I've never been able to walk into a large group of people and feel like I can "work the room." Sure, I've read various articles on this stuff, but honestly, I still struggle with meeting interesting people. seem to be very adept at meeting financial planners, attorneys, accountants, etc. and after 10 seconds of conversation, I'm at a loss.

Last Saturday, I was a panelist at the CalTech - Social Networks event. It was a really good event with lots of interesting folks in attendance. would guess that there was about 100 people - on a Saturday in Pasadena. That shows some interest in the topic. The presenters had some interesting things to say on a wide variety of topics. Lots of niches.

A while ago I posted about Secret for Networking at Events - Prenetworking where I recommended that people should look at who's attending the event prior to going to the event in order to make their networking more effective. I've received a lot of positive feedback on the post. And I think it hurts them in attendance.

So, those who know me might be asking why I was at Drupal Camp , or, more importantly, what exactly is Drupal camp. Drupal is an open source content management system (CMS) and also a content management framework. In a discussion about the hot CMS’, three are at the top of the pile, Drupal, WordPress and Joomla. In any event, kudos to Dmitri.

The total number of IPOs is six for 2008 per the article and no "tech ones" since Valentine's Day? Here in 2008 it is around $130. I was reading the daily Venture Wire blurb last Friday. The last IPO this year was on March 19 th. Congrats, Jim). However, that was MARCH 19 th and it's June now!! How much love is that? Thoughts?

Saturday, November 22, 2008 -- SIGGRAPH 2008 "Show and Tell". Video, Literature, Goodies and Stories from the 2008 International Conference and Exhibition in Los Angeles. See [link] (more

Google now shows me an option to push things in my search results to the top. It's an interesting choice. Doesn't it seem like it's inviting problems. Basically the only people who will spend time on this is people trying to improve their search rankings. The rest of us signal with lots of other things like links, bookmarking, etc.

I went to a meetup yesterday that was on the topic of Internet Marketing / SEO / SEM. The meeting had a decent case study and some pretty good discussion around the room of different tools that you might consider using. Then the organizer went into a 20 minute sales pitch around his new training/coaching offering. Yikes.

As a follow-up to my last post on Meetups SEO / SEM , I was just booted from the group and any of my comments about issues I had with the way the group was handled along with my negative vote about the event were deleted from the group. It makes me wonder if Meetup is actually encouraging this kind of thing

Found this via Ben Kuo - The math behind Internet advertising businesses The advertising equivalence principle? So if we assume that a $1 CPM is about right and figure out what audience is required to build a $100MM annual revenue business, we find out that we need 8.33 With these assumptions, we would need a site that ranked fourth globally.