1) Please give us your background and tell us what you do for a living.
I work at AboutUs.org as director of sales & marketing. Before coming to AboutUs in March 2009, I reported on technology companies, higher education institutions and banking & finance for the Portland Business Journal. Before joining the PBJ full time in January 2001, I freelanced for the paper for about 3 years, while working for other clients as a freelance marketing and communications writer. Before that is ancient history. Suffice it to say I’m well seasoned.

2) What has SEMpdx meant to you, personally and professionally?
I love SEMpdx. The educational events are awesome, and I feel warmly embraced by a community of SEM experts who can help me learn, grow and build my company’s business. To borrow from a truism of 1970s feminism, in the case of SEMpdx, the personal is the professional, and the professional is the personal.

3) How has SEMpdx influenced the search marketing community in Portland and beyond?
SEMpdx seems to me to model the collaborative and intimate nature of the SEM community. I feel that SEMpdx members really do work to help each other grow their businesses, even where they compete. I’m happy to be part of such a healthy and enlightened business community. Plus, who doesn’t love geeking out about something as slippery and ever-changing as SEO?

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