SMX West is just a week out now and of course we'll be there. If you haven't
registered... you really are taking the whole procrastination thing a little too far at this point.
I always look forward to meeting WebProWorld people at the shows, so if you see a bald guy with a video camera nearby... it's probably me so be sure to flag me down.
For those of you who will be unable to attend, you should find plenty of show coverage both here and in
WebProNews to keep you in the loop and at least give you a taste of what goes on (though you really should go if you can-- it's a lot more fun).
We'll have special pages on WebProNews dedicated to all of our show coverage and I'll be sure to come back and update this post to a link to it once it exists.
Beyond that, I wanted to throw some names out of a few people I hope to catch up with a little bit and see if you guys had any good ideas for questions/topics/subjects.
I don't have anything set in stone with anybody yet... OK, I haven't even sent any of them emails yet... But I am pretty sure I can get a few minutes with most of them. So if you have anything on your mind you'd like to get some straight from the horse's mouth kind of answers for, now's your chance.
Obviously, this isn't any kind of exhaustive list either... I'm sure I'll run into all kinds of interesting SEOers out there. So if you have just anything you'd like to see discussed in general.. feel free to throw it in the pot too.
Danny Sullivan, Editor-in-Chief, Search Engine Land
Vanessa Fox, Features Editor, Search Engine Land
Andrew Goodman, Founder and Principal, Page Zero Media
Dana Todd, Chief Marketing Officer, Newsforce
Eric Enge, President, Stone Temple Consulting
Todd Friesen, Vice President of Search, Visible Technologies
Gord Hotchkiss, President and CEO, Enquiro
Bill Tancer, General Manager, Global Research, Hitwise
Matt Van Wagner, President, Find Me Faster
Chris Sherman, Executive Editor, Search Engine Land
Eric Ward, CEO, EricWard.com
Matt Cutts, Software Engineer, Google
Shari Thurow, Founder and
SEO Director, Omni Marketing Interactive
Stephan Spencer, President, Netconcepts
Andy Beal, Internet Marketing Consultant, MarketingPilgrim.com
Rand Fishkin, CEO, SEOMoz
Neil Patel, CTO, Advantage Consulting Services
Natala Menezes, Product Manager - adCenter, Microsoft
Ken Jurina, President and Founder, Epiar
Michael Gray, President, Graywolf's
SEO Blog
Rebecca Kelley, Search Marketing Consultant, SEOmoz
John Marshall, CTO and Founder, Market Motive
Brett Crosby, Senior Manager, Google Analytics
Greg Boser, President, 3 Dog Media
Jake Baille, Managing Director, STN Labs
Priyank Garg, Director Product Management, Yahoo! Search
Jeremy Schoemaker, President, Shoemoney Media Group
Jennifer Slegg, Owner, JenSense.com
Barry Schwartz, SEOroundtable.com