So readers of the blog will know that Michael and I were invited to attend and speak about SEO (search engine optimisation) at the Irish IWTC Conference in Dublin on Friday 29 March 2008, and we really enjoyed ourselves – at the conference and during the following 12 hours (until 5AM) we spent in the Dublin Temple Bar area doing… er… research on the national tipple :)

A big thanks to Martha Rotter at Microsoft Ireland for the invite and to Director Barry Alistair of IrishDev.com (with a special shout out to Support Services Manager Patricia McGill who organised things for us when we got to Ireland). My only regret was that we couldn’t attend earlier sessions in the week on subjects like web accessibility and blogging, both of which I have a keen interest in.

In an intimate session, the powerpoint presentation Michael was up all night making went right out the window and it degenerated into a quickfire question and answer session that I thoroughly enjoyed, and the feedback we received since was very positive. In fact so positive, I think we’ll be leaving the powerpoint presentation at home at the next conference and just get stuck in – I’m a seo, not a professional powerpoint presenter – I hate powerpoint and much prefer the Q&A conference sessions – in fact – decision made – no more Powerpoint (or at least a lot less of it!).

An apology to the audience because in the end I just had to fold my laptop away and push off without putting up the last slide with the web addresses of the sites and tools I recommended (apart from the Hobo blog of course) were worth investing a fair bit of time reading, although I know I mentioned them all during the presentation – so here we go:

Hope you all found the conference session on seo as enjoyable to attend as I did speaking.

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