Today I am focusing my post on ecommerce blogs talking about the ecommerce platform Magento by Varien. As a Worldwide Enterprise Partner of Magento, my colleagues at Optaros are busy contributing to the Magento community and working with enterprise clients globally (from our offices in Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States) to assemble ecommerce solutions using the best of open source. Magento is worth considering in your assembled ecommerce solution – here’s a few reasons why….

Matters: Roy Rubin on the Magento Ecosystem [Exciting Commerce Blog]
During the recent Shop.Org Annual Summit in Las Vegas Roy Rubin, CEO of Varien participated in a series of video interviews with ecommerce blogger Jochen Krisch. Roy shares his vision of Magento as both an ecommerce platform and as an ecosystem for ecommerce applications.

Magento Matters: Social Shopping with Facebook and Magento [Optaros Ecommerce Blog]
Facebook Connect Social Shopping is a new Magento extension created by our team at Optaros which recently went live and submitted to the Magento community. This blog post connects you to a screencast showing how this extension allows your customer to ask friends in Facebook for feedback on items before they make a purchase decision.

Bargento 3 is Next Monday! [Magento Blog]
Will you be in Paris on November 9 for Bargento 3? Optaros will be there. Please seek us and take a look at OCentric, our software as a Service (SaaS) designed to natively address the convergence of the 3Cs (Content, Commerce & Community). Attend live, or join the conversation on Twitter conversation using the Hashtag #bargento3. Registration is available HERE.

Keep shopping online,

Noreen