We have had the pleasure of creating the Kids SRC website for the past four years, with this year making it 5!

Thanks to BCLA and the great people who also contribute to the Kids SRC – as always, it was a blast working with you!

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»» READ original announcement here

As an alpha version, it naturally has bugs, does not yet have some features such as privacy and Access Control List. In addition, user blocking is not yet fully functional. These and more are being addressed in the next alpha release, currently under development.

»» DOWNLOAD the installable packages here

Catch the buzz

This news comes with much anticipation as the buzz of Anahita Social Engine™ picks up momentum:

Last month Mr. Bob Bloom did an interview with Rastin and Ash on his radio podcast show, featuring the Anahita Social Engine™ project and Nooku.

»» LISTEN to the podcast here

Earlier, the Nooku and Beyounic Teams presented the Anahita Project at the Joomla Day Italia Rome in their Nooku presentation.

»» READ original blog post here

Follow Anahita Social Engine™

If you want to hear all the latest news regarding Anahita Social Engine™ first hand, these are the ways you can stay in the know:

• Anahita Social Engine™ on Twitter @anahitapolis
• Anahita Social Engine™ Fan Club
• Anahita Social Engine™ Blog

Congratulations to Rastin and Ash, and the Anahita Social Engine™ Partners on this wonderful milestone!

Want to become a partner? Read Become a Partner on the Anahitapolis website.

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Terri Howie’s services include Specialty Auto Sales and Auto Financing for credit challenged customers.

Terri came to me late last fall, knowing exactly what she wanted, expediting the process of getting her website up and running. Joomla CMS was a perfect match for her!

Terri shared with me in detail her website needs, its purpose, target market and functionality. JenTekk happily assisted her in securing the .com and .ca domain name, as well as a reputable hosting company.

To work within her budget, I recommended that Terri preview some Commercial Joomla Templates, which reflected the style, design and layout that she needed.

Terri chose Zeox a boldly colored, yet simply designed Joomla Template. As you can see, we were able to keep the majority of the original template design, which enabled Terri to place the majority of her resources into the content development.

In addition to Joomla CMS, we needed to add a customized application form. After researching a couple of extensions, I settled on ChronoForms – a simple yet powerful Joomla form extension – luv it!

The finishing touches were added to the website only hours ago – so this site is truly “hot-off-the-press”!

Congratulations Terri! It was a blast working with you on your site. I hope that your new venture will prosper as you help people “get on the road again”!

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I met Sarah, A smart, sweet and ambitious young lady, at Bikrams Hot Yoga.

Before and after classes we discussed her goals of one day starting up a company and selling her own line of 100% natural skin care products.

As a friend and business owner myself, I was excited to help Sarah make her dream a reality.

Side by side we took the journey together… discussing what it took to start-up a business, registering her business name, her .com and .ca domain names, securing a reputable host and finally strategizing the development of her website, including the use of Joomla CMS, her site’s look & feel, and possible eCommerce solutions.

Once all the preliminary discovery work was complete, I began designing an original Joomla 1.5 CMS template according the website design styles we had looked over together… simple and clean.

During this time, Sarah developed her brand, researched manufacturers, created her skin care line, hired a photographer for product photos, learned Joomla CMS, and moved to the East Coast! Now that is ambitious!

We discussed several eCommerce solutions. After much research and upon recommendation by a local business owner, Sarah identified VirtueMart coupled with PayPal as the eCommerce solution most suitable for her immediate website needs… we learned VirtueMart together!

So here we are today, not even a year later, LIDO Skin Care site launched and ready to do business.

You can already find LIDO Skin Care on Facebook!

Congratulations Sarah on your new Company LIDO Skin Care, on the creation of your fabulous products, and the launch of your Joomla CMS & VirtueMart eCommerce website!

It was an honor and a pleasure to work with you on this. I wish you the best with your product line and much success in the future!

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» BlueFur.com Customer of the Week: Jeannette Duguay.

Quoted from the article:

“An avid fan of BlueFur since 2004, entrepreneur Jeannette Duguay (“Jen” to friends) wears a variety of hats.

For starters, she is the owner of JenTekk Web Solutions, a website design and development company. Based out of Richmond, JenTekk has been…”

read more…

Lots of good things are happening down at BlueFur. This recently added feature – Customer of the Week – is just one of many to come.

You see, on Feb. 11th 2010, BlueFur announced that it is now under new ownership and that we can expect lots of positive changes, especially in the customer care and service dept.

I’ve always had great response with the customer service – so to read how they are going to turn it up another notch is simply fantastic. Keep it coming!

Congratulations to new owners Ben & Joel. All the best to you and the gang at BlueFur!

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JenTekk has had the pleasure of creating the Kids SRC website for the past four years.

We’ve just received the official news today… that we can make it 5 years in a row!

Kids SRC 2010 Theme: READING ROCKS!

Judging by the above poster, this year’s theme is going to be a blast to design for.

Thanks to BCLA and the great people with Kids SRC – I look forward to working with you again!

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This time last year I was in the throws of creating Cafe Yogi – a Community for Bikram Hot Yoga Enthusiasts, which included a blog and message board.

I admit, I bit off more than I could chew by trying to tackle a second community – while also nurturing Tazzu – an IT/Business Community that I co-founded several years ago with my business partner Rastin Mehr of rmdStudio.

Long story short, I did not have the time to nurture the yoga community as it needed, and was only able to commit to sporadic blog posts & forum posts, which is unfair to the members.

So, rather than let it die a slow and painful death, I’ve packed it up.

Before letting it go, I did however back up the site (Joomla, phpBB3, and WordPress) and databases. With some interest shown in purchasing it, someone might yet pick it up and revive it.

It’s been wonderful getting to know the very enthusiastic, caring and supportive Bikram Hot Yoga Community. You will still be able to read posts about my Bikram Hot Yoga journey on my Facebook page!

See you there, I wish you all well.

Namaste!

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