Greetings Magento Community,

Magento Answers is shaping up to be a powerful tool which is not surprising considering the awesome community we have behind it. We currently receive a pretty steady flow of questions and receive Answers from moderators, community members, and Magento staff. We've even extended Magento Answers networking through both Twitter and Facebook to share information with our local networks. Considering the amount of activity, it only seemed right to ask one of our most trusted community members to help manage, answer and shape the direction of our new Answers tool.

I'd like to formally introduce you to Rico Neitzel. Rico has long been a part of the Magento Ecosystem. He's a Magento evangelist and Community Manager from Germany. Rico helped to build the strong success within our German Community. Together with Netresearch, they began the first Magento Event ever "Meet Magento". He is also responsible for the German Locale package with big support from Daniel Sasse. Additionally, Rico is one of our international trainers for Magento U-which offers training courses to help you build and grow your business with Magento.

I'm very excited to have Rico join us on Magento Answers. With his vast Magento knowledge and experience - he will be a huge asset to our Answers community.

Please join me in welcoming Rico and look for him on Magento Answers -- now with an official Magento Team Badge!

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This is a final reminder for those that would like to sign up for part 1 of our Theming in Magento Go webinar series. We hope you can join us for this exciting event.

Webinar: Theming in Magento Go (Part 1)

Magento Go has a powerful templating system that allows you to fully control the look and feel of your online store. To make it easy for you to make the changes you want, Magento Go provides a set of easy-to-use design editors that help you to set up and customize your store right from the Admin Panel, without editing any code. But for more advanced web designers, you can also create custom CSS files to control your store’s formatting directly to achieve the exact look you want. This webinar will provide a great starting point to launch your store. We hope you’ll join us for this exciting event; here are the details:

Date: July 20, 2011 9:00 AM PDT

Presenter: Kara Heinrichs, Magento U Instructor and Mosses Akizian, Product Marketing Manager

In this webinar, attendees will learn:

• Components of a theme in Magento Go
• How to select a theme
• How to change the logo and favicon
• How to change colors, images and fonts
• How to change page layouts
• How to turn on and off blocks
• How to change the text in your theme

Register now

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iOSDevCamp 2011

Last weekend the folks at PayPalx invited me to iOSDevCamp and what an amazing experience it was. If you aren't aware, PayPal hosts this annual event where developers gather together and spend three days developing applications for iOS and competing for awesome prizes.

Photo by Adam Tow

I was amazed watching these developers. Some came in groups, and some never met before camp. Still, they created these great apps in less than three days in some cases. You could see them coding into the wee hours and on occasion, sleeping in the lobby back at the hotel. That's commitment!

There were many very interesting and creative applications created, but one of my absolute favorites was the BeeLine Reader which is a new technology designed to help people read faster by applying a color gradient to the text to reduce line transition errors. Never lose your place again! No electronic reading device should be without this. Check out all the demos here.

Would you like to learn more about iOSDevCamp? Check out their website, and check out the conversation on twitter. There's also a great stream of images you can find on the X.Commerce Flickr stream.

One of the best parts about being invited to iOSDevCamp was being able to connect some of the great folks who work within the PayPal and X.Commerce community. Many thanks to Perinne Crampton, Sudha Jamthe, Praveen Alavilli, and Myrna Rivera for making me feel so welcome.

Where's Rhonda? See if you can find me, check out the picture above. You'll find me sporting my black Magento Staff hoodie!

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Finis on Magento

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