Scott Fish

Hawthorne Street Fair - It’s This Weekend!

The Hawthorne street fair is coming up this weekend!   PDX Pipeline has a few tips & suggestions to help make it a successful weekend! It is always nice to get one of those outside tables at Bagdad & watch the people. Also, Dollar Scholar: If you like hot dogs (had them last year) and cheap items, [...]

Michael Jackson Dies at age 50

Pop giant Michael Jackson, who took to the stage as a child star and set the world dancing to exuberant rhythms for decades, died on Thursday, TMZ website reported. He was 50. There was no official confirmation of the reported death and spokespersons for Jackson could not be reached for comment. “We’ve just learned Michael Jackson has [...]

Montana Trip: Ryan’s Graduation and Proposal!

Go Grizz! A few weekends ago, my family flew over to Missoula, MT to see my youngest brother, Ryan Fish, graduate from the University of Montana. While the graduation was the focus on the weekend, another big event popped into the weekend when he decided to pop the question to his girlfriend, Lauren. The weekend started [...]

Thinking Outside the Box: Unique .CC domain Use

I recently came across a unique usage of a .cc domain. The Monarch Hotel & Conference Center in Portland was unable to obtain the .com for their hotel, so they went to next best thing (which may even be better than the .com!) - MonarchHotel.cc - perfectly branded for their use. I wonder how many other [...]

Hot Spots in PDX: Nuvrei Pastries Review

Have you met your Marissa?  My brother did…at Nuvrei Pastries on 10th st in downtown Portland.  She wasn’t at a stuffy pastry business or in one of the “trendy-twenty-third” spots….nope, she was, well, as Kevin puts it, at a business where “there is no fancy store front, no fancy café style seating.”  Interested in learning [...]

March Madness at EngineWorks

Jesse Liebman and Tyson Braun at EngineWorks spent hours combing through the hottest SEO blogs in order to compile their list of the top SEO blogs - in true March Madness style, they’re listed in bracket format! Find out which is the Best SEO Blog.

Looming Commercial Real Estate Crash: Where did all that content go?

I recently tried to look up where a Hallmark store was in Portland and of course I first searched online.  Perfect… I found one that was close enough to stop by and grab a card.  We headed out and went to the mall where the Hallmark was listed to be at, and much to our [...]

Defensive Domain Registrations: Blackwater vs. XE.com

Blackwater Worldwide has decided to change their name to “XE”. Here’s more on the article about the blackwater name switch. So, we all know about xe.com, a currency conversion website.  My initial thought is that there’s no way that Blackwater will be able to get their hands on that domain, so what’s second best? XEsecurity.com - nope, [...]

An Interview with the Blazers’ Interactive Marketing & Media Director

Snow Day in Portland - Photos from NW 23rd

Civil War: Oregon State Beavers Vs. Oregon Ducks

We went… we saw… we’re sad. Haley and I went down to the Civil War game this weekend, on a beautiful Saturday, you would think that things would go well, but they didn’t! If you don’t know already, the Beavers lost in the Civil War game that had the most points scored ever. It was really nice [...]

Texas Hold’em Game Tonight in Portland

Portland Election Parties

The PDXPipeline has a great list of election watch parties in Portland. Here’s a sample… The Laurelhurst Theater, located at 2735 E Burnside St, Portland, Oregon 97214. Living Room Theater/Theatre located at 341 SW 10th Avenue. Check out the West Cafe located at1201 SW Jefferson. Doug Fir Lounge located at 830 E. Burnside, 97214 which starts at 6:00.

My Favorite Community Building Wordpress Plugins

Recently I have building several new blogs that are community focused and local. I have found myself looking around for some new WordPress Plugins that make the community a little more friendly and customized. Here’s a few that I found worthwhile to install: The Binary Moon Custom Admin Login Plugin Binary Moon’s plugin allows you to easily customize your [...]

Protect your brand: Check your UserName at 68 web 2.0 sites

It’s pretty darned important to take your name, company name, and brand names at popular web 20 sites.  Why?  Well, its simple, if you don’t someone else will and even worse, they will control the message and branding that the page has, and it won’t always be positive. Take a few minutes to check out a [...]

I was quoted on CNN TV today - thanks twitter!

Thats right, CNN quoted me and put it on their TV channel today… I sat down to eat lunch this afternoon and flipped on the TV to see what was going on in the stock market.  On CNN, Treasury Secretary Paulson was speaking, and CNN was following it live.  All of sudden, on the right half [...]

SEMPDX October Hot Seat - Hear me speak!

Tuesday, October 14th, SEMpdx will be holding their October Hot Seat Event, of which I’ll be on the panel.  Come check out a “Back to Basics” event, highlighting the fundamentals that every website needs to have.  The panel is jam packed, Scott Hendison, Scott Fish (myself), David Mihm, and Leisa Hall. Event Details: Location: Hotel deLuxe Address: 729 [...]

Hotel & Hospitality Conferece - Hear me speak!

This week I’ll be traveling to San Francisco to speak at the E-Tourism Summit, which will be October 1-2 at the Hotel Nikko.  This event will be a lot of fun and should be great for networking! Topics of discussion will be search marketing, e-mail marketing, dynamic packaging, third-party booking engines, affiliate programs, research-based Web design [...]

SAO September Tech Pub in Corvallis Today

Today is the Software Association of Oregon’s September Tech Pub, which features a Hot Seat event, modeled after the SEMpdx Hot Seat Events.  I’ll be on the panel in Corvallis along with other SEO professionals in Oregon: Andre Jensen and Lisa Williams. Agenda: 5:30 - 6:15: Business Networking Time with finger food, no host bar 6:15 - 6:30: [...]

Looking for a Bright MBA Grad in Portland?

Search Fest 2009 - Danny Sullivan Keynote Speaker

California Earthquake: LA Rocked by 5.8 Earthquake

A strong earthquake shook Southern California on Tuesday, and the jolt was felt from Los Angeles to San Diego, and slightly in Las Vegas. Preliminary information from the U.S. Geological Survey estimated the quake at magnitude 5.8, centered 29 miles east-southeast of downtown Los Angeles near Chino Hills in San Bernardino County.   Follow the news on [...]

Oklahoma City Thunder - Team Name Announced

An Oklahoma City media outlet, KOCO-TV, has reported the city’s relocated NBA team will be named the Oklahoma City Thunder for the 2008-09 season. The “Thunder,” formerly the Seattle SuperSonics, are in the middle of a full-scale move from the Northwest to Oklahoma. According to KOCO.com, the NBA’s Internet division — through CSC Corporate Domains — [...]

BrowseRank - Microsoft’s Answer to PageRank

Microsoft thinks that they have the answer to PageRank, by releasing a new concept called BrowseRank.  From the researcher’s paper about BrowseRank… We propose computing page importance by using a ’user browsing graph’ created from user behavior data. In this graph, vertices represent pages and directed edges represent transitions between pages in the users’ web browsing [...]

Mastering the Google Content Network