The CMS Expo is one of the only conferences in the world that brings together many of today's top Content Management Systems under one roof. With more than 60 professional speakers and over 100 learning sessions scheduled over the 3-day event, May 2-4, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois, you can find information and training from some of the CMS industry's top professionals without sitting through an infomercial or someone selling their services on stage.
John and Linda Coonan are the event organizers and are avid Joomla! Community members themselves, through their work with the Chicago Joomla! Users Group and their annual CMSExpo Conference each year. We had the chance to sit down with John Coonen and ask him about the Joomla! powered CMS Expo website.
Company Name: CMS Expo
Live website URL: http://cmsexpo.net
Developer: The CMS Association Inc.
Developer URL: http://cmsexpo.net
Development Time: 6 Months
Category: Business B2B
Developer Bio: The organization's mission is to foster the growth of the CMS Community.
Linda Coonen - Content creation, producer, organizer & logistics
Josh Miller - Site Development and administration
John Coonen - Site Design, event marketing, content curator
Unlike events of the past decade, in which organizers oftentimes recycled old information and provided slight "refreshes" of previous learning sessions and events, CMS Expo needs to totally overhaul their site and their program annually, with a fresh, relevant approach.
Being an event CENTERED around CMSes, we've had quite a bit of exposure (pardon the pun;) to CMSes other than Joomla! The reason we started with Joomla! was simple: CMS Expo's roots! CMS Expo started out almost five years ago as "JoomlaExpo." The primary purpose was to showcase Joomla! We expanded this to grow the the overall market.
The reasons we have stayed with Joomla are the following:
“The reason we started with Joomla! was simple: CMS Expo's roots! CMS Expo started out almost 5 years ago as JoomlaExpo. The primary purpose was to showcase Joomla! We expanded this to grow the the overall market.”
Over 1000 pages of new content must be created every year. This year, we closed in on 1,200 pages. Joomla! tackled it like a champ.
This project is a year-long passion. Every year, we've learned how to tackle the project to streamline the massive amount of web-related work. Here's what we learned this year, with respect to Joomla!:
It's a lot of fun to look around at all the other top-tier tech conference sites, and know that ours, using Joomla!, gives us a distinct competitive advantage from a productivity and creative standpoint; but ALSO from the standpoint of being able to turn to dozens of developers to help us try new things and push the limits online like NO other conference does.
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