CMS Expo: Learn Joomla in Denver, Colorado

Session: Sweet Integration: Plone & SugarCRM
Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009
Time: 1:00-2:30
Instructor: Ken Wasetis
Audience:  Content Creators, Administrators & Developers

This presentation is for business users interested in how a more seamless, integrated CMS-to-CRM solution works, and for IT Managers and integrators desiring true web services integration options for their organization's CMS and CRM solutions. 

The presentation will be given from the perspective of a business user, but will provide supplemental information for IT/developers interested in web services integration APIs.  No actual 'development' work will be demonstrated and no programming background is required.

Session: Data-Basics: Database Foundations For CMS
Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009
Time: 3:00-4:30
Instructor: Bill Tomczak
Training Track: CMS Foundations
Audience:  Content Creators, Administrators & Developers

Ahh, the database. The black hole that we designers and content creators take for granted. Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes? "Data-Basics" is a CMS Foundations Session, created to provide folks on the content-side of the team with an introduction to how to start thinking about how to make your database go from foe to friend.

Session: Open Source Business Models: ROI in a GPL World
Date: Thursday, April 30th, 2009 
Time: 1:30-2:30
Instructor: Jeff Eaton
Track: CMS Business
Audience: CMS Businesspeople

Some of the most popular software frameworks in use today are released under the GPL - a software license that lets communities use, enhance, and distribute the software free of charge. When software is free, what business models survive and thrive?

Session: Web 2.0
Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009
Time: 3:00-4:30
Instructor: Steve Duesbury
Audience:  Content Creators, Administrators & Developers

“Why is Britney Spears following me?”
and other important insights every business person should know about Web 2.0

Should our CEO blog? Should we do Twitter, YouTube or Facebook? Why is our new digital community a ghost town? How do we control our customers so that they don’t say anything bad about us in our “social media?”

Session: Cool App, Now What About Support?
Date: Thursday, April 30th, 2009 
Time: 9:30 am - 10:30 am
Instructor: Michel van Agtmaal
Track: CMS Business
Audience: Businesspeople, Developers

Created for entrepreneurial open source software developers and their team members, this important CMS Business training session will explore how to best implement and provide customer support for your solution.

Session: CMS Business Case Study: JellyTelly
Date: Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Time: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Instructors: Robert Jacobi & Tim Johnson
Track: CMS Business
Audience: Businesspeople & Content Creators

In this learning session, you're invited into the "inner sanctum" to come learn practical businss advice which you can take back to your organization, and put it to work - next week!

Session: Usability Testing For ROI
Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Instructor: Merav Knafo
Track: CMS Business
Audience: Businesspeople and Content Creators

Even after over a decade of business growth online, it seems usability testing remains one of the best-kept secrets on the web, in terms of ways to separate you from your competition and place you well ahead of the curve. How can you make your site easier to navigate?  What testing methods work best to identify and exploit key performance enhancements? Find this out and more from one of the CMS world's leaders, Merav Knafo.

Session: On Message, On Target and On the Money with Google Analytics
Date: Friday, May 1st
Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Instructor: Avery Cohen 
Track: CMS Business

Session: SEO Best Practices for Content Management Systems
Date: Thursday, April 30th, 2009 
Time: 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Instructor: Avery Cohen
Track: CMS Business
Audience: Content Creators, Businesspeople, & Developers

SEO Best Practices for Content Management Systems will demonstrate how to architect your website for search engine optimization.

Session: How to Get a Website Without Losing Your Hair (Website Project Management)
Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Instructor: Steve Fisher
Training Track: CMS Business
Audience: Businesspeople, Content Creators Administrators & Developers

Building a website without planning is like telling your surgeon that  x-rays are a waste of time – just start cutting and let’s see what’s  in there. We’re not saying we’re doing surgery here, of course; it’s really more like rocket science. And as we all remember from grade 4 rocket science class, a lack of careful planning can get really, really expensive in the end.

Session: WordPress For Joomla!
Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Instructor: Rafael Corral
Training Track: CMS Power Partners
Audience: Content Creators, Businesspeople & Developers

Lets face it, blogging with Joomla is not easy. With WordPress being the most powerful and used blogging platform on the web, the folks at 'corePHP' felt it was a no brainer to integrate WordPress into Joomla. As Lead Developer Rafael Corral says, "You will no longer need to display WordPress inside a wrapper! This solution will blow your mind!"

