So last week I was down at SMX East 2009 in NYC. I had a blast, both during business hours and afterwards. During business hours, though, I was blogging and video blogging for NVI. Well, of all the video interviews I did, here’s the one I enjoyed doing the most — and I’m not even in front of the camera.

This is the first of three installments of a chat with Rand Fishkin and Guillaume Bouchard. They discuss where they think search might be headed in the coming year.

Rand is the CEO of SEOmoz, Guillaume is the CEO of NVI (my boss), the two of them are good friends, and they have both forgotten more about search engine marketing than most of us will ever know. All in all, it was a bit of an intimidating experience to be hanging out with them both.

I just got back from SMX East 2009. It was a helluva trip. I got to meet a lot of new people, and I got to see a lot of old friends. One of the new people I met was Tamar Weinberg. In addition to being just an overall internet bad-ass, Tamar also wrote a book.

Here’s an interview I did with Tamar for NVI. We talked about how social media, user generated content, and social networking are affecting search engine marketing. She shared some insights from the book, and explained how brands should be approaching both SEM and social web in an integrated way.

A good chunk of my head is cut off. The only camera I brought to SMX East was Flip Mino HD. I bought it two days earlier, hadn’t really test it, and didn’t know what I was doing. But hey, if you watch the video, it’ll be for Tamar and not me, so all is well that ends well…

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Meet Agustin Vazquez-Levi. I work with him at NVI. We’re both down at SMX East 2009 in NYC this week, and he’s on a panel called Analytics for Social Media. I thought I’d ask him what he thinks about quantifying social media.

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