Scott Porad

An update from yesterday…

I talked to Jennifer Cabala of Seattle 2.0 about some of my professional experience—how I got my start, on getting a successful product to market, and what I will be speaking on at Seattle 2.0’s event for technologists, Deploy 2010 on June 24th.   You can read the whole interview here.

SMASH Summit

I presented at the SMASH Summit on the keys to the success we’ve had at Cheezburger.  The slides of the presentation are below, and in summary the presentation goes like this:

• We have lots of sites
• Traffic is moving up and to the right
• There were three secrets to our success

1. Create great content — in particular, content that strikes and emotional chord
2. Create lots of it — more content means you’re more likely to resonate with someone
3. Create it for less money — the key to this is knowing what about your content people are coming for; in our case, it’s the captions, not the pictures.

Seattle Weekly

One of my passions is music, and I was interviewed by the Seattle Weekly for their weekly Reverb Questionnaire, a list of questions they pose to folks outside the music industry.  Previous participants include Michael Chabon, Michele Norris, and Janeane Garofolo, so I’m in pretty good company!