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		<title>Conférence SEO Camp Montréal avril 2011</title>
		<link>http://montrealsocialmedia.com/blog/2011/04/24/conference-seo-camp-montreal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 06:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After being involved in the local SEO community for the past couple of years, I can say that I&#8217;ve lately really enjoyed seeing some Montreal folks organizing the first SEO camp in the city. In fact, I&#8217;ve been waiting to see what company would take the lead and set up such an event&#8230; and at [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://montrealsocialmedia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/seo-camp4.jpg" alt="seo camp" title="seo camp" width="276" height="141" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-363" /> After being involved in the local SEO community for the past couple of years, I can say that I&#8217;ve lately really enjoyed seeing some Montreal folks organizing the first SEO camp in the city. In fact, I&#8217;ve been waiting to see what company would take the lead and set up such an event&#8230; and at the end of the day it took our local chapter of the World Wide Web Consortium (<a href="http://www.w3qc.org/blogue/retour-conference-seo-camp-montreal">W3Quebec</a>) and few sponsors to work together and successfully present an entire day of SEO related presentations.  </p>
<p>Even if the event looked very interesting I wasn&#8217;t able to make it (mostly since <del datetime="2011-04-24T04:54:42+00:00">I was under parental leave for the last 3 weeks </del>I was staying at home with my girlfriend, my 2 years old and our newborn). So a big thank you to <a href="http://christian.aubry.org/">Christian Aubry</a> (aka <a href="http://twitter.com/amicalmant">Ami Calmant</a>) who had published online the conferences given at the latest Montreal SEO Camp held by W3Québec on April 11th, 2011. </p>
<p>From what I&#8217;ve seen so far on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/amicalmant">his YouTube channel</a>, all conferences where given in French expect for the following: Google Analytics : the search for meaning by <a href="http://www.aodmarketing.com/about-us/">Augustin-Vazquez-Levi</a>. Please have a look at Oggy&#8217;s presentation since he&#8217;s definitely of of our best SEOs in Montreal + he has a lot to share about analytics and SEO. Finally, you can also find some good daily recaps of the day here: in French from <a href="http://blog.ramenos.net/referencement/compte-rendu-du-seo-camp-montreal-avril-2011/">Ramenos </a> &#038; <a href="http://www.kryzalid.net/blogue/2011/04/12/retour-sur-le-premier-seo-camp-montreal/">Kryzalid </a>and in English from <a href="http://adeointernetmarketing.com/news/adeo-internet-marketing-attends-seo-camp-montreal-57.aspx">Adeo </a>Internet Marketing.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFkjEam0z14">Google Analytics : the search for meaning by Augustin-Vazquez-Levi </a></p>
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		<title>The Art of Marketing Conference Montreal</title>
		<link>http://montrealsocialmedia.com/blog/2010/12/05/the-art-of-marketing-conference-montreal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 02:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still don&#8217;t know why I haven&#8217;t croped the Dynamics part of the conference logo, might be because MSFT is a client of ours, might be because I was too lazy&#8230; Anyhow, few weeks ago I received an invitation to attend this conference as a blogger and to be honest with you, the speakers line up [...]]]></description>
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<p>Still don&#8217;t know why I haven&#8217;t croped the Dynamics part of the conference logo, might be because MSFT is a client of ours, might be because I was too lazy&#8230; Anyhow, few weeks ago I received an invitation to attend this conference as a blogger and to be honest with you, the speakers line up looked too interesting to not go.</p>
