This Thursday, I’ll be giving a lunchtime presentation for the East Portland Chamber of Commerce about Web 2.0 and “social sites” for people that are not internet marketers.

I’ll be joined by two other local networking experts, Charles Powell – Coaching at it’s Best, and Norm Rice – Portland Homes Online

I just finished my slides for an hour-long presentation that I’m giving on Wednesday, April 15 at a monthly meeting of the Corvallis Etailers Association.

The presentation is taking place at

• 420 NW 2nd St, Corvallis, OR 97330
• 12 noon to 1:30pm

Okay, catchy headline, I’m guilty. It won’t be the last, but may very well be the best you’ll ever see, if you look at it logically…

Regional conferences are showing up all over, dividing the time talent and energy of the conference speakers.

After the original SearchFest in 2005 did not return in 2006, SEMpdx was formed and revived the event for the following year.

As I promised this morning, I have uploaded my East Portland Chamber of Commerce presentation here, including all of the links that I spoke about.

You may open it directly from this link, or just right click here and choose “save as” to get it onto your own computer.

For those that weren’t in attendance, it’s a basic presentation with a few site-usability tips, and links to what I believe are the best 12 places for listing your website for free in local directories.

Believe it or not, the board of SEMpdx has been getting a number of emails asking us where to register for SearchFest 2009, coming up in March.

So, I figured I would take a minute to point out the SearchFest registration, as well as the entire SearchFest 2009 agenda, and a link to our sponsors.

I just spent nearly 2 1/2 hours on my 10 minute presentation for the East Portland Chamber of Commerce, tomorrow morning at Warner Pacific College.

If you’re already a search marketer you probably won’t learn much, but if you’re a small business owner, it should be enlightening.

I’ve been working hard on one of my two upcoming Pubcon presentations, which I’ll be giving in Las Vegas on Wed November 12 2008.

The subject I’ll be discussing is “SEO and Web hosting” and last year my presentation was pretty generic. I prepared well, and I thought it went over okay, but it was geared more towards the beginner, where I tried to dispel some myths about hosting rather than educate too much.

Next week’s SEMpdx presentation gets very specific regarding the local search ranking algorithm. SEMpdx is fortunate to have a new board member join us for 2009 who’s recently moved here from San Fransisco.

His name is David Mihm, he’s an expert in local search, and he’s agreed to give a similar presentation to the one he gave at SMX West in California couple of months ago.

Apparently, my portion of last months internet marketing class went well enough that Colleen from Search Engine Academy of Oregon got good feedback, and she has asked me to speak again to her class in September.

My portion will be about making the most of your efforts when marketing via the social networking sites, and I’ll be covering my own agenda too, as well as covering the materials they provide.

My segment will be presented on Thursday morning, September 26th at 10:30 AM, on day two of the three day advanced search marketing class and remember, you can get 10% off, if you enter the coupon code “commander” here .

I will be speaking on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 at the Software Association of Oregon’s monthly meeting, in a presentation entitled -
Content Management Systems Myths Busted – The Good, Bad and the Ugly”

The general topics covered by the speakers will be these, although you can bet that my own portion will focus exclusively on WordPress, and why it is NOT one of the many crappy content management systems out there today…

After several months of being unable to coordinate the date and time, this past weekend I finally confirmed that I will be teaching a portion of an advanced Internet marketing class, to be held next week in Beaverton.

I’m honored to be a part of next tuesday evenings SEM Hotseat, because we have another guest star coming in from out of town to speak.

I’m going to go out on a limb and risk embarrassment by admitting that I did not recognize the name Matt McGee when Todd Mintz mentioned him about 18 months ago in a discussion about “people we’d like to get to Portland some day” while we were at an SEMpdx board meeting. (Sorry Matt