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During the Memorial Day Weekend, we did a giveaway for those who subscribe during this period. And the winners are... (drum roll)

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Each of them will receive 6 months of SookaChat that worth $60. If you are one of the winners, you will receive an email containing the instruction get the free subscription. Thank you for those who participate and don't forget to subscribe to get latest info and promotion.

The year 2011 has definitely been a good year for our friends at JPeople! May 2011 marked their 1st birthday celebrated by their growth of nearly 7,000 members, 1604 photos, 443 videos, 513 Groups and 57 categories and still counting! JPeople is the place for Joomla! community to meet, share and enrich their Joomla! experience. We at JomSocial are pleased to wish them happy birthday and happy growing!

We actually feel really proud to be part of the project. As developer for the social network component that power the JPeople site, nothing gets us more excited than to see it bringing Joomla! community closer together. We really want to see Joomla! community to have the most amazing time in any Open Source project in the world! Having said that, software plays only a small part. Great work by the site admins and your participation bring this site alive.

If you haven’t done so, check out the JPeople site and join them at http://people.joomla.org/ and be part of the awesome movement happening right now!

We are having a giveaway on the countdown to Memorial Day this Monday. Starting from today, we will be giving away four 6-month SookaChat subscriptions for free, one for each day for our new JomSocial subscribers.

Each day, we will draw the lucky subscribers from the same pool. So, if you subscribe today, your email will be drawn four times.

Lucky winners will be announced on this blog at the end of this giveaway. We will also send notification emails. So don't wait, get to the footer of any page on JomSocial.com and subscribe by filling up the easy form.

Good luck!

Social media plays an important part for online community today. Here we will present to you a collection of tutorials to help you create your very own Facebook clone on your website.

Yes, you heard it right! JomSocial won the "Best Joomla! App for Social Networking" award at the CMS Expo 2011 for the second time. Some of you may have heard about the news from our tweet, and today we would like to celebrate it together with our valued customers with a little surprise.  

We are humbly honored and at the same time astounded to receive the award for the second consecutive year. This award tells us that we have to work harder to make JomSocial better and more valuable for our customers. More importantly, it shows that all of JomSocial customers are getting the best extension to build their online community.

In celebration of Mother's Day, we have two exciting news to share with you.

First, we have partnered up with OStraining to give you more value when you purchase any edition JomSocial, the best tool to create social networking sites.

To help you to maximize your purchase, you will get 2 Months Joomla Training from OStraining worth $47 for a copy of JomSocial. OStraining's package is a suite of professionally created videos and tutorials that provides you step-by-step walk through on how to build wonderful Joomla websites. You will be able to learn at your own pace, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!

On top of that, you will also get 1 license of OSToolbar that worth $49. It is a revolutionary new extension that places video tutorials throughout your Joomla administrator area. OSToolbar makes sure that you will always have the very best Joomla training and support, exactly where and when you need it.

It's the time for CMS Expo again! This year CMS Expo will be hosted at the Hilton Orrington Hotel, in Evanston, Illinois from May 2nd to May 4th, 2011.

2011 CMS Expo will feature over eighty information-packed CMS training sessions. Created for Web Designers, Developers and Businesspeople, CMS Expo is the place to be for the most relevant, timely and actionable information in the fast-growth CMS Sector.

When 2.2 was released a couple of weeks back, quite a few people were shocked to see the wall plugin is no more. Let me assure you that this is a major step forward and is something we should celebrate!

The "wall" has been with us since the first release of JomSocial. With the release of 2.2, we have decided to integrate comment-on-profile, (which is normally the job for the wall plugin) into the stream itself. So, instead of having a separate section for those messages, it now flows nicely into your personal social stream. As an added bonus, it now gains the new 'like' and 'comment' feature from the stream. 

This is just the beginning. We really want to make friend-to-friend interaction more fluid and fun. If you guys have a fresh new idea, drop it at our uservoice page at http://uservoice.jomsocial.com  . At the mean time, noticed that we have upgraded jomsocial.com itself to the latest 2.2 build. Go ahead and play around with it.

By being a JomSocial customer you will unlock a bunch of partners promotions. Currently, we have up to $60-off discount code from RocketTheme, Joomlart, JoomlaXi, corePHP, JoomPlace and TechJoomla. Today, we would like to introduce yet another perk that will help you to get the most value out of JomSocial purchase.

With a valid JomSocial account, you will get free JomSocial installation service when you subscribe for a new hosting package from our hosting partners. Currently, there are three hosting partners that you can choose from: Coolhandle, JoomByte and JoomlaWebHosting.ca.

JomSocial is an excellent system to create a successful online community. I'm pretty sure most of you will agree with me on that. This blog post is not about the excellence of the JomSocial system, it's about tracking the use of your online community in Google Analytics.

Why should you track your JomSocial website?

Sure, your JomSocial community is very easy on the eyes and you may have lots of active users, but how effective is your site? How many registered users did you add to your community last month? And how did they find your website? Getting answers to these questions give you an excellent startingpoint to improve you website and get a better understanding of your users.