Comments on: Best and Worst Speakers at Webmaster World Las Vegas 2006 http://www.filthylucre.com/best-and-worst-speakers-at-webmaster-world-las-vegas-2006 Health, Wealth and Everything in Between Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Yaron Galai http://www.filthylucre.com/best-and-worst-speakers-at-webmaster-world-las-vegas-2006/comment-page-1#comment-45 Yaron Galai Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:49:37 +0000 http://www.oneblogtoomany.com/2006/11/15/best-and-worst-speakers-at-webmaster-world-las-vegas-2006/#comment-45 As promised, I'm talking with Brett about tweaking the format of the contextual panel from a vendor session to a how-to workshop. See below. Ed - thanks for the feedback. > -----Original Message----- > From: Yaron Galai [mailto:-------] > Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 11:23 AM > To: Brett Tabke > Subject: RE: PubCon Vegas - Thank You! > > Bret - > ... > > Thanks for having me, and for the invite for next year. I'll > happily participate, though I think we should consider > changing this panel into more of a 'how-to' oriented panel, > rather than a solution introduction panel. I just think it'll > be more useful for the audience then the vendor pitching > we're basically doing today. > In that scenario, I think it might make more sense to have > folks like Jenstar speak on best practices, etc. Again - I'm > more than happy to participate in the next PubCons, but if > you decide to cut us and do what I proposed above I'll > perfectly understand that. > ... > > Yaron As promised, I’m talking with Brett about tweaking the format of the contextual panel from a vendor session to a how-to workshop. See below. Ed – thanks for the feedback.

> —–Original Message—–
> From: Yaron Galai [mailto:-------]
> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 11:23 AM
> To: Brett Tabke
> Subject: RE: PubCon Vegas – Thank You!
>
> Bret -
>
…
>
> Thanks for having me, and for the invite for next year. I’ll
> happily participate, though I think we should consider
> changing this panel into more of a ‘how-to’ oriented panel,
> rather than a solution introduction panel. I just think it’ll
> be more useful for the audience then the vendor pitching
> we’re basically doing today.
> In that scenario, I think it might make more sense to have
> folks like Jenstar speak on best practices, etc. Again – I’m
> more than happy to participate in the next PubCons, but if
> you decide to cut us and do what I proposed above I’ll
> perfectly understand that.
>
…
>
> Yaron

]]> By: Ed http://www.filthylucre.com/best-and-worst-speakers-at-webmaster-world-las-vegas-2006/comment-page-1#comment-44 Ed Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:02:18 +0000 http://www.oneblogtoomany.com/2006/11/15/best-and-worst-speakers-at-webmaster-world-las-vegas-2006/#comment-44 After getting some feedback, both direct and through the blog, I took a look at Technorati to check a couple things. I really thought there would be a lot more coverage of WMW, and that my post would just be in the very large sea of opinionated bloggers. But I guess I’m one of the few to use names of certain people. This made me read over the post again, and I know realize that some of the posting seems mean spirited. That was not my intention. Public speaking is not an easy thing. On one of my first panels, I had to sit next to someone that I feel is the best speaker in our industry, and I know I bombed worst than anyone I mentioned in this post. So when you read this post, please keep in mind that I am stupidest when trying to be funny. I apologize for any hurt feelings I may have caused. And I want to add a couple things. 1. USWeb has never been called to clean up a mess from Ave. A after an official SEO engagement. 2. I don’t know Chris Boggs and cannot address his personal knowledge of SEO. I was just going over what I can see from their site. 3. Rae Hoffman was very funny in her sessions and added personality to what is sometimes very dull material for people. How I think she may have been a bit harsh, people did genuinely get good advice from her session, and if they follow if will see some results. If you’re still angry at me after my apology, feel free to call me some names here. After getting some feedback, both direct and through the blog, I took a look at Technorati to check a couple things. I really thought there would be a lot more coverage of WMW, and that my post would just be in the very large sea of opinionated bloggers. But I guess I’m one of the few to use names of certain people. This made me read over the post again, and I know realize that some of the posting seems mean spirited. That was not my intention.