<p>Yes, I&#8217;ve already seen most of the speakers and even got the opportunity to have diner with most of them but still it&#8217;s a great line up so I thought it was worth a day off to see <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">if they&#8217;re still presenting the same talks that they used to a year ago</span> what new they have to talk about.<br />
First of this incredible line up of speakers, Mitch Joel started the day with a solid presentation backed with very interesting numbers, quotes and stats. Having seen him couple of times in the past years (Infopresse events, Search Engine Strategies conferences, Webcom,&#8230;) I would say he  still delivers&#8230;</p>
<p>Following Joel, we had <a title="Avinash Kaushik Montreal Art of Marketing" href="http://www.nvisolutions.com/blog/web-analytics/how-to-suck-less-avinash-kaushik-the-art-of-marketing/">Avinash Kaushik </a>and<a title="Seth Godin Art of Marketing Montreal" href="http://www.nvisolutions.com/blog/marketing-theory/seth-godin-at-the-art-of-marketing-conference/"> Seth Godin</a>, both were  great as their reputations. Then I had to leave, guess that not paying for a ticket gives you the option to leave earlier, anyhow please read <a class="aligncenter" title="art of marketing montreal" href="http://www.bloguemarketinginteractif.com/summary-of-the-art-of-marketing-conference-montreal/">this following</a> post as it gives a good summary of the whole day. I was looking for more recaps of the day but most of what I&#8217;ve found was promotion posts giving away free tickets. Please let me know if I&#8217;ve missed any of posts about the day.  Yeah one more thing, a conference without wi-fi in 2010&#8230; Seriously?</p>
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		<title>What has changed with SEO Montreal</title>
		<link>http://montrealsocialmedia.com/blog/2010/09/03/what-has-changed-with-seo-montreal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been watching the rankings for Montreal SEO and SEO Montreal probably for the past couple of years. Something interesting that I&#8217;ve just noticed today (June 2010) is the news result between the 3rd and the 4th organic spot. The company promoted through that press release had published press releases 4 times in the past [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been watching the rankings for <a title="Montreal SEO" href="http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&amp;source=hp&amp;q=montreal+seo&amp;meta=&amp;cts=1269576792313&amp;aq=f&amp;aqi=g1&amp;aql=&amp;oq=&amp;gs_rfai=" target="_self">Montreal SEO</a> and <a title="SEO Montreal" href="http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&amp;q=seo+montreal&amp;meta=&amp;cts=1269576818586&amp;aq=f&amp;aqi=&amp;aql=&amp;oq=&amp;gs_rfai=" target="_self">SEO Montreal </a>probably for the past couple of years. Something interesting that I&#8217;ve just noticed today (June 2010) is the news result between the 3rd and the 4th organic spot. The company promoted through that press release had published press releases <a title="SEO Montreal in Google News" href="http://www.google.ca/search?q=montreal+seo&amp;hl=en&amp;tbs=nws:1&amp;tbo=u&amp;ei=HzGsS7K8HsL38Aa62-XCDw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=news_group&amp;ct=title&amp;resnum=4&amp;ved=0CCgQsQQwAw&amp;cts=1269575713274&amp;cts=1269575843876" target="_self">4 times in the past month</a>.</p>
<p><a title="SEO Montreal in 2007" href="http://montrealsocialmedia.com/blog/2007/12/03/who-cares-about-seo-montreal/" target="_self">While in 2007 </a>all the SERPs were mainly owned by organic results, <a title="Montreal SEO in 2008" href="http://montrealsocialmedia.com/blog/2008/02/16/mise-a-jour-sur-seo-montreal/" target="_self"> in 2008 </a>we&#8217;ve started seeing Google maps results showing up.  Today, it&#8217;s very interesting to see how only releasing a couple of press releases  promoted through a mass media distribution site (included in Google News) can easily push your rankings up.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-255" title="Montreal SEO" src="http://montrealsocialmedia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Montreal-SEO.jpg" alt="Montreal SEO" width="500" height="617" /></p>
<p>I wonder how long that tactic will work.</p>
