Bar Camp Feedback, Blogs in the Wild and Photo Day

Optimizing for the Long Tail

Jason’s presentation at Bar Camp Vancouver (Technorati) about Search Engine Optimization and the “Long Tail” (a concept as well as a book by Chris Anderson) was well very received and a looks to be a great starting point for his participation at eTail MidMarket in San Francisco in October.

Andre Charland, Cap’t Ajax of nitobi (another Bar Camp sponsor and featured on Get Elastic podcast #6) posted some notes and thoughts from Jason’s gig along with a snapshot.

Jordan Behan, President and Creative Director of Tell Ten Friends Marketing wrote up a good synopsis of Jason’s strategies and offers up some relevant real-world examples of the specific search terms that people look for and somehow find him.

Jason of course, offered a recap and relevant links in the past two Get Elastic blog posts and, adding to his hectic pace, Jason recently spread his SEO knowledge via a couple of magazine interviews and quotes for articles so keep an eye here for announcement of future publications.

Blogs in the Wild

Turns out, Elastic Path Senior QA Engineer Peter Leung keeps a personal blog (not-affiliated with his Elastic Path work). He mostly writes about what drives his interest in software and technology and offers opinion on many tech memes, useful sites and emerging tools.

Even though Peter is usually the first person I greet when I arrive at the office, I had no idea he spoke at 2004 e-learning workshop sponsored by the World Bank in Nairobi, Kenya, and facilitated an on-line e-learning course sponsored by the Caribbean Tourism Organization - sounds like a podcast waiting to happen!

Photos and Bar-B-ques

Today is photoday for the EP executive team plus me, and we’re fortunate enough to have ace-photographer and new-web superstar Kris Krug coming by to snap our mugs for multi-purpose use (headshots, blog profiles, articles etc.). His shots of other local tech folk can be described as professionally hip and he manages to make everyone look a little bit rockstar. We’ll see how it turns out for us ;-).

Between that activity and a lunchtime Bar-B-Q + staff meeting, it looks to busy day in still-summertime Vancouver.