BarCampVancouver Wrap Up 
August 29th, 2006
I thinkby most accounts BarCamp Vancouver was great success! About 120 attendees, dozens of great sessions, a pre-bbq, great location, great coffee, decent wifi, a photo walk, dj and turn tables, break-even, great organizers and 2 kegs of free beer.
Big thanks to all the organizers, Bill and WorkSpace!
I managed to catch a bunch of different sessions, Jason Billingsley of ElasticPath had an interesting talk on SEO and the longtail. I took some kind of random notes here:
- Many want to be number for one”digital camera”
- but there’s a lot of money to be made for “sony 5mp digital slr”
- it’s very hard to become number for digital camera
- if you put together a 4 keyphrase you’re further along the buying process
- dig throough your logs to come up with the long tail list
- keyword generation tool Jason will post this on his blog
- they compete against IBM, MS, Oracle, but they are very slow to move on keywords so they got lucky
- EP has baked alot of this baked into their platform
- CSS vs Tables…CSS is better because:
- spiders get to content quicker
- your keywords are higher in the page
- this creates better content to code ratio
Dave and I talked about Ajax, I showed a bunch of cool demos including dave’s infamous Google maps/Ajax Grid/Excel Mashup. And then dave went off discussing some Advanced topics in JavaScript such as aspect oriented programming and inheritance. If you want Dave’s slide deck (you’re either David Gratton or Brian Leroux) email me;-)
technorati tags:barcamp, barcampvan, barcampvancouver, workspace, ajax, seo, longtail, jasonbillingsley, elasticpath, marketing, workspace, barcampearth
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August 30th, 2006 at 1:20 pm
[...] Update: Andre took better notes from Jason’s presentation than I did, and Jason has done a follow-up on his blog as well. Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]
August 31st, 2006 at 2:36 am
Thanks, I just kinda hammered them in there but you get the point:) It’s not all about coming up first for one string.
August 31st, 2006 at 2:37 am
Hey man send it to me.
I want my team to sit down with Dave and get some training! At least to open their eyes as to what is possible. I had no idea about what could be done at runtime with JavaScript. You guys are the bomb!
For anyone looking to get some hard core AJAX work done look no further than NITOBI!
August 31st, 2006 at 2:45 am
wow! thanks for the compliment Dave! really appreciate it, and you no punk off the street so that means a lot:)
Let’s chat tomorrow about training and such would love to help give your team an Ajax boost!
November 21st, 2006 at 3:05 pm
[...] 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. [...]
December 7th, 2006 at 7:46 pm
[...] Search Engine Optimization - Jason’s Quick tips from Bar Camp Posted December 7, 2006 While re-arranging the blog posts during this blog-o-rama move (to Word Press Multi-user), I remembered Andre from nitobi’s short and sweet notes from Jason Bilingsley’s presentation at last summer’s Vancouver Bar Camp. Indeed, regular readers likely know that Andre is AKA Cap’n Ajax and was featured with colleague Alexi in Get Elastic #6 podcast “Cleaning up Interfaces with AJAX.” [...]
March 5th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
[...] Search Engine Optimization - Jason’s Quick tips from Bar Camp Posted December 7, 2006 by Dave Olson digg_url = ‘http://www.getelastic.com/search-engine-optimization-tips-techniques/’; digg_bgcolor = “#”; ( function() { var ds=typeof digg_skin==’string’?digg_skin:”; var h=80; var w=52; if(ds==’compact’) { h=18; w=120; } var u=typeof digg_url==’string’?digg_url:(typeof DIGG_URL==’string’?DIGG_URL:window.location.href); document.write(”"); } )() While re-arranging the blog posts during this blog-o-rama move (to Word Press Multi-user), I remembered Andre from nitobi’s short and sweet notes from Jason Bilingsley’s presentation at last summer’s Vancouver Bar Camp. Indeed, regular readers likely know that Andre is AKA Cap’n Ajax and was featured with colleague Alexi in Get Elastic #6 podcast “Cleaning up Interfaces with AJAX.” [...]