SES London (Business Design Centre - Islington, London) - Jim Sterne & Gary Viray (SEO Consultant Philippines) - February 15-20,2010

When I was in London last February 14-20,2010 to attend the Search Engine Strategies (SES), I was skeptical as to what I can learn from the said conference. All I thought things are way to general in terms of the knowledge and information I can get. It turned out that I was wrong. Everything went fine. All was fun!

Jim Sterne who was seated just beside me while listening to the Augmented Reality presentation of Howard Ogden kept me thinking on how can I get him into a casual conversation. Knowing myself when it comes to social networking, I am a quiet person  and so… I did the opposite. hehe. I asked him a casual query and there you go, communication went well and I even got myself a chance to take a photo of the two us. He is I would say a quiet guy too who knows how to live by what he preaches.  Social Media is about engagement and it is all-about knowing how to listen well and to spend time reacting on any given reply or response.  Jim Sterne would say, Retweeting is one of the best acts one can do to get people be involved in a discussion as well as getting them to really listen to your tweets too.  Action, reaction I should say.

Jim Sterne was a keynote speaker during the SES London conference who talked about ” Social Media Metrics”.  If Avinash Kaushnik was awesome, Jim Sterne is overwhelming! When it comes to Social Media Metrics, Jim Sterne discussed rightly the metrics that matters most in using social media for any business or product.

Again, SES London. Jim Sterne is amazing!

After the DigitalFilipino.com Club Event in Manila held last night, I decided to convert this blog as my primary blog because I noticed that whenever people/bloggers ask me what my blog is, I keep on saying, “Omg! I am not proud of my blog/s.” I used to blog about my personal views like the rest of the bloggers out there but then, after hitting a gold mine online, I immediately converted practically all of my sites into a money making machine. Truly, I made money online but then, it “killed my social life”.

Oh yes, I opted for my paypal account rather than having my blog be a real blog where people will be interested to visit.

I guess, I am going to name this blog, garyviray.com as “I am not proud of my blog” because it will keep on reminding me on how I transformed from being a real blogger to a money making guy online and back again, just to be proud of my blog again.

Geez! as of now, please don’t ask me of what my blog is, okay? lol.