Tamka

A set of extensions to bring blogging power to Joomla! CMS.

My friend, designer Arno Zijlstra , just pinged me regarding a new Joomla! project that promises to bring “blogging power to individuals and communities” on the Joomla! Content Management System. The project is called Tamka (Speak Up!)

As a long-time Blogger (this blog is Blogger-powered) and WordPress user, it’s good to see Joomla! getting some attention in the blog tool department but what exactly we’ll be getting we don’t know yet.

I’ve never seriously used Joomla! as a pure blogging tool and, quite frankly, it’s not supposed to be. Not only is there a ton of core code but Joomla! is a far more powerful fully-featured CMS and a blog should be considered as one channel of your web offering.

is4profit.com, the SME resource website, is a Joomla! powered portal for small business information & advice and apart from the many sections within their site they would benefit from a business blog, so let’s see if the new Tamka.org can pique their interest when it’s released.

We’ll keep you posted or you can follow Tamkaorg on twitter.

UPDATE: Tamka is live and looking good. Congrats to the team and here’s looking forward to testing