Comments on: What Conferences Are You Attending?

By: Brian Carter

Brian Carter — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:43:35 +0000

Hey, don’t forget about SEM Canada, September 4th and 5th in Calgary, 2008!

By: Matt McGowan

Matt McGowan — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:47:37 +0000

@Lee ah… makes sense now. As for Twitter, tell me about it – its killing me slowly, way to much down time… I hope they are working on it, their VCs must be having some sleepless nights!

By: Lee Odden

Lee Odden — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:28:26 +0000

thHey Matt, You might want to check your dates as I wasn’t confirmed to speak at SES Toronto until May 7th and this post is dated in April .

If Twitter doesn’t get their infrastructure act together REALLY soon, there may not be much to talk about except give a a Twitter eulogy.

By: Dana Lookadoo

Dana Lookadoo — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:33:19 +0000

@Matt – Thanks for the notice about Lee speaking on Twitter! I signed up months ago and didn’t Tweet or follow until yesterday, thinking it was a time waster. After seeing a post on http://www.getelastic.com/facebook-pages-reviews/ describing how online retailers can use FaceBook and Twitter effectively, the light bulb came on!

Zappos is a great case study for effective Twitter marketing: http://twitter.zappos.com/start

Next to follow Lee and see how he utilizes the tool!

By: Matt McGowan

Matt McGowan — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:56:39 +0000

@Lee – I know I am a bit late to this thread that said looks like you forgot that you are speaking at SES Toronto on June 17th! Actually the session I am most looking fwd to:

Track: Advanced
TWITTER: Ultimate Time Waster, or Great Tool?

How many followers do you have? How many do you want? Bloggers are dropping like flies and micro-blogging is taking the world by storm. How should you be incorporating the ultimate time waster? Is it worth it? Hear from experts in the field on the who, what, where, and when of the latest in social connecting and marketing.
Speakers:

* David Snyder, Search Strategist & Marketer, JRDunn
* Lee Odden, CEO, TopRank Online Marketing
* Chris Winfield, President, 10e20, LLC

http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/toronto/agenda.html

See you there – Matt

By: Jan Alvin

Jan Alvin — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:27:53 +0000

I am attending Marketing Conferences here in the Philippines. That when I was a student.

By: Lee Odden

Lee Odden — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:16:58 +0000

Hey Jim, I like the first August trip, that sounds nice. So we’ll expect you’ll get into the conference around 4pm on day 1 of SMX East?

By: jim hedger

jim hedger — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:09:19 +0000

SMX Advanced – June 3-4 Seattle
SES Toronto – June 16 – 18
Fish-Con Muskoka – August 1 – 14 (vacation at family cottage)
SES San Jose – August 18 – 22
SMX East – October 6 – 8 New York (Oct 5 is my 40th birthday)
PubCon – November 11 – 14 Las Vegas
SES Chicago – December 8 – 11

By: Lee Odden

Lee Odden — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:48:49 +0000

Thanks Dana for the reminder on early bird pricing for SES San Jose. Still seems so far away.

Jody and Gary, those are some serious conference schedules. The Internet Strategy Forum looks really good. Mike Moran is speaking at that one.

Gary, you are very fortunate to have so much available to you in your area. Such is not the case in Minneapolis.

By: Gary Pool

Gary Pool — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:27:06 +0000

I just attended SMX Social in LB

WebVisions – May 22-23, Portland, OR
SMX Advanced – June 3-4 Seattle, WA
Internet Strategy Forum Summit – July 17-18, Portland, OR
Inverge 2008 – September 4-5, Portland, OR

By: Jody

Jody — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:22:59 +0000

Ideally, it’s looking like:

SMX Advanced in Seattle – Jun
SES San Jose – Aug
SMX East – New York – Oct
Pubcon Las Vegas – Nov

Having said that it’s been so busy that I may have to limit this to SES San Jose and possibly SMX East. I wouldn’t mind attending Blog World in Vegas. Anyone heading to SES Toronto?

By: Search Engine Guide

Search Engine Guide — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:49:26 +0000

Hi Lee, I will be attending SES Toronto in June, this will be my first SEO Conference and I’m very excited about it, I will get to know many big SEO fish I read every day.

By: Dana Lookadoo

Dana Lookadoo — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:47:31 +0000

What great timing, Lee! Today, 4/29, is the last day for the Early Bird pricing at SES San Jose. I’ve been vacillating and need to decide today.

Attending: SMX Advanced in Seattle

Considering: PubCon & BlogWorld

By: Lee Odden

Lee Odden — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:34:39 +0000

Thanks Joe, Adrienne and Robin! I haven’t been to a ABM or BMA event before.

By: robin seidner

robin seidner — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:15:27 +0000

Hi Lee,

I am going to:
May: WOMM-U in Miami
June: BMA International Conference in Vegas

By: Adrienne Doss

Adrienne Doss — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:12:57 +0000

I’ll be at SMX Advanced in June.

By: Joe Pulizzi

Joe Pulizzi — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:59:00 +0000

Lee…I come at this from more the content/publishing side, so here are mine.

May – American Business Media Spring Meeting
June – Web Content 2008 in Chicago
July – ABM B2B Breakfast on Content Marketing (Date TBD)
Nov – Ad:Tech NY

By: Lee Odden

Lee Odden — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:54:41 +0000

Thank you Victor, Carrie and Jon. Much appreciated. I really want to get to a SMX event, but they always seem to conflict with others I speak at. Jon, another show your might consider in Dec is Search Insider Summit.

By: Jon Kelly

Jon Kelly — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:50:47 +0000

I was just revieiwn my confernce doc. Here it is:
RBC Capital Markets Technology – August 08
SES San Jose – August 08
SMX East – Oct 08
Ad:tech NYC – Nov 08
PubCon – Nov 08
SES Chicago – Dec 08 (maybe)

I’m bummed to be missing SMX Advanced, that’s my favorite show now.

By: Carrie Hill

Carrie Hill — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:45:19 +0000

SMX Advanced – June 08
SES Travel – July 08??
SES San Jose – August 08
SMX East (maybe) – October 08
PubCon – November 08

There may be a few sprinkled in there – depends upon what speaking pitches/requests work out

~Carrie