Andy Angelos gave an eye-opening talk about Web 2.0 and Social Networking to about 50 members of Joomla Chicago yesterday. The word of the day was "conversation" -- as in, "your website and other web communications should be directed at generating conversation with people -- not just talking at them!"

Instead of doing what I usually do -- writing an exhaustive blog post that tries to cover ever

The CMS Expo in Denver is just around the corner, so I think it's a good time to look at what's in store for us. I'll start out with a topic that's on the top of everyone's list: search engine optimization (SEO).

Steve Burge will be presenting a session on "Advanced SEO Techniques" on Thursday, Dec. 4. He'll follow up the next day with a session entitled "How to Make Google Love You."

Also

OK, I've been using the blog functionality here at Joomla Chicago for a couple of months, and it occurred to me that I should tell everybody: this MyBog extension is fabulous!

I love the fact that as soon as I log on to the Joomla Chicago site, I see the link to the "MyBlog Dashboard." Naturally, the first thing I want to do is go in and see an overview of my blogs, and see what the traffic's

I was going to title this post "I blog, therefore I am . . . " but after the eye-opening presentation by Derrick Sorles last night at the Chicago Webdesign Meetup group, I've become much more aware of that blogs are serious search engine optimization (SEO) business!