DB - Double Blog Tag (part 1 - five marketing era secrets about me)

Marketing Fan — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:03:06 +0100

It seems like I’m not the only guy busy in pre-xmas time… others are too, and some are not, so they invented this chain mail like game called

blog tagging

...

and the sweet difference is that you don’t have to be afraid to break the chain because of some wild ancient curse, no loss of stamina or libido and no other crap that those mails usually threaten you with – it’s just a nice plug for social self-promo to tell people five things about you … a possible conversation started at the next conference… good stuff.

Two friends already tagged me from their posts

Dave Zuls the Hawaii SEO

and

Marcus Tandler aka MediaDonis (the Dancing Allstar SEO with a cool dance performance on German Tv and Greg Boser’s birthday )

So since I got tagged twice to my tech blog and my marketing blog and already got listed twice in SoloSeo’s tag tree I think I need to write 2 × 5 secrets plus select 2 × 5 people … let’s see if I can manage THAT

So here are

five things you didn’t know about me

(5 more are here )

I am into programming , a lot more into programming than reader’s of this blog, friends or clients from the online marketing world would expect … in fact I’ve been programming software for the last 20 years – and still do, just a bit different type of – more details here
I am studying marketing in a night university in Vienna … among tons of other projects I’m currently research on online Community User motivation – i.e. that plugs that are required to create a striving, organic online community … will do online surveys in a couple of famous webmaster related online communities/forums – stay tuned for an update on that
I really enjoy electronic music – you can call it Technoid, Raver, Geek, whatever… I started listeing to KOTO and Synth’s of Jean Michelle Jarre in the early 80ies when I was 12 or so – continued loving all those synth tunes that the C64 spit out and after additional influences of grunge and indie it came over me in a strong and already decade long techno, acid and house obsession… in fact I spent days and nights raving thru cities of germany, the LoveParade (when it was still good and original in Berlin in the 90ies) ... today I really favor Progressive Trance and Goa, Paul Oakenfold style for home and some parties, while I prefer Progressive House when going out and dance…
I really enjoy dancing to funky house music at parties … especially when I had some good shots and beers – and some good friends arounds … at least those Euro House parties here in Vienna or Europe in general…

I really enjoy travelling for leisure and took a couple of great shots during my recent travels that you can find in this online community

Ok – enough for this post…

I’m tagging the following online marketing folks definately still missing in the blog tree

ladies first :-)

Becky Ryan AKA Webmoxy , previously at Bruce Clay, now with Trellian – very nice meeting her at Greg’s bday..

Laura Lippay SEO Program Manager for Yahoo – met her in August/San Jose but didn’t see her around in Vegas… she actually stepped ahead and created a 7 reasons to an SEO at yahoo … yeah, you definately figured out how to create the most freaked out url for a blog post “dCEvf5I9erMfIZjmM54ajhgYAw—?cq=1&p=447” and made Google index it even tough... well done :-)

and now some german spammers (cough cough – online marketers) to continue the Euro line that Marcus started

FridayNite this german blogger recently started that english blog I linked, and Marcus told me they live side by side .. so he must be just as cool as Marcus :-) in fact Friday co-produces the SEOFM show – a german SEO podcast

Frank Ristau who already visited me in Vienna last April with some other friends (and that was a nice party) ... nice Adsense placement there in his blog :-)

Pascal Fantou AKA tiktok – very nice and experienced online marketer from Munich as well, met him last August and in Vegas again… funny thing is that we only met so far when flying intercontinental first, so I guess we need to schedule a meeting in Munich or Vienna soon – that’s just crazy … :-)