Session: KickApps Social Media
Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009
Time: 8:30 am - 10:00 am
Instructor: Mitch Pirtle
Training Track: CMS Power Partners
Audience: Businesspeople, Content Creators, Developers & Administrators

Tech Crunch calls KickApps "Social media that delivers." New York-based KickApps was creating social apps before social was cool. Among the leaders at KickApps is Mr. Mitch Pirtle, Veep of Developer Relations.

Session: Jentla Defines Multisite CMS
Date: Thursday, April 30th, 2009 
Time: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Instructor: Russell Burstow
Training Track: CMS Power Partners
Audience: Content Creators, Businesspeople, Administrators & Developers

Move over Vignette, Documentum, Interwoven, Drupal, Alfesco and WordPress.  Now there is a new player on the block:  One that has risen to the challenge of managing multiple sites and done it right. 

Existing Web CMS’s lack the ability to genuinely manage a multisite CMS environment.  Jentla is about to change all that.

Session: CMSaaS on a Cloud - Using Joomla!
Date: Thursday, April 30th, 2009 
Time: 1:30-2:30
Instructor: Gary Brooks
Training Track: CMS Power Partners
Audience: Administrators & CMS Businesspeople

Have you ever wanted reap the benefits of offering on-demand, or software-as-a-service (SaaS), solutions to your customers?  If you ever wanted to build a web application and sell it as a service to the masses on a recurring basis, then this fast-paced, information-filled session is for you.

Session: JavaScript and jQuery to Enrich Your Site
Date: Thursday, April 30th
Time: 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Instructor: Matt Butcher
Training Track: CMS Foundations
Audience: Developers

Once upon a time, JavaScript was considered a toy language for adding image rollovers, status bar crawlers, and calculators to otherwise-static web pages. But with with some key improvements in browser technology and the sudden buzz behind AJAX, rich and robust web applications built with JavaScript are springing up all around.

Session: Query Path
Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009
Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Instructor: Matt Butcher
Training Track: CMS Power Partners
Audience:  Developers

QueryPath is a PHP library for working with XML and HTML over the network. In many ways it is similar to the JavaScript jQuery library. This presentation will introduce QueryPath.

Session: Magento E-Commerce
Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Instructor: Jonathan Lackey
Training Track: CMS Business
Audience: Content Creators, Businesspeople, Administrators & Developers

Magento is the fastest growing ecommerce platform in the world. This session will cover the basics of a Magento site. From setting up a catalog of products to creating a custom theme to altering layout templates, you will leave with the know-how to start work on your own Magento store.

Session: GeoCMS
Date: Thursday, April 30th, 2009 
Time: 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Instructors: Rebecca White and Jim Craner
Training Track: CMS Power Partners
Audience:  Developers and Businesspeople

This session is appropriate for people interested in using geodata within their CMS-based applications.

This session will offer a very high-level introduction to geographic information systems (GIS) from the perspective of CMS developers and administrators, using Drupal's GIS tools as examples. Instructors Rebecca White and Jim Craner will share their knowledge about the principles of storing, organizing and searching geographically-tagged data (geodata), the practical usage of geodata in CMS applications, and, as a significant use case, how geographic functionalities are implemented by Drupal modules.

Session: Community Builder For Joomla!
Date: Thursday, April 30th, 2009 
Time: 9:30 am - 10:30 am
Instructor: Ken Lyle
Training Track: CMS Power Partners
Audience: Content Creators, Businesspeople, Administrators & Developers

Are you building a community with Joomla?  Well, you'll be happy to know, the most popular extension for Joomla is Community Builder. Open source social media software lovers in the Joomla world, get on your construction helmets! Ken Lyle will be presenting on some of the finer points of Community Builder, focused on Enhanced Registration, Social Networking, Paid Subscriptions and Access Control.

Session: Secure Your Server (Or It Will Be Passed Around Like a Party Favor)
Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Instructor: Tom Canavan
Training Track: CMS Foundations
Audience: Administrators

Its time to get another healthy dose of extreme security reality from Security Expert and author Tom Canavan. During the presentation, "Secure Your Server Or It Will Be Passed Around Like a Party Favor," Tom will discuss security mistakes, tools and solutions.

Session: Are You the Trusted Advisor Or the Lowest Bidder?
Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009
Time: 8:30 am - 10:00 am
Instructor: Tom Cananvan
Training Track: CMS Business
Audience: CMS Businesspeople

If you've been to one of Tom's learning sessions on Internet security, you know Tom Canavan's call-it-as-he-sees-it approach. Matter-of-fact and brutally honest, this session is the techpreneurs' opportunity to learn from a master - a highly successful sales trainer in the tech industry.