<p><strong>Update (Sept 11th 2010): </strong>While their press release result had vanished from the SERPs, the SEO company in question still ranks pretty well for <em>Montreal SEO</em> related terms.</p>
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		<title>Leaving Sales for Account Management</title>
		<link>http://montrealsocialmedia.com/blog/2010/02/17/leaving-sales-for-account-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nicolask7</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Got that from Andy Beal&#8217;s blog few months ago. Found it really funny since at the same time I was leaving our sales department at NVI to focus on Marketing Account Management. While I used to be Director of Sales &#38; Communications, I&#8217;m now Director of Accounts.  Consequently, I&#8217;m involved in all of our client&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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<p>Got that from <a title="Marketing Pilgrim" href="http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/07/how-dilbert-views-sales-people.html">Andy Beal&#8217;s blog</a> few months ago. Found it really funny since at the same time I was leaving our sales department at NVI to focus on Marketing Account Management. While I used to be Director of Sales &amp; Communications, I&#8217;m now Director of Accounts.  Consequently, I&#8217;m involved in all of our client&#8217;s internet marketing strategy. On a daily basis, I manage a kick-ass team of 7 Account Managers.</p>
<p><strong>Where I&#8217;ve been?</strong></p>
<p>Yeah I know, I was just not there during the last couple of months. I mean, I wasn&#8217;t blogging, not updating most of my social profiles and was having a hard time keeping up to date with a lot of my RSS feeds.  So there are some random thoughts about different things that happened between July &#8217;09 and January 2010.</p>
<p><strong>HostingCon 2009</strong></p>
<p>August 2009: <a title="Nicolas Cossette in Washington" href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3199758&amp;id=24711611808"> I was in Washington</a> for the biggest hosting related conference. It was my first time there and I really enjoyed it.  Simon Rouillier, NVI&#8217;s CMO was invited to present a <a title="Top Social Media Strategies" href="http://www.nvisolutions.com/blog/social-media-optimization/hostingcon-social-media-strategies/">Top Social Media Strategies</a> conference so we took the opportunity to network with existing clients and connect with some prospects.</p>
<p>I quickly found out that the hosting industry is way more mature then nthe SEO/SEM industry: players have been there for more than 10 years and companies such as Microsoft, Parallels &amp; other <a title="cloud hosting" href="http://www.hosting.com/cloudhosting/">cloud hosting</a> companies are investing tons of money to promote their products and  programs.</p>
<p>One session that I&#8217;ve particularly like during the 3-days conference was the one about the <a title="ipv6" href="http://www.ipv6.org/">IPV6</a>.  A little bit like everyone in the web, I already knew that IPv6 is the 	  &#8220;next generation&#8221; protocol to replace the 	  current version Internet Protocol IP Version 4 (&#8220;IPv4&#8243;) : we&#8217;re currently lacking of IP adressess. I found very interesting to hear  <a href="http://www.hostingcon.com/account/exhibitors/view/6">the session&#8217; speaker</a> preaching to hosting companies about the fact that they won&#8217;t have any other choice but to offer IPV6 to their client base right away.</p>
<p><strong>SMX East 2009</strong></p>
<p>October 2009: It was in July when we&#8217;ve submitted a pitch to have our Analytics expert presenting at the Search Marketing Expo conference in New York. When the pitch got accepted we quickly decided to spend few days in New York for this event considered as one of the main of the SEO/SEM industry.</p>
