This is my first post since 8/6/05. Things got hectic just before I left, but from now on, I will post that I am going on a combination vacation-business trip in keeping with my O'HUG (open, honest, upfront, and good) Communication Philosophy. Since I haven't started promoting this blog yet, I'm hoping it is a mute point for now.
I left for the SES San Jose Conference on 8/7/05. I went to many blogging related sessions and learned a few tips like trying to keep my posts to 300 or so words or less according to Amanda Watlington (Blogs and Feeds). But, Greg Jarboe of SEO-PR's NEWS BLOG was a speaker at a couple of the sessions on blogs, also, who made an interesting comment. He believed that if everybody was doing short posts on blogs, maybe you should try longer than 300 word blog posts if you had valuable content that justified it. It is nice to see that he practices what he preaches in his own blog. His theory was related to the stock market as he tries to sell when others say buy, and buys when others say sell.
Much is written on seller blogging, but I believe that professional or consistent buyers of any kind should blog also. There are many benefits for buyers, that I will go into more detail in a later post.
Since there is great coverage of one of the blog sessions I attended at the SES San Jose Conference by Search Engine Roundtable, I will just say that you get out of being at any conference in person what you put into it. The cost versus benefit ratio means that the higher the price to attend, the more prepared with questions you need to be at each session you attend. My observation was that most attendees were not that prepared with questions. Or, their questions were answered before they had a chance to ask them.
I brought my digital camera to the SES Conference, but I was so busy listening, making notes, and asking questions even after each session
that I didn't get any pictures I liked. Bottom line, I just didn't make it a priority. So, in keeping with the theme that this year's SES San Jose was a "whole new bag", this one came in mighty handy for many at the show, including myself (Click on photo to enlarge).
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