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  1. JSI-51: Amember and Joomla Revealed!

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    Everything You Need To Know About Using Amember and The Joomla Plugin! : Screen Capture and Audio Session Running Time: 50 Minutes broken into 8 segments Description: While there are a number of different ways you can manage your subscriptions in you Joomla Membership site. Amember remains my favorite choice. Why? For a bunch of reasons I’ll go into on another video. Yes amember deserves it’s own course and I’m working on it! Remember from the first part of the Easy Membership Site course what I said the most important thing about running a successful membership site was? The ability to manage the billing and subscriptions! Amember makes it easy with a simple integration plugin that ties your joomla membership...
  2. JSI-50: Advanced Joomla File Manager

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    Use The Advanced Joomla File Manager : Screen Capture and Audio Session Running Time: 2 Minutes Description: You’re going to have to use this component at one point with your membership site. It’s called Joomla Explorer and it’s a big help when it comes to editing files and setting the right permissions in Joomla. : Screen Capture and Audio Session Running Time: 5 Minutes This video shows you where to find it and most importantly how to use it. Membership Site Resources: Fireboard – Get Fireboard Here Amember – Get A Copy Here Joomla – Install It Automatically From Here Community Builder – Download It From Here
  3. JSI-49: How To Delete Old Components and Modules

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    How To Delete Components and Modules! : Screen Capture and Audio Session Running Time: 10 Minutes Description: If you’re like me you’ll probably try out a bunch of different solutions… until you find the one you like! If that’s the case you’ll end up with multiple extenstions installed all trying to do the same thing. It can get confusing so make sure to remove/delete old components and modules you’re not using. You can always install the updated version when you need to and best of all ALL YOUR SETTINGS are saved! Membership Site Resources: Fireboard – Get Fireboard Here Amember – Get A Copy Here Joomla – Install It Automatically From Here Community Builder – Download It From Here
  4. JSI-48: Make Sure Fireboard Is Secure

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    Secure Your Fireboard Installation! : Screen Capture and Audio Session Running Time: 7 Minutes Description: Dont’ forget security! As your discussion board becomes more popular, or you open it up to the public you want to make sure you’ve set Fireboard up in the most secure manner that’s appropriate to your business model. Membership Site Resources: Fireboard – Get Fireboard Here Amember – Get A Copy Here Joomla – Install It Automatically From Here Community Builder – Download It From Here
  5. JSI-47: Integrate Your Forum With Other Joomla Tools

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    Fireboard + Community Builder, Instant Messaging and All Your Other Components! : Screen Capture and Audio Session Running Time: 20 Minutes Description: Fireboard Plays Friendly! Use the Integration settings so that Fireboard talks to all your other components. Learn how to setup Fireboard to share instant messaging usernames, community builder profiles and more with this video Membership Site Resources: Fireboard – Get Fireboard Here Amember – Get A Copy Here Joomla – Install It Automatically From Here Community Builder – Download It From Here
  6. JSI-46: How To Configure Fireboard Settings

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    Start To Finish Fireboard Forum Configuration! : Screen Capture and Audio Session Running Time: 30 Minutes Description: There’s a lot to cover, I had to break the video up into 2 separate sections! I go thru every setting, explaining what they do and showing you examples of different settings. I’ve also included my recommended settings for each option and why you want to set the forum up with the suggested settings Fireboard Forum Setting Video Two : Screen Capture and Audio Session Running Time: 30 Minutes Membership Site Resources: Fireboard – Get Fireboard Here Amember – Get A Copy Here Joomla – Install It Automatically From Here Community Builder – Download It From Here
  7. JSI-45: Add Fireboard To The Menus

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    Add A Menu Item So Fireboard Shows Up! : Screen Capture and Audio Session Running Time: 4 Minutes Description: You’ll need to add your Fireboard Discussion forum to your site by editing an existing menu or creating a new menu item. This video shows you exactly how to get your discussion board to show up. Membership Site Resources: Fireboard – Get Fireboard Here Amember – Get A Copy Here Joomla – Install It Automatically From Here Community Builder – Download It From Here
  8. JSI-40: One Site Multiple Domain Names

