More exciting news from the Joomlasphere:  Joomla Milwaukee starts meeting later this month!

The first meeting will be January 29 at 11:45 a.m. at the Milwaukee Research Park.   Sign up online, or send an email to info at joomlamilwaukee.com.

Joomla Milwaukee is putting the finishing touches on their website and it is expected to be launched any day now.

(Do you know about other local Joomla

This just in: "Is there a Rocky Mountain Joomla User Group?"

Let's hear it, Rocky Mountain types! (Hey, if you get a group together, I'll sure come out for some meetings -- I had an awesome time out there!

Joe Scarry is head project manager for Chicago Joomla web developer and web design firm Arc Technology Group.

Coming back from the CMS Expo in Denver, one very clear message is that there's an enormous opportunity for communities and neighborhoods and municipalities to use Joomla to communicate their content on the web.

I think this is an especially interesting proposition for the Chicago community -- after all, we are the "City of Neighborhoods."

BTW - Click here for a very cool poster of Chicago

The other day, I posted a list of America's Brainiest Cities with links to their Joomla groups.

Somehow Chicago didn't make it onto that list - ahem! - and that led me to wonder how many cities on the list of America's biggest cities have Joomla groups. My conclusion (see list below) is: about a third of America's biggest cities have active Joomla groups, either their own or in an adjacent

I wrote a post yesterday about all the Joomla groups in big brainy cities. Several people pointed out that small brainy cities have Joomla groups, too! Hear, hear!

On that note, the possibility of a Joomla group for suburban Chicago was broached. I want to add two observations to that.

First, we would be delighted to assist in helping to branch towards the northern suburbs. We have a

I saw a reference the other day to a list that was compiled a while back of "America's Brainiest Cities." It consists of those cities with over 250,000 people which have the highest concentration of college grads. I'm particularly interested in the adoption curve for new technologies like Joomla, and that list got me thinking . . . "I bet there's a pretty high correlation between having a lot