<p>The show was good even if we all felt that the venue was more targeting agency people than corporations. Besides <a title="analytics expert" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nvi/3993302850/">our analytics expert</a>,<a title="CT Moore" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nvi/3992532081/"> Account Manager CT Moore</a> was also giving a talk about <a title="SEM and your affiliate program" href="http://www.slideshare.net/nvi/search-engine-marketing-and-your-affiliate-program">Search Engine Marketing and Your Affiliate Program</a>. Here&#8217;s also a shot interview that I gave to WebmasterRadio about <a title="social media nicolas cossette" href="http://www2.webmasterradio.fm/mp3/smx/09/SMXEAST09AnalyzingSocialMedia.mp3">Analytics for Social Media</a>.</p>
<p><strong>SES Chicago 2009<br />
</strong></p>
<p>Early December 2009: Chicago was cold and windy (what&#8217;s new) when we landed there for the Search Engine Strategies event. We decided to try the Chicago SES show mainly based on the very good ROI that we got from the Toronto event back in June. Simon, Guillaume, Jonathan and myself were there to run the booth and to connect with everyone from the industry. While I&#8217;ve managed to met with a lot of interesting people during the three days of the conference, I didn&#8217;t get the chance to visit the city at all, that&#8217;s too bad since I received very good comments on how Chicago is supposed to be a great place to be.</p>
<p>From all the panels presented, my favorite one was definitely the <strong><strong> </strong></strong><em>PPC or SEO? The Ultimate Search Marketing Battl</em>e. Just by the fact that we had qualified people such as David Naylor, Rand Fishkin and Michael Grey interacting during that session, it really brought the debate to another level. I&#8217;ve taken notes while listening at that presentation so I might publish something on that in the future. Here again in Chicago , I&#8217;ve given <a title="NVI shirts in Chicago" href="http://www2.webmasterradio.fm/search-engine-strategies-conference/2009/nvi-solutions-and-their-shirts/">an interview to WebmasterRadio</a> plus another one to <span><span id="eeec8ff5511c75dacbc1a188717f0500_short">Byron Gordon from</span></span> <a title="nicolas cossette in Chicago" href="http://www.casttv.com/video/7yt1m31/internet-marketing-using-nvi-solutions-video"> SEO-PR</a>.</p>
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		<title>Le monde de Cossette et moi</title>
		<link>http://montrealsocialmedia.com/blog/2009/07/22/le-monde-de-cossette-et-moi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nicolask7</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[C&#8217;est parfois incroyable de constater comme tout le monde connaît Cossette. Il ne se passe pas une semaine sans que l&#8217;on me demande si j&#8217;ai un quelconque lien de parenté avec la compagnie. Vous devriez même voir la déception de certains qui, lors d&#8217;événements de réseautage (du genre ou l&#8217;on se promène avec un tag [...]]]></description>
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<p>C&#8217;est parfois incroyable de constater comme tout le monde connaît Cossette.</p>
<p>Il ne se passe pas une semaine sans que l&#8217;on me demande si j&#8217;ai un quelconque lien de parenté avec la compagnie. Vous devriez même voir la déception de certains qui, lors d&#8217;événements de réseautage (du genre ou l&#8217;on se promène avec un tag &#8221;my name is&#8221; dans le cou) m&#8217;abordent en pensant entamer une discussion avec un employé de la plus grande boîte de com au pays. Hé non, à  part de partager le même nom de famille et de venir de Québec, il n&#8217;y a pas grand chose qui me lie avec le monde de Cossette, du moins pas au premier coup d&#8217;oeil.</p>
<p>J&#8217;écris &#8221;au premier coup d&#8217;oeil&#8221; car dans un passé lointain (du genre en 1997) j&#8217;aspirais déjà à une brillante carrière en publicité &#8211; bien qu&#8217;à  ce moment je ne connaissais pratiquement rien du métier sinon qu&#8217;il existait une boîte partageant le même nom que celui de mon père. C&#8217;est finalement suite à  des études en Sciences, Lettres et Arts et puis en administration des affaires (marketing) que je choisis un parcours plus près des ventes et du marketing que de la publicité et des communications.</p>
