Good question.  Here’s what’s been happening over the last few weeks, and what’s going to be happening over the next few, hopefully that’ll explain to you the temporary slowdown over here.

2 weeks ago I was over in the UK for SMX-London.  Prior to the show I got to see my family (it had been 3 years since I’d been over), and such cool things as the Dr. Who exhibit and my Grandfather’s DFC (Distinguished Flying Cross - RAF Medal earned during WW2).  At the show I got to meet a great bunch of people, and with the show being in the UK it was a different bunch of great people.  The show kept it’s Lisa quotient, despite Lisa Barone not being there, through Lisa Ditlefsen.  Her husband to be - Rob Kerry was also in attendance, with his company funding the last night party at a local Swedish pub.  Other people I met, in no particular order, were Lyndon Antcliff, Darren Maloney, Matt Paines, Judith ‘deCabbit’ Lewis, Tiffany White, Jane Copland, Kelvin Newman, Dean Chew, Jon Myers, and Edward Serrano (who I actually met on the plane ride back to the US).

On the RBDRodeo work blog I put up some notes for some of the sessions that I attended - The Keynote, The Global Search Universe, Leveraging Social Media Networks, Cutting Edge Linking Tactics, and a brief overview of the session I spoke at - Brand and Reputation Management.  2 further sessions were written up for SearchEngineGuide, and should go live on Monday.  Outside of the conference, I also had my regular SearchEngineLand article to write, so I cheated and let others write it for me - Inside Information: Interviews with In-House Search Marketers.

As for the future, well this week I’ll be heading out to Los Angeles for the Kelsey ILM \ Search Engine Strategies Local show.  I’ll be speaking on Thursday on the topic of Best Practices for Using PPC for Local Targeting. Exactly one week later I’ll be back in Chicago (3rd year in a row), where I’ll be speaking on the topic of Dealing With Difficult Clients (not that my company currently has any).

So, with actual work thrown in there it’s a busy time of year.  I will try to be more diligent about getting posts up here though, I don’t want to have this blog taken out of the Big List of Search Marketing Blogs for lack of posting as has happened to the blog of a certain evilgreenmonkey…