Alledia News

If you read the Alledia blog regularly you know we’re doing training for Joomla beginners across the eastern, southern and mid-USA. You can find a full list of classes on JoomlaTraining.com.

Each week, with about 2 months before the class, we’re giving a rundown of the training in each city. We’ve covered the November 7th class in Washington D.C. and the class a week later in New York City. The third and final one I’ll cover is a session in Tampa on Saturday November 22nd.

A quick note: we took a shot at teaching in 5 cities. Washington, New York, Tampa and Atlanta all have enough students signed up for us to hold the classes (even several weeks out) but St. Louis is the odd one out. Not a squeek out of the people in the Mid-West. So if you’d like training in that region, try the CMS Expo in Denver in December. I’ll be there too!

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If you read the Alledia blog regularly you know we’re doing training for Joomla beginners across the eastern, southern and mid-USA. You can find a full list of classes on JoomlaTraining.com.

Each week, with about 2 months before the class, we’re giving a rundown of the training in each city.

Last week we covered the November 7th class in Washington D.C.. The second class is a week later in New York City – downtown Manhattan to be precise.

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A couple of weeks back, I announced that we’d be doing Joomla training classes across the United States from Tampa in the south, New York up north and St. Louis and Denver in the midwest. You can find the full list on our Joomla Training website, including Barrie North’s training class which is this Friday in Boston.

Each week until the classes I’m going to give you a brief introduction to each class, including the who, what, where, when and answers to other important questions.

Our first class, 7 weeks away now, is in the nation’s capital. Here’s what you need to know about the Joomla training class in Washington D.C.:

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Almost a year ago now we launched the Joomla SEO Club. It was a completely new concept at the time and for the last 11 months, I’ve been focused on making it flourish. I believe we’ve succeeded. Almost no-one was offering Joomla SEO services last year and now it’s a standard offering by many companies in the Joomla industry.

Now it’s time to see if we can push the envelope once more and help meet other unaddressed customer needs. Starting today and continuing for the next few weeks, we plan to launch three significant new ventures here at Alledia.

The first project is a large series of Joomla training classes.

From September to December, we’ll be running “Twelve Weeks of Training”, an ambitious program to provide Joomla! training across the Eastern and Mid-Western United States. We’ve already run classes in Chicago and Atlanta. Now it’s time for nine more cities.

Like the SEO Club, success isn’t guaranteed but we’ve planned carefully with former teachers leading the classes, and hopefully if we do make it work it will be much easier for people to find hands-on Joomla training in future.

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We’re delighted to announce three new areas in Extension Guides, our freshly-added 6th section to the SEO Club.

These are easy-to-understand articles explaining how to use the most popular Joomla SEO extensions:

• Artio SEF   
• SEF Advance
• SEF Patch for Joomla 1.0

The first extension that we covered is sh404SEF and that guide is getting longer and longer, partly that’s because it’s powerful and complex, but also because of great feedback from club members.

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Are you looking to learn Joomla 1.5? There are Joomla training sessions coming up in Atlanta, Boston (MT), Manchester (NH), Hartford (CT) and Albany (NY).

We have a special offer for Alledia blog readers today … $50 discounts for all of those Joomla training sessions:

• $50 Atlanta Discounts: Use the coupon "allediablog" for a $50 discount on August and October training sessions.
• $50 New England Discounts: Register in the next two weeks and get a $50 discount.

To find out more about the Atlanta training, please click here. To find out more about New England, keep reading:

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Google launched their Knol site last week. Despite the slightly silly name and Google’s failure to get Knol.com from a Joomla site, I though it would worthwhile to take some time and write a couple:

• Joomla – a general introduction to Joomla
• Joomla SEO – a rewrite of my general guide to Joomla SEO

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I’m delighted to say we’ve released a new section to the SEO Club today … Extension Guides.

What you’ll find there are easy-to-understand explanations of how to use the most popular Joomla SEO extensions. We’ve started with 12 detailed articles on how to use sh404SEF and guides to Artio SEF, SEF Advance, the SEF Patch and others will follow shortly.

Oh, and did I mention that during the next 5 days you can get a free 2 week trial to the SEO Club? Simply click here to?register and then choose your subscription.

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Some July 4th holiday freebies for you guys today:

• Free names to any registered user who posts "I’ll take it" in the comments: DrupalBooks.net and JoomlaStudy.com
• Available names for whoever is fast enough to register them: JoomlaExtensions.net and JoomlaSecurity.net / .org

I also have a cracking good domain, Joomlaplugins.com, that I’ll give away to the first person who signs up for an SEO Club membership and then contacts me to claim it.

Requisite legal note: Joomla is asking people to get permission before launching sites with "joomla" in domain names.

We’ve run a couple of trial Joomla training classes in Chicago and Atlanta and overall things went really well with over 70 students in total. We’re keen to do some more sessions and so we’ve done some reorganizing here at Alledia.

Things were getting a bit messy with as the number of projects on alledia.com. We’ve decided to keep Alledia.com for SEO-related activities and spin off the training classes to a new website called (appropriately enough) JoomlaTraining.com. 

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Last week I mentioned that we were approaching 2000 comments on the Alledia blog and that whoever posted number 2000 would get a free lifetime SEO Club membership.

Søren from notwebdesign.com in Spain is the winner after leaving a comment on our post about big companies using Joomla. He’s also the developer of Linx (for reciprocal links) and Linkback (which shows the most popular incoming links to a page).

We’ll be offering this same prize every time we add another 1000 comments, so look for more free lifetime memberships when we reach 3000, 4000 etc.

Thanks to everyone who has posted over the last 18 months! We have some big changes coming up at Alledia in the next couple of months and we’ll be running more competitions alongside the new features.