Paul's Web Space 2.1

As I wrote last week, I just completed two speaking engagements for the Online Marketing Summit – Summer Tour 2008, in New Jersey and Boston. These were great conferences, our panels featured good experts answering interesting questions, and the other speakers were top-notch. I'll write more about that experience shortly.

In the course of events I was invited to be a blogger on the associated blog Online Marketing for Marketers, and I can only guess that the invitation results from my years of experience with online technologies and social media, versus my much more brief and improvisational experience with marketing. That said, I will do my best to find interesting things to say in this new forum.

My first post on the new blog, SEO Basics for Content Sites, contributed to last week's discussion topic, Search Engine Optimization. I've blogged about SEO before (see my guide to SEO resources), and even gave a shout-out to lead topic contributor Ray "Catfish" Comstock, but I missed a couple crucial SEO resources before:

• Ray's own SEO Blog at BusinessOnline typically digs a little deeper into important SEO concepts, and provides a great birds-eye view of SEO consulting;
  
• John Battelle's Searchblog keeps a very close watch on technology and business developments among the companies that provide us with search and related technologies.

While I'm at it, I might as well mention that I've also signed up as a blogger at Social Media Today, a cool group blog featuring numerous social media marketing types (several of whom I know), but I have yet to see a post of mine make the front page — maybe tomorrow, maybe some day....