Public speaking is not an easy thing. On one of my first panels, I had to sit next to someone that I feel is the best speaker in our industry, and I know I bombed worst than anyone I mentioned in this post.

So when you read this post, please keep in mind that I am stupidest when trying to be funny. I apologize for any hurt feelings I may have caused. And I want to add a couple things.

1. USWeb has never been called to clean up a mess from Ave. A after an official SEO engagement.

2. I don’t know Chris Boggs and cannot address his personal knowledge of SEO. I was just going over what I can see from their site.

3. Rae Hoffman was very funny in her sessions and added personality to what is sometimes very dull material for people. How I think she may have been a bit harsh, people did genuinely get good advice from her session, and if they follow if will see some results.

If you’re still angry at me after my apology, feel free to call me some names here.

]]> By: Ed http://www.filthylucre.com/best-and-worst-speakers-at-webmaster-world-las-vegas-2006/comment-page-1#comment-43 Ed Sat, 18 Nov 2006 12:12:38 +0000 http://www.oneblogtoomany.com/2006/11/15/best-and-worst-speakers-at-webmaster-world-las-vegas-2006/#comment-43 So it looks like some of the people I think gave bad presenations decided to leave feedback. Yaron, I understand. I personally thought the title of the session "Contextual Advertising Optimization" was a good clue that this was about tweaks you could make to your contextual ad efforts to generate more revenue. But I understand that you were prepared for a different presentation. Jay, I get that you were trying to push your company out because it's not as well known. I would just like to have seen more good inforamtion in general pushed out. I think the best way to become known in an industry is to push out the industry as a whole whenever possible. Chris, I'm sorry you haven't heard of me. If you search for "search engine marketing firm" you can see more information about my company. As for optimizing your site. I do think it's never a bad idea to eat your own dog food. And since your site has been up for a few years, the fact that it's not optimized displayes either an inability to do so, or a lack of faith that search marketing is important. Also, since your firm is primarly known as a web development firm, you may also want to take care of the 5 coding errors on your website, including the lack of a doc type. But As for the ownership of the company; you're right, I did get it mixed up. aQuantitive purchased Ave. A / Razorfish. For anyone interested, here is the link to the wikipedia page. Sorry for the mix up there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razorfish_Inc. But despite my objections to your presenation, I do not have anything against your firm. How my run in's with the firm have not impressed me, I certainly can't say that I have really met your people on more than 2 occassions. So I'm sure there is a lot I don't know about your team. But I do totally underatand being nervous. I hate doing these things myself. For everyone else, it's not my attention to be an ass to these people. I paid to go to the confrence, and I thought that it was for the most part really great. So it looks like some of the people I think gave bad presenations decided to leave feedback.

Yaron, I understand. I personally thought the title of the session “Contextual Advertising Optimization” was a good clue that this was about tweaks you could make to your contextual ad efforts to generate more revenue. But I understand that you were prepared for a different presentation.

Jay, I get that you were trying to push your company out because it’s not as well known. I would just like to have seen more good inforamtion in general pushed out. I think the best way to become known in an industry is to push out the industry as a whole whenever possible.

Chris, I’m sorry you haven’t heard of me. If you search for “search engine marketing firm” you can see more information about my company.

As for optimizing your site. I do think it’s never a bad idea to eat your own dog food. And since your site has been up for a few years, the fact that it’s not optimized displayes either an inability to do so, or a lack of faith that search marketing is important. Also, since your firm is primarly known as a web development firm, you may also want to take care of the 5 coding errors on your website, including the lack of a doc type. But

As for the ownership of the company; you’re right, I did get it mixed up. aQuantitive purchased Ave. A / Razorfish. For anyone interested, here is the link to the wikipedia page. Sorry for the mix up there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razorfish_Inc.

