Okay so in the past few months I’ve been traveling so much that I’ve decided to simply do an aggregate post about the specific conferences that I will add photos to as I upload them.

• Search & Social Hawaii (Oct 2011)
• BlogWorld LA (Nov 2011) – This was fun and since it was LA not Vegas, there was a much bigger celebrity presence, less nerds. Oh & of course lots of mommy bloggers with bags for swag.
• Webmaster World – PUBCON Las Vegas (Nov 2011)
• CES 2012 (Las vegas)
• NAMM 2012 (Anaheim) – I got to be on a panel of music experts, attorneys and more to explain SEO to them. It was great.
• Socialize Toronto (Today) still there now… watching…blogging… more to come. Other Live Bloggers of this event: http://www.digitalalwaysmedia.com/2012/01/socialize-toronto/

more to come…..

Funny how if you have klout and post nothing it still makes news.

Pete’s got a great online following and here is an example how he posted no link and still got loads of responses…hahah just for fun. We all forget links at times. He may have done it on purpose, however. Maybe we’ll find out in a follow up?

We all assumed he forgot the link, but perhaps he was being coy?

It doesn’t matter. I commented how we’ve all done this before for sure. For him its funny because he gets 88 comments possibly before checking (which shows you how when you have a higher engagement rate that you need to check posts within the first 10-15 minutes instead of the usual 30 minutes suggested by many).

I’ve created this comic strip this past week…

Featuring a Canadian’s perspective vs an old phone hacker….you’ll eventually figure it out.

Inaugural Comic: Beavers & Busted.

Open Source Blogs are always welcome here at the Digital Vegetarian. If you look at the companies on this list below, they have all been approved to work with Google’s ‘Code-in’ 2011 event for students.

Take a gander at this list…click it for the original source blog on Google’s Open Source Blog.

Now, first I want to mention that what really is important when talking about Klout is the topics that you are influential on, not the ‘overall’ klout score, however, just like with Google ‘PageRank’, people seem to focus on the number first.

In any case, this is what’s happened with my Klout network information after a week at BlogWorld & PubCon.

See how the topics range from SEO, to Steve Jobs -> I can attest this one to a blog post I wrote that mentioned Jack Layton’s letter to Canadians that was published, ‘posthumous’ followed by Steve Job’s Apple Resignation Letter, released to the media when he left apple as CEO, prior to his passing. Then John Draper, (AKA Captian Crunch) who knew Steve Jobs, also K+’d my Klout account.

I’m guessing the ‘Law’ klout comes from  my background as an IT for law firms in the past and some of my connections now. The Fast Company Klout is also intriguing as I haven’t mentioned them in any of my blogs.