SES Toronto Day 2: Recap

On the heels of a relatively productive first day at SES Toronto, day two delivered more of the same.  With an impressive keynote address, and more sessions packed into a somewhat busier trafficked day, business certainly did pick up.  As some of you probably noticed, yesterday I finally caved and relented to the hype that is Twitter, and actually started using it and <gasp> kinda like it.

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SES Toronto: Day 1 Recap

You know: given the current economic crisis, turn out for SES Toronto is actually better than I suspected, and so is the production value.  Granted, it’s no San Jose, but it’s pretty good for an extremely niche Canadian/Torontonian online marketing conference.  Sticking mainly to the affectionately named “Geek Track” (others were categorized “Nuts & Bolts” and “Corporateville”), opened my eyes to several new trends and strategies.

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SES Toronto Pre-Show Interview: Julie Batten, Klick Communications

Julie Batten, eMarketing Manager, Klick Communications

In response to my coverage of previous Search Engine Strategies events last year, the organizers of the show reached out to ask me if I would interview a few of the speakers this year.  In the first of what I hope will be a three-part series of interviews, I sat down with Julie Batten, SES Toronto speaker and eMarketing Manager at Klick Communications for a little Q&A on a range of topics affecting our industry.

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