Miva Small Business Conference 2006 Announced - Paving the Way
The 2006 Miva Conference was recently announced. It will be held August 29 through September 1 in San Diego. I don’t know what Miva was thinking, but they are offering an early bird discount that expires July 9th without any keynote speakers listed and no details on educational sessions other than title and presenter. In other years, there have been descriptions of the sessions. So it is pretty bizarre for them to offer a discount that expires without disclosing all the details of the conference. Interesting sessions this year are:
- Link Building
- Search Engine Optimization
- In Search of Better Organic Search
- Web Analytics
Also interesting is that Miva themselves have admitted that they are trying to make the conference for ecommerce in general rather than targeted for Miva Merchant users only. I think this is a huge mistake. In past years, they have had general ecommerce discussed in the keynote sessions and targeted Miva Merchant in the educational sessions. This year we have no idea about the keynote sessions, but many of the most important educational sessions will now be conducted by people not versed in Miva Merchant. Past keynotes have been very informative but have left end-users wondering how to apply it to their Miva Merchant stores. It is unfortunate that now they will be wondering the same thing after educational sessions.