<p>Ce que je trouve aujourdâ€™hui intÃ©ressant avec Cossette câ€™est que la sociÃ©tÃ© reprÃ©sente dÃ©sormais le symbole dâ€™une industrie. De fait, sâ€™Ã©levant dÃ©sormais au rang de one of the largest marketing communications company in the world (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cossette_Communication_Group">as per Wikipedia</a>), la boÃ®te fait figure de gÃ©ant qui comme le note <a href="http://marieclaudeducas.infopresse.com/2009/07/21/duffar-et-cossette-chronique-dune-offensive-annoncee/">Marie-Claude Ducas chez Infopresse</a>, <em>traverse, comme beaucoup dâ€™agences, une zone de turbulences</em> et qui Ã  MontrÃ©al, <em>a perdu au cours des derniers mois plusieurs gros comptes: une partie du mandat de Bell, celui de Molson, celui du Groupe Pages Jaunes. Sans compter que GM, un de leurs principaux clients, ne va pas particuliÃ¨rement bienâ€¦</em></p>
<p>Dans un mÃªme ordre dâ€™idÃ©es, <a href="http://blogues.cyberpresse.ca/lapresseaffaires/cousineau/?p=904">Sophie Cousineau de La Presse</a> ajoute que depuis <em>quâ€™il a touchÃ© un sommet de 13,39$ en juin 2007, le titre de Cossette dÃ©gringole Ã  la Bourse de Toronto. Il ne valait plus que 2,78$ le 20 mai dernier. Or, la rÃ©cession, qui est sans pitiÃ© pour les contrats de publicitÃ© (pensez Ã  General Motors), nâ€™explique pas tout. Cossette a perdu dâ€™importants mandats, notamment son contrat exclusif avec Bell Canada, quâ€™elle partage avec trois autres agences.</em></p>
<p>Ayant moi-mÃªme rÃ©cemment travaillÃ© avec Molson et McDonaldâ€™s toujours dans le cadre de mandats nâ€™Ã©tant pas octroyÃ© Ã  Cossette, je suis Ã  mÃªme de constater que lâ€™entreprise semble avoir du mal Ã  saisir plusieurs opportunitÃ©s notamment celles liÃ©es Ã  lâ€™interactif et au Web. Il sera donc particuliÃ¨rement intÃ©ressant de suivre <a href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/fp/Cossette+forms+special+committee+weigh+Cosmos/1812866/story.html">la prÃ©sente bataille pour le contrÃ´le</a> de la compagnie.</p>
<p>Ã€ mon humble avis, lâ€™industrie de la communication-marketing quÃ©bÃ©coise, tout droit issu impunÃ©ment dâ€™une relation inscestueuse, de par le nombre dâ€™ex-Cossette travaillant maintenant chez la compÃ©tion ou encore chez le client, devrait se trouver dâ€™une part vivement concernÃ©e par les Ã©vÃ©nements et dâ€™une autre part concertÃ©e par ce qui arrive Ã  leur symbole, jadis fort et puissant.</p>
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		<title>5 Nifty PPC Tools</title>
		<link>http://montrealsocialmedia.com/blog/2009/06/29/5-nifty-ppc-tools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nicolask7</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acquisio Bid Management Software A lot of the meat of the PPC job is bid management, making sure youâ€™re spending your money on the keywords you should be spending on (and not the others). Acquisioâ€™s tool not only helps you identify strengths and weaknesses, but helps you make decisions. You can know, for example, what [...]]]></description>
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<strong>Acquisio Bid Management Software</strong><br />
A lot of the meat of the PPC job is bid management, making sure youâ€™re spending your money on the keywords you should be spending on (and not the others). Acquisioâ€™s tool not only helps you identify strengths and weaknesses, but helps you make decisions. You can know, for example, what you need to change in one parameter to bring about the desired change in another parameter, given another parameter that is fixed. Nice little <a href="http://www.acquisio.com/product-pay-per-click-software.php">pay per click software</a>.<br />
Site: <a href="http://www.acquisio.com">http://www.acquisio.com</a></p>
<p><strong>Keyword Combination Tool</strong><br />
Looking to build combinations of keywords without a messing with concatenation and massive and error-filled find-and-replace jobs? This quick tool lets you dump in keyword components to build all combinations of phrases, with a short list of changeable parameters to let you use it as you need it. Nothing mind blowing, but itâ€™s quick, easy, and useful (and better than Excel).<br />
Site: <a href="http://www.npresence.net/Keyword-Combination-Tool.html">http://www.npresence.net/Keyword-Combination-Tool.html</a></p>
