Monday, but we were still recovering from the event and catching up with the lost work hours for our client’s projects.

For those of you who missed this event, it was held on June 14th in the Vancouver Public Library. To learn more you can read this blog post.

Vancouver Joomla Day

I guess the pictures from the Vancouver Joomla Day speak for themselves, we did have a great time all together. There were concerns in the past that Joomla! wasn’t nearly as recognized as Wordpress or Drupal in the Vancouver area, and this event busted the Myth! Based on the multiple counts, we had about 120 people show up. The ratio of ladies to gentlemen were about 1 to 3; we certainly hope to have more ladies involved in these type of events in the future.

Vancouver Joomla Day

Based on the community feedback, about 11 people showed up (correct me if I’m wrong) at the last Joomla Day held in Toronto, so I think it is safe to announce the Vancouver Joomla Day as being the largest one ever in Canada so far.

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Starting the Vancouver Joomla Day

Published on June 14, 2008 in Announcements, Events and joomla. 7 Comments Tags: , .

We are about to start the Vancouver Joomla Day. We have 88 guys and 23 ladies so far (111 total) in the room which is more than the number of people who attended the Tazzu WordPress Camp. Who thought that Joomla! is not as well known as Drupal or WordPress in Vancouver? We proved them wrong!

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Please tag all your uploaded content relating to this event (youtube, flickr, twitter, … ):

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Vancouver Joomla Day Tshirts and Tickets

Published on June 10, 2008 in Announcements, Events, Rastin Mehr and joomla. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Vancouver Joomla Day at the Vancouver Public Library

Just heard from Wendy that all the Vancouver Joomla Day Tshirts are sold out.

By the way, the Tickets are 25$ only if purchased online, otherwise they are 30$ at the door.

Based on the Ticket sales we estimate that around 110 people will show up for sure, but we do have enough room for up to 200 people so if you haven’t purchased your tickets, it is still not too late: do it now!

Let your facebook friends know by doing an RSVP

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JoomlaDay Media Sponsors, Thank you for spreading the word!

Published on June 9, 2008 in Announcements, Rastin Mehr and joomla. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

I would like to thank the following people who have helped us to spread the word and promote the Vancouver Joomla Day event which is happening this Saturday. You can follow their blogs during and after the event for more coverage and information.

Raul Pacheco (hummingbird604.com) on the right. Raul is an avid blogger with a great personality and sense of humour so don’t forget to drop by and say hello to him.  Raul has kindly accepted to liveblog the event for us, so follow his blog this Saturday.

Rebecca Bollwitt (Miss604) on the left. I’ve also contacted Miss604 to join us this saturday but unfortunately she won’t be available this weekend. We’re going to miss her, however she has been so kind to promote the Vancouver Joomla Day on her blog. Thank you Miss604!

Floating World is a Joomla Development and Hosting company located in Victoria BC. Aaron Handford from the Floating World is also one of the Presenters at the Vancouver JoomlaDay. His topic is “Using custom components to improve search engine ranking”. Aaron has recently joined the Tazzu community, we are looking forward to meeting him in person.

Floating World has a very interesting twist. They offer web hosting and their servers are powered by solar energy, now how is that for a change? This is Green hosting by definition.

January 19th 2008 Vancouver Joomla! DocCamp

Bruce Byfield is a long time Tazzu member and a contributing editor for the SourceForge sites Linux.com and the IT Manager’s Journal. Bruce is quite active in the Vancouver tech community, and we have had the plesure of meeing him in many previous JoomlaCamp, WordCamp, OpenWeb Conference, and Tazzu networking events. Bruce will be writing about the Vancouver Joomla Day event.

Our friends at the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (the BC chapter) have been so kind to echo our announcement for us. Thank you!

Likewise I would like to thank you the following organizations and people for spreading the word for us:

Industrial Brand Creative Inc.

Bush Branding & Marketing

Peter Gordon (Vancouver PHP Users Association) Thank you for the post

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There will be door prizes at the Vancouver Joomla Day

Published on June 9, 2008 in Events, Rastin Mehr and joomla. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

Did I hear door prizes? yes! bring in your business cards and there will be a draw at the end of each presentation. That means you can win prizes offered by the following companies. I’m not exactly sure what the gifts are, but building websites with Joomla! 1.5 is one of them!

www,rochen.com

www.alledia.com

www.mydynamicsite.com

www.jxtended.com

www.dvbaratta.com

www.extremejoomla.com

www.jennifermarriott.com

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Have the spotlight on the Vancouver Joomla Day

Published on May 29, 2008 in Events, Rastin Mehr and joomla. 2 Comments Tags: , .

If you have developed any project using the Joomla! CMS you are qualified to have your own 15 minutes of fame under the spotlight at the Vancouver Joomla Day event. We have 5 available spots for you. If we receive more than 5 we reserve the right to choose 6 projects out of them. We will however think of ways for the remaining submitted projects to get noticed as well.

15 minutes may not seem like a lot, but if you organize your speech as follows you can make the best use of it. To give you some tips have the following information ready about your project:

  1. An online Demo (with easy to remember URL)
  2. The elevator speech description of your project. Tell us what it is about in 2-3 lines max.
  3. Give us a link to more detailed descriptions online
  4. Give us some print hand outs about your project
  5. Throw in some quick surprising facts and interesting highlights about your project

You don’t have to focus on the software development aspects of your project. You can talk about the organizational behavior, social, and marketing aspect of your project too. Tell us what problems you were trying to solve and what were your challenges.

To submit your project you can simply post a url and description as a comment on this blog post

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