If you wanted to attend an event where you could meet the guys who invented Twitter, visit a SEO round table discussion, participate in an iPhone SDK Dev Camp, watch a 340 lb. battlebot in action, and go crazy with Karaoke Apocalypse and a giant unicorn, then BarCamp Austin III was the place to be.Volusion helped sponsor BarCamp Austin III, an “unconference” held on March 8th at GSD&M Idea City. BarCamps occur all over the world and are user generated conferences, meaning attendees can choose to present their ideas as well as help plan the event. The first BarCamp occurred in 2005 and was started by Tantek Celik, the chief technologist behind Technorati and proponent of microformats, as a spin-off of the invite-only event FooCamp.

BarCamp Austin III was free to all attendees, who ranged from advanced developers, journalists, marketers, to even kids. Discussion sessions occurred in the early afternoon through around 5:00, and were shortly followed by the Battlebot and a performance by the band Soulhat. Attendees uploaded photos of the event to a pool on the photo sharing website Flickr.

Interested in attending/sponsoring/participating in a BarCamp in your area? Check out the BarCamp wiki.

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Have you bought an Obama t-shirt or bumper sticker? If so, you’ve been to store.barackobama.com, the official Barack Obama store. The Obama camp hired Tigereye Designs to set up their shopping cart with Volusion’s eCommerce software. The presidential hopeful raised $32 million in January alone, a record for any candidate ever in a presidential primary. According to what Obama fundraisers told TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, 88 percent of this was raised online through this store and Obama’s official website.

How has the Obama camp prepared for Super Tuesday? The Obama store offers specific t-shirts for each state holding a primary on Super Tuesday. If supporters are not in these states, the store also offers an array of shirts for men, women, and infants.

Want to learn more about Super Tuesday? Check out Wikipedia’s entry on the topic, or you can read and even submit your own Super Tuesday news on nowpublic.com.

–Michelle Greer, Marketing Specialist
http://www.volusion.com

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