<p><strong>Yahoo! Search Engine</strong><br />
Yahoo!â€™s actual search engine itself can sometimes be handy to find related keyword verticals that are somewhat tangential to the list youâ€™re working on. While some keyword tools are handy more for depth or breadth within a vertical, itâ€™s nice sometimes to get a looser semantic sense and see what kind of other areas you might be forgetting, that might be worth targeting.<br />
Site: <a href="http://www.yahoo.com">http://www.yahoo.com</a></p>
<p><strong>Demographics Prediction Tool</strong><br />
Not an essential tool, but weâ€™re talking nifty, right? This tool lets you pop in a keyword and get some quick rough demographic expectations. While this tool can be useful beyond pay-per-click, itâ€™s handy to know for whom to target your ad text, and offers valuable information in deciding whether to bid on a particular keyword or not.<br />
Site: <a href="http://adlab.microsoft.com/Demographics-Prediction/">http://adlab.microsoft.com/Demographics-Prediction/</a></p>
<p><strong>Ad Split Testing Tool</strong><br />
If youâ€™re looking to test and compare two different PPC ads, this tool can help you understand whatâ€™s going well and whatâ€™s not, as far as click through rate, whatâ€™s needed for conversions, and more. It even lets you know once youâ€™ve reached a minimum test sample size, and lets you calibrate your results based on the confidence you need in their accuracy.<br />
Site: <a href="http://www.websharedesign.com/conversion-tools/ad-split-testing-tool#">http://www.websharedesign.com/conversion-tools/ad-split-testing-tool#</a></p>
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		<title>Connect with me at SES Toronto 09</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nicolask7</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be in Toronto for the Search Engine Strategies Conference &#38; Expo on June 8th and 9th. Please feel free to connect with me if you are also attending the show. Getting the best of Search Engine Strategies Toronto 2009 Since SES is the biggest Canadian show in our industry, we (NVI) are looking to [...]]]></description>
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<p>I&#8217;ll be in Toronto for the <a href="http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/toronto/">Search Engine Strategies</a> Conference &amp; Expo on June 8th and 9th. Please feel free to connect with me if you are also attending the show.</p>
<p><strong>Getting the best of Search Engine Strategies Toronto 2009</strong><br />
Since SES is the biggest Canadian show in our industry, we (NVI) are looking to grow our presence in order to position NVI as a leading Canadian internet marketing company. In addition to our CEO&#8217;s (<a href="http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/toronto/guillaume-bouchard.php">Guillaume</a>) presentation on Canada-specific SEO + PPC Issues, <a href="http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/toronto/naoise-osborne.php">Naoise Osborne</a> (NVI&#8217;s SEO Team Lead) will also be part of a panel covering site performance tuning and SEO. On the top of that, NVI is also <a href="http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/toronto/floorplan.html">investing in a booth</a> as well as into the sponsorship of the <a href="http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/toronto/parties.php">eventâ€™s official party</a>. I&#8217;m looking forward to be in Toronto, hopefully I&#8217;ll meet you there, see you at the show!</p>
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		<title>Lancement de la 2e saison de 3e mardi &#124; 3rd Tuesday Montreal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nicolask7</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[L&#8217;annonce a Ã©tÃ© faite sur le blogue de l&#8217;Ã©vÃ©nement: mardi soir prochain aura lieu le lancement de la seconde saison de 3e mardi &#124; 3rd Tuesday Montreal. Au programme, nous aurons le plaisir de recevoir la dÃ©sormais consacrÃ©e auteure-blogueure-confÃ©renciÃ¨re Michelle Blanc qui (pour ce que je connais d&#8217;elle) se fera un malin plaisir Ã  haranguer [...]]]></description>
