Whew! The Spring conference season is in full swing, and the mozzers are coming soon to a city near you. You'll find us anywhere from Charlotte, NC to Munich to Singapore in the next couple months. The coolest part is that we're attending and speaking at some conferences for the very first time. It feels good to get out and stretch a bit! Plus, the developer in us will be attending conferences like Chirp and CCGrid 2010 which will both enhance our geek factor!
As always, if you're attending any of these events, please say hello! We may never get to know you if you don't wave, nudge, or kick us. Ok, you really shouldn't kick Joanna, she'd probably pull a ninja move on you. Included in the list below are both SEOmoz employees as well as associates. Come... take a peek and join us!
SMX Toronto - April 8-9
You definitely don't want to miss SMX Toronto! Not only will Gillian be moderating several panels, but she is also organizing a Search Spam Party (of PubCon notoriety). RSVP now!
April 8 | 1:50pm - 2:40pm | Link Building Strategies and Ranking Tactics |
6:00pm - 7:30pm | SMX Search Spam Party | |
April 9 | 8:30am - 9:35am | What’s Next In Search: The Crystal Ball Panel |
Joanna at PubCon 2009
PubCon South - Dallas - April 13-14
20% discount tickets. Get 'em while they're hot: rc-2080720
We have quite the crew heading to PubCon South this year. As always, PubCon has tons of great sessions and speakers to knock your socks off. We're excited to be speaking and attending this excellent conference with gusto.
Check out where to find Gillian, Joanna and Kate Morris:
April 14 | 11:30 am - 12:45pm | Gillian | 2010 - SEO |
4:15pm - 5:30pm | Joanna | Competitive Intel | |
April 15 | 10:15am - 11:30am | Kate | Social Media Landscape: Hot Tpoics and Trends |
2:55pm - 4:10pm | Kate |
Chirp - San Francisco - April 14-15
Twitter is having a first ever developer conference, called Chirp. Nick will learn about their new ad platform (hopefully) and what they're doing with their API. This is super interesting to us for both our tools and our API businesses. Sounds like an awesomely, geekified conference! Be sure to say hello to Nick if you're there.
Danny at SEOmoz training in London
SMX Sydney - April 22-23
We're all quite excited about SMX Sydney this year (ok we are every year... but still). This year Danny will be helping run the Developer Day (filling in for Vanessa Fox) as well as speaking about using rich applications and search. Gillian will also be speaking at this power-packed event on post-click optimization.
April 22 | 3:55 - 4:20pm | Gillian | Checkout Process Optimisation |
5:00 - 5:30pm | Gillian | The Long Table | |
April 23 | Gillian | Keynote Session – The State Of The Search Union | |
10:30am-2:30pm | Danny | Developer Day (the sessions in blue) |
Pacific Conference - Singapore - April 27-28
"This will be my first time at Pacific Conferences. I'll be running a power-packed two day workshop that covers everything from the basics of search marketing to integration of social media into marketing plans and tracking ROI from the multitude of search marketing opportunities available to us. I'll be sharing the stage with Dennis Yu, CEO BlitzLocal, who will be covering PPC, Facebook advertising, social media marketing, and more. In truth, I expect this will be one of the most valuable conferences in the region this year. If you're in the area, don't miss this one!"
- Gillian
You can still get a 20% discount on your ticket by mentioning this blog post when you register.
SEMPO event planned, too. Stay tuned for tweets with specifics on a SEMPO event to coincide with Pacific Conference Singapore.
Tom at SEOmoz training in London
SAScon - Manchester, UK - April 28th
Two of our esteemed associates, Tom Critchlow and Richard Baxter will be speaking at SAScon. Reading over the session topics and seeing the list of speakers, makes me jealous I won't be attending!
April 28 | 11:15am – 12:00pm | Tom | Black Hat/White Hat – does it matter any more? |
2:30pm - 3:15pm | Tom & Richard | Advanced Link Building Panel |
Pacific Conference - Hong Kong - April 29-30
"If you miss the Singapore Training event, you can catch us in Hong Kong the same week! Dennis and I will provide the same presentation. Again, if you go to only conference in the region this year, come to Pacific Conference. This will be one amazing show."
- Gillian
Search & Social Spring Summit - Tampa - May 3-4
The Search & Social Spring Summit is pretty much the place to be in May! Really... Florida in May just sounds like perfection! Plus with topics like "Outsourcing Secrets: Cut Costs & Spend More Time on the Beach" and "In-House SEO : Tactics for Managing Multiple Sites & Headaches" it will definitely be hot! Lindsay and I will be attending and blogging from the event. [Plus I get to meet the Wassell babies YAY!]
Conversion Conference West 2010 - San Jose, CA - May 4-5
May 4 | 2:00 - 3:00pm | Gillian | Spiders Versus People - SEO & Conversion |
International Search Summit - Innovations - London - May 13-14
May 13 | 11:50am | Gillian | The State of Search in India |
A4U Expo Munich - May 18-19
"I was so surprised by the depth and breadth of the speakers and presentations at A4U Expo London, I'm really looking forward to being a part of this conference in Munich. Focused on affiliate marketers' needs, this conference covers everything from SEM to SEO, analytics, and on page optimization. Our friends at Distilled will be there and Ben Jesson who helped us with our own conversion rates will sharing secrets. I'll be speaking on the convergence of Local-Mobile-Social marketing and how to grab this tiger by the tail."
