Welcome to the Compass Designs website, powered by Joomla 1.5! The goal of this new site is to be the place to bookmark if you are looking for quality Joomla templates, tutorials, news and tips.Over the weekend I had the pleasure of being invited to speak at a class about Open Source Content Management Systems at Marlboro College Graduate Center. Taught by Jen Kramer McKibben, the course is focused on using Joomla to build online communities.
Most of my recent speaking at events has revolved around using Joomla to build sites, Joomla templating or SEO. I thought I would take the chance on something new for me and reflect on the nature of online communities and how Joomla can be a piece of that jigsaw. The result was Building Online Communities With Joomla.
I'd like to thank the class students for the interesting questions they had to ask. Stump the Chump is one of my favorite games!
On a related note, if you are in the New England area, check out the new Joomla! User Group New England in Brattleboro, VT.
While researching the topic, I spent some time trying to find good examples for online communities that use Joomla. I found plenty that were *about* Joomla, but struggled otherwise.
Do you know of any large online communities that use Joomla for their site?
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unleash.it
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Check out the site showcase at Joomla. I've found some cool ones there. Here's one from England that uses Community Builder: http://www.wikivorce.com/ (probably one of the more risk free businesses to be in these days  ). Here's the link to the forum which tells about it: http://forum.joomla.org/viewto...8&t=174529 |
Kristofer Aberg
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| Swedish TV3 uses Joomla, together with Community Builder and Fireboard etc for their community. They've got 47.639 users. |
Robb Luther
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| I am actually building on that focuses on Steelers Football! ForceFlix.com right now... I will keep you all posted. |
Marco de Jong
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| About a year ago I built a Dutch website around a TV program. 15.000 unique visitors/day. Although I don't maintain it anymore I can give you some insight, if you like. See http://www.babyboom.nl |
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