Once users are registered to the site, they can be restricted to certain areas and only the content in that area made available to them. Content can also be published from a particular date, so that in a school environment, teachers can publish lessons but not have them available until certain points of time. Such flexibility is fantastic for time management as a whole year of assignments and information can be effectively loaded at the one time.  School newsletters can also be published on a Joomla site providing interaction with the school community and the public in a cost effective way. Because Joomla can be set up to allow comments on all posts, a school or non profit can get feedback from the community on the information they publish on their Joomla site.

Non profits can benefit significantly from such interaction as well because one of the most important concepts is to "build community".  A Forum incorporated on a Joomla site for a non profit can provide stimulating discussion on the activities of the non profit which can spark new ideas to improve fund raising and effectiveness.

The Melbourne Joomla Users Group is holding its annual Joomla event from February 10th to 12th in 2010. A feature of this event will be that the entire sessions on Friday will be devoted to demonstrating how schools and non profits can benefit from using Joomla as their web platform.

For more information and to register, visit Melbourne Joomla Day 2010.