Blog entries tagged joomla conference

Thank you to everyone for making Joomla Day New England a success!

Jen Kramer — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:46:25 +0100

Joomla User Group New England is the nicest bunch of Joomies you'd ever hope to meet. And I'm the luckiest Joomie of them all, because I get to live here and work with them!

Thank you to all of our attendees. Some of you got up at 5 AM to drive from Boston to the middle of nowhere to sit in a hellishly hot auditorium all day, but left smiling, recharged, and happy.

Thank you, as always, to Marlboro College and Marlboro College Graduate School, for the free space, the support wit...

CMS Expo 2010: Beautiful women and tattoos!

Jen Kramer — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:29:23 +0100

Six beautiful Marlboro College Graduate School women attended CMS Expo, representing Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, and Massachusetts. Note the terrific tattoos everyone's wearing, including the penguin. We love Joomla!

Back row:

Barb Ackemann, MSIT '06 and current faculty member
Jen Kramer, ISM '01 and MSIT program director
Bernice Singley, MSIT '08
Heidi Stanclift, MSIT '08

Front r...

Best Business Decision Made: Attending CMS Expo

Jen Kramer — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:28:36 +0100

I have been designing and developing websites for 10 years now, but my company, 4Web Inc., has only been around for 2 years. (Prior to that, I ran a freelance company, Focused Consulting LLC.)

Back in 4Web's infancy, my colleagues attended the very first CMS Expo in May 2008. (I was at Adobe headquarters for an Adobe User Group Manager summit and could not attend.) Back then it was a Joomla conference mostly. The networking was great, though, and my colleagues got to meet a lot o...

Come see me at CMS Expo!

Jen Kramer — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:48:50 +0100

I'm the Joomla Track Leader at the CMS Expo conference, happening May 3-5, 2010, in Evanston, IL (outside of Chicago). I am so excited to be back for my 3rd Expo conference!

This time, I'll be presenting the Joomla SiteBuilder sessions, where you'll learn secrets about putting Joomla sites together and styling them.

Ex...

Those who can't do, teach. (Really???)

Jen Kramer — Wed, 13 May 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Recently, a student of mine showed me a Twitter exchange between two prominent Joomla developers about this very phrase. The argument made was if you're good enough to actually do, you wouldn't have time to be teaching. The implied conclusion to that is if you're teaching, you clearly aren't a first rate designer/developer, and you have to teach to pay the bills.

We could carry this argument to this: if you are a first-rate designer/developer, you wouldn't have time to volunteer your s...

CMS Expo Time Again!

Jen Kramer — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Heidi and I are here in Evanston, IL, at the Hotel Orrington for CMS Expo, now through May 1. It's a very cute town, with lots of stuff within walking distance.

If you're here for Expo, be sure to drop by our booth for Joomla template cheat sheet cards and a brochure describing Marlboro College Grad School's new Certificate in Open Source Web Development.

We've also got a sale on Lynda.com DVD training! You can buy Jen's "Joomla! Creating and Editing Custom Templates" o...

Register Now for Joomla! Day New England, May 30, 2009

Jen Kramer — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Join us for Joomla! Day New England on May 30, 2009, 9 AM to 4 PM, in Brattleboro, Vermont. The event will be held at the Marlboro College Graduate Center. Registration is $45 and includes breakfast and lunch.

Our speakers include:

Mitch Pirtle, KickApps and Joomla co-founder
Elin Waring, Open Source Matters president
Rob Schley, Open Source Matters vice-president and Joomla core team de...

We Win! Best Joomla E-Commerce Site!

Jen Kramer — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Last night at the CMS Expo awards, we won Best Joomla E-Commerce site for our work on WineMaker Magazine. Yay us; yay WineMaker! Bill is going to get our certificate scanned in so we can put it up on the site and we'll share it with you then.

Lynda.com Joomla templates videos released!

Jen Kramer — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +0100

I'm tickled to announce that my new videos, "Joomla! Creating and Editing Custom Templates" was released at Lynda.com today. Check them out! Starting tomorrow, there will be a live action shot of me doing the introduction. There are a few free videos, so please go click all over them and check them out. Better yet, subscribe! Lynda.com is a great resource for learning all kinds of great skills.

My second set of videos, "Joomla! Advanced CSS" will be out later, ...

Denver Expo

Samantha Bovat — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:00:00 +0100

I'll tell you what, the excitement is sure building for this team of 4Web to attend the conference in December. We are all looking forward to meeting all sorts of experts and to sharing our insights on how we are using Joomla to enhance our clients' reputations!

Joomla is just fabulous and this conference will be an excellent opportunity to connect with others who are using such a flexible and powerful CMS. Jen, Bill and I will be in Denver on Wednesday to lead the Joomla Basics Boot ...

CMSExpo, Denver CO, Dec 3-5!

Jen Kramer — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:00:00 +0100