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    My Favourite Joomla Trick? : Screen Capture and Audio Session Running Time: 10 Minutes Description: This is a real special video. Inside I’ll show you a special trick that allows you to have multiple domains with identical Joomla Sites! Here’s an example: http://www.MySmallBizU.com http://www.wmfsb.com Notice any differences? It’s a simple fix that can make branding your business alot easier. Watch now and find out how. Resources Mentioned: Amember – Get A Copy Here Joomla – Install It Automatically From Here Community Builder – Download It From Here The Code you Need: /* Tommy Hack! START Grabs the hostname, ip, etc instead of defining a fixed address http://tommytaylor.co.uk – check out the dev section! */ $SERVER_NAME = $_SERVER; $IP = gethostbyname...
  9. JSI-41: A Better Site Map

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    Feel The Google Love With This New Site Map! : Screen Capture and Audio Session Running Time: 10 Minutes Description: Joomap is a good site map component for Joomla. Xmap is a "Great" site map component for Joomla Why? You’ll find out in this video. Xmap creates site maps for ALL you joomla content, including your fireboard forums. Want to feel the love from Google? Then give Google and your users what they want. Membership Site Resources: Amember – Get A Copy Here Joomla – Install It Automatically From Here Community Builder – Download It From Here
  10. JSI-42: The Heart Of Your Membership Site

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    Guarantee The Success Of Your Joomla Membership Site With Fireboard! : Screen Capture and Audio Session Running Time: 10 Minutes Description: The new Fireboard Forum component for Joomla is a full fledged application. Setup and implemented correctly this single component is the heart and sould of most Joomla Membership Sites Learn why and how in this next series of 9 videos! Everything is covered! Downloading the Component, installation, integration, configuration, permissions, setup, and security. Everything you need to know about the powerful community building feature is revealed. Membership Site Resources: Fireboard – Get Fireboard Here Amember – Get A Copy Here Joomla – Install It Automatically From Here Community Builder – Download It From Here
  11. JSI-43: How To Install Fireboard

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    Start To Finish Fireboard Installation! : Screen Capture and Audio Session Running Time: 4 Minutes Description: Watch the install and I’ll show you how to fix the most common install error! Yes watch as I muck up this install and then have to fix it! Membership Site Resources: Fireboard – Get Fireboard Here Amember – Get A Copy Here Joomla – Install It Automatically From Here Community Builder – Download It From Here
  12. JSI-44: How To Setup Forum Permissions

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    Who Gets Access To What Part Of Your Forum! : Screen Capture and Audio Session Running Time: 10 Minutes Description: Fireboard gives you options to make all or parts of your forum available to your users. Watch and learn how to set the permissions of your discussion board in this video. Membership Site Resources: Fireboard – Get Fireboard Here Amember – Get A Copy Here Joomla – Install It Automatically From Here Community Builder – Download It From Here
  13. JSI-39: Starting A Paid Community Builder Site?

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    Want To Start A Paid Social Networking Site With Web 2.0 Features? : Screen Capture and Audio Session Running Time: 16 Minutes Description: This is a follow on to my original video describing the use of amember and Community Builder software with your Joomla membership Site. I even give you a behind the scenes look at how I’ve created this site in the video. The bottom line is that yes you can make a paid social networking site with amember, joomla and community builder…. the problem is – that you can’t do it the way you think! Resources Mentioned: Amember – Get A Copy Here Joomla – Install It Automatically From Here Community Builder – Download It From Here
  14. JSI-36: How To Add A Radio Or TV Station To Your Site

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    Start Making Money With Your Own Radio or TV Show. Screen Capture and Audio Running Time: 13 Minutes Description: You won’t believe how easy this is until you see it! To do this topic justice I should probably create a separate course… ( try WebCastRiches for now). But since you are here now I’m betting you want to know specifically… How can I have my own Internet Radio Station or TV Show? JoomRadio makes it easy. It’s a free plugin from http://extensions.joomla.org that gives you a quick 1-2 way to add your own audio or video files to a built in media player. Another great value add for any membership site that allows you to stand out from the crowd....
  15. JSI-37: Earn Additional Revenues From Your Existing Members

