{"id":589,"date":"2009-10-07T01:27:55","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T07:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.livemorelightly.com\/Tech\/?p=589"},"modified":"2012-01-12T12:14:31","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T18:14:31","slug":"net-tuesday-meet-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livemorelightly.com\/Tech\/2009\/10\/net-tuesday-meet-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Net Tuesday Meet-up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There is a really interesting group in Vancouver that has been formed through the “Meet-up” networking site. The “Net Tuesday<\/a>” group purpose is to support non-profits with technology information and to share information. Part of doing “Tech Help” is keeping up with the nuts and bolts of Google Tools, so I decided to see what I could learn.<\/p>\n

This particular meeting was the first one I attended and it was worth it to be able to go through security in the new CBC building. The plexiglas security gates will star in my next lo-budget sci-fi film for sure. Only moving pictures will reveal the wonder of it all.<\/p>\n

The topics this evening were:  Google AdWords with Omar Al-Hajjar, Search Marketing Director for Magnet<\/a>, a division of  Cossette West and Google Website Optimizer with John Hossack of VKI Studios<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As I have been posting AdWords on my site and considering advertising myself, the Google Ads presentation was timely. The Website Optimizer was a tool that I had looked at, but decided that I do not have enough traffic to use. Both presenters were very informative and it seemed like a great collection of people attending. <\/p>\n

John Hossack of VKI Studios confirmed my suspicion that Google Website Optimizer<\/a> was a tool for larger operations than my own. He described the process of testing multiple versions of the same page and recording statistics of user interactions with the page. A large number of live users were required to obtain statistically significant results. He did have some other advice for all of us that was very useful and I did confirm my suspicions about the tool. It is free to use though, so if you have more than 200 visitors to test you can run some A\/B tests that sound quite effective.<\/p>\n

Omar Al-Hajjar, Search Marketing Director for Magnet<\/a>, explained how to maximize your ad within the Google AdWords structure. He gave us a lot of detailed information and I think that a copy of his powerpoint will be made available on the Net Tuesday site.<\/p>\n

This group was informative and the other announcements were interesting too. I will try to keep attending these events.<\/p>\n

Next post — Ubuntu Sound card Problems <\/a>with Jaunty 9.04 and Delta 44<\/p>\n

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