- Gillian
May 18 | 2:30pm - 3:30pm | Gillian | Local - Social - Mobile: The Power Triumvirate of 2010 |
4:00pm-5:00pm | Tom | Data Feed SEO & Advanced Site Architecture | |
May 19 | 10:30 - 11:30am | Jane | Link Building for Highly Competitive Markets |
Rand giving an interview in London
eMetrics & SMX London - May 17-18
Both eMetrics and SMX London are happening at the same time, in the Grand Connaught Rooms, Covent Garden. You can get a combo pass for both conferences, then you don't have to decide between the two! Sounds like the best of both worlds to me. :)
May 17 | 10:30am - 11:45am | Rand | SEO Ranking Factors In 2010 |
May 18 | 1:15pm-2:30pm | Will | Top Ten Customised Search Analytics Reports |
CCGrid 2010 - Melbourne - May 17-20
Chas will be attending the 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing. It's a great opportunity to be exposed to new ideas/methods in high performance distributed computing. (That's geek talk for kick butt!)
Search Exchange - Charlotte, NC - May 17 - 19
Search Exchange will consist of keynotes and panel discussions on search engine optimization, social media marketing, pay per click advertising, and web analytics.
"I am so excited for Search Exchange, its the first conference of its kind down in Charlotte. It's tackling the trifecta of marketing channels--organic, paid and social. Not to mention the lineup is top-notch with industry all stars like Chris Winfield, Rae Hoffman, and Chris Brogan."
- Joanna
May 18 | 1:30-2:45pm | Joanna | The Latest Social Media Tools From The Experts |
May 19 | 10:00-11:20am | Joanna | Landing Page Optimization Tactics |
1:30-2:45pm | Kate | Measuring PPC Campaigns |
International Marketing Conference Copenhagen - May 19-20
Gillian will be speaking on New Social Media Oppportunities.
We look forward to seeing you on the road! Oh, and just for fun I thought I'd throw in a wordle image based on this post. Enjoy! ;)
Joanna's photo courtesy of Andy Beal
Danny and Tom's photos courtesy of foliovision.com.
your map is off by about 2 countries ;-)
https://maps.google.de/maps?q=m%FCnchen&z=4
https://maps.google.de/maps?q=49.026343,21.694334&z=4
Google Maps really good ah, I often use it, it can find the specific address
This is a good point - I've never been to Germany before but that doesn't look like where Munich is....
thats right, instead of munich it seems almost like moscow!
hah! Well my very gracious husband created that image for me at about 10pm last night. I think he did a helluva job!
Your husband did a GREAT job Jen. I especially like how the sea is made up up seomoz.
So he put Munich where Warsaw goes. I just chalked it up to artistic license.
Your brownie points are soaring sky high!
I'm sorry, but you left Toronto off your map. I think it's very important that Toronto be added to your map, as that is clearly the most important stop you guys are making this spring. I mean... I'm speaking in the Link Building panel that Gillian is moderating...how can you get any more important than that?? ;)
haha I know I know! Well like I said above I asked my husband to make the map at like 10pm and sent him a list of cities. Soon after I got a few additions to the post. haha! So it's actually missing like 4 cities. :D
I was really excited to see that you'd be speaking on that panel though! Wish I were going to be there as well. :)Â
Also, we got a tweet asking why we weren't coming to Canada, and I reminded them that I was pretty sure that Toronto was still in Canada. :D
LMAO well, the rest of Canada might wish Toronto was part of it, but pretty sure it still is :)
Need to come to Hawaii. Great place to vacation.....and you can write it off.
such a nice map and article i like to read it
Google maps are really too good, I have added in my site's
nice blog's, i got lots of information related to seo
 Thanks and regards,
Jyotika from Pune
-- Jen removed link
Did ya'll just put Phoenix on there to tease me, or are you really coming to town?
Wish I could go! but, i'll have to settle for the next best thing...reading about it on SEOmoz.
See you at Pubcon. The rest? You guys have way more energy than I do.
Danny's coming down under? Double the moz for oz, looking forward to it!
I'll be meeting you in UK ;) It's like a rockstar tour! :P
i <3 wordle! they just need bigger images to embed when you save one to the gallery... i also wish it was easier to remove / tweak words size... but hey im off topic so ill stop ranting...
I agree with the rock stars tour metaphore.
Just 1 question regarding the UK dates:
do you suggest the SAScon also for an SEO not UK based and not UK business based? The program is indeed interesting.
The SMX/eMetrics combo is really a tempting one. I'd check the fund provision.
Finally... I know it is too soon for a definitive answer, but did you have start talking about when the SEOmoz in London will take place?
Ciao Globetrotters
I don't know much about SAScon I'm afraid (even though I'm speaking there) but the lineup certainly looks good value! I'd recommend it :-)
Wow to see it all on a map like that makes me tired :) Definitely excited to get out and meet all of the extended Moz family...be sure to say hi!