Join Colleen Wright of the Search Engine Academy of Oregon and get some search engine marketing tips and tactics that you can implement immediately at this free seminar. You will learn: *The difference between on-page and off-page factors and how to take advantage of them *Usability Tips that will keep your visitors on your site *What tools you can use to help determine the best course of action for optimizing your website *Why it is important to understand search and where search is heading in the future *Basic Actionable steps to implement immediately While introducing these marketing nuggets, she will also give you a brief overview of what you will learn in the “Ultimate SEO Mastery Workshop” coming in October. If you have been thinking about taking the class or just want information on SEO basics, this is one hour you don’t want to miss.

Contact: Colleen Wright [ info@sea-oregon.com ]    Phone: 503-530-8178
Date: Saturday, September 12, 2009
Venue:     MacForce in Portland OR
Event Type:     Seminar/Workshop
Website:     http://www.sea-oregon.com

A “secret ratio” has emerged among Twitter users to determine who is worth following on the service. It holds that a person who has more followers than they are following is probably a good person to at least consider following. The system could have certain flaws, however, like the increasingly apparent fact that a person can only follow so many people on Twitter before the idea of following starts to become meaningless.   – Read the rest of the story…

Monday, June 15, 2009 – New World Stages, New York, NY

Join O’Reilly Media founder and CEO Tim O’Reilly, Edelman Digital SVP Steve Rubel, and Twitter expert Sarah Milstein at this one-day boot camp. Attend this event to learn best practices you can immediately apply to engage your customers and grow your business. While the necessity of businesses having a presence on Twitter is becoming more apparent every day, many marketing professionals face some common obstacles to entering the Twittersphere:

1. Lack of time and resources to create and manage Twitter campaigns for their business and/or brand; and
2. Difficulty conveying to management/decision makers – the “ROI” of Twitter.

At O’Reilly’s Twitter Boot Camp, participants will learn:

• why and how they need to get their businesses and brands on Twitter
• what works and what doesn’t
• some ethical and legal pitfalls to avoid
• and how some businesses are already measuring ROI and customer engagement on Twitter–directly from the people behind the brands, businesses, AND communities that are successfully interacting on Twitter everyday.

For more information: http://training.oreilly.com/twitterbootcamp/