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Kristjan Mar Hauksson, Founder and Director of Search at Nordic eMarketing, will be holding a signing event for his recently published book on global search, Global Search Engine Marketing: Fine-Tuning Your International Search Engine Results, at the upcoming SAScon Search, Analytics, and Social Media event in Manchester, UK.

SAScon, to be held on 17^th and 18^th May 2012, is non-profit event organised by the digital community for the digital community. The popular event is in association with SEMPO, Manchester Digital, and Manchester’s leading figureheads in digital business. Read more…

The CEO of H.F. Securities firm in Iceland, Andri Gudmundsson, recently spoke with Bloomberg about Iceland’s current economic climate and the Investment Programme which has been implemented in order to ease off capital controls imposed in 2008 after the financial collapse.

According to Gudmundsson, investors in Iceland are being heavily affected by the capital controls imposed by Sedlabanki Islands (The Central Bank of Iceland). Today, investors with about USD 3 billion backed up in ISK assets now face delays in exiting their holdings as steps to ease the restrictions by 2015 show signs of faltering. Read more…

Nationally recognized public accounting firm Morrison, Brown, Argiz & Farra, LLC (MBAF) today announced the promotions of members of the firm’s marketing department. Hortensia Sampedro Hacker, who previously served as the Director of Marketing, has been promoted to Chief Marketing Officer. The firm also announced Carolina Argiz Orozco has been promoted to Marketing and Business Development Manager, and Jennifer Valdes and Valeria Sanchez have been promoted to Associate Marketing Managers. The announcements were made by Chairman and CEO, Tony Argiz.

“MBAF’s marketing department works diligently to help the firm expand our presence nationally, provides our principals and staff across the country with the tools to work better together, and keeps our clients informed of the latest financial and accounting news affecting their industries,” said Argiz. “Hortensia’s impeccable work ethic and deep industry knowledge, coupled with the marketing team’s dedication to the firm, help add great value to the work we do every day, and I congratulate the team on their new roles.” Read more…

SEMPO member, and Founder/Director of Search & Online Communications at Nordic eMarketing, Kristjan Mar Hauksson will be holding a seminar on streamlining marketing efforts to achieve successful campaigns, during the upcoming Gulltaggen digital marketing conference in Oslo, Norway.

Kristjan Mar notes that according to the Forrester’s Interactive Marketing Forecast for 2011-2016, 26% of all advertising spend will come from interactive marketing, with close to half of that coming from search. However, how can marketers attribute success within this growing part of one’s marketing efforts? Why is search still predicted to be so strong, what about social, or banners, or videos? Read more…

Kristjan Mar Hauksson, SEMPO member and Nordic eMarketing founder, has announced that Friday 4th May is the closing date for all entries for the 2012 European Search Awards (ESA).

The European Search Awards celebrates the very best in search, PPC and digital marketing from across the continent. There are 17 categories in total for campaigns, software, teams, and the individuals behind them – submission for all entries is free. Read more…

The 2012 Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference (RIMC) is set to take place this Friday at the Hilton Nordica Hotel in Iceland’s capital city, Reykjavik.

The popular annual Internet communication and marketing event will be focusing on two tracks, mixing various topics, best practice tips, and Social Media strategies over one day. Read more…

The Nordic Premier Digital Marketing Conference, Gulltaggen 2012 is to take place at Folketeateret in Norway’s capital city, Oslo, between 24th and 26th April.

Gulltaggen is Norway’s most important event for digital marketing, communication, innovation, leadership and creativity, and is by far the best arena for sharing competence, knowledge and networking. Read more…

Rising Media and Third Door Media, producers of the Search Marketing Expo conference series, today announced that Amit Singhal, head of Google’s core ranking team and Google Fellow, will be the opening keynote speaker at SMX London 2012.

Amit is internationally recognised as the man responsible for Google web search. His algorithm has become the foundation for Google’s search platform and Fortune named him one of the smartest people in tech. A Google Fellow, Amit was recently elected as one of the members of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).   Read more…

The 2012 Internet marketing strategies event, SES (Search Engine Strategies) in London, England between 20 – 24 February, has announced that SEMPO board member and Nordic eMarketing founder Kristjan Mar Hauksson will be speaking during the event.

For the 2012 SES London event Kristjan Mar Hauksson will be speaking, offering his expert knowledge on cross-channel reputation management and advanced link building strategies. Read more…

Google Webmaster Trends Analyst John Müller has been confirmed as a speaker at the International Search Summit at SMX Munich on 29^th March.

John’s session will concentrate on Google’s handling of international content and its recent introduction of a new markup for multilingual web pages.  He will advise delegates on how to implement the rel=”alternate” hreflang markup and discuss its implications on international SEO and geo-targeting. Read more…

Archimedes Training founded by dynamic social entrepreneur Sarah Blackwell, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year with a lunch into its third continent- Australia.

Back in 2000, Sarah became disillusioned with the way her dream job as environmental education development officer at a Derbyshire outdoor education centre was going. “People’s understanding of environmental education seemed to lurch between pond dipping and governmental sustainable development policies” remembers Sarah. Read more…