Thanks to the quick work of the organizations below, we are all excited to announce the introduction of the region’s first Social Media Awards, The SoMe Awards (so – mee). This year’s award is on a tight time table, but your help with tweeting, blogging and spreading the word is appreciated. Most details are available at www.someawards.com. Don’t be shy – nominate yourself or a client close to you.

Paul is speaking today at SES New York. Recently, he was glad enough to answer some questions about Indeed, Jobs, Social Media & Search Marketing.

1) Please give me your background and tell us what you do for a living .

I’m the CEO and co-founder of Indeed, a search engine for jobs . My bio is here: http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/newyork/paul-forster.php Indeed was founded by Rony Kahan and me in late 2004. We previously founded a job board for financial professionals, so we’ve been in the online recruitment industry for a decade now.

What: Getting It: Careers in Social Media with Kelly Feller
Date: Tuesday, March 24th
Location: WebTrends
851 SW 6th Ave. Suite 1600
Portland, OR 97204
6-6:30pm Networking
6:30-8pm Speaking
Featuring: Kelly Feller
Social Media Strategist
Intel’s Social Media Center of Excellence

RSVP on our Upcoming Event page or LinkedIn

Supported by Widmer Brothers and WebTrends.

Follow @socialmediapdx on twitter.

SEMpdx Board Member David Mihm will be speaking at SES New York beginning March 24th on the “Search On A Dime” panel. Get your tickets now!

1) Please give me your background and tell us what you do for a living.

Hopefully most people reading this blog have already met me…but if not, I am a web designer and a local search consultant based here in Portland. Moved here from the Bay Area about a year ago & absolutely love it.

I asked SEMpdx Board Members, Advisory Board Members, and Conference Bloggers to offer their thoughts about our event…here’s what they said:

“I’m an insider, I been burned by the fire
And I’ve had to live with some hard promises
I’ve crawled through the briars–I’m an insider.” Tom Petty

I have no problem stating publicly that I don’t feel that…’s prison sentence fits the crime committed (though I admit I don’t know all the facts and know that many other people I respect don’t agree with me). What I find interesting is that in my mind, even though his transgressions had nothing to do with SEO, his incident brought up for me some very salient points that touch upon SEO client / contractor relationships.

Speakers: Microsoft’s Derrick Wheeler, NYTimes’ Marshall Simmonds, Yahoo’s Laura Lippay
and Search Engine People’s Jeff Quipp.

Moderator: ISITE Design’s Steve Kemper

Microsoft.com: Taming the MSCOM Beast
Derrick Wheeler
Senior SEO Architect

Building and Growing Your SEM Biz – SearchFest 2009

3pm in the Vista room

Speakers

Rand Fishkin – SEOmoz
Adam Audette – Audette Media
Anne Kennedy – Beyond Ink

Moderator

Lisa Williams – Media Forte Marketing

Session Details

Anne is the first speaker for this session. Her presentation’s title is A Proust Questionnaire… for Business.

A perfect business happiness, to Anne, is a great team, contended customers and profits. Anne specifically places the team aspect before all.

By Lisa Peyton

Officially titled ‘Site Analytics: How to get the most out of your site without increasing your budget’ the session includes 3 analytics experts: Eric T. Peterson, Ian Lurie and Bob Garcia.

Eric T. Peterson resides in Portland, OR and is the author of book and blog, Web Analytics Demystified, http://www.webanalyticsdemystified.com/. He is also known for several other resources on web analytics including The Big Book of KPI’s and Website Measurement Hacks.

SEO For Wordpress Session with Jordan Kasteler – Search & Social, Rick Turoczy – Silicon Florist, and David Wallace – SearchRank. Moderated by Scott Hendison. These blogging pros discuss different tools and plugins that can be used to optimize your blog for Search Engines, but also maintain a social media friendly blogging platform. The Q& A section discusses the scalability of WordPress for a web site’s blog.