David Mink

We always enjoy the opportunity to share our marketing experience, knowledge and tips with others at search marketing conferences and networking events across the country. Recently, we have been pretty busy doing just that.  Here are just a few updates:

David Mink, one of DSM’s founding partners was asked to serve on the founding board of directors for www.slcsem.org.  David is handling all of the legal “to do’s” that come with setting up a non profit organization.  David will also be heading back to Las Vegas for PubCon 2011 to once again speak on the “Legal Issues of Domain Names and Trademarks” panel with fellow attorney Clarke Walton.

Mat Siltala will be joining David at PubCon to speak on several panels including Foursquare & Gowalla – Geo Location Marketing, Interactive Site Reviews: Focus Brand & Reputation Management and Competitive Intelligence – Tools and Tactics.

Dream Systems Media also became a “dinner sponsor” for Epic Dinner  Pubcon Vegas 2011, and is really looking forward to that huge event… within the bigger event (PubCon) and the opportunity to connect with even more amazing individuals in our industry!

Andrew Melchior, our other founding partner made a trip down to Tucson, Arizona to help Local First Arizona present to a number of businesses on “local search” marketing strategies.

Matt Siltala

The whole crew will be heading to  PubCon Paradise 2012 In Honolulu Hawaii where Mat has been asked to speak & moderate a variety of panels.

All in all, lots of skymiles, meeting with old and new friends and learning from some of the brightest minds in the game.

I haven’t heard anything from the crew at WPN  since our interview, but woke up today to a picture text message from Mat Siltala today of my face on the video homepage of WPN (see http://videos.webpronews.com/).  Thanks Mat!

It appears that the production crew has added in some ancillary video and written a nice summary of our  interview. Feel free to check it out – David Mink on FTC Guidelines!

Watch the video here:

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A couple of us from Dream Systems Media will be speaking at SMX West, and we are pretty excited about it.  Myself and David Mink are going to be speaking on a combined total of 4 panels.  They are some awesome subjects with some even cooler speakers!  Here is a run down of our speaking schedule.  We are very excited to be speaking with some of these other awesome speakers!  We are also very thankful that our 3rd team member Andy Melchior will be holding down the DSM fort for us while we are gone!

Matt Siltala speaking schedule:

Local & Mobile Search Track

Mobile Search Apps & Opportunities – Away from your computer, but need to search for something? There’s a smart phone app for that! More than 100,000 for the iPhone, 20,000 and growing for Google’s Android. This session looks at popular search apps on different devices, how they gather data and opportunities they offer to search marketers.

For those of you who are still thinking about maybe going to SMX West 2009, it’s not to late. You can still save $200 if you are planning on attending SMX West 2009 Feb. 10 – 12. The deadline for saving is midnight tonight, 1/9 (just a couple hours away so hurry).

In addition to encouraging your attendance because I’ll be speaking at the event, I wanted to take this opportunity to congratulate my partner, and friend, David Mink on getting asked to speak at SMX West as well. Among the many other things that David does for Dream Systems, he is also our Chief Legal Officer here at Dream Systems Media and a dang good Internet marketer. He has been working in the field of internet marketing since starting his own ecommerce business back in 2000, and he is a licensed attorney in the State of Utah and one of the smartest guys I know.

David will be speaking on Day 2, Wed. 2/11 at 10:30 am. Here is the description of the session he will be speaking in:

Legally Speaking: Recent Legal News About Search – What’s up with legal issues and search engines? That’s what this session is about – filling you in on the always changing developments. From click fraud to copyright to privacy, this session will hit all the major areas that are seeing legal action. Sit back – court is in session!

Here you can find further details, including the speaking bio for David Mink. Good Luck Dave!

Defamation is defined as the act of injuring another’s reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral.

The legal question here is: Can a party (like Google) be punished for the way its site is used by third parties?

In the United States the answer is probably not. Under 47 U.S.C. sec. 230(c)(1) (CDA Sec. 230): “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” This provision is generally interpreted by U.S. Courts to provide protection against defamation claims made against ISPs.

But this is Italy, and I really don’t have a clue how they generally rule on issues like this one!

At DSM I wear the hat of “Chief Legal Officer” and thoroughly enjoy posting on Internet Legal topics involving trademarks, domain names, copyrights, privacy issues, etc.

If you have suggestions for topics you would like to read more about please email me at dmink (at) dreamsystemsmedia (dot) com. Please note that I cannot answer questions relating to specific fact situations because…

–Disclaimer–

my posts are NOT LEGAL ADVICE. Please read our Legal Disclaimer page.

However, I am happy to discuss news and events!