Long known as “The Sun City,” El Paso is starting to realize the power of its fair weather  blessing as more than a tourism slogan. The El Paso Times reports the city today dedicated its new solar-powered performance pavilion and public charging station Downtown. The pavilion, at 605 N. Santa Fe Street,  according to the city’s solar project’s website” is a shaded yet light-filled gathering and performance space...

Here’s a fun and effective use of art on Facebook by the Las Cruces Sun-News promoting the newspaper’s coverage of the upcoming UNM vs NMSU game. Adding the arrow makes it appealing for New Mexico State University fans to share the art on their own status updates and spread their school pride.  Note the clever bubble in the upper right corner telling readers where they can send gameday photos. Within just a few hours of posting this...

It took a few digital platforms before UT El Paso-based Borderzine.com found success in its mission to inform and employ, said Webmaster Lourdes Cueva Chacón. “We started with 50 unique visitors a month,” Cueva Chacón said of the website that first launched in December 2008. “We are now around 20,000 a month.” Senior journalism lecturer and Borderzine.com director Zita Arocha told the Columbia Journalism Review in a May interview that the...

Hewlett-Packard is celebrating a  newly renovated 60,000 square-foot building, an expanding tech workforce in El Paso and looking forward to continued success on the border, according to today’s El Paso Times. The Times’ Vic Kolenc reports the El Paso facility, one of three software application delivery centers HP operates in the United States, already employs several hundred technology professionals and plans to continue hiring...

You are not alone. Get together with other bloggers from El Paso, Southern New Mexico and Juarez in a casual gathering to share ideas and help promote El Paso-area blogging and readership. This month’s meeting will be at 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 27, 2012 at The Den / The Room in El Paso. RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/BorderlandBloggers/events/77926832/  

Brandon Silverstein could have left El Paso with his computer science degree from UTEP in 2004, but he predicted his hometown was on the verge of offering greater career opportunities to someone with digital skills and a strong local network. “I chose to stay in El Paso because it was the perfect place to start my own business,” said Silverstein, 30, the owner of website building company Impulse Development. “I had numerous friends, family, and...