Awards, speaking at conferences and my own column - up and beyond!

The past year has been an amazing year for me; SEO-Chicks has been a great success, I won the B2B Newcomer of the Year back in November, I've been a speaker at both SMX London and SES London. I'm also, as of next month, writing a regular column about Search Marketing in B2B Marketing Magazine.


To top it all, this month I've been shortlisted for the Blackberry Women & Technology Awards in the category "Best Use of Technology by under 30 year old woman". Just being shortlisted for this award is a major achievement for me. The winner will be announced at an Award Ceremony on 6th May =) Cross your fingers (and toes) for me!


It's all a bit daunting, seeing as 3 years ago this month I was just getting ready to get back to work after 9 month maternity leave. And I knew just about nothing about search marketing. But I was hungry to learn, after sitting at home for 9 months, doing my fair share of nappy talk. I was ready to prove that your career doesn't need to end when you have children. In fact it turns out my career STARTED after having my daughter. I always thought having children would make you care less about your work, but in my case it hasn't, I feel very passionate about what I do (for the first time in my life), I work hard but it's easy when you actually love what you do =)

Bits & bobs from Lisaland

Wow, now this has been a super hectic month. I've been utter rubbish at keeping this blog updated, and feel really guilty for some reason. I've only got about 4 regular readers lol..

So what's up in Lisaland?

Base One Search
It's been an exciting but stressful month. I've been working on the new Base One Search site, which should be up sometime in June. It's going to be a fabulous new Search Marketing site with articles, info and a SEO/SEM blog. Really looking forward to see the end result! Will give an update when it's live.

I've been published - Wohoo!
This month I also been published. I wrote a chapter on SEO & SEM in this years B2B Marketing Handbook. The book is published by B2B Marketing Magazine and is given out to all their subscribers. Pretty cool =)

New contributing SEO blog
I've also been working on a new contributing SEO blog, gathering the best female SEOs under one blog. Watch this space for launch date.

SMX Seattle
I'm also very excited about going to SMX Seattle in the beginning of June. Danny Sullivan's first Search Marketing Expo conference. Speakers and agenda looks fantastic, I think this is the conference to attend this year. Hopefully I will make a better impression on Danny this time around (and not just steal his doughnuts..ok that sounds all wrong). Are you attending SMX? If so leave me a comment and we'll meet up in sunny Seattle!

All in all I've been busy, but good busy. Hoping to get back to blogging properly again in June!