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    Start Selling Additional Products and Services From Your Membership Site. Screen Capture and Audio Running Time: 13 Minutes Description: You’ve got a captive audience, why not leverage your existing relationship by selling additional products and services from within your membership site? Here’s an ez Catalog system that makes it easy. It’s a free plugin from http://extensions.joomla.org that gives you a quick shopping system that plugins in to your PayPal or existing shopping cart system. With ezcatalog you don’t need to send your members to a kludged order or sales page that results in lost sales and frustrated members, with detailed categories and enough room to add as much text as you need this is an easy way to sell online...
  16. JSI-38: Using Amember With Joomla

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    Need Your Amember Software To Work With Your Membership Site? : Screen Capture and Audio Session Running Time: 23 Minutes Description: Ok you’ve already invested in Amember to run your business and you want to use it with your Joomla Membership Site…. they work together right? Well that depends on whether or not you have the Community Builder software installed as part of your membership site. Why? Because there are two separate approaches available when it comes to using amember and joomla. It really boils down to whether or not you want Community Builder to control the usernames and passwords for your site or if you want amember to control them. If you’re going to charge for subscriptions use the...
  17. JSI-34: Set Members Up As Authors

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    How To Give Your Members Authoring Rights Screen Capture and Audio Running Time: 7 Minutes Description: Training your members the fine art of content creation is easy when they have are set up as an "author" in Joomla. The Blogging module I discussed earlier is based on a single component. This video looks at the "authors" rights in Joomla and how you can make this setting available in various sections of your membership site. Examples include: DocMan Event Calendar Content Items Web Links  
  18. JSI-35: Start A Real Online Community

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    How To Build A Real Online Community Screen Capture and Audio Running Time: 25 Minutes Description: A real community of like minded members would be great wouldn’t it? All interacting and networking with each other to solve and share common problems… It’s possible when you have the Community Builder software installed in your membership site. This plugin is very powerful. I’ll go over what it does and how it works in this video. In some follow up videos I’ll show you how to install and configure this powerful networking software.
  19. JSI-33: Give Members There Own Blog

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    How To Add A Members Only Blog Screen Capture And Audio Running Time: 18 Minutes Description: Want user generated content? The easiest way to add content to your membership site is to have your "members" add it. There are a number of ways this can be accomplished, and each carries it’s own strengths and weaknesses. The best one I’ve come across is a "members blog". This component gives members with privileges the ability to post regular content items. Over the next couple of sessions I’ll take a look at some additional joomla components that make user generated content easy.
  20. JSI-11: Install A Discussion Board

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    Build A Live Community By Installing a Discussion Board/Forum Running Time: 15 Minutes Screen Capture and Audio Description: This original session was for a extension called Joomlaboard. It’s since been replaced by "fireboard". Both are great forum software that plug directly into your membership site. A forum is a great place to market your products and services… if done properly. Watch this install now. A new version "fireboard" has recently been released. I haven’t installed it yet until I install the new version of Joomla 1.5. When that’s done I’ll update the video. The new fireboard install is similar to joomlaboard so make sure to use it. Also take the time to consider how you are going to "seed" you...
  21. JSI-12: Configure The Discussion Board Settings

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    Setup How And Who You Want In The Forum Screen Capture and Audio Running Time: 21 Minutes Description: Be careful here. Setting up who has access to what sections of a discussion board can make or break how effective your membership site will be. It’s important for you to start off in control of the discussion board and direct the conversation to topics and people that will further the purpose of the site.  
  22. JSI-13: Create and Organize Your Forum

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    How To Create Forums, Categories and Topics Running Time: 20 Minutes Screen Capture and Audio Description: Organize for the short term when you’re just starting out with a discussion board. Starting with only a couple of topics is better than attempting to have every thing figured out when your just starting. A well run discussion board is a great business builder. It generates content, creates new products, informs, educates, automates and builds trust. The Forum should be an integral part of any membership site. Resources: http://extensions.joomla.org

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