My second InformIT article is now up, this one, focusing on some conversation starters you should be having with clients. There are a lot of things out there that are going to capture imagination, but I think these three that I allude to after the jump are particularly meaningful in this year of shrinking budgets and needs to “do more with less”.
Three Key Technologies You Should be Pointing Out to Your Clients
The Nomadic Developer 
Having seen a demo for Azure I am very excited by the possibilities. I believe that we will start seeing more consulting opportunities that involve migrating/modifying existing ASP.NET applications to run in the cloud and take advantage of Azure Services