There's a special place in hell for the marketer who created and sent me the following email: From: V2020 [info@v2020.net] Subject: Todd Mintz, you have 1 new Offender Locator alert Hello Todd Mintz, A new alert is available from V 20/20's Facebook Offender Locator Application. Click the link below to view this alert. http://www.govision2020.com/emails/fb-90.html Feel free to click the link and let me know if I'm being a little harsh on these folks. Yeah, I vaguely remember Read more [...]

Last night, I attended a meetup for representatives from various creative communities here in Portland, such as the AIGA, PAF, and CHIFOO. Other concerned citizens of the web also attended the meeting, including Bram Pitoyo (@brampitoyo) and Amber Case (@caseorganic). A further meeting is tentatively scheduled for next week & we hope to be joined by a city official or two with some say in the process. For a little background on the PortlandOnline.com Refresh contest, see the City's "official" Read more [...]

When: September 8th, 2009 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm Where: Hotel deLuxe 729 SW 15th Ave, Portland, OR The awareness of Local Search has risen steadily among both business owners and search marketers this year, especially as Google has begun integrating "10-packs" and other geo-targeted results into a variety generic search phrases. Local results remain one of the most cost-effective ways for a small business to rank, but they're also a double-edged sword: companies who had Organic SEO "figured out" are Read more [...]

Join us Thursday August 18th on the roof of Hotel deLuxe in beautiful downtown Portland for a wonderful evening of old school social networking with our friends from American Marketing Association (AMA), Portland Advertising federation (PAF), Software Association of Oregon (SAO), Social Media Club, Oregon Entrepreneur Network (OEN), Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), Internet Strategy Forum (ISF), Web Analytics Wednesday (WAW), and Oregon Creative Industries (OCI). Read more [...]

In conjunction with the upcoming SES San Jose, I was fortunate enough to be able to interview Johannes Henkel from the Google Search Quality Team. Here are his answers to my questions (love the hat, dude :.) ) 1) Please give us your background and what your primary duties are at Google. I graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder. For my thesis work I made a system that helps developers specify and document their programs. At Google I worked on the build system and other internal Read more [...]

“I'm a model you know what I mean And I do my little turn on the catwalk Yeah on the catwalk on the catwalk yeah I do my little turn on the catwalk”…Right Said Fred So, the other day, I got this very interesting email from a domain seller: I am the owner of ______ . We are now offering our domain name www.______.com for sale to companies. with "______" in their company names who would benefit from the simplicity, elegance and ease of use of this single-word Read more [...]

Friday, July 24th – 1:30-5:30pm The Internet Strategy Forum has added this special social media session from the Online Marketing Institute featuring SEMpdx board member Hallie Janssen. SEMpdx has partnered with the Internet Strategy Forum and the Online Marketing Institute to bring you this event. Sign up with our SEMpdx discount "SEMPDX" and save. Social Media expert Hallie Janssen of Anvil Media Inc. goes beyond the basics and takes a deep dive into the marketing power Read more [...]

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“I ain't sayin' I beat the devil, but I drank his beer for nothing...Then I stole his song.” Kris Kristofferson 1 In the beginning (God / Tim Berners-Lee / Al Gore) created the World Wide Web. 2 And the web was without form, and void; and chaos was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the net. 3 And God said, Let there be online properties and domain names were born. 4 And God saw that domains were nothing Read more [...]