PubCon
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WebmasterWorld's PubCon, or just "PubCon™", is an educational conference and industry trade show programmed specifically for web professionals and website site owners. Although the conferences center piece is Search Engine Marketing. WebmasterWorld Conference and PubCon events are for thought leaders in search engine and Internet marketing professionals to gather to share best practices in the, design, development, promotion and marketing of their businesses and brands.
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[edit] History
The Event was created by Brett Tabke, the CEO and founder of WebmasterWorld, the host of the event. Brett Tabke also acts as conference content producer and organizer until this day.
PubCon's roots run far deeper than the web. These really started back in the 80's with the BBS users. Brett Tabke, a sysops, running a BBS system on a Commodore 64 would often have meet-n-greets at user group meetings. That was a common event and done by a lot of other sysops too. Bret Tabke continued this tradition when he founded the Internet forum for webmasters in 1996 called WebmasterWorld.
The first WebmasterWorld PubCon was held in London in the year 2000. Over 125 WebmasterWorld members showed up at the Cittie of Yorke Pub in London. This PubCon and the two that followed were user group meeting like events and not a real conference. The first conference style PubCon, PubCon IV was helt in Boston, Massachusetts at the Wyndham Tremont Hotel Boston, Wyndham Tremont 821 Washington ST on Saturday April 26th, 2003[1].
[edit] PubCon today
The PubCon 2006 was held from November 14th to 17th at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Over 2,100 attended and the keynote speaker was Danny Sullivan from SearchEngineWatch and Search Engine Strategies Conference.
Lee Odden describes Pubcon as "one of the best conferences for hands on search engine optimization and paid search marketing information".[2]. Search Engine Strategies on the other hand is considered to be more corporate and for larger businesses[3].
[edit] Other Conferences
[edit] References
- ^ PubCon IV 2003, Boston Conference Schedule (and some date errors, showing 2004)
- ^ SEO Marathon] by Lee Odden, Search Engine Smarts Column at San Francisco Chronicle, April 17, 2006
- ^ Recommended SEO Conferences?, Thread at WebmasterWorld Forums from 2004
[edit] Event Website
- PubCon.com
- WebMasterWorld.com Forums (Event Host)
[edit] See Also
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