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Think Visibility was Awesome

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Having just come back from the Think Visibility conference last night I feel recharged with motivation to finish my half-baked projects.

One of the consistent themes of the event was how easy it is to get distracted with planning, writing lists, drawing wireframes etc. without actually seeing an idea through to the end.

So a massive thanks to Dom Hodgson without an ‘e’ for the hard graft, along with all the other people who chipped in to make Think Visibility such a blast. Here’s just a few…

Joost De Valk – Some great tips on how to squeeze every inch (watt? horsepower?) of performance out of your Wordpress blog with regards to load speeds, optimising images, caching etc.

Interesting fact: the guy has over 50 active plugins on his wordpress blogs!

Julian Sambles – Head of Audience Development or something similar at The Telegraph speaking about the process of bringing SEO into a huge business and challenging established industry traditions. He didn’t mention anything about their off-page SEO of course!

Interesting fact: The unique traffic growth graph this guy showed us was staggering. Watch out The Guardian!

Judith Lewis – For a start she gave out chocolate to everyone. She could have talked about optimum keyword density and I would still have nodded contently. Great session about universal search and optimising rich media.

Interesting fact: I made everyone wait whilst I dug for a Cadbury’s Truffle.

Some other sessions I managed to get to and thoroughly enjoyed were Fiona Thompson from SimpleUsability on eyetracking and debunking the F pattern, and Karyn Fleeting of Tinderbox Media on corporate blogging.

Maybe next time I’ll try my hand at speaking? Or maybe I should buckle down and finish my myriad of unfinished projects first!