Comments on: SMX Sydney – Standout Speakers, Sessions & People

By: Glenn Murray

Glenn Murray — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:20:03 +0000

Note that in Rand’s latest Whiteboard vid, he appears to have revised his trustworthiness percentages (or I just copied them down wrong during his SMX preso!).

The revised figures are:
1 link away from a trusted seed = 0.01% likely to be spam
2 links away = 1.2% likely to be spam
3 links away = 4.7% likely to be spam (although he seems a little unsure – it may, in fact, be ~14%)

By: David Temple

David Temple — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:30:15 +0000

Great to meet you Glenn, thanks for the ebook it was excellent! My son is learning internet marketing and this is the first thing I’ll have him read. Didn’t get to go on the rides at Luna Park. The boat ride was enough for me, lol. I’m sure there will be more advanced subjects at SMX 2010 but what I want to know is, where are the flying cars they always told me would be around then?

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By: Glenn Murray

Glenn Murray — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:09:10 +0000

Hi Barry. Thanks for your comment. I truly do understand how hard it must be to cater to all audiences. And so did everyone else I spoke to. All the feedback I’ve heard has been very positive.

Nonetheless, I really like your idea of incorporating industry input in your programming. I’d love to see that!

Thanks again for a great couple of days. (And I agree, the food was great.)

Cheers.

By: Barry Smyth

Barry Smyth — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 07:43:38 +0000

Thanks Glenn,

What a great write up & I agree with you on the content, but trying to cater for everyone and keeping the whole agenda flowing is a difficult job, but one we are getting better at doing this, I also think this was our best agenda by far.

We are looking at the idea of having some sessions programmed by consensus for next year, letting the industry decide what topics should be in the advanced track.

And I agree with your other commentators here, this year was the best food we have had in three years & it took a whine from me to Luna Park to get a menu change, so it was worth complaining.

See you next year.

Cheers
Barry

@chiewy – I’ll get you a ride FREE pass for SMX Sydney 2010, might be a good sponsorship opportunity for someone.

By: Neerav

Neerav — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:16:12 +0000

No one mentioned the great food, i thought all the morning tea/ lunch & afternon tea choices were great especially the chocolate cake & slices :)

By: Lucas Ng

Lucas Ng — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:57:59 +0000

Thanks Glenn. It was good to meet in the flesh – you are even more awesome IRL than online!

I agree with cry for ‘more advanced’ sessions. It was a pleasant surprise to see how packed the advanced sessions were this year – the Aussie industry has matured in leaps and bounds in the past 12 months :)

By: Cameron Stewart

Cameron Stewart — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:50:00 +0000

Hi Glenn,

Thanks for all your twittering/blogging for us non attendees.

Lucas Ng posted his presentation on his site – good to link to just for reference :) – http://lucasng.com.au/post/92241244/how-you-can-write-killer-ad-copy-lucas-ng-smx-sydney

Cheers

Cameron

By: Burgo

Burgo — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:41:00 +0000

Wowsers… nice write up mate! One thing that I think deserved mentioning too… the coffee was great, wasn’t it? Heh :P

By: Anne Chiew

Anne Chiew — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:39:41 +0000

Great write up! It’s so good I’m just going to print it out and present it to my team for my wrap-up of SMX coverage next week :)

Agree on the level of content.. shame to bring out the international speakers to only sell us the benefits of search (when obviously we know how good it is.. otherwise we wouldn’t be at SMX)

Hopefully next year the Advanced Stream will be in the Crystal Ballroom & they find a sponsor for dodgem cars.. it’s bloody expensive at Luna Park :P

Otherwise big tip of the hat to Barry and his team for putting on another great SMX Sydney. The only Oz conference anyone interested in SEM should attend.