Joomla Training Across the United States

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.

Twelve Weeks of Joomla Training Classes

Together with Barrie at CompassDesigns.net and the team at CMS Expo, we're delighted to announce a program of high-quality Joomla training across the United States.

From Tampa and Atlanta in the south, to New York and Washington, and then over to Denver and St. Louis in the Mid-West, we'll be crossing the United States to provide training in nine cities.

Here's a full list of all the training sessions:

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Your Comments (9)

Stephen Moseley

September 01, 2008

Steve,

I hope this works out for you. In my mind, this is a huge need in the Joomla community. Cheers and good luck!

David Towers

September 02, 2008

Yeah I agree with Stephen, training is really needed - and with training events like this around the US, Joomla will hopefully become better understood and more used. Great work Steve.

Rajesh Kumar

September 02, 2008

Nice work stephen!!! There is definitely a need of this atleast after such a long time.

Steve Burge

September 02, 2008

Thanks for the support guys. A launch like this is always a nerve racking time.

Hopefully people will pick up the baton in Europe, Asia and elsewhere.

Joe Michelotti

September 03, 2008

Hey Steve:

It will be a great success.

Too bad you already "did" Chicago.

Maybe I can convince my wife to let me out for a day or two and I can actually figure out what I am doing wrong.

Thanks

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Ogy Nikolic

September 03, 2008

Thanks for the support guys. A launch like this is always a nerve racking time.

Don't worry Steve. You know so much more about Joomla than them. If you make a mistake, they won't even notice

Hopefully people will pick up the baton in Europe, Asia and elsewhere.

Right. Well, it takes some time just to hire and train 2-3 employees to professionally develop in Joomla. I don't even want to start talking about training "regular people". Also, as much as we all enjoy Joomla, we need to think about our ROI. Steve, in any case, I think this training will help you a lot more in establishing the credibility of your business a lot further. Good Luck! Ogy

Steve Burge

September 03, 2008

Hi Ogy

Funny! My first job after arriving in the U.S was as a teacher ... of U.S. history and government. I scrambled to study every night and keep one step ahead of the students

You're right - learning Joomla fully is long-term. This kind of class is really for people willing to do quite bit of learning themselves but needing a kick-start.

Red

September 03, 2008

LA?? No, LA?? Is there going to be a class in the Los Angeles area?

Steve Burge

September 03, 2008

Hi Red - we're on the other side of the country here, but yes - the plan if this goes well is to expand to the west coast early next year.

As this is a relatively new venture, we rolling out these classes, getting feedback and then later thinking about February / March next year.