#SAScon – creating a buzz about Social Media & SEO in the North
Wednesday was the inaugural get together of SAScon – a social media and SEO conference.
I should say the online search conference for highlighting the strength and ability and energy of the northern digital scene.
When conceived there must have been a few worries – even if not admitted now – about how much support it would receive. The organisers needn’t have worried.
As you can see from the above image it was a packed house: some 160 attendees with speakers from across the UK and Europe came to the Bridgewater Hall in the centre of Manchester.
There were essentially two streams of seminars / panel talks: the more technical SEO and social media. I stuck with my prime interest in social media.
I will discuss in future posts the points of some of the talks I attended. But for now I want to make a couple of points about why I attended:
First, besides continuing my social media education, there was ample opportunity to network.
However, more impotantly in many respects – and I suspect for many attendees – it was a chance to make a statement about the strength and potential of the online community in the North West to deliver: you don’t have to go to London to have access to top digital suppliers.
By attending, digital and non-digital, be it PR or marketing, those that lent their support by simply taking out a day from busy schedules to come along made that exact statement.