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Each year coinciding with a major SEM event, The
Internet
Marketers of NY throw a Manhattan party bash to benefit a deserving charity.
This year during
Search
Engine Strategies New York, the event’s sponsor
Best
of the Web ran a friendly poll where “advocates” ran unofficial
social media campaigns, amongst SEOs and other communities, to help
choose
the lucky charity to receive the funds.
Jennifer Laycock, advocate of the HMBANA
Milk Bank was in the process of kicking everybody’s asses with a
miraculous come from behind Rally. This Grand Master of Mommy Links (and
industry luminary) was sending out twitter blasts in 10-minute increments and
had taken the lead.
Jennifer timed it perfectly, waited until the last minute, worked it, and was poised to bring the loot home for the Milk Bank. Which, let me just say, is an amazing charity. HMBANA Milk Bank is able to provide breast milk to premature babies who are in desperate need of the extra nutrition. Being the amazing Mommy that she is, it is no wonder that Jennifer battled to the last minute for her Charity of choice.
Then aimClear and all the other Lymphoma
supporters roared back with SearchEngineWatch
and aimClearBlog
posts, StumbleUpon, email, and PM campaigns to the far corners of the earth.
(Does that guy ever sleep?) You see, 3 years ago Marty
survived Lymphoma Stage 3B, so this cause is also close to his heart.
The other contestant-charities were Camp
Interactive and the National
Association for Colitis and Crohn’s Disease advocated by Sara
Holoubek and Mel
Carson respectively. These are very worthy causes, which help a LOT of good
folks out. Congratulations and thank you to all the bloggers who participated
in supporting. We hope to see you at the party on March 18th during SES. (details
here)
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 |
I attended the Internet Marketers of New York Charity Party on Monday night
and it has got to be chalked up to one of the top experiences in my Professional
Career so far. I got to meet many bloggers and Social Media Icons that I have
admired for some time. These are the people that I have been Stumbling
and Sphinning for the past few months. Up to
this point the face I could put to their brilliants posts were the Avatars that
I have seen on Sphinn and StumbleUpon.
I was lucky enough to meet up with Marty
Weintraub of AimClearBlog. He is a top Sphinner and was sweet enough to
take the time to introduce me to some of the most brilliant Bloggers writing
about SEO and Social Media. I feel honored to have gotten to know Marty and
I can’t thank him enough for making this evening more special that I could
have ever imagined.
This Charity Party was sponsored by Best
of the Web. I got to meet Brian
Prince, CEO of Best of the Web. Brian puts on a great party. He is so funny
and down to earth and it was truly a pleasure to meet him.
Danny Sullivan of Search
Engine Land & Sphinn
was also there. Danny was probably the person I looked forward to meeting the
most and meeting him was even better than I could have imagined. He was in town
for SMX Social
Media that was beginning the next day…. I have got to get to one of
his conferences!!
Chris Winfield, a top Sphinner
and President of 10e20,
attended the Bash and he is nothing short of amazing. He took the time to chat
with me and I can sense that he loves what he does by the excitement in his
smile and eyes.
Brian Wallace is not
only a top Sphinner, but an amazing Blogger
as well. I spent much of the evening chatting with Brian and it was certainly
a pleasure.
Jason Falls on left and Brian Wallace on right.
Tamar Weinberg, one
of the women bloggers that I look up to the most, was amazing. I got to speak
with Tamar a bit and made sure to let her know how much I admire her writing.
She is absolutely a brilliant writer, but I also applaud her for speaking
her mind through her posts. From women everywhere, Tamar….. Thank you!!
There were so many others…. Matthew
Currier, Brent Csutoras,
Li Evans, Kim
Krause Berg, Rebecca
Kelley, Kevin Heisler,
Neil Patel,
Sara Holoubek, Jason
Falls, Michael Demby,
Charlene Jaszewski.
There are probably others that I am not mentioning, but these are all the business
cards that I collected. So, if I forgot to mention you…. please accept
my apologies.
A special Thank you to Marty for letting me use the wonderful pictures he took at the party.
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