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Ani Lopez on Multicultural Multilingual SEO at Vancouver SEM Meetup

By March 27th, 2010 Meetups No Comments
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Ani Lopez, preseting at the Vancouver SEM Meetup

(This post is a bit overdue – my apologies.)

This month’s Vancouver Search Engine Marketing Meetup’s presenter was Ani Lopez, a Vancouver SEO consultant who specializes in multi-lingual and multi-country SEO. Very suitable topic for Vancouver, one of the most multicultural cities I know.

SEO projects, accordingly, have to deal with particular challenges a this multicultural brings within. Typical questions revolve around how the site is structured, the URLs used, localization settings, and language use. I can think of very few people who could’ve addressed these challenges in such a simple yet applicable way as Ani Lopez.

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My Blurry Right Eye and CSR Experience

By March 14th, 2010 Personal 8 Comments

This image, from Wikipedia, shows what I have.

It’s been a little more than 5 weeks since my vision in my right eye went blurry.

In this post, beyond telling the story, I want to document what’s happening for future reference. So bare with me if I get a bit too detailed.

The blurriness on my right eye, as I recall, became apparent in a matter of days. Since starting working at Snaptech Marketing I’ve been staring at a screen more than usual so I thought I was just straining my eyes.

The First Optometrist: Dr. Gandham (Feb 16th)

On February 16th, a couple of days after first noticing the blurriness and it was obvious this was not normal, I went to the optometrist. I told Dr. Gandham the reason for coming in was my blurry right eye. He did the routine check, dilated my pupils and used the stereotypical equipment to look inside my eye.

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Mailchimp for Vancouver SEM Meetup Communication

By March 7th, 2010 Internet Marketing, Meetups, Social Media No Comments
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Last week I used Mailchimp, a popular email service provider, to send a newsletter-type  email to the Vancouver SEM Meetup group.

This idea came about while thinking a better way to communicate with the group’s members. Mailchimp offers pre-designed formatting, tracks clicks, opens, and a ton of other information I thought I could take advantage of… Here’s what happened. (more…)

I Played Ultimate Frisbee Today – Grrrreat!

By March 1st, 2010 For fun No Comments
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I played. I liked.

Go Zephyr!

It’s been a while, but tonight I’ve decided to write about a somewhat selfish anecdote, I played Ultimate Frisbee. And it was great.

After checking out the Vancouver Ultimate League website (www.vul.bc.ca) I emailed a bunch of team captains too see if anyone was looking. One of them recommended for me to try my luck and see if any teams needed subs. So I did just that; I headed down to Van Tech Elementary and did just that with no expectations. To my surprise I was taken in by a team, Zephyr.

Zephyr (perhaps in reference to “A light (westerly) wind.”), is an all-girl team that, just this one time, had so few players that they decided to break their strict no-guys policy, and took me in.

For a second I was not sure how to feel about that, but they turned out to be the greatest team of all. And as a guy, I wasn’t complaining to be on the team with all the good looking gals :)

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