The overall topic of the May 2008 meeting was on marketing and traffic.

Non-obvious ways of increasing traffic while monetizing your web site

Presenters will be Daniel Pezely, Director of Engineering of AdUup, Inc.

As a Seattle based start-up, we’re a new breed of Ad Network with traffic sharing and revenue sharing, leveling the playing field for long-tail web publishers.

Daniel’s background includes server software development, assisted in design of IBM’s original Universal Server Farm, systems administration for Wall Street trading floors and pioneering distributed systems work in early days of non-military virtual reality.

For more than twenty years Jonathan has participated in strategic branding and web design and development.

What do you do when you run out of money, e.g. guerilla marketing 101

Buzz Bruggeman is one of the founders of ActiveWords, e.g. http://www.activewords.com/. He graduated with honors from Coe College and from Duke University Law School. He runs the outward facing aspects of ActiveWords, and as such is responsible for evangelizing ActiveWords to everyone he meets. Buzz has spoken at many tech industry events, has been on the advisory board of the Demo Conference, e.g. www.demo.com, won a Demo god award, and has been featured in books by Dan Gillmor and Robert Scoble. Buzz has been a long time participant in the blogging community, and routinely speaks on using new media tools to market and evangelize software.

You can download Buzz’s slide here: http://seattletechstartups.com/docs/Gorilla-Marketing-101.pdf