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Moderator:
Andrew Goodman, Page Zero Media
Speakers:
Jeff Quipp, Search Engine People
It seems to be a common trend at SES Toronto this year that moderators/speakers have been backing out of their commitments at the last minute. In this case it was Shari Thurow from Omni Marketing Interactive replaced by Andrew Goodman of Page Zero Media.
This presentation was a [...]

Moderator: Matt McGowan
Speakers:
Brian Cusak, Display Sales Manager, Google
Jonathan Allen, Director SearchEngineWatch
Greg Jarboe, President & CEO SEO-PR
Peter Farfaras Microsoft Advertising Canada

Greg starts by asking the crowd if they have a YouTube channel then follows up with “How many of you are rich yet?” resulting in a round of quiet laughs. 19.1 million Canadian watched almost 2.2 [...]

Information Architecture:
Moderator:
Bryan Eisenberg, SES Advisory Board and NYTimes Bestselling Author, bryaneisenberg.com
Speakers:
Ezra Silverton, President & Founder, 9th sphere
Dan Klyn, Information Architect, Riders Discount

SEO Then and Now

Moderator:
Jim Hedger, Search Marketing Consultant,
Speakers:
Erika D. Brown, EVP Corporate Strategy, Digital Media Practice, Frost & Sullivan
Anne F. Kennedy, SES Advisory Board, International Search Strategist, Beyond Ink USA
Judith Lewis, Head of Search, Project Metal

Okay, a little preamble by me (your humble author) - I’m about to present a bunch of other people’s [...]

Opening Keynote: Peter Morville – SES 2010
OK well we are back at SES for the fourth consecutive year and starting things off with the conference welcome and opening keynote by Peter Morville, President of Semantic Studios.
Peter’s has a background in library informational sciences which allowed him to help libraries solve their many technical problems throughout [...]

I met Hessie Jones during the Infopresse Conference about Alternative Marketing. I consider Hessie one of the Guru’s of Social Media. I follow her on Twitter and I read her blog : HessieJ . Her presentation on Social Next provides advice for brands looking to standout by focusing on Social Media. Hessie Jones gave some [...]

Tomorrow marks the beginning of SES Toronto 2010. Well, to get this conference started, NVI has teamed up with Acquisio to bring you the SES Toronto 2010 Kick-off Party on June 9th at 7pm.
The party will be held at the Charlotte Room which is only 3 block from the conference hotel (map with directions). There’ll [...]

While we were at Make Web Not War last week, we got a chance to sit down and chat with Garrett Serack. He’s a software developer who works in the open-source technology center at Microsoft, and his job is to help open-source technologies run better on Windows.
During our chat, Garrett offered some advice for [...]

During Make Web Not War, we caught up with Mark O’Sullivan and Brendan Sera-Shriar of Vanilla Forums. Vanilla is free, open-source forum software and, like Wordpress, offers a hosted version, as well.
Mark and Brendan discussed how Vanilla strives to do away with a lot of the clutter in other forum platforms. They also touched on [...]

Yesterday was the Make Web Not War conference in Montreal. The keynote was presented by Joël Perras (@jperras) and I have to say it was more than interesting.
It was called “Maker of the web” and talked about us the web developers, our users and the state of the web.

photo by motionblur
According to M. Perras, [...]