Jim Stroud Gives Me Shelter

I stepped into the Recruiter’s Lounge with Jim Stroud, he interviewed me briefly about my experience with Intellext and my attendance next week at the Online Recruiting Conference here in Chicago.

Future CEO Hired Outside of Industry

In a smart move, Ford hired outside it’s own industry for it’s next CEO.
Imagine that, hiring someone for their knowledge and competencies, realizing that fresh perspectives are necessary to lead in a different way and solve unique and complex problems. Great article and a better decision. Are you listening search engine and interactive marketing leadership and boards [...]

I Joined the Internet Explorer IE7 Beta 3 Party

I heard some people say this will change the way we all surf the net. Well after trying it out last night, I like the tabs. What is the best thing about IE7 you ask? The favicon.ico works now in IE!!!
While the tabs make for a more efficient memory footprint, Firefox is still more efficient [...]

Catch Up - Interesting Posts Recently

Danny Sullivan has a nice summary post this morning…always in his funny and light-hearted way. Danny is the glue that holds a fragmented community together.
Google Blogoscoped linked to posted video of Danny Sullivan’s interview of Eric Schmidt at SES and Danny also posted full press conference transcript that Google posted - wish I would have known that this [...]

SES San Jose Day 4 - API (new session)

Rustybrick wrote an amazing post on the new SES API session - my PC was in dead battery mode and no plug available mode during this session. Please enjoy his post. He did mis Erynn B. Petersen’s of Microsoft because they accidently went to questions before she gave her speech, which was an awkward moment [...]

SES San Jose Day 3 - Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, Press Conference

After Eric Schmidt was interviewed by Danny Sullivan, he held a press conference.
But first Eric stopped in the restroom and shook my hand shortly thereafter without washing his hands per reports of an SES attendee (it’s weird learning things like that 2 days later).
Learnings from this experience: Bring your business card, ask a specific and short [...]

SES Day 1 - Social Search Overview

Chris Sherman made introduction speech I cant stress enough that he did a really *amazing* job of planning the session and laying out the issues. Major props.
Social Search goes back to the first days of the Internet.
W3.org – first directory.
Directories were the first forms of social media. Spammers destroyed the first directories with spam.
Future – [...]

Introducing nextgoogleceo.com 3.0

Lately, Google has been showing that is it participating in customer listening. This is good! I hope it continues.
Since I’ve started studying search engine marketing these past full months full time, I’ve been applying to Google - even with employee referrals of former co-workers and people I’ve met at Search Engine Strategies, etc. with out [...]

Wall Street Journal Says Google “Stumbles” in Video

Today’s Wall Street Journal has an awesome article about Video ads and discusses MSN’s early dominance. The article states:
“MSN’s early success positions the portal to benefit from the explosion in online video advertising now under way. It also raises questions about Google Inc.’s ability to maintain its stranglehold on Internet advertising.”
“Advertisers say there aren’t enough [...]