Late last year we launched a section of hostingcon.com called HostingCon Connect.  Just what is this all about?

Well, that’s not completely decided yet. We have some functionality there now and will be adding some more in the coming months, but we’re definately open to suggestions.  In this post I’m going to detail what’s there now and what’s planned.

Let’s start with what’s there now.  Right now, HostingCon Connect is the place where all of the content that isn’t related to a specific HostingCon show goes.  That means this blog, management features for individuals and exhibitors, and the “Connect” functionality — social networking for the hosted services industry.  The networking tools are still in development and pretty rough right now.

What’s coming?  More enhancements to the social networking aspects, mainly.  New ways to communicate and work with your network will be rolled out soon.  New features like to-dos and calendaring will be coming in the next couple of months to help make your experience at the HostingCon 2007 show better.  You’ll be able to do things like look at the conference schedule, find the sessions you like and quickly add them to your calendar on the site.  Then you’ll be able to expose your calendar to your network so that they can see where you’ll be.  You’ll also be able to set up meetings with people in your network.

We’re still exploring other features and functionality to add to the site.  Are there things you think would be helpful to you before, during, and after HostingCon?  Looking at the things I talked about above, are there features you think we need to make sure we have around networking, calendaring and to-dos?

Let me know by commenting on this post or emailing info@hostingcon.com.  Thanks!

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