This was originally posted on the SES Blog but removed, so I’m placing it here on my personal blog.
Chris Sherman and I wanted to send our thanks to all the speakers — as well as session coordinators — who participated in the recent Search Engine Strategies show in San Jose. It was the most successful SES show in the history of the series, and your participation helped make it so.
As a reminder, this was also the last SES event that we (Chris Sherman and Danny Sullivan) are programming. Going forward, SES programming is being handled by Kevin Ryan, who recently blogged about how to contact him for shows here.
Please accept our thanks again for taking part in the event and our appreciation for having worked with us on SES over the years.
Danny Sullivan & Chris Sherman
SES San Jose 2007 Conference Co-Chairs
That was the original post in its entirety. Related, Goodbye Search Engine Strategies! over at Search Engine Land has a little background about the early days of the series, how I organized the first show, guided it over the years and did my last programming of it with Chris Sherman last month. As I said at the end of that:
Finally, while its our SES swan song, our SMX series is growing strong. Both our SMX Local & Mobile and SMX Social Media events are approaching fast; we’ve got some new events we’re about to announce, and they type of work we’ve done to make SES a success as a general gathering place for the industry is flowing into the planning for our own SMX West event next February in Santa Clara/Silicon Valley. Thousands have liked what we’ve done over the years with conferences, and we’re still providing all that quality content plus providing a great conference experience, as part of SMX. Check out the SMX site for the full line-up of shows this year.