But despite my objections to your presenation, I do not have anything against your firm. How my run in’s with the firm have not impressed me, I certainly can’t say that I have really met your people on more than 2 occassions. So I’m sure there is a lot I don’t know about your team.

But I do totally underatand being nervous. I hate doing these things myself.

For everyone else, it’s not my attention to be an ass to these people. I paid to go to the confrence, and I thought that it was for the most part really great.

]]> By: chris boggs http://www.filthylucre.com/best-and-worst-speakers-at-webmaster-world-las-vegas-2006/comment-page-1#comment-42 chris boggs Sat, 18 Nov 2006 04:39:08 +0000 http://www.oneblogtoomany.com/2006/11/15/best-and-worst-speakers-at-webmaster-world-las-vegas-2006/#comment-42 Hello Ed, I can't say that I have ever heard of you, but I saw your post when I did a Technorati search. I am sorry that you did not enjoy my presentation. I have had a fair amount of experience speaking at SES and quite frankly was a little nervous about speaking for my first time at WMW. However, I did receive some good feedback. Just for the record, I know that our site is not optimized. We will work on that when we have a chance. It seems as if you have something personal against AA|RF from past experience. That is too bad, but I can tell you that this is one of the best SEO teams I have seen, from top to bottom. I have seen our results for very compettive fields. BTW, just for the record in case this makes it to print: your information about who we own/owns us is wrong, as well as the history you present. I hope to impress you more next time. CB Hello Ed,

I can’t say that I have ever heard of you, but I saw your post when I did a Technorati search. I am sorry that you did not enjoy my presentation. I have had a fair amount of experience speaking at SES and quite frankly was a little nervous about speaking for my first time at WMW. However, I did receive some good feedback.

Just for the record, I know that our site is not optimized. We will work on that when we have a chance. It seems as if you have something personal against AA|RF from past experience. That is too bad, but I can tell you that this is one of the best SEO teams I have seen, from top to bottom. I have seen our results for very compettive fields. BTW, just for the record in case this makes it to print: your information about who we own/owns us is wrong, as well as the history you present.

I hope to impress you more next time.

CB

]]> By: Jay Sears http://www.filthylucre.com/best-and-worst-speakers-at-webmaster-world-las-vegas-2006/comment-page-1#comment-41 Jay Sears Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:07:25 +0000 http://www.oneblogtoomany.com/2006/11/15/best-and-worst-speakers-at-webmaster-world-las-vegas-2006/#comment-41 Ed: Sorry you did not like the prez! I was speaking about the company and how we do things because so many are still not familiar with us. But, I was also making the point that no one network can do the best job (make the most rev) for a publisher all the time (so run multiple), and the burden should be us us--the network--to optimize and drive performance. Ed: Sorry you did not like the prez! I was speaking about the company and how we do things because so many are still not familiar with us. But, I was also making the point that no one network can do the best job (make the most rev) for a publisher all the time (so run multiple), and the burden should be us us–the network–to optimize and drive performance.

]]> By: Yaron Galai http://www.filthylucre.com/best-and-worst-speakers-at-webmaster-world-las-vegas-2006/comment-page-1#comment-40 Yaron Galai Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:43:26 +0000 http://www.oneblogtoomany.com/2006/11/15/best-and-worst-speakers-at-webmaster-world-las-vegas-2006/#comment-40 Hey - Just to note that the organizers of the conference specifically intended for this panel to be an introduction to the various contextual solutions in the market, not a how-to workshop. I agree with your point though - this panel should probably be either changed or complemented with a more technical how-to type of panel focusing on contextual. I'll chat with Brett about this for the next WMW. Hey – Just to note that the organizers of the conference specifically intended for this panel to be an introduction to the various contextual solutions in the market, not a how-to workshop.
I agree with your point though – this panel should probably be either changed or complemented with a more technical how-to type of panel focusing on contextual. I’ll chat with Brett about this for the next WMW.

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