In case you were eagerly waiting for the SEM Conference in Calgary, you’re going to have to wait a little longer. It has been postponed until October 2009. Apparently, a major corporate sponsor is in the offing, but as you can guess, the big companies can’t move fast enough to accommodate the short fuse that the conference has with it being originally scheduled for this September.

This is probably good, as being the first annual, there is a lot of ground work that still has to happen, that the relatively short timeframe didn’t allow for. Better to wait and get everything ready and lined up, rather than rush it and risk a poor result. Also, the original date was VERY close to the Internet Marketing Conference in Vancouver, which attracts a VERY similar audience. IMC has not had a conference in Canada since the Vancouver event in 2002 and, as a result, has a strong following.

We’ll now have more time to prepare for IMC Vancouver, where we have both a speaking engagement on B2B search engine marketing, and a demo of ActiveConversion lined up. It’s scheduled for September 11-12, 2008 at the Coast Plaza Hotel. Hope to see you there!