Best of SphinnCon 2010

SphinnCon Israel was great, thanx Barry! Thanks everyone for all your help in generating this post:

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Best Speakers:

• Sam Michelson: Funny, engaging, informative presentation on brand management.
• Eli Feldblum: Apparently a great session on SEO for Video.
• Miriam Schwab: Great tour of tools for Word Press.
• Debra Askanase: Great tour of Social Media tools.
• Uri Breitman: On Hebrew SEO
• Charlie Kalech: Word on the street is that Charlie’s session was awesome.

Best Lines:

• Sam Michelson: You need to meet with your clients to understand what they really want. I like spending the weekend. With the ones who aren’t in jail.

Best Take-Aways:

• Gab Goldenberg: Build long term relationships, friendships, reciprocity (not trading). One of the best strategies is guest posting.

Best Gags:

• Sam Michelson: Fake slide about building reputation for the Mossad.

Best Running Jokes:

• Dixon Jones after being tweaked by Ari Ozick that Majestic has a bad UI: We have a bad UI because everybody uses Excel anyway … Then I download it into Excel, because we have a lousy UI.

Best Tweets:

• Shira Abel (@shiraabel): ohhhhhh… dangerous keywords. Oh. Not as exciting as I had hoped…
• Dan-ya Schwartz (@danjas): I wonder if @neyne knows that his computer is projected. I enjoy following the way his mind work. [I wish I were there].

Best Examples:

• Vanessa Fox: TSA’s Reputation Management success.
• Shira Abel: Lower Merion School District’s Reputation Management failure.

Best Interaction:

• Tomer Honen: Phone went off while he was speaking. Asked if it was for him, said to tell them he’s not here.
• And then Tomer again, setting up Vanessa. The exchange went something like this:
  • Conference Participant: I got a message that I have too many URLs.
  • Tomer: How many do you have
  • Participant: About 180 million.
  • [After the laughter died down the second punchline came...]
  • Vanessa Fox (from the audience): I programmed that feature!

Best Live Blogging:

• Debra Askanase: SphinnCon Coverage

[I almost wrote Lisa Barone & Barry Schwartz out of habit :-). Great job by Debra.]

Also in this series:

• Best of PubCon 2009
• Best of SMX Advanced 2009
• Best of BirdBrain 2010

Tagged as: Best of, conferences, SMX, SphinnCon