Welcome:

My name is Bob Bloom, coming to you from Toronto, Canada.

Welcome to my Blog Talk Radio show, dedicated to Joomla ecommerce.

Every Thursday at 1:00pm,  my guests & I talk about Joomla ecommerce.

As I will specialize in Tienda, the new ecommerce extension by Dioscouri.com, my shows will have a decidedly Tienda bias.

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Today's show, as are all my shows, will be 30 minutes in length.

My show is available to everyone to listen live.
You can hear my show on-demand on the iTunes podcast directory; and, on BlogTalkRadio.

We are joined today by Joe Sonne, otherwise known as Joe Joomla.

Hello Joe!

In The News:

Rafael Diaz-Tushman, Tienda's founder and Dioscouri Design's CEO, will be here in Toronto on Sunday March 21st.

This week I published an article detailing why I'm switching to Tienda. The upshot is that Virtuemart is not leading the way into the future.

There's a leadership void with Joomla ecommerce -- for a GPL free extension run as an open source project.

Dioscouri Designs is leading the way with its new Tienda Project.

Main Stuff:

I met Joe Sonne at the Joomla Users Group of Toronto's meet-ups.

Joe Sonne, how did you become Joe Joomla?

You co-founded the Toronto Group. How did that happen?

Tell us about the Southwestern Ontario Joomla Group.

* client point of view

* views/shipping/payment plugins

* communications (project site, chat...)

* great start, much work needed...esp framework/event handlers/meta-views/nested views

The Toronto Joomla Users Group is sponsoring a Tienda presentation on Sunday March 21st. Details available to http://toronto.joomla.ca.

The next Southwestern Joomla Group's meeting is Thursday, March 25. Details at http://www.jugswo.com/

Joe, thank you for being here!

We'll be back next Thursday at 1:00pm.