Chicago night 0

04 Dec 2006 @ 2:10 AM

So tonight, I hung around the restaurant and bar for a little while, and the place was full of Bears fans, with no real SEO people in sight. So I headed back to my room, to eventually head back to the Irish pub for a nice plate of fish and chips. After I ate, I walked over to the other bar and heard an Australian accent, so I made a comment about the Ashes, rather quickly I was introduced to Dave Naylor, Aussie Webmaster (Frank), ShoeMoney, Andrea ShoeMoney (his sister, who is starting up her own conference series), Todd Friesen, and a few others (such as James Fleet AKA Captain Kiwi). As the evening went on Stuntdubl showed up and, after complaining about how people kept buying him drinks (what a hard life), he bought me a couple of drinks. I met Bruce Clay, Lisa Barone, Rand Fishkin, Rebecca, and many more (Danny Sullivan, Dana Todd, etc). Of course none of them knew who I was, but by the end of the evening a few of them remembered my name, and I wasn’t the one that set fire to the table or sprayed a straw full of mudslide over Rand’s jacket…

Seriously though, this is my third conference, and it was nice to be able to stand around with people in the industry who have the recognition, and listen to what they had to say about the industry. Now I did pick up a few tidbits, but they were ‘off the record’, so I’m not going to put them in here, instead I’m heading off to bed.

Update: I just found a picture of James Fleet, Dave Naylor, Shoemoney, and myself over on Shoemoney’s site.

SES Chicago