David Dalka attends and reports business events and conferences to discover the future of business where technology, organizations and customer exeperience meet. Also serves as emcee, moderator and motivational business keynote speaker.
I went to use Google’s Keyword Suggestion Tool this evening via a Google query. The page in the search results was this: https://adwords.google.com/select/main?cmd=KeywordSandbox
Upon clicking the page, it redirected to this page: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
Did I miss an announcement on this moving out of beta?
Yahoo! to present at the Deutsche Bank Media & Telecommunications
Conference in New York. Hilary Schneider, Executive VP of Local Markets &
Commerce and Yahoo! Publisher Network will present on Tuesday, June 5,
2007 at 2:50pm Eastern Time / 11:50am Pacific Time.
A live webcast of the presentation will be available on the Investor
Relations website at
http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/calendar.cfm?CalendarID=5
I wish I was at the conference in Seattle with all of you, but alas, I am not. Please include me in your thoughts and hug a few people as you link about!
See you soon. Take care. Be Safe.
Congrats to LeBron James and the rest of the Cleveland Cavaliers team for becoming the 2007 NBA Eastern Conference Champions!
Few things I’ve ever seen on an online newspaper site have shown such a true respect and understanding of the radical change in the newspaper medium as the homepage of Cleveland.com did today. More and more people read only online. There it was in the middle of the page it said “Download today’s front page”(of the paper edition). Wow! I downloaded the pdf and it looked sweet.
I bet that pdf file becomes the De facto cube poster in every office in Cleveland on Monday. Cool Cleveland.
That pdf file is interesting for other reasons as well. It’s also a great branding and advertising tool in stealth form. Take a closer look at the pdf file again. It brands the Plain Dealer in the top left corner. It is also a sales piece. Look at the bottom left corner now. It has URLs to purchase both pictures from the game and a larger poster of the front page.
Now if only (URL no longer active) cleveland.com would remove the age, zip code and sex question on the entry pages like Cleveland’s Joel Cheesman wants. 90210 anyone?
This was the second year I’ve had the honor to serve as a judge in the Depaul New Venture Challenge since its inception. I’m proud of my Depaul undergraduate degree roots and continued association with Depaul University College of Commerce and am pleased to serve. Its a great business school that is active in creating a positive community impact. As the number of startups that I’m involved with grows in regards to business plans and financing and viral marketing plans and to be involved with giving feedback to entrepreneurs is most exciting. Raman Chada and his team should be proud of what they of what they have created as it has great potential to spark a renaissance in Chicago. I look forward to being involved in future years and hope that one day I might be fortunate enough to participate in scaling a Chicago based company that was born in this process!
Jason Jacobsohn wrote a nice summary of the May awards event, so I won’t add other details other than to say that Rania El-Sorrogy is in amazing entrepreneur who will likely create many companies in her lifetime and that I hope to get to know her better over time. Keith Schacht was also in attendance at the event and said a little bit about it.
I thought you should be aware of these upcoming events.
June 19th, Jeff Pulver is having a party at the House of Blues in Chicago on June 19th from 7:00pm-11:00pm. You must RSVP. It’s rumored non-RSVP’d intruders will be escorted out the back door on Lower Wacker Drive and trust me those rats down there are mighty big so don’t even think about it!
June 20th, Kirsten Nicole, one of my favorite chat buddies that brightens my days, of Mashable is holding a gathering, buy your tickets by June 6th and get a 2 for 1 deal! The event is described as follows:
The web 2.0 technology community is experiencing a lot of growth in Chicago, and we would like to not only recognize this community, but help bridge the gap between Chicago and Silicon Valley and other traditional tech dominated locales, where there is a wealth of knowledge and resources for all things technology-related. The media sponsor for the event is Mashable.com. We expect to have 5-8 start-ups from across the country demo at the event and there will be plenty of networking!
Date: 23-24 June 2007
Where: 1464 n Milwaukee (Wicker Park)
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