The Value and ROI from Conferences

Conference Budget

The first conference I went to was a regional industrial technology show. I was an industrial electrician at a Newspaper and my boss wouldn’t pay for it. So I paid my own way in. We had a conveyor system with electronic magnetic proximity switches that had to have such a close margin to the equipment that they would get tore up year round. We went through hundreds of them and each was hundreds of dollars. At the show, I found … Continue reading

My Rank is fading quickly, almost as quickly as Technorati itself

Mack asks, Does Technorati Suck or is our Online Media Appetite Changing? In the past, I’ve utilized my Technorati rank as a guide to how well my blog was doing. I LOVED Technorati. I was even in contact with some of their team directly. I wrote a plugin for use with Technorati! I even got to preview one of the releases. On July 11th, I broke the 2,000 mark on Technorati. Today I’m ranked 3,356! Rank Down, Popularity Up? Am … Continue reading