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IMNY Charity Party a Success!

Filed under: IMNY, SES

The Best of the Web / IMNY Party at Black Finn Last Tuesday, March 18th, 2007 was fantastic! The networking event took place in the evening of Day 2 of Search Engine Strategies NY. A total of $16,494 was raised…the most amount raised at any event to date…for the benefit of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. In addition to the $40 admission tickets, raffle tickets were sold to bring in extra money for the cause. Raffle prizes included 6 passes to upcoming SES and SMX Conferences, and a Nintendo Wii!

Special thanks to our friends Greg Niland and Neil Patel for their efforts in arranging the event, and thank you to the members of the search community for participating.

Hope to see everyone at the next charity event in October!

The Very First Search Engine Strategies Conference

Filed under: SES

For the fifth year in a row, we are thrilled to be attending Incisive Media’s Search Engine Strategies yearly event in the New York Hilton for the week of March 17th! Search Engine Strategies is the largest, and oldest conference on the subject of search. In it’s 9th year, the conference series has encompassed the globe, traveling to destinations such as Milan, Hamburg, Stockholm, Tokyo, and Beijing.Nine years now! I thought it would be nice to take a trip down internet memory lane to see what the first Search Engine Strategies was like. For starters, check out the original SES site.

• The first SES took place in San Francisco on November 18th, 1999 at the Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel — and sold out completely.
• The conference was only one day long.
• Back then, Internet.com - a subsidirary of MecklerMedia (now Jupiter Media) hosted the show.
• The main sponsors were Google, Altavista, Intelliseek, and AOL.
• Only 2 out of the 5 are still kicking today! Intelliseek now redirects to Neilsen BuzzMetrics, a service of Neilsen// Netratings. Altavista is now owned and powered by Yahoo!
• There were only 9 exhibitors - Ah-ha.com (now Enhance), Google, Altavista, AOL, Findwhat (now barely in the Alexa top 100,000), Voila.com (France Telecom), Goto (acquired by Overture, later acquired by Yahoo!), Intelliseek, and Search Button (now owned by a Danish site search company called Mondosoft).
• The entire speaker list roster included Danny Sullivan, Shari Thurow, Darien Hayman, Dana Todd, Catherine Seda, Jakob Nielson, D.R. Peck, Frederick Marckini, Paul Wood Sr, Chris Tolles, Andy Gems, and Brad Byrd.
• The conference session topics were: Back to Basics, Designing Search Engine Friendly Sites, Buying Ads and Placements, Meta Tags, Doorway Pages, Proper Submitting, Dealing with Directories, and Meet the Search Engines.
• For the “Meet the Engines” panel, the representatives were Doug Cutting of Excite, Jan Pedersenof Infoseek, Paul Gauthier of Inktomi, Andrei Broder of Altavista, and Larry Page, CEO and Co-Founder, Google, who clearly wiped everyone else off the map as of this post today.

For those not fortunate enough to attend, one could turn to Webmasterradio.fm to tune into the sessions. Hold on, this was 1999. For those who were not able to attend, audio could be purchased from a company no longer in business in … audio cassette format!

IMNY Charity Event, Spread the Word

Filed under: IMNY, Local

On Tuesday, March 18th 2008, Best of the Web will be hosting another charity event. Tickets are $40 each, and this time around, the search community will be voting on the charity from the following choices:

• HMBANA Milk Banks, a non-profit which collect, screens and sends out breast milk to micro-preemies and premature infants who were born too early for their mother to provide them with milk.
• Camp Interactive, a technology-focused summer program for underprivileged youth.
• The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, dedicated to funding blood cancer research to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s and myeloma.
• National Association for Colitis and Crohn’s Disease, which provides support for those affected and raises funds for research into a cure.

To vote for one of these charities, visit: http://botw.org/helpcenter/sesny08_charity.aspx.

The party will take place at Black Finn NY, located at 218 East 53rd Street, New York, NY. 8pm - midnight. The last charity event was very successful and a great time, so spread the word. For those of you who will be in town for the SES NY conference March 17-20, be sure to come to the BOTW Party.