NVI blog: SEO, web design and social media

First up at PodCamp Toronto was a morning session on Semantec Commerce by Jérome Paradis, a local Montreal developer and entrepreneur.
Jérome Paradis kicked off PodCamp Toronto 2010 with an interesting presentation on the evolution and future of ecommerce. He discussed his vision for a  shopping interface which aggregates products and data from a multitude of [...]

The first edition of Wordcamp Montreal was organized this past week-end at la SAT (a nice change from the usual boring hotel venues!).  I was excited to go along with two of my work colleagues, both of which are advanced and experienced Wordpress users. My main goal going into this was to really see what [...]

Day two of SES Toronto 2009, and the energy was still there, even after the party that stretched into longtail hours the night before.
More expert wise words were spoken during a day full of speaker sessions, these and the first day’s all captured here in live blogging form.
Guillaume’s talks rocked the room as usual, and [...]

With a car convoy, a trainride, and a flight, the NVI uniformed militia converged at SES Toronto 2009.
The booth and cocktails buzzed with happy chatter between new faces and old friends. During the day, the speakers spoke, and at night the drinkers drank ’til drunk at the Drake.
The co-sponsored event was enjoyed by all (except [...]

Lyndsay Blahut, Director of Online Marketing, Canada’s Web Shop
Mitch Joel, President, Twist Image
The moderator is not Mike Grehan actually, I’m not sure what her name is, I think it’s Samantha. Samantha, if that’s not your name, please don’t take offense, in fact, pretend I was talking about someone else entirely, someone named Samantha.
First site to [...]

NVI managed to live-blog every single SES session today - here are the highlights, lowlights, and links to all of our live coverage!
Highlights:
Session: SEO then and now

Page content is even more important now because Search Engines can interpret surfers actions and behaviour more than before – your content has to engage the user, it [...]

Moderator: Mike Grehan
Speakers: Bill Tighe, Andy Renieris and Jed Schneiderman
This was an interesting presentation about how blended search result pages can affect your marketing strategy and how you can use it towards driving more targeted visits to your website.
Bill Tighe from Google Canada starts things off by presenting the mission at Google is to organize [...]

Orion Panel – Is PageRank Broken?
Moderator: Andrew Goodman, PageZero Media
Speakers:
Tim Schigel, ShareThis
FutureNow Dude that I think I wrote interview questions for
Stacey Jarvis, Microsoft Canada
Well I missed the Keynote this morning (I’ve missed every Keynote ever – no conference has yet been able to hire a copywriter capable of spinning a description so brilliant that when [...]

Moderator: Amanda Watlington
Speakers: Anne Kennedy, Shari Thurow, Jeff Quipp
Okay, well missed the presentation of Anne Kennedy due to some Internet connection issues. Now that everything is up and running, here is the what has changed and stayed the same in the SEO world according to Shari and Jeff.
Shari Thurow, Founder & SEO Director of Omni [...]

SES Toronto back! The largest search marketing conference in Canada will take place June 8th-10th, with wide coverage of the different spheres of web marketing.  NVI will maintain a booth at SES Toronto 2009, with Guillaume Bouchard and Naoise Osborne offering speaker presentations.
As an appetizer, we present to you an interview with one of the [...]