Traffick: Notes From SES... Er, Great Times With Larry Chase and Bryan Eisenberg: Search Engine Enlightenment

As anyone in our industry will tell you goes without saying, the people are some of the warmest and most genuine you'll ever meet.

This year's SES New York was particularly rewarding from that standpoint. Along with getting to know several people better - yes,

even people I already knew, like Kevin Ryan and Rory Brown, along with new faces (to me) like Pauline Ores, the social media expert at IBM - the week was fantastic.

But particular special mention has to go out to my friends Bryan Eisenberg and Larry Chase. Prior to SES, Larry hosted a dinner at one of his favorite haunts in Manhattan, where we got a chance to network with several new people as well as old gurus. Larry's tales of a long-ago trip across Canada, running out of money, and working his way across the prairies and the Rockies, were particularly fun. (That's Mona Elesseily and me deciding what to order.)

Larry has a detailed recap of SES New York here. Highly recommended.

As anyone hanging around in the speaker room (Tim Ash, Li Evans, Rory Brown, Matt McGowan) knows from the leftovers they scarfed down, Bryan kidnapped a few of us and took us on a little walking tour of Brooklyn, complete with genuine delicious Brooklyn pizza. Search people are nothing if not authentic.

Thanks, guys.

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