Will the real Michael Turner please stand up? The previous installment of this series can be found here, at Who is Michael Turner (Part II) I was doing some research on one of my clients and found this page, Jim Boykin’s SEO Photo Album. How many photos of me, the real Michael Turner, are there [...]
SEMCON (Search Engine Marketing Conference) Philippines 2007, came out well. Marc Macalua, the founder of SEO Philippines is now like the Danny Sullivan or the Brett Tabke of The Philippines. Marc told me that three weeks prior to the event, only about 40 people had signed up, and they were really only expecting about 120 [...]
I am excited about leaving in the morning for Manila to attend SEMCON, the first Philippines, International SEO-SEM conference, and I was proud to be invited to be one of the speakers. It doesn’t look like Danny Sullivan or Brett Tabke will be there, there are some notable other speakers such as Aaron Wall, Benj [...]
Immediately after we had our official office blessing, we had our annual Christmas party. There’s not a lot I can say that will explain what happened at the party. Pictures speak louder than words, as the saying goes, as the Harvest SEO girls PIG OUT! Everyone at least pretended to have a good time. Some [...]
We moved into new office space on October 1, 2006, but it took two and a half months to do our official office opening, ribbon-cutting and office blessing ceremony. To cut the ribbon we had City Councilor Benjo Benaldo and Barangay Eight Chairman Neri. There are some superstitions I also participated in. For instance, you [...]
Marissa and I flew to Manila on the 28th of October for the 2nd SEO Philippines event at Jill’s at The Fort, in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, near the new Market!Market! mall. While Jill’s had a sign announcing they had WiFi, it was difficult to connect to, and I couldn’t pull an IP address. We [...]
The SEO Philippines awards ceremony went off with the only hitch being the wireless access supposedly provided by Pier 1, the signal was just too weak to reach the 3rd floor to establish a reliable connection. Fortunately, my PLDT WeRoam card had just enough signal in typhoon ravaged Manila to allow Marc to pull up [...]
I didn’t take a lot of photos, but I do have a few good ones. The above is a pic of Robert Charlton, me, and Chris Boggs. I met Chris for the first time at SES Chicago 2005. He was on my short list of SEO’s I wanted to meet. He came up to me [...]
The 5th Annual Google Dance was last night and it was a great bash. An estimated 7200 people attended and the rumored expense to Google was one cool million. Buses started picking up people in front of the San Jose Convention Center at 7:00 PM and they ran back and forth from the GooglePlex to [...]
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airpor (FTL). Thank God the wireless if free. I am so tired of the airports that hit you up for $10 to access the internet for even just an hour or two. It turns out when we booked the flight, we must have selected “additional airports within 80 miles†or something, because [...]