Here are the links from my presentation today at the inaugural V Club event in Wellington.

• Lime - Automatic Bicycle
• Apple Design Awards Winners
• Remember the Milk
• iPhone Browser Market Share
• Xobni

Thanks for your time today and please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you would like a copy of the presentation.

Thanks to everyone who came to the Auckland Web Meetup last night. It was our pleasure to sponsor this month’s event.

I thought the other two presentations were very interesting, especially about how iVistra has built an enterprise fleet tracking solution using Ruby and Flex. It definitely inspired me to try.

Here are the links from my presentation:

• Presentation
  
• TARMAC Demo
• TARMAC on Google Code
  As mentioned, this is free to use, but if you feel like contributing by way of enhancements to the code that would be appreciated.

One of the gentlemen that asked me a question suggested that iFrames were deprecated and Google were no longer going to index them. This is completely incorrect, as far as I am am aware. In any case, TARMAC appears as a normal hyperlink to search engine spiders anyway. If Google is dropping iFrames, they had better rebuild Gmail. Login and View Source, it is nothing but iFrames!

Thanks for listening to my presentation.

If anyone would like to be involved in the beta, please leave a comment and I’ll contact you as soon as we are ready.

I’m at the Barcamp event in Auckland today. This is a meet up for web developers where you turn up, and put your name and presentation topic forward and it goes up on the board in the available time slots.

There is a broad group of people from the industry here, including web dev/design shops, independent contractors, and guys/girls who work for corporates.

There is also a guy here from Mozilla, who are the organisation behind Firefox, who is presenting after lunch on what will be in Firefox 3. I’ll definitely attend that one.

My posts will be over on the Marker Blog, check out the photos on Flickr.

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Thanks to Lucy, Shane and Rod at Xero for giving me the opportunity to present to their customers and partners on the subject of Web 2.0 for Small Business. It was a great session with lots of interesting questions and discussion.

Breakfast sessions with a smaller crowd around a table is by far the best format in my opinion.

Thank you to everyone for coming, it was great to meet everyone and I really enjoyed it.

Here are some of the links to site I discussed today:

• feedburner.com
• copyblogger.com
• brightcove.com
• Revision 3
• Twitter

Definitely read this post on Facebook Business by our resident Half-Geek, James Fleet.

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I am at the Search Engine Room search marketing conference today at The Hyatt in Auckland, New Zealand.

Especially, looking forward to the panel discussion I’ve been invited to be on this afternoon.

I’ll be posting up summaries of the presentations on the Marker Blog.

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I recently gave a presentation at the yMedia Challenge event and they have sent me through some feedback from some of the people that attended.

"Really interesting - would like to talk to him some more."

"A key point in his presentation that stood out for me was building a community rather than marketing/advertising. Also his advice on avoiding CPM advertising and on using "geek marketing" like pay per click tools."

"I hung onto every word and realised that I had heard some of these words before but did not understand them. I learnt so much from Jon. Jon started a journey for me which will take me deeper into the world of computers."

"I enjoyed Jon’s presentation, but I felt he didn’t make enough allowance for the wide range of previous experience in the audience. Some of what he said was too technical for many in the room, especially many people from the not for profits who are not engaged with the topic. His examples were all interesting, but felt out of reach. On the other hand, his five things to do next week seemed very relevant."

"A very useful presentation, but sometimes Jon assumed too much prior knowledge and experience. However, of all the speakers I think his overall presentation was the most useful in a practical sense, once someone had translated the jargon etc."

"Great content about social- media, networking, capital. Loved the ‘Will it Blend’ vid."

"Engaging and enjoyable. the valuable message i took away from his presentation was to go where your audience already are rather than trying to drag them to you - particularly relevant when your audience are young people. "web

I thought that the presentation was aimed at an introductory level, but based on some of the comments I clearly need to re-look at this. Great to get this sort of feedback though.

I’m very excited to be invited by SaaS accounting system provider Xero to do a presentation to their customers and partners.

Xero is an amazing New Zealand company and if you haven’t already you should demo their product. Currently only available in New Zealand, but will be coming to the UK and Australia very soon.

Here are the details if you would like to attend:

The advent of social media, the increased uptake of broadband worldwide and the growing choice of communication tools have changed marketing forever - to a new era of customer participation.

Xero, along with interactive agency Marker, invites you to attend a breakfast to discuss this new participatory era and the impact for New Zealand businesses like yours.

Date: Friday 16 November 2007

Time: 7:30 am

Place: Xero, Level 1, Old Bank, 98 Customhouse Quay, Wellington, New Zealand

Register to: Lucy Hempseed lucy.hempseed@xero.com or phone: (04) 819 4837

Technorati Tags: saas, web 2.0 events, xero

Very excited that renowned Australian search marketing event, Search Engine Room is coming to Auckland on 13th November 2007. This is a must for marketers interested in understanding more about search.

I’m even more excited that I’ve been asked to sit on a panel discussion in the afternoon.

4.45pm - 5.10pm … Search and The Online Marketing Budget: How fast should marketers shift their traditional advertising spend to the web? Where should that money go? How large a role should search play? This panel will discuss these and other key issues such as: what to look for in a search marketing company?
- John Schofield, Managing Director, The Internet Bureau
- Jon Beattie, Director, Marker

The short answer to these questions are:

• Very fast!
• Huge!
• A company that cares about performance and is prepared to base their remuneration on this

For the long answers, you’ll need to come to the session.

There are going to be some fantastic speakers and I urge you to come along if you can. If you are a client and would like to come as a guest of Marker, please let me know as we would love to have you there.

Technorati Tags: search, searchengineroom

Web 2.0 for financial services - yes it does apply to this industry. Thank you to everyone who attended our event this evening "Web 2.0 & Social Media – An overview for service &amp professional services marketers"

If you would like a copy of the presentation, please let me know.

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