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<p>L&#8217;annonce <a href="http://www.3mardithirdtuesday.com/2009/03/09/medias-trad-vs-web-20-2/">a Ã©tÃ© faite sur le blogue de l&#8217;Ã©vÃ©nement</a>: mardi soir prochain aura lieu le lancement de la seconde saison de 3e mardi | 3rd Tuesday Montreal. Au programme, nous aurons le plaisir de recevoir <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7i60w_michelle-blancpassage-a-tout-le-mon_news">la dÃ©sormais consacrÃ©e auteure-blogueure-confÃ©renciÃ¨re Michelle Blanc</a> qui (pour ce que je connais d&#8217;elle) se fera un malin plaisir Ã  <del datetime="2009-03-13T02:28:54+00:00">haranguer</del> Ã©changer sur un sujet d&#8217;actualitÃ©, soit les moyens privilÃ©giÃ©s afin de sauver les <del datetime="2009-03-13T03:05:15+00:00">journaux</del> publications confinÃ©s Ã  vivre avec les nombreux bouleversements qu&#8217;amÃ¨ne l&#8217;avÃ¨nement des nouveaux mÃ©dias.</p>
<p><strong>Quelques pistes de rÃ©flexion afin d&#8217;optimiser le rendement des journaux</strong><br />
Dans ce mÃªme ordre d&#8217;idÃ©es, nous avons rÃ©cemment collaborÃ© chez NVI Ã  une sÃ©rie d&#8217;article proposant des moyens et des rÃ©flexions pour l&#8217;industrie des journaux. Deux de nos articles, <a href="http://www.hollywoodtoday.net/2008/10/27/can-improved-online-subscriptions-save-newspapers/">Can Improved Online Subscriptions Save Newspapers?</a> Ã©crit par <a href="http://www.nvisolutions.com/simon_abramovitch_en.php">Simon Abramovitch</a> et <a href="http://www.hollywoodtoday.net/2008/10/14/britney-lindsay-and-recession-why-they-increase-readership-ad-revenue/">Britney, Lindsay, and Recession; Why they increase Readership &amp; Ad Revenue</a> rÃ©digÃ© par <a href="http://www.nvisolutions.com/guillaume_bouchard.php">Guillaume Bouchard</a>, ont notamment Ã©tÃ© publiÃ© dans le Hollywood Today. On y souligne notamment l&#8217;opportunitÃ© pour les mÃ©dias de profiter de leur version papier afin de promouvoir la version en ligne, et vice versa, l&#8217;article cite en exemple <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/">The Chicago Tribune</a> qui s&#8217;acquitte avec brio de cette tÃ¢che paraissant pourtant si simple. Il est Ã©galement question de ne pas nÃ©gliger le rÃ©fÃ©rencement organique lors de la sÃ©lection et du dÃ©ploiement d&#8217;une plate-forme de gestion de contenus pour un site de nouvelles ainsi que de la possibilitÃ© de produire et publier du contenu sur mesure pour des <del datetime="2009-03-13T02:31:30+00:00">verticaux</del> niches prÃ©dÃ©terminÃ©es par les intÃ©rÃªts du lectorat. Il devient ainsi possible de dÃ©velopper une communautÃ© basÃ©e sur les prÃ©fÃ©rences de nos visiteurs et par le fait mÃªme d&#8217;augmenter le niveau d&#8217;engagement de notre public.</p>
<p><strong>DÃ©jÃ  un an pour 3e mardi | 3rd Tuesday Montreal</strong><br />
HÃ© oui, il y a dÃ©jÃ  un an que <a href="http://www.3mardithirdtuesday.com/comite/">nous</a> prÃ©sentions <a href="http://montrealsocialmedia.com/blog/2008/02/20/bilan-dun-3e-mardi-third-tuesday/">notre premier Ã©vÃ©nement</a>!  C&#8217;est quand je pense Ã  ces nombreuses soirÃ©es Ã  se rÃ©unir afin de discuter de mÃ©dias sociaux et de nouveaux mÃ©dias que je considÃ¨re vraiment ce que mon implication avec 3e mardi m&#8217;a apportÃ©. De fait, bien plus qu&#8217;un moyen de rester au courant des nouvelles tendances dans l&#8217;applications des mÃ©dias sociaux dans le domaine des communications, je retire avant tout d&#8217;agrÃ©ables rencontres faites avec plusieurs personnes fortement impliquÃ©es dans l&#8217;industrie. Parmi ces rencontres, j&#8217;ai notamment grandement apprÃ©ciÃ© pouvoir discutÃ© avec <a href="http://steverubel.typepad.com/about.html">Steve Rubel</a> lors de son passage en novembre. Bien que d&#8217;avoir tenu cette rencontre de novembre le mÃªme soir que Yulbiz et que quelques autres importants 5 Ã  7 ne fut probablement la plus judicieuse dÃ©cision que notre comitÃ© ait prise, ceci permit nÃ©anmoins Ã  moins d&#8217;une douzaine de chanceux de pouvoir obtenir un entretien exclusif avec l&#8217;un de ceux que <a href="http://www.simply-communicate.