We'll be attending our local Barcamp meet-up this year. Barcamp is an international network of unconferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies and social protocols.

Okay, I just heard a bunch of you say, Huh? What does that mean? Basically Barcamp is a way for professionals in the web design and development communities to get together on a local level and share ideas and discuss some of the new trends that effect our industry.

This year I will be giving a talk on "Holistic E-commerce" which is just a fancy way of saying how to look at all the options and issues before implementing an e-commerce solution for a client. Obviously we have a lot of experience in this area and we're excited to share what we've learned and some of our thoughts on where e-commerce is going in the future with others in our field.

If you are a web designer or developer in the Albuquerque area we'd love for you to join us! The Refresh Albuquerque group has created a Google Group if you are interested in finding out more information about the planning of Barcamp.

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We will be attending HostingCon this year! HostingCon is the premier conference for companies and professionals in the hosted services industry. This year's conference is being held in Chicago at the historic Navy Pier site.

We are looking forward to this year's conference because it gives us a chance to meet some of our existing partners face to face, as well as learn about new trends in hosting and how they will affect our clients.

A major topic this year will clearly be how web hosts can continue to improve their plans and attract new customers. Web hosts are constantly looking for new products and services to add to their platform. Web hosts want and need to help their customers promote their sites better and sell more online. Another interesting topic will be how web hosts can go "green", meaning how they can reduce, reuse, and recycle during the operation of their company to have less impact on the environment.

If you will be attending HostingCon this year, leave us a comment and let us know so that we can stop by and introduce ourselves.

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