I’m interested in hearing the discussion in the following session, “How to Deal with Trolls, Spammers & Sock Puppets“, with Rick Calvert (CEO and Co-Founder of BlogWorld & New Media Expo), John Chow, Patrick O’Keefe (founder and owner of the iFroggy Network), and Jeremy Schoemaker of Shoemoney. I’m familiar with trolls and spammers although I [...]

The past two days have gone by quickly here at Blog World in Las Vegas. I’ll have a more reflective post up during my layover in Phoenix later in the day since there’s still quite a full schedule of sessions for today. This morning’s keynote will feature Rohit Bhargava, Timothy Ferriss (from 4 Hour Work [...]

After banishing myself to the back of the room, since this is the only place I can plug in to power my MacBook, I’m all setup again for the “Bloggers and PR” session with Chris Brogan, Michael Clark, Jason Falls, and Brian Solis. Update: It’s been announced that the Twitter hashtag for this session is [...]

There are currently 10 sessions going on at once as well as the tradeshow. I may need to clone myself about 4 times over in order to cover everything – although I’m not even going to try. I am interested, however, in the Citizen Journalism track so the next two live blogs will be on [...]

This morning’s keynote is a “state of the blogosphere address” with Chris Alden and Anil Dash of Six Apart, and Richard Jalichandra of Technorati. Update: I’m just checking out the live feed of Twitters. Not sure where the blogs are being aggregated from, but I like this concept – and now I have about 35971 [...]

In town for an event tomorrow night, David Jones of Hill and Knowlton will be speaking to the Third Tuesday crowd in Vancouver tonight. We hear the horror stories of fake blogs, spam pitches and general ignorance of the social media community by PR practitioners who leap into the online space without first understanding what [...]

Read all of my IMC posts and view my Flickr photos The last two days at the Internet Marketing Conference have been great. I learned that companies are using their websites and what most of their goals might be, that many marketers do not yet know the value of social media and SEO (or they [...]

Continuing my live blog coverage of the International Internet Marketing Association’s conference, the IMC, we’re now onto tool demos. First up is the SEO Browser, developed by two Calgary companies, which helps you optimize your website for search engines. Jeff Nelson of Anduro is presenting. Simply go to SEO Browser, enter the URL of a [...]