Archive for April, 2008

Update: Top SEO Blogs by RSS Subscribers

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Online Marketing Blog manages a list of over 500 search marketing blogs called the BIGLIST, but it’s not ordered other than alphabetically. A year ago I took a sample of SEO and SEM blogs that were publishing Feedburner counts and posted a list ranked by the number of RSS subscribers. Below is a re-ordered list […]

What Conferences Are You Attending?

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Jeremiah Owyang posted recently asking his readers what conferences they would be attending in the coming months and I thought that would be a great question for Online Marketing Blog readers as well.
Over the past 3 years we’ve been focused on search marketing conferences but have expanded more into direct marketing, interactive and PR. We’ll […]

A Web 2.0 Conference Day - Wrap Up

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

There are a few additional photos from Web 2.0 Expo that I wanted to share and so I took some creative license with the timing of some of the events to tell the story of a typical conference day.
The first day of a conference for me typically starts out with registration:

A stop by the speaker/press/blogger […]

Video Fake Steve Jobs Keynote - Web 2.0 Expo

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

One of the most entertaining keynote presentations at the Web 2.0 Expo by far was delivered by Forbes journalist, Dan Lyons. It’s a 15 minute long story of how Dan came to start the Fake Steve Jobs blog, it’s success and lessons learned. He also makes fun of EVERYONE. Enjoy:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3550977413365196450

BTW, if you want to […]

Web 2.0 Expo - Video Interview Brian Solis

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Social media evangelist Brian Solis of Future Works, PR2.0 blog and bub.blicio.us during the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. tooks a few minutes to share his insights into what’s hot in Web 2.0 and the interplay of technology and communications.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7664387870231379089

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Web 2.0 Expo - Video Interview Dave McClure

Friday, April 25th, 2008

While in the blogtropol.us blogger lounge today, I caught up with a dapper Dave McClure of 500 Hats who took a few minutes before a PayPal reunion dinner to talk about his work helping co-chair the Web 2.0 Expo event, a little something about “AARRR” for startups and thoughts on marketing with Facebook.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7601563463451791714

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Web 2.0 Expo - Video Interview Robert Scoble

Friday, April 25th, 2008

When registering for Web 2.0 Expo I ran into Robert Scoble whom I had just met 2 weeks ago in San Francisco at another conference. He a agreed to do a quick video interview on what’s new in the Web 2.0 world and offered a few tips on how to get more out of attending […]

Web 2.0 Expo - Photo Picks

Friday, April 25th, 2008

After finding out my new camera’s SDHC card wasn’t recognized by my Sony Vaio laptop, I was stuck taking lots of photos but not posting to Flickr as I normally would. After checking several stores I finally found a card reader and below are a few photos from the Web 2.0 Conference here in […]

Web 2.0 Expo - Facebook Marketing Best Practices

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

After the keynote frenzy this morning, the session that stood out for me was “Facebook Marketing: Best Practices” with Jeremiah Owyang from Forrester Research as moderator, Evan Mager from AKQA, Holly Liu from Watercooler, Brett Keintz of 750 Industries and Stanford GSB and Kevin Barenblat of Context Optional.
Some of the key takeaways from this […]

Web 2.0 Expo - Microblogging and Micromedia

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Nothing smacks more of ADD in a Web 2.0 world than micro blogging and microcontent. “Flow Apps” as Stowe Boyd calls them. As such, the last session I’m blogging on day two of Web 2.0 Expo is appropriately named: “Short Attention Span Theater: The Birth of Microblogging & Micromedia”
The cast of […]