This is always a hot topic with clients always asking why should they migrate from Joomla 1.5 to a later version and how to do it. This episode I talk about the top 5 reasons why you should migrate from Joomla 1.5 to a later version of Joomla.
I also look into three extensions that allow you to go through the process and start the migration process away from the now unsupported Joomla 1.5. 
This podcast episode goes through, jUpgrade, SP Update and J2XML as the options in regards to migrating from Joomla 1.5.

In this week's episode I have the second part of my interview with Jessica Dunbar from Anything Digital. 
This part Jessica talks about social media and how important it is to use it to drive traffic and visitors to your website. Jessica talks about Google+ and Pinterest to help market your website and business online.
I also go through a few Joomla news items this week including the Pizza, Bugs and Fun global event as well as looking at the UX and UI changes from last week's meetup around UX and UI improvements for Joomla.

On this weeks podcast I have an interview with the lovely Jessica Dunbar from Anything Digital. She is the marketing director for the company and joins me on the show to share some search engine optimisation gems!
She tells us a little about her history of getting into the online marketing space, starting with optimising listings for eBay, and then her growth into particular areas including pay per click advertising to drive traffic to websites.

I interview Chiara Aliotta on the Joomla Beat Podcast to talk about where she gets inspiration in regards to her designer work and gives us a list of great inspiration designer blogs.
Chiara talks about her background and how she got into the design industry. She also talks about influences in her career that have positioned her in the Joomla design industry today. She now has her own design agency called Until Sunday and does work also for Joomla Shack.
I also have a few social media updates in regards to Facebook and a new feature in Instragram.

Oduor Jagero joins me on the show this week with an update from JoomlaDay Kenya, he talks a little about what they're up to this year at JoomlaDay Kenya and the audience that they're trying to reach from students from various universities around the Kenya to the people and businesses that are using Joomla to publish to the world.
I also have an exciting interview with Lilyana Yakimova, the marketing director from SiteGround talking about the new updates, changes and redesign of the SiteGround website. She talks about why they did it and what they were trying to achieve in regards to communicating their brand and business.
Lilyana points out a few of the pitfalls and short comings of SiteGround and important parts of the business that were not communicated to their customers clearly. She defines the reason why a business like SiteGround would want to change the branding of the business to better communicate what they do to their audience.
She leaves us also with some awesome take away tips in regards to rebranding your own website and businesses and what you should really be thinking about before embarking on the process.

Richard Pearce is a fellow Sydney Joomla User Group member based in Sydney. He's worked for many years in the web industry and now runs a website called BuildAJoomlaWebsite.com, a video training and tutorials website all about Joomla.
He joins me on the Joomla Beat Podcast to talk a little about Joomla, his journey into the web space and what he has planned for Build a Joomla Website.
It is a fantastic resource if you're just getting into Joomla although he does have to update a lot of the videos to be inline with Joomla 3.
Richard now spends most of his time working on and promoting the video training as well as in person training and coaching around Joomla.

There are so many events around Joomla that happen all around the world and there are a few key ones coming up in the next few months.
This episode I give a run down on a few events that are happening over the next two months. I also highlight the global Pizza, Bugs and Fun night for combine efforts in squashing bugs next month for the Joomla project.
I also have an interview with Pete Nurse, the convenor of JoomlaDay Melbourne 2013 and we talk about a few aspects in organising events and learn from his experience in putting together JoomlaDay Melbourne.

I talk about three major news items about Joomla's extension directory including the introduction of an app store, the new terms of service for using the Joomla extension directory and also the announcement of the rebuild of the directory.
This episode I also have a look at the J and Beyond conference and the winners of the J.O.S.C.A.R awards this year across the different categories. I also do a quick review of content version control for Joomla and have a good look at how it works.
Lastly I have part 2 of my search engine optimisation tips for Joomla and this SEO tip I look at metadata for your Joomla content and making sure it is done right and effectively on your website.

This episode I go over a few tips to debug why a search engine might not be crawling your website and what to do go get it crawled again.
I also have an interview with David Hurley, the community development manager for Joomla. He talks about how he got involved with Joomla and his new role as a part of the core Joomla team.
 

This week is the second part of the search engine optimisation series and I'm talking about title tags and how to best use them in your Joomla website.
I also have a few news updates and also my second part interview with Vic Drover from Anything Digital talking about the other products that they offer at Anything Digital as concentrating in particular on their search engine optimisation extension called SH404SEF.
Victor also leaves us with a few SEO tips and also a coupon code to take advantage of the products and services from Anything Digital