Oct 1st - Meta Melbourne meets “Google Guru” Jim Stewart

Jim Stewart - SEO and Google Guru

We are delighted to announce that our October ‘09 guest speaker is the ‘Google Guru’ himself,

Jim Stewart, Chief Executive Officer of StewArt Media

Jim is our Mr. Everywhere on the internet. Heard regularly on ABC Radio with Gael Jennings and Peter Clarke as the Internet consultant, Network 10’s “The Panel” and ‘A Current Affair’ on Channel 9. Jim has graciously agreed to come along to this MetaMelbourne and share his secrets for getting your businesses to a whole new level by having your websites ranked on the front page of Google.

Jim’s expertise in the online space has been greatly sought after by both private enterprise and the public sector. He was the senior consultant behind some of Australia’s first corporate websites including the RACV and the 1995 TV Week Logie Awards. In 1996 he was the project lead on Australia’s first commercial VoIP (Voice Over IP) project and consulted on a number of other leading edge projects.

A renowned speaker and subject matter expert on internet marketing and SEO (Search Engine Optimisation), Jim bought his first computer in 1983, started using the Internet in 1992 and has been an Internet Consultant since 1995.

In 1998 he formed Stew Art Media to focus on the emerging area of rich media on the Internet. Jim has delivered his unique brand of Internet savvy consulted to national broadcasters from Pakistan to Malaysia, Fiji to Sri Lanka and Brunei on streaming media.

Jim has been the Systems Architect and Streaming Producer for over 200 live webcasts.

Perhaps you have followed such music acts as

Melissa Etheridge, Gene Simmonds, Black Eyed Peas, Anastascia, Youthu Yindi

and actors including Rik Mayall, Molly Ringwald and Sean William Scott. If you have, then some of Jim’s contributions have reached you.

Jim produced and presented a daily video technology news show called IOB CoffeeBreak which was syndicated to Yahoo!, AOL (US), Real Networks (US), Microsoft Windows Media Guide (Aust.), Optus@Home (Broadband), Seek and ZD Net (Aust).

This production had over 50,000 viewers per month from 23 different countries!

At the same time Jim was also a regular contributor to TTalk.com, the US based Internet Radio Technology Show.

He is also very well known for his weekly SEO Video Cast on YouTube