James “El Tigre” Booker felt robbed back in 2001 when his four putt putt wins in one year was dubbed “the Booker Slam” rather than a Grand Slam. “It shouldn’t matter that they weren’t all in the same calendar year. I held all four titles at once. That should count for something,” he said then.

Tigre faces an uphill battle, as he has not proven as dominant as in previous years. Some speculate that his putt putt skills have declined since leaving his first coach and marrying his bikini model/nanny girlfriend. Some say he’s lost his swing. Tigre vehemently denies anything of the sort.

Booker decided that 2008 would be the year to prove his critics wrong. However, after the first day of the Volusion Masters, Booker’s name is nowhere on the leader board. “I just lost my concentration. Tomorrow is another day.” At one point, geek/marketing ninja Michelle Greer took a picture of the golfer in midswing. The incident triggered an outburst by Tigre, who demanded that Greer be escorted out of the tournament.

“He’s been doing this crap for years. If I let it get to me, I wouldn’t be doing my job,” she said.

Will Tigre come up with one of his legendary comebacks this weekend? We shall see. Check out/comment on Day One’s highlights on Flickr.

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In honor of the NCAA basketball tournament, Volusion decided to host its own round of hoops. Last week, Cris “Jimmy Chitwood” Angelini reigned superior by just topping Adam Hensley in a 9-8 shootout. Adam would have his revenge in week two by scoring an unprecedented twelve baskets in one minute, just topping David House’s eleven.

“It was awesome, baby, awesome! That little diaper dandy was really on fire out there!” exclaimed Dick Vitale.

How did Adam come out on top this week? “I didn’t take last week’s loss too lightly. For me, winning’s in my blood. I came in three hours early everyday just to practice shooting. If I were up to me I’d be doing sprints too, but apparently Sandra said that wasn’t part of the contest.” Adam also hired Cris’s former coach, Terra Ickes.

“Yeah, there’s some bad blood there. Terra was my coach and ditched me midweek. I’m sorry, but that’s just wrong.” Cris scored seven but did not find the hot hand today. The Vegas odds for Angelini were 2:1 over all employees, but Ickes’s decision to switch to the Hensley team was not made public until hours before the contest.

Terra claims that the decision was professional, not personal.

Do NOT anticipate to see any Volusion employees playing basketball this weekend in San Antonio. You can find the full competitive photos at Volusion’s Flickr feed.

Michelle Greer, Marketing Specialist
michelle_greer(at)volusion.com
http://www.volusion.com

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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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Austin, TX (PRWEB) March 7, 2008 — Volusion Inc., a provider of ecommerce solutions and marketing services and an independently run company, beat out over 300 available shopping carts to win the 2008 Small Business Computing Excellence in Technology Award for “Best Ecommerce Storefront”. Online merchants picked Volusion over industry giant Yahoo! Small Business for the second year running. “We are very pleased that our merchants have once again chosen Volusion as the benchmark for shopping cart software,” said Clay Olivier, Volusion’s COO.

Small Business Computing’s article on the topic entitled “2008 Awards: The Absolute Best in Small Business” noted that Volusion’s new feature rich Version 5 made the difference in winning the award. “Volusion added some 40 new features in its latest version. Volusion’s V5 comes with stronger product and category management tools, advanced order processing and shipping features and new CRM tools.” The article also highlights improvements to the software including “new shopping cart features that let you view carts in real-time and collect contact information, ‘per product’ dimensional shipping support that allows you to enter a product’s dimensions and then calculate charges based on size and weight, an upgraded newsletter system that lets you manage and send commercial e-mail to promote goods and better Excel and QuickBooks integration”.

“With the latest version of Volusion’s ecommerce solution software, we are able to dramatically increase the speed with which we deploy improvements. In the coming months we will be releasing features much anticipated by our merchants and many others,” states Olivier. “Volusion was founded on the principle of working by request in order to build software to fit clients’ needs and Volusion still builds its software this way. Our relentless drive to help our merchants succeed is a daily process of innovation and great support by our people. I want to thank all our merchants and everyone else that chose Volusion for this prestigious award.”

Nominees for the Excellence in Technology Awards are based on reader submissions as well as input received from editors of online publications such as ECommerce-Guide, Webopedia and JupiterOnlineMedia. Small Business Computing lists the nominees on their online voting ballot, where their readers are able to choose the winners.

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The votes have been tabulated and for the second time running, Volusion won Small Business Computing’s Excellence in Technology Award for “Best Ecommerce Storefront.” Volusion received 37 percent of the vote, beating Yahoo’s ecommerce solution by three percentage points.

Volusion would like to thank all the merchants and industry insiders who helped us win this award. Your feedback is the foundation of our software and we appreciate you letting us know that you approve. We will continue to use your feedback upon further software upgrades in order to better serve the online business community.

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

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