Mozcon Day 3 was the biggest and baddest of them all. Where else do you get Adam Audette, Martin McDonald, Brian Carter, Avinash, Kate Morris, Mat Clayton, and also a Rand Fishking/Will Critchlow head-to-head? Friday was incredible. Adam Audette killed it with complicated architecture, Martin wowed us with his “creative SEO” skills and the possibilities, […]
Rand and Will do this crazy thing at almost every SEOmoz and/or Distilled event: they pick a ridiculously abstract concept, prepare a deck that takes them insane numbers of hours, and then try to beat the other in order to earn an expensive dinner. Wow. If we add up the hours they took to make […]
Mat Clayton from Mixcloud, the social music service, has written the book on leveraging the power of social (specifically Facebook) to drive heaps of traffic and build a business, especially a music website. Mat is a developer by nature, so his presentations are always data-heavy, but he also manages to inspire the crowd to implement […]
Avinash Kaushik, the Digital Marketing Evangelist for Google (how cool is that title?), turned our worlds upside-down at Mozcon on the most unexpected topic – Analytics. Avinash didn’t take the usual approach to Analytics and try to wow us with his technical mastery, though ultimately he accomplished that goal as well. He took the approach […]
My phenomenally smart coworker Kate Morris took the stage after lunch to talk about brainstorming viral content. I heard what she was speaking on during lunch, and knew from that point forward that her talk would rock. It did not disappoint. I think what surprised people most were the tools that she and the Seattle […]
Brian Carter followed Martin to teach us his ways of going viral on Facebook. His style verged on hilarity a lot of time (I think my favorite quote was where he said “If Alex’s talk last night was a Ted talk, this is a Bill & Ted talk”), Brian delivered solid information that had all […]