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. The Portland chapter of Social Media Club, SEMpdx and Software Association of Oregon Read more [...]

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 Read more [...]

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. Are there really jobs in social media and if so, how do I get Read more [...]

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. 2) Why does a small / medium sized business need to Read more [...]

I asked SEMpdx Board Members, Advisory Board Members, and Conference Bloggers to offer their thoughts about our event...here's what they said: Mike Rosenberg: What a great event! A few days removed and I cannot think of one thing that really went wrong (and being one of the organizers with an ear to the venue that is a good thing). I believe we had our “best-year-ever” in many regards…most attendees, best speakers, most sponsors, great keynote (thanks Danny and Pixelsilk), great lunch Read more [...]

“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 Read more [...]

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 + Microsoft's SEO definition - the process of influencing the structure of content and authority of a site to increase the number of quality visits (Structure > Content > Authority). But always make sure you have compelling offers. + The Beast Read more [...]

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. What is Read more [...]

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. Ian Laurie is the Read more [...]

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. Utah SEO - Jordan Kasteler Use a robots.txt file to ensure that your Read more [...]