Tags: internet marketing | joomla | social networking | web dev

For the past year or so I've been working almost exclusively on Joomla sites. My other open source CMS favourite is WordPress but I have to admit Joomla does a whole lot more than WordPress at the moment.

Joomla is a brilliant Content Management System (CMS) easy enough for anyone to use and it's been picking up top awards for a number of years.

Dionne Hinchcliffe, over at ZDNet, has compiled a list of top platforms for creating online communities, something hobbyists and businesses alike are now trying to do in earnest. Not all that surprisingly Joomla tops the list.

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Tags: social media | social networking

Social media is an important part of brand management. Think back to the Facebook 13, the thirteen Virgin Atlantic crew members fired over derogatory comments they posted, about the airline and its passengers, on social networking site Facebook.

This presentation, by web hosting company RackSpace, covers the basics of social media especially the evolution of brand management from the days of Web 1.0 through Web 1.5 to Web 2.0 today. A few gems for those not yet well versed in social media and its importance. View the slide-show below... 

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Tags: internet marketing

Marketing budgets, in today's financial turmoil, are suffering as companies try to reign in spend. If your marketing budget is a victim of current circumstance, what can you do to maintain the marketing drive?

Check out 101 marketing resources to help you continue your campaigns to drive more traffic, and potential business, to your web site; follow the link below...

http://www.insidecrm.com/features/marketing-startup-budget-051208/ 

Tags: internet marketing | seo

Joomla is a popular Content Management System and being a CMS means it does a lot of page creation in the background i.e. the site owner need not create actual html pages for the site.

As such, there isn't very much control the site owner has in making sure that the pages of a Joomla site are optimized for search engine ranking.

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