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=1013">plusieurs considÃ¨rent comme le guru de notre profession</a>. Je garde Ã©galement d&#8217;excellents souvenirs de ma rencontre avec <a href="http://blog.holtz.com/index.php/weblog/about/">Shel Holtz</a> pour lequel j&#8217;ai profitÃ© d&#8217;une courte balade en auto afin de lui faire visiter briÃ¨vement notre merveilleuse ville. J&#8217;ai finalement particuliÃ¨rement aimÃ© la soirÃ©e oÃ¹ <a href="http://www.voir.ca/members/Steve-Proulx.aspx">Steve Proulx</a> (Voir) et <a href="http://communities.canada.com/montrealgazette/blogs/tech/archive/2009/02/27/down-for-a-month.aspx">Roberto Rocha</a> (Montreal Gazette) partagÃ¨rent avec l&#8217;audiance des points de vues tout Ã  fait diffÃ©rent dans l&#8217;utilisation qu&#8217;ils font de certains outils sociaux dans leur travail de journaliste.</p>
<p>En somme, de nombreux bons souvernirs et autant de belles rencontres. Sur ce, on se voit mardi soir prochain! Un merci Ã©galement Ã  nos commanditaires: <a href="http://www.cnw.ca/fr/">CNW Telbec</a>, <a href="http://www.thornleyfallis.com/">Thornley Fallis</a>, <a href="http://www.k3media.com/">K3 Media</a> et <a href="http://montreal.iabc.com/en/">IABC/MontrÃ©al</a>.</p>
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		<title>Leaving Facebook One Friend a Day</title>
		<link>http://montrealsocialmedia.com/blog/2009/02/03/leaving-facebook-one-friend-a-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nicolask7</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just decided to leave Facebook. Starting as of today I will delete a contact a day. I used to have 318 friends, I&#8217;m now at 317 and by the end of 2009 I should have cancelled all my connexions. Update (June 3rd): Not that easy to do so, since everyone that I&#8217;m deleting is [...]]]></description>
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<p>I&#8217;ve just decided to leave Facebook.</p>
<p>Starting as of today I  will delete a contact a day. I used to have 318 friends, I&#8217;m now at 317 and by the end of 2009 I should have cancelled all my connexions.</p>
<p><strong>Update (June 3rd):</strong> Not that easy to do so, since everyone that I&#8217;m deleting is sending me a friend request to connect with them&#8230; Anyway I&#8217;m currently at 259 friends.</p>
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		<title>NEWAD cherche un chef, dÃ©veloppement interactif</title>
		<link>http://montrealsocialmedia.com/blog/2009/01/22/newad-cherche-un-chef-developpement-interactif/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nicolask7</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miguel Diaz chez NEWAD m&#8217;envoit cette offre d&#8217;emploi que je publie ici Poste permanent basÃ© Ã  MontrÃ©al. Vous possÃ©dez un baccalaurÃ©at en marketing ou en communication. Vous avez 3 Ã  5 ans d&#8217;expÃ©rience en marketing interactif (Web) ainsi qu&#8217;une expÃ©rience en gestion d&#8217;Ã©quipe. Parfaitement bilingue autant Ã  lâ€™oral quâ€™Ã  lâ€™Ã©crit, vous Ãªtes un bon communicateur [...]]]></description>
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Miguel Diaz chez NEWAD m&#8217;envoit cette offre d&#8217;emploi que je publie ici</p>
<p>Poste permanent basÃ© Ã  MontrÃ©al. Vous possÃ©dez un baccalaurÃ©at en marketing ou en communication. Vous avez 3 Ã  5 ans d&#8217;expÃ©rience en marketing interactif (Web) ainsi qu&#8217;une expÃ©rience en gestion d&#8217;Ã©quipe. Parfaitement bilingue autant Ã  lâ€™oral quâ€™Ã  lâ€™Ã©crit, vous Ãªtes un bon communicateur et un fin diplomate. Vous avez beaucoup dâ€™initiative et votre talent en idÃ©ation vous amÃ¨ne souvent Ã  Ãªtre reconnu comme un prÃ©curseur. Mordu dâ€™internet, vous Ãªtes Ã  lâ€™affut des courants et tendances de lâ€™heure et savez les exploiter de maniÃ¨re Ã  les rendre profitables. Vous Ãªtes Ã©galement habiles Ã  mettre en place des outils de marketing et de communication (B2C et B2B). CÃ´tÃ© technique, vous maÃ®trisez les outils de monitoring statistique et de performance. (<a href="http://www.newad.com/fr/join.php?ref_id=20&#038;city_id=1&#038;item_id=216">voir description du poste sur le site de NewAd</a>.)</p>
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