Session: Dynamic Design For the Web
Date: Thursday, April 29, 2009
Time: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Instructor: Jonathan Lackey
Training Track: CMS Foundations
Audience: Content Creators

Award-winning Creative Director Jonathan Lackey, of Los Angeles-based Zuno Studios, will present "Dynamic Design For the Web."  With so much attention seemingly on the "System" - Side of "Content Management Systems," it's easy to overlook the most critical piece of any web-based initiative: What is it designed to accomplish?

Session: CSS Done Right
Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009
Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Instructor: Jonathan Shroyer
Track: CMS Foundations
Audience: Content Creators and Developers

CSS Done Right will explore how to write clean CSS code. We highly recommend that you come with a basic understanding of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

Designers and Content Creators are passionate about CSS. They either love it or they hate it. Fact is, using CSS, you'll learn to work smarter and have more options while designing on the web. Veteran Designer/Developer Jonathan Shroyer from Battle Creek-based 'corePHP' will help you learn how to gain full control of your templates with these powerful CSS tips and tricks.

Session: PHP 5 Must-Know Techniques
Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009
Time: 8:30 am - 10:00 am
Instructor:  Rafael Corral
Training Track: CMS Foundations
Audience: Developers, Content Creators & Administrators

PHP 5 Must-Know Techniques will offer the attendees a wide range of techniques and tips to use PHP 5 to enhance and empower their websites.

PHP is one of the leading programming languages, with a huge community behind it. Most open source website applications are written in PHP. This session is instructed by Rafael Corral, Developer at ‘corePHP’ in Battle Creek, Michigan. Rafael lives, sleeps, dreams, and exists in a programming world. Rafael's latest project was WordPress for Joomla!

Session: Killer Photoshop Tips
Date: Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Time: 1:30 - 2:30pm
Instructor: Jonathan Shroyer
Training Track: CMS Foundations
Audience: Content Creators

Killer Photoshop Tips will give techniques on how to use Photoshop to enhance your website while saving you time and drudgery while using Photoshop CS4.

Photoshop is the only piece of software that is used in every area of digital development. Learn how to make the most of this powerful program in this workshop with a special focus of preparing graphics for the web. No matter what skill level you are at, we guarantee you will learn something that will change how you work.

Session: Linux Primer
Date: Thursday, April 30th, 2009 
Time: 9:30 am - 10:30 am
Instructor: Phil DeKoker
Training Track: CMS Foundations
Audience: Administrators & Developers

This session will focus on common website administrator tasks using the Linux command line interface (CLI). Skills learned are essential for website administrators who want to take their administration skills to the next level. Although no previous Linux experience is required, those who have limited Linux CLI skills will find considerable value in attending.

Session: Joomla! SiteBuilder I
Date: Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Time: 9:30 am - 10:30 am
Instructor: Rick Blalock
Training Track: Joomla! Core CMS
Audience: Content Creators & Businesspeople

Joomla offers a powerful platform to serve content and run a website but so often, the power of Joomla is overshadowed by incorrect implementation. Instructor Rick Blalock will show attendees how to harness the power of Joomla 1.5 to fit their content strategy and website planning, through a practical, real life scenario. Created especially for Joomla Users (as opposed to Developers & Programmers), this non-technical "website in sixty minutes" session will give users an excellent overview of how to properly use the Joomla CMS.

Session: Drupal SiteBuilder I
Date: Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Time: 9:30 am -10:30 am
Instructor: Larry Garfield
Training Track: Drupal Core CMS
Audience: Content Creators, Businesspeople & Developers

Drupal offers a plethora of tools for building nearly any type of web site or web application imaginable.  Whatever it is you're doing, odds are someone has already done it, or as the saying goes, "Oh yeah, there's a module for that!"

Session: Introduction To Alfresco
Date: Thursday, April 30th, 2009 
Time: 8:30 am - 9:30 am
Instructors: Jeff Brown & Tom Kelly
Training Track: Alfresco Core CMS
Audience: All Attendees

This will be introduction to Alfresco's entire suite of functionality, including document management, web content management and records management.  Attendees will get introductions to the Alfresco Explorer and Alfresco Share.

Session: Joomla SiteBuilder II
Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009
Time: 8:30 am - 10:00 am
Instructor: Rick Blalock
Training Track: Joomla! Core CMS
Audience: Content Creators, Businesspeople & Developers

Joomla! SiteBuilder II starts on Friday where the "website-in-sixty-minutes" Joomla! SiteBuilder I leaves off. This 90-minute Joomla training session digs farther into Joomla CMS to show advanced Users how to get their work done using Joomla. While working with Joomla, have you ever had a moment where you just couldn’t figure out how to make Joomla do what you want it to do?  For instance, how to get a module to show on a non-linked page or getting a template to bend to your will. This and more will be covered in Joomla! SiteBuilder II.

