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Community Building is about membership and growth on a community site is directly associated with new registrations. Sites that use Facebook connect (http://www.facebook.com/advertising/?connect) or Twitter sign-in (http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Sign-in-with-Twitter) have experienced an impressive increase in membership growth and there is also some rival discussions (http://mashable.com/2009/04/18/twitter-facebook-connect/) regarding which method is better. Well, there is no need for you to chose sides - you can have both methods working for you as of today! The CB Facebook Connect 1.0RC and CB Twitter Connect 1.0RC authentication plugins have just been released to all CB Documentation subscribers. These authentication plugin packages are released with full detailed documentation (20+ pages each). Subscribers can find plugin quick download links for these plugin in their Doc-Subs profile tab (component/option,com_comprofiler/task,userProfile/tab,Doc-Subs/Itemid,39/). Once installed and properly configured, they will enable users logging in and signing in on your CB powered website using their Facebook / Twitter credentials. The Facebook plugin also allows you to selectively synchronize CB fields with Facebook data. See and experience both authentication plugins in action integrating seemlessly on our Joomla 1.5.15 / CB 1.2.2 / CBSubs (content/blogcategory/61/77/) 1.0.3 demo site (http://cbsubs1.cbdemosites.com/). If you are not a CB Documentation subscriber (content/view/2542/37/), this is your chance to...

The CB Team has just released CB 1.2.2 which can be downloaded by all logged in users (component/option,com_docman/task,doc_details/gid,179/Itemid,36/) of Joomlapolis. CB 1.2.2 is mainly a bug fixes release that also supports PHP 5.3+. The CB 1.2.2 package now has an installation document included. For Joomla 1.5.X websites upgrading to CB 1.2.2 is now possible by just installing the CB component and the CB modules right over the old one (without uninstalling) - please read the installation guide included in the package for instructions. A change log will be given by Beat in the forum discussion that follows this announcement.Special thanks must be given to our fellow Joomlapolitan edublender (component/option,com_comprofiler/task,userProfile/user,181885/Itemid,39/) who helped make CB backend translatable via language plugins. We will also be releasing our CB Facebook Connect and CB Twitter Connect plugins to all our documentation subscribers very soon (currently in final testing stages).

[Update: Celebration has ended. Raffles no longer take place. Promotion offers are gradually removed]. Joomlapolis has been around since the birth of Joomla and Community Builder, the open source script it supports has been around even more. Our community has just surpassed the 300K mark and we, the Joomlapolitans, are proud about this and feel like celebrating by giving back to Joomla and our membership even more. It seems like yesterday when our mambojoe.com website passed the torch over to joomlapolis.com as the official home of the Community Builder suite, but in fact it's been over 4+ years since the 'Welcome to Joomlapolis (index.php?option=content task=view Itemid=1 id=12)' article was published. During this period a number of incredible milestones figures have been surpassed. Besides reaching the 300K membership milestone we have surpassed the 122 thousand forum post mark, the 2 million download mark and the 50 million website visitor mark! These are all remarkable achievements which prove that our community is a strong and prosperous one. It is truly a time for celebration and thanks giving, and guess what? That's what we are about to do! The CB Team and Joomlapolis have always been very active in the Joomla universe. We have participated in the...

As we have mentioned in our New Year resolutions (content/view/8093/1/), a number of great and exciting projects have been planned and are already in progress. As always, we would like to get our Joomlapolitans involved. Our community is important to us - after all we are the home of the Community Builder. This is the time to express your opinion and concerns. This is the time to offer your assistance and make your proposals. We cannot guarantee that all proposals will be implemented, but we will listen. One of the items on our list calls for a website redesign. We are aware that our site needs some major work. We will upgrade to Joomla 1.5 and we will reorganize all our services and offerings to make things easier for everyone. We would love to hear your opinion on this matter and also your proposals for what you would like to see in the new environment. What would really make your experience on our website better? What extra services would you like to see? Now is the time for action. We are also in the process of reorganizing our WorkGroup teams. So if you are an experienced or not so experienced CB user...

We have just launched our CBSubs1 demo website! (http://cbsubs1.cbdemosites.com/) This website demonstrates how CBSubs can be used to provide a paid membership site that automatically grants / revokes content access privileges based on subscriptions. The site is built using a set of popular extensions all integrating cleanly (no hacking whatsoever) with the most powerful paid membership subscription solution available. We have enabled the CBSubs dummy (test) gateway, so no real money transaction will take place. Visit the site and follow the simulated payment process to see just a very small portion of what CBSubs can accomplish for you!

The CB Team wishes you all a happy, healthy and successful new year 2010. 2009 has been a very interesting year over here, with quite some major milestones reached and we believe that 2010 will be even more interesting. Let’s recap and share our new year resolutions (read on, some really exciting pre-announcements in here !):

Holiday season came early this year! The CB Team has just publicly released its GPL v2 Community Builder Admin Menu module. This Joomla 1.0.X/1.5.X module when installed and properly configured will add a new backend menu item and/or a new backend cpanel item that provides quick links to CB and CBSubs (if present). The CB Team hopes that this simple module, developed by CB Team member Kyle (aka krileon) will be well received and will assist administrators to quickly reach relevant CB backend screens. The mod_cb_adminnav_v1.0.zip file representing the module package may be downloaded from the CB Team releases (component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,47/Itemid,36/) area of this site (you need to be logged in of course).