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Stress Balls and Army Squirrels at SES San Francisco and Affiliate Summit East

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

Next week the Raven Tools team will attend Search Engine Strategies (SES) San Francisco and Affiliate Summit East in NYC, and we’d love to meet with you! SES San Francisco Stop by our booth (No. 817) and grab some awesome Raven swag! We’ll have Raven T-shirts AND Matt Cutts stress ...

“BlueGlass LA” Presents Two Days of Incredible Learning from Renowned Industry Speakers

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

If you’re in the LA area, or can hop a plane over to LAX early next week, you won’t want to miss BlueGlass LA. The two day conference, being held July 19-20, is packed with amazing content on search marketing, social media, and entrepreneurship. BlueGlass LA Agenda Marketing Metrics for ...

Creating a Social Media Analytics Action Plan

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Today at PubCon South in Dallas, TX I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel about Analytics Strategies. My focus of the discussion was around the best ways to measure your social media activities. In order to accomplish that goal I recommend setting up a 5-part action plan. In ...

Liveblogging PodCamp Nashville

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

I’m spending the day at PodCamp Nashville, where 500 or so members of the social media marketing community are gathered to hear members of the community speak on things they are passionate about, as well as plenty of fun networking. Sessions are running all day long on anything from SEO ...

PodCamp Nashville 2009

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Last Saturday I had the pleasure of attending PodCamp Nashville 2009, a great “un”conference put on by members of the tech community here in town. The previous three Camps I had a heavy hand in organizing and implementing, so it was nice to just sit back, relax, and enjoy the ...

You Too Can YouTube!

Monday, February 16th, 2009

This past Saturday, Stasia asked Kate and myself to speak with her at TWISTER, or Tennessee Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Research. We spoke to a room of about 50 9-12th grade girls who were interested in doing something in a career in technology, most likely because our panel ...

Apple Will Crush Amazon.com’s Kindle and Complete Their Electronic Ecosystem With New Device In 2009 2010

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

If you’ve been following Apple’s patents over the past few years, you would have noticed a trend in tablet-like devices and innovative ways to interact with electronic devices (like gestures on MacBooks and iPhone’s user interface.) I believe 2009 will be the year they finally release what they’ve been building ...

Concept for Competitor Review Website

Friday, October 24th, 2008

This year at BarCamp Nashville, I presented on how to make Google your prison slave. One of the concepts I talked about was the idea of capturing a competitor’s traffic through the use of product review websites. There are three key elements to this approach: Keyword centric domain name Reviews ...

BarCamp Talk on Web Service APIs

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Last week, I gave a talk at BarCamp Nashville on Leveraging Web Service APIs.  Many thanks to the conference organizers who were able to move me to a session later in the day at the last minute because of a funeral that morning.  For anyone who couldn’t make it to ...

BarCamp Is Here! BarCamp Is Here!

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

I ain’t gonna lie, y’all, I’m tired. Along with my duties of producing content for Sitening, I’ve been working for months on BarCamp Nashville. What is BarCamp Nashville? Well I’m glad you asked! Let me point you to something I wrote for the BarCamp website:   BarCamp is free to ...