Re: Joomla South Africa - Brilliant Web - Joomla Affiliation

Hi Brendan

Thanks for making contact with us.  There is obviously lots that we can do together, especially with you offering training at tertiary education.

I am based at the University of Zululand, in the Department of Communication Science, where my duties are technical support for lecturers, which typically translates into practical components of the course, where we use Joomla, Blogger, Moodle, Google applications etc.

The Joomla South African Team work from our office in Empangeni, which is made up of Ben on Technical & Network Support, Terri on Email Marketing & Content Management, Elinor on Reception & Content Development and Mel who manages the team and directs all Marketing & Communication.

There are a few blogs that I am posting updates to so that others can follow the progress of the Joomla Southern African Portal.  How do we setup a country forum in the official forums?

The next two terms I am hoping to finish my course development efforts on Joomla 101 and Joomla 102, which I hope to have accredited by the ETSETA and/or ITSETA.  I am responsible for Web Computing I (ACWCA22) and Web Computing II (ACWCB23) within which I plan to offer these courses.

We plan to be in Durban on 29 May 2007, myself for Joomla Developers Course and Mel for the SEO course (course details are included below).

We will definately include your Joomla powered sites and others like East Coast Radio and Yeigo in the Joomla Powered area of our site - you can even publish into that area yourself when sites go live, as a featured listing perhaps.

Please do Register on the site so that you can benefit from the Community Builder system that we have incorporated into the site, which will allow you to submit articles, links, documents, news etc.

More on these and other ideas later.

Thanks, Sean

PS: Hope you do not mind all the links, but I intend to use this content for my blogs - do you mind if I do that?

Search Engine Optimisation - full day course

Full Day Course in Search Engine Optimization

This course is relevant for website owners, designers, business owners and company marketers.

Course details:

8 - 4pm

Included are :

• refreshments on arrival and a midmorning tea/coffee break with snacks

• lunch

• mid-afternoon tea/coffee/juice break

• Notes for the course

• Email to book your group training workshop now.This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

  Call me should you want to find out more (035) 772 4555

  International requests are welcome as travel costs are minimal if the group is a sufficient size.
  

Course Content:

Introduction:

• What are search engines?

• How does Google Work?

• Why is it so important to succeed online?

• Competitor Analysis

• Target Audience Analysis

  Techniques of raising your Page Rank & Popularity

• internal links

• external links

• quality content and copy writing

• submitting your sites to search engines

• blogs

• site maps

• meta tags

• meta descriptions

• keyword research

• email newsletters

• images and alt tags

• Misspellings

Joomla/ Content Management Websites

• Brief overview of content management systems

• How they can save you money and keep your site "alive"

• Details of the next Joomla training time

Options:

Large Group (up to 16 participants)

Cost: R1000

Small Group ( up to 5 participants)

Course content will be applied to participants personal websites and giving general advice on how to apply the search engine optimization techniques.

Cost: R1300

Individual

Course content will be applied to individual's personal website and giving specific advice on how to apply the search engine optimization techniques page by page as time allows.

Cost: R2400 (our venue) + travel costs (your venue)

Email to book your group training workshop now.This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Call me should you want to find out more (035) 772 4555

International requests are welcome as travel costs are minimal if the group is a sufficient size.

On 12/04/07, Brendon Hatcher < brendon@brilliantweb.co.za> wrote:

Web sites with purpose!

42 Kenilworth Road Berea Durban, 4001 T: 031 208 0049 F: 031 208 0049 C: 082 434 5343 brendon@brilliantweb.co.za www.brilliantweb.co.za

Hi Sean

 

I am so glad someone has made a site for SA Joomla users.  I was hoping to get round to it, but never had the time.

 

I am keen to support you in any way I can.  Please let me know.

 

A bit of background...

 

I have been using Joomla since it was Mambo!

I run a web strategy and development company in Durban (a small company, just 4 of us)

I am a moderator on the Joomla forums

I do computer training for a commercial tertiary institution

 

If you need assistance with your courses in Durban I would be happy to lend a hand.

 

I'd also like to see your outline for your SEO course, I may be interested in attending.

 

Regards

Brendon

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