Session: Drupal SiteBuilder II
Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009
Time: 8:30 am - 10:00 am
Instructor: Larry Garfield
Training Track: Drupal Core CMS
Audience: Content Creators, Businesspeople & Developers

Drupal SiteBuilder II will build upon the elements laid out in Drupal SiteBuilder I.

In part II, we implement the architecture we developed in the first session.  That includes building out the site in an actual Drupal install and seeing it come together. The main focus will be on how to leverage the building blocks we covered in the first session to make the site functional without having to write any code.  We will also cover when you do need to write code, and the right way to go about it sustainably.

Session: Alfresco SiteBuilder
Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009
Time: 8:30 am - 10:00 am
Instructor: John Kraus
Training Track: Alfresco Core CMS
Audience: Content Creators, Businesspeople & Developers

This session is an introduction to site building, using Alfresco. It will go into greater detail on Alfresco WCM offering, and give a demonstration of Website building using Alfresco's Surf Framework and Web Studio. Alfresco features graphical overlays that facilitate the building of your web site's pages, navigation structure, templates, and presentation layout.

Session: Joomla! Template Design I
Date: Thursday, April 30th, 2009 
Time: 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Instructor: Jen McKibben
Training Track: Joomla! Core CMS
Audience: Content Creators & Developers

OK, you've installed Joomla and figured out how to drop in content. Maybe you've installed someone else's templates in the past, but now you decide it's time to make your own template! Joomla instructor Jen Kramer-McKibben brings her highly anticipated Lynda.com Joomla video training program to Chicago this spring - LIVE! Come learn from one of the world's foremost Joomla experts how to create your very own Joomla template.

Session: Drupal Theme Design I
Date: Thursday, April 30th, 2009 
Time: 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Instructor: Colleen Carroll
Training Track: Drupal Core CMS
Audience: Content Creators, Businesspeople & Developers

The first task to theming in Drupal is learning to know what to look for. Drupal's most powerful asset is its community of developers. This means that potentially hundreds if not thousands of different people maintain code. Because of this Drupal development has some pretty predictable standards in terms of HTML markup and CSS theming.

Session: Alfresco A CMIS Implementation
Date: Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Time: 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Instructor: Shane Johnson
Training Track: Alfresco Core CMS
Audience: Developers & Content Creators
Prerequisite: Introduction to Alfresco, or basic familiarity with Alfresco

The goal of the Content Management Interoperability Standards (CMIS) is to allow applications to interact with various content management repositories using a standard interface.  Alfresco is among the major CMS providers to offer an implementation of CMIS.  Learn more about the goals of CMIS and how to implement it.

Session: Joomla Template Design II
Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Instructor: Jen McKibben
Training Track: Joomla! Core CMS
Audience: Content Creators & Developers

Now that you've tried out some Joomla templates on your own and you have a sense of the basic templating codes, you're ready for something more difficult. For example, how do you get a right column to show up only when needed? How can you make something happen on the home page only, but nowhere else? What is a "template override," and how can it help you?

Session: Drupal Theme Design II
Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Instructor: Colleen Carroll
Training Track: Drupal Core CMS
Audience: Content Creators, Businesspeople & Developers

In session II of Drupal theming we will walk through the steps of creating a theme using Drupal CMS. We will use the Zen theme as our core theme and build a sub theme off of it. Creating a theme from scratch is a daunting task, so starting with a minimal core theme is always advised. 

Session: Joomla Development I
Date: Thursday, April 30th, 2009 
Time: 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Instructor: Steven Pignataro
Training Track: Joomla! Core CMS
Audience: Developers, Administrators & Content Creators

Are you a Joomla developer?  Come to this session, instructed by one of the world's top Joomla Developers, Steve Pignataro, from 'corePHP' in Battle Creek, Michigan. Steve will share with you the basics of developing components for Joomla 1.5. This is the first in a 2-part Joomla development series. We highly recommend attending both sessions, if you can.

Session: Drupal Development I
Date: Thursday, April 30th
Time: 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Instructor: Jeff Eaton
Training Track: Drupal Core CMS
Audience: Developers

The CMS Association is pleased to welcome Developer Jeff Eaton, from Lullabot, to present Drupal Development I.

