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Cleveland, OH, January 25, 2012

"Joomla! 1.7: Beginner's Guide" and "Joomla! Development: A Beginner's Guide" has been nominated for a 2012 Small Business Book Award in the category of Technology.

Joomla! 1.7 Beginner's Guide	Joomla! Development - A Beginner's Guide

The Small Business Book Awards recognize business books that were published in 2011. Small business owners often seek advice and information through books. While there are many thousands of books published each year, it's those of interest to small businesses and entrepreneurs that the Small Business Book Awards seek to honor.

"With so many books being published each year, we wanted to recognize those that made a difference to small business owners and managers and startup entrepreneurs," said Ivana Taylor, Book Editor at Small Business Trends, which produces the Awards. "Our annual Small Business Book Awards are a way to highlight the books that entrepreneurs are reading and learning from."

The Awards are an honor to the authors who write books for the small business and entrepreneurial community. Says Anita Campbell, CEO of Small Business Trends, "For many of the authors, writing a book is a labor of love. Often they get up early in the morning before the rest of the family awakes, and they devote their evenings, weekends, holidays and vacations to writing. They deserve recognition."

Ok, to understand my thoughts you have to spend a bit time, follow the links and watch the videos and sources I linked to (or may be not, if you know them all).
I know it's complicate and it takes time, but the world isn't that easy :)

Step by step

• January 18th
  The whole world protested against a law in the US (SOPA/PIPA).
• January 19th 10am:
  Apple held an event about spreading iPads in schools (Video).
  Concerning the iPad platform, have a look at that video Cory Doctorow: The coming war on general computation [28C3] (from Dec. 2011)
• January 19th 11pm:
  I read that the Police in New Zealand arrested Kim Dotcom (Schmitz), Bram van der Kolk, Finn Batato and Mathias Ortman and shut down the servers of their company megaupload (Press Release FBI: Justice Department Charges Leaders of Megaupload with Widespread Online Copyright Infringement).

This is a photo uploaded by the flickr user leucatetourisme. It is possible for me to embed the photo in this blog entry because I simply asked the user to change the license.
He or she decided to switch it to Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).
This is on one hand good, because it is possible to embed it here in the blog but I am not allowed to use it commercially. This blog appears on our website cocoate.com which is of course a company site with a commercial intention. So am I allowed or not?
I am honestly not sure.

Finally I had time to watch this 80 minutes video and it was awesome!

It's not ready yet and Google is perfect in guerilla marketing but the idea is very, very good. It seems to be possible to start your own waves on your company server and it is an very good collaboration tool.