Here at Analytics for Joomla we love social media. We don't just track social media buttons with Woopra and have over 1600 followers on our Twitter account. Like social media, we love social components to enhance Joomla websites. The biggest (and best) community component for Joomla must be JomSocial.

This extremely flexible and userfriendly platform can turn a normal Joomla website into an amazing community where people can share content, interact and come together. JomSocial has just released a brand new version of their platform, allowing you to integrate their system into Joomla 1.6 websites.

We are really starting to love the work of Woopra. They shared a cool way of tracking Facebook Like buttons with Woopra by adding a small additional snippet of code to the original Woopra trackingcode.

So what we did was add this functionality to our Woopra plugin for Joomla 1.5 and 1.6.

For this code to work, you will need to use the javascript version of the like button, the XFBML script won't work. You can find a bunch of Joomla plugins to integrate the like buttons into your Joomla website. If you want to learn more about the use of like buttons, please check out the developers guide by Facebook.

We have had this question from several new Joomla users. Here’s a detailed, step by step, instruction on how to install a plugin in Joomla 1.6.

1. Login to the administrator section of your website. You can usually enter this section by going to www.yourwebsite.com/administrator.
2. Once you have entered your Joomla backend, select the ‘extensions’ option in your top menu and go to ‘extensions manager’.
3. Here you  click on ‘select file’ and select the Joomla plugin you want to install

Privacy is becoming an issue for Google. That’s why Google introduced a new functionality to Google Analytics called Anonymize IP. This feature allows Google to remove the last octet of the IP address if you implement this feature with your Google Analytics install. Google does warn that implementing this will "slightly reduce the accuracy of geographic reporting."

It is the webmaster’s alternative for to the opt out functionality integrated into webbrowsers. It will improve the privacy of users visiting your website, without losing lots of data or insights.