Have you built plugins or extensions for other CMS packages, and want to make the leap to Drupal? Have you been building Drupal sites and hit the limits of existing plugin modules? This session will explain the fundamentals of Drupal's page building system and its core APIs, then walk attendees through the creation of a simple module. Attendees will also learn about key development tools to accelerate the Drupal coding process.

Session: Alfresco Development I: Developing Webscripts
Date: Thursday, April 30th, 2009 
Time: 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Instructor: Eric Ray, of The Acquity Group
Training Track: Alfresco Core CMS
Audience: Content Creators, Businesspeople & Developers

Enterprise Architect, Eric Ray from the Acquity Group will be
presenting Alfresco Development I. In this session, he will explain the
elements of development in Alfresco.

Session: Joomla! Development II
Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009
Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Instructor: Steven Pignataro
Training Track: Joomla! Core CMS
Audience: Developers & Administrators

See how the pros develop and how they do it so fast in Joomla Development II. Instructed by 'corePHP' Lead Developer Rafael Corral, you will learn about applications and techniques about your development and advanced tips and tricks.  This session is primarily for intermediate Developers.  Technical in nature, this session will dig deeper into development using Joomla.

Session: Drupal Development II
Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009
Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Instructor: Jeff Eaton
Training Track: Drupal Core CMS
Audience: Developers

The CMS Association is pleased to welcome instructor Jeff Eaton, Site Architect with Lullabot, to present both Drupal Development I and Drupal Development II.

Take the next step with Drupal development! Learn secure coding techniques to protect your site from malicious hackers, understand how to improve your Drupal site's performance, and work with the Drupal development community to improve your code.

Session: Alfresco Development II: Developing using the Alfresco Wizard and Dialog Frameworks
Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009
Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Instructor: Paul McMahon
Training Track: Alfresco Core CMS
Audience: Content Creators, Businesspeople & Developers

Enterprise Architect, Paul McMahon from Acquity Group will be presenting Alfresco Development II.  In this session, he will explain the elements of development in Alfresco.

Learn how to extend existing Alfresco authoring user interfaces or create your own custom interfaces with the Alfresco Wizard and Dialog frameworks. These frameworks provide developers with an effective tool for implementing advanced authoring or management interfaces within the base Alfresco authoring environment.

Session: Joomla Administration
Date: Thursday, April 30th, 2009 
Time: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Instructor: Phil DeKoker
Training Track: Joomla! Core CMS
Audience: Administrators

Save yourself many headaches of operating your Joomla website by taking the time to administer and secure your site, right from the start. Joomla Admin & Security will focus on Joomla administration tasks and securing your Joomla website. The skills covered by long-time network & admin expert Phil DeKoker, are essential for advancing administration skills to the next level.

Session: Drupal Administration
Date: Thursday, April 30th, 2009 
Time: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Instructor: Matthew Lechleider
Training Track: Drupal Core CMS
Audience: Administrators

Unleash the awesome power of Drupal by properly configuring Linux, Apache, and MySQL. Best practices for backup and migrating Drupal sites. Demonstrations of admin modules and themes. View how to easily manage users, permissions, and content.

Session: Socialize Your Joomla Site
Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Instructor: Barrie North
Training Track: Joomla! Core CMS
Audience: Content Creators, Businesspeople & Developers

The web world moves fast, as witnessed by the exponential growth of Twitter in 2009, along with FaceBook, YouTube and countless Social Media sites and tools. So first, how can you find out what is important on the "Social" scene; and secondly, how can you leverage the power of Joomla! to harness the power of social media?

Session: Socialize Your Drupal Site
Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Instructor: Michael Haggerty
Training Track: Drupal Core CMS
Audience: Content Creators, Businesspeople & Developers

The web world moves fast, as witnessed by the exponential growth of Twitter in 2009, along with FaceBook, YouTube and countless Social Media sites and tools. So first, how can you find out what is important on the "Social" scene; and secondly, how can you leverage the power of Drupal to harness the power of social media?

Session: Alfresco Document Management & Collaboration
Date: Thursday, April 30, 2009
Time: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Instructors: Jeff Brown & Tom Kelly
Training Track: Alfresco Core CMS
Audience: Content Creators, Businesspeople & Developers
Prerequisite: Introduction to Alfresco or basic familiarity with Alfresco

This session will go into detail into Alfresco's Document Management and Collaboration capabilities.  Highlights will include basic content modeling, simple and advanced workflows, rules, and more in-depth features of the Share platform.  We will also give an introduction to Alfresco's Web Script platform which allows integration with other applications in your enterprise.