Bio

Anne covers fast-changing Internet trends, such as "Is Facebook a Global Player?" published January 2010 by Search Engine Marketing Journal. She guest blogs for Microsoft and speaks at marketing events worldwide on search marketing, predicting it will be viral, visual and mobile. She served as technical editor for "When Search Meets Usability" by noted author Shari Thurow, published in 2009.

US-based Beyond Ink is in two Portlands, Maine and Oregon, and international partners with Nordic eMarketing in Reykjavik, Iceland, with offices in China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Sweden and the UK. In marketing for 40 years, Anne founded Beyond Ink in1997 to bring sound principles of marketing to online media and has provided search engine marketing consulting to hundreds of companies, including Hearst Newspapers, Philips Lifeline, and Dunkin Donuts, and launched dotcoms Zillow, Avvo, JibJab and AmericanTowns online.

She serves as an advisor to the SES global industry conference series and is a founding member of the board of directors of Helium.com, an online community for writers that is revolutionizing how traditional media acquires content. She is also a founder of Jobr.net Self-Service SEO, a very low-cost subscription SaaS. She holds a B. S. in Radio, Television and Film from Northwestern University, and was certified an Internet Professional by Novell, Inc.