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By: Jennifer Sable Lopez
June 1, 2011
And The Winning City for #MozCation Is…
Moz News
The author’s views are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.
Come on now, you didn’t think I’d spill beans just like that did you? Before I give you the goods, let me refresh your memory in case this is the first time you’re hearing about MozCation. A few weeks ago, we asked people to create some sort of unique content and tell us why we should have an SEOmoz Meetup (aka MozCation) in their city.
Overwhelming Response
The nominations started in rather slowly and at first we thought that perhaps MozCation would be a complete failure! Soon a number of nominations started trickling in, however people weren’t creating new content. They were simply linking to city government websites and wikipedia pages… which wasn’t what we were looking for. There was an email thread going around internally about how we needed to write another post explaining better what we were looking for.
But then, the first “real” nomination came in from Peru. We were delighted and quite surprised, we were unaware we had a following in Peru (little did we know), and the retweets started rolling in. Soon after, Portsmouth, NH was nominated and then Calgary. By this time, we were excited that we were getting some unique submissions and figured we’d have a handful of cities to pick from. What we didn’t realize was that the next nomination would be for Spain, and it would change the whole game. Gianluca had bought the domain mozcation.com and built an entire site! Holy game changer. Soon after, people started creating Twitter and Facebook accounts, building websites and rallying their local communities. Check out all the submissions below. 🙂
Picking A City
Whew. Now, how on earth do we pick one city out of all the great nominations we received? Well, we decided we didn’t have to. We’re the keeper of the rules, and in true TAGFEE fashion, we decided to pick four cities instead. 🙂 I don’t want to ruin all the fun, so I’ll just let Rand spill the beans:
(Be sure to watch the entire video!)
The Nominees
Take a look at all 15 nominated cities in no particular order. Everyone worked really hard on these sites, pages, videos, etc. I know they’d love for you to take a peek at all their hard work.
Cleveland, OH
Title: The Decision 2011
Nominated by: @FathomSEO
Dallas, TX
Title: Why SEOmoz Should Come to Dallas for a MozCation
Nominated by: @mark_barrera
Denver, CO
Title: Why SEOmoz Should Come To Denver For Mozcation: A Love Story
Nominated by: @Location3
San Luis Obispo, CA
Title: Roger, Come to the Happiest Place in America
Nominated by: @NugeKnows
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Title: Why SEOmoz Should Come To Brazil
Nominated by: @fabioricotta
Orlando, FL
Title: MozCation Orlando
Nominated by: @MozcationMCO a group at Full Sail University
Houston, TX
Title: The MozCation should definitely add Houston, TX to its list of stops
Nominated by: @CarterCole
Other Nominations: MozCation:Houston from @juliaalaniz and Mozcation in Houston from @googleismybf
Salt Lake City, UT
Title: MozCation – Salt Lake City
Nominated by: @Sams_Antics
Other Nominations: 1,276 Reasons #Mozcation is Coming to SLC from @shuey03 and Come To Salt Lake City, Mozcation! from @davidscoville and This Is The Place…For a MozCation from @iamadrianlazo
Lima, Peru
Title: MozCation In Lima
Nominated by: @MozcationLima
Spain (various cities)
Title: Why SEOmoz Must Take Roger To Spain
Nominated by: @gfiorelli1
Calgary, AB Canada
Title: SEOmoz Come To Calgary… Or Else!
Nominated by: @calindaniel
Manila, Philippines
Title: Hey Roger! Visit Your Filipino Fans, SEOmoz Buddies in Manila
Nominated by: @seoteky
Copenhagen, Denmark
Title: Where’s Roger Mozbot
Nominated by: @ahogenhaven
Porstmouth, NH
Title: It’s Time for MozCon Portsmouth, NH
Nominated by: @DaveCurrierSEO
Indianapolis, IN
Title: Roger… STOP… Save Indianapolis….STOP!
Nominated by: @flea_spano
Now What?
Yes we chose four cities, but we will still be holding at least one more round of nominations for another MozCation later in the year. So if you missed out this time, or if your city wasn’t chosen, keep a watch on the blog! We’ll be announcing open nominations again in a couple months. So stay tuned! We’ll also keep you up-to-date on dates/times for all the MozCation events coming up.
Thank You
Never did we imagine that we’d get so many nominations. The sheer number of tweets that came in for #MozCation was enough to humble us. Thank you to everyone who worked hard to nominate their city. You’ve made is so proud to be a part of this amazing community. We look forward to seeing you all!
About Jennifer Sable Lopez —
Jen Sable Lopez is a leader in the community and digital marketing spaces, and is a sought-after industry speaker and blogger. She’s an independent consultant who specializes in Harry Potter .gifs, and other badassery. Check out her site: http://jensablelopez.com. Follow her on Twitter: @jennita. Formerly the Sr. Director of Community at Moz.
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