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$50 off CMS Expo- April 30th & May 1st in Chicago!

Our friends at the CMS Association are back this spring with another spectacular conference for Joomlaheads and open source CMS fans generally- the second annual CMS Expo in Chicago!

Here's how they explain what Joomla CMS Expo Chicago is:

"The CMS Association invites you to come for two high-energy days of Joomla training on top CMS solutions Joomla Joomla, Drupal and Alfresco. With over forty CMS learning sessions in six training tracks, CMS Expo has all you need to get up to speed on the latest content management techniques and trends"

Over at Joomla Simplweb, we have been helping our customers launch their sites faster and easier with our turnkey Joomla Joomla packages.

Two recent launches I are excited about are Property Face2Face and E-Newsletter Success. Amazingly enough, I used to live in Nottingham, England where Property Face2Face is based, and, of course, I love email marketing, E-Newsletter Success is a subject close to my heart.

• Do you want to sell paid subscriptions to your website?
• Do you want to build an Online Community?

If the answer is yes, then you need Joomla Simplweb's complete turnkey solution for building Joomla membership websites and Joomla online communities. Sign up right now and you'll save almost $500 in the first year!

You may have noticed that Brian Clark of Copyblogger and Teaching Sells is ready for his re launch. This means that our Joomla membership website package is about to come out of pilot!

I have been a member of Brian and Tony's Teaching Sells program since it launched. As it was developing, many members on the TS forums were struggling with the technical aspects of building a membership website. At the same time, I had launched Simplweb, a service that provided instant turnkey Joomla Joomla websites tailored to specific applications. I reached out to Brian and Tony and it didn't take us long to put 2 and 2 together!

Together we created a Joomla-based membership package that can power sophisticated Internet Learning Environments. Forty or so hardy early adopters worked with us during our pilot phase, taking advantage of our pilot discount.

Tomorrow on February 5th, we'll be ending our pilot discounted rate of $49.95 and increasing our monthly subscription to $89.95.

The online course, Teaching Sells, is one of the best resources to help you build and grow a profitable online business. The guy behind it, Brian Clark is the founding editor of Copyblogger, and co-founder of Teaching Sells.

You might recall last year I posted about his course and how Brian was closing his doors to new sign ups. Its been some time come, but I am excited to say that Brian is re-launching his course with all the new material he and his partner Tony have been developing.

You may have noticed a couple of days ago, I added some new community/social networking features to compassdesigns.net - powered by Joomla Jomsocial. "What's the deal?" you might ask...

Over the last few months I have noticed more and more of my blog posts and presentations talking about community in some fashion. From presentations at the Denver CMS Expo about Building Online Communities, to Joomla tutorials about Building Online Communities with Joomla, trying to help build communities around charity organizations websites and musings on "are Online Communities the new Blogs?". I have even watched over the growth of two communities in my own businesses at Joomlashack and Joomla Simplweb.

This hasn't been an intentional path, but last week I really noticed it for the first time.

Joomla Simplweb has been growing fast, since June 2008, about 2000 subscribers have taken advantage of our free trial offer.

We have schools, hospitals, non-profits and smoothie bars; all building a Joomla website with Simplweb.

Simplweb is more than just Joomla hosting, we provide expert support on everything from email integration to how best to optimize your site from search engines. We have answered thousands of Joomla Joomla questions in our support forum!

Other companies say they host Joomla, but we teach you how to use it! We have hundreds of guides and Joomla tutorials and hours of Joomla video