Polished presentations at SES
I attended “SES San Jose”:http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/sew/sj07/ this week, and gave two presentations - one on podcast/audio search optimization, the other on blog and feed SEO. Both are versions of presentations I’d given at past SES shows (NYC, Chicago) and they went pretty well. By the turnout here and in NYC in April, it’s clear that the [...]
Conference spam
Bruce Allen wrote about the proliferation of “conference spam”:http://marketingcatalyst.blogspot.com/2007/03/blogging-2007-lma-annual-conference.html at this year’s Legal Marketing Association confernece; I noticed the same thing ahead of this year’s TechShow. Bruce writes:
If the LMA had asked me (called opt-in folks) I would have been happy to receive information from vendors with products or services specific to my current needs… [...]
At Politics Online in DC for the day
I’m an attendee at Politics Online today (can’t stay for tomorrow, I need to be in NYC for a day of meetings); if you’re around, find me (brown jacket, jeans, black hair, FeedBurner logo on my laptop) and say hi. If we can rally enough people, we’ll do drinks on me this afternoon… (how’s that [...]
PubCon in Vegas
Anyone reading this going to be in Vegas tonight through Wednesday? I’m speaking at “PubCon tomorrow”:http://www.pubcon.com/sessions.cgi?action=view&record=61 with Owen Byrne from Digg, Chris Tolles from Topix, and Niall Kennedy (humorously listed on the PubCon page as “Founder, Niall Kennedy” — I’ve heard of people reinventing themselves, but founding yourself? That’s cool.) tomorrow afternoon. If you’re going [...]
PME Wrap-up: Back to the Future
I spent the weekend in -lovely- -beautiful- sunny (yeah, at least it was sunny) Ontario, CA for the “Podcast and Portable Media Expo”:http://www.portablemediaexpo.com/. In its second year, it brought together over 2,000 attendees who ran the gamut from new podcaster up to some of the most widely-known podcasters around (yes, I met “the ninja”:http://www.askaninja.com/ and [...]
Preaching to the wired
A couple weeks ago, I gave a keynote presentation to the “ELCA Communicators Conference”:http://www.elca.org/communication/comcon/index.html. ELCA is the largest association of Lutheran churches in the US, and the conference is a bi-annual meeting that gathers communicators from across the church to learn about how to better communicate to their members, employees, etc.
I was particularly excited about [...]
Speaking at SES today
I’m at “SES”:http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/ in San Jose today, speaking on Blog and Feed SEO(Search Engine Optimization). This is a similar presentation I gave back in February with the same speakers… what was most interesting for me as I put the presentation together was noting how much had changed in just a few months. We’re introducing some [...]
Chris is asking for money
To end Gnomedex, Chris Pirillo just pitched three VCs (”Brad Feld”:http://www.feld.com/blog, “Jeff Clavier”:http://blog.softtechvc.com and “Rick Segal”:http://ricksegal.typepad.com/) on his new idea, “TagJag”:http://www.tagjag.com/. It’s a real, raw, unscripted discussion that shines a light on how to pitch an idea, how to answer questions from VCs, and how to evaluate what’s needed to execute on your vision.
In short: [...]
Phil Torrone rocks
I’m surprised how little of this year’s Gnomedex I’ve blogged. But I’m sitting in the “Phil Torrone”:http://www.makezine.com/blog/ session on open source hardware, and it’s fascinating (I was similiarly amazed “last year”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2005/06/25/rotary_cell_phone.php). He’s asking for ideas, and since I’m starting Boy Scouts with my son this fall, it seems like we need a “merit badge”:http://www.scouting.org/nav/enter.jsp?s=mc&c=fs system [...]
Senator Edwards at Gnomedex
Interesting. In response to a question about framing issues, John Edwards just made an important point: “there are people who spend their lives figuring out what language to use framing issues. That’s not me. My job is to figure out where the country needs to go, which problems we need to solve. … Language will [...]
