It's about time that I gave another update on some of my travels to spread the word about PICnet, Joomla! and technology. Over the next few weeks you'll see installments from my trips to South Africa, Brazil, Mongolia, New York, and more. The key theme? Engaging with Joomla! communities around the world to share our experiences, lessons learned and latest innovations and vision to create a better product for the user - that may be you!

August 13-19, 2009 - Cape Town, South Africa

I'll begin with my trip to Cape Town, South Africa for their Joomla!Day in August. Among the audience at this conference were Joomla! users and people interested in using it, NGOs, local universities and small businesses. The day before the event there was a training day where I had the opportunity to work with 20 individuals from the community (ex. Food Bank of South Africa) to give them hands on instructions and lessons about using Joomla!.

It seems nearly every day, I read about a brewing debate to determine what's "best" for non-profits:  Joomla!, Drupal, Plone, or Wordpress.  To be honest, I really think this debate is about as useful as a debate about the "best" color in the rainbow.  So you can imagine my surprise when I read a quite useful introductory review of Joomla by Tess Gadwa in TechSoup on Friday.

After an introduction on CMSes, Tess dives into a key question that folks ask me nearly every day:  Why Joomla?  With a question like that, I couldn't help but pen a blog entry.

If you've been following us here, you've probably seen we're on a hiring spree.  Well, here comes another new opening for our growing team:  office manager in our Washington DC headquarters.

We're busy, and we're in need of someone that can help us keep order as we continue to grow. To help us do that, we're hiring an office manager to assist our CEO and help manage our intake process with the following responsibilities.

Job Responsibilities

• Assist in management and correspondence to new business opps.
• Process billing and invoicing.
• Calendar management for our CEO.
• Coordinating meeting, conference calls and events. Scheduling with clients, services, internal staff. Set up, prepare and organize logistics as needed.
• Travel arrangements and itinerary preparation.
• Tracking and preparation of time sheets and expense reports.
• General office management duties.

Interested? See if you've got what it takes after the jump.