2007

A random collection of Portland natives gathered at Mount Hood Pizza on July 2nd at 7 p.m. to watch owner Craig Davisson launch a mannequin version of world famous Larry Walters, notorious for his 1982 lawn chair flight to 16,000 feet. While the real Larry later committed suicide, our dummy hopefully made it safely [...]

I’m not musically inclined, or I would have wrote “United Breaks it’s Customers” instead of “United Breaks Guitars” and posted it on YouTube by Dave Carroll. My story goes back a little bit farther. Here’s an excerpt from my recent customer survey I sent to UAL, which I titled ‘United Airlines Sucks’:
“You canceled my original [...]

I recently visited New Orleans for the IABC conference and took the opportunity to take the Hurricane Katrina Bus Tour. While I vividly recall the coverage two years ago and mourned the 1,400+ deaths, I had no frame of reference from my Portland home. Even visiting The French Quarter, there was no indication [...]

My good friend Janet Johnson recently grabbed my attention with a reference to Soylent Green (my favorite food) and summer of love (my favorite time of year with her latest ephiphany, The Enterprise 2.0 Uncoalition. In her recent blog post, she discussed the 4 critical elements of enterprise 2.0 adoption, and that business is [...]

On May 17, I had the opportunity to hear Glen Hiemstra, founder of futurist.com, speak at a local Portland Business Journal Power Breakfast. Hiemstra has built his reptuation over the past two decades by helping global organizations develop 25 year business strategies.  For those of you that weren’t able to attend the enlightening discussion, here [...]

The past two days, I’ve attended InnoTech’s eMarketing Summit in Portland, Oregon. I found many of the presenters and sessions interesting and insightful. Coincidentally, I’ve been reading Small is the New Big by Seth Godin, which covers many of the topics discussed during the two day conference. The primary theme was [...]

A buddy of mine from Portland hooked up a group of fellow search engine marketers to attend the April 10th taping of The Late Show with David Letterman. I’ve been in a live studio audience in the distant past, but nothing of this scale. Letterman has always been a favorite of mine. [...]

[tags]Search Engine Strategies, New York City, 2007, SEMpdx, SearchFest, Peter Luger[/tags]
I’m in New York City this week to cover Search Engine Strategies for Search Marketing Standard’s blog. Having recently co-produced SearchFest 07 for SEMpdx in Portland, Oregon, I have high expectations for this year’s event. Check out SM Standard’s blog for daily updates. [...]

Search Engine Marketing Professionals of Portland (SEMpdx) officially announced SearchFest 07, the Northwest’s largest conference dedicated to search engine marketing (SEM).  The full-day conference will feature multiple learning tracks, workshops and expert panels to help businesses leverage SEM to increase awareness and revenue.  The conference will take place March 7, 2007 at the World Forestry [...]

In December of 2006, I decided to start off 2007 with a bang. On an impulse, I joined a group of buddies in Las Vegas for North America’s largest tradeshow, CES Las Vegas. Although I’d never been to CES, I’d attended many different conferences and tradeshows across the country and figured my traditional [...]