Internet Conferences Archive

I’ll be speaking with the fabulous Tor Crockatt at this year’s event on 15th October so if you want a chance of winning a free pass worth £299 check out Kieron Donoghue’s blog and leave a comment!

Nice to see some folks are looking forward to seeing us impart some wisdom!

Just chatting to Dan about my Media Week post about not having nothing to say some days!

This is the view from the office I’m in in Redmond:

Can’t see the wind through the trees right now but expect some more content on the Media Week and adCenter Blog soon!

In the meantime here’s another pic of me and Dixon at PubCon in Las Vegas in 2006.

We’re in the Ghost Bar and are coordinated for once!

SEO Rehab – Andy Atkins Kruger – Greg Boser – Michael Gray – Dave Naylor

“You’re not a real SEO if you’ve not been torched!”

Greg Boser

Satya Nadella’s Keynote Speech

Avinash & Jim Sterne’s Visuals

Danny Sullivan & That Ubiquitous Diet Coke

Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784)

“The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement.”

Bryan Eisenberg – “How many more books do I have to sign?”

Bryan’s Publisher – “Erm…….at least this many Bryan!” 

A light lunch! Not in a box this year – more of a compartmentalized tub!

Mike Grehan’s crash course in Brit-speak ‘n’ spell!

Virginia and Jeremiah partying for charity!

Kevin and Matt leaving early to get ready for Satya’s keynote in the morning 🙂

Better to be safe than sorry! 🙂

My mate Dixon Jones won’t be at SES San Jose this year 🙁

Dixon and I go way back to about 2002 when I was working at Looksmart. It was Dixon who got of the phone with my boss Rob Pearson and let the world know on WebmasterWorld that we were about to close.

When I surfaced at Microsoft in 2005, the SES London panel where I made my speaking debut on behalf of adCenter was where Dixon gifted me some comments during his opening address which enabled my presentation to begin with the immortal line:

“Microsoft…….Sexy……..I bet you’ve never heard those words uttered together in the same sentence before!”

Since then we’ve become great friends and always have a picture taken of the two of us where ever we are in the world!

I’ve got so many I thought I’d publish one a week until they run out!

First up is us at Kristjan’s Icelandic Internet Marketing Conference in November 2006

It was very dark in Reykjavik that week, which must explain why Dixon got dressed in that shirt!

Search Engine Strategies is next week! Back in February I wrote SES London 2008 – 10 Reasons To Attend and won Best Photo Of A Marketing Trend for the photo below which was part of a raft I took entitled A Few Pictures.

So now I’m making it to SES San Jose to support my Microsoft colleagues who are speaking at the conference here are 10 more reasons why you should attend:

• It’s the 10th Annual Event – 10 years is a long time in new media so there is bound to be some nostalgia and “the way we were” angles to a lot of the presentations
• I gather it’ll be the biggest ever held with over 4000 delegates to network with and learn from – Matt correct me if I’m wrong!
• Kevin Ryan has to be the wittiest moderator ever! Sure he’s not British and putting on that accent?
• The hotels are all pretty close together near the convention centre making easy access to all the bars for those late night secret strategy discussions
• The Google Dance – Always a hit and I do love the Googler’s faces after they ask me which company I work for!
• The Weather – It’s like October here in London – See what the BBC Weather has to say about San Jose!
• Black Hat White Hat session should be awesome, although I’ll probably only understand 25% of what they’re saying!
• The Keynotes Look Fab – Satya’s normally a hit so make sure you catch him!
• Dan Horton from Bronco tells me Dave Naylor is like a “caged tiger” right now so do catch him speaking where you can – it’ll be worth it I promise!
• I’ll be there and the first 10 people to mention the magic word “cricket” will get a beer and a T-Shirt from me!