Kate Morris

This has been a big topic this past week at SES San Jose. There was even a panel talking about twitter and the panelist spoke about how you need to brand your name, not another name like yours. According to them the only exceptions are the older SEOs like Graywolf.

When I started out on twitter I used a name I had come up with for MySpace, longhornkate. It showed my love of the Texas Longhorn football team and my first name. I am a single female so thought this might be best considering I might change my surname someday.

Then this past week a number of people I respect noted that I should be going by my real name on twitter to build that brand, instead of longhornkate. After about the 8th person, I decided to try it out and see what people thought.The reaction has been mixed. So what do you think? LonghornKate or KateMorris? I own both domains, so that’s not an issue.

Please vote and then post a comment explaining why you feel that way. I am so curious.

It’s almost … well it is official. AustinSEM.org has launched, but just with a temporary site. We’ll be looking for a better place to host and a great designer to help us with the site. For now, it totally works. Please stop by if you’re an Austin SEM and sign up. We have some great things coming up and want to get together with as many Austin SEO, SEMs, etc as possible.

You do have to be working in the industry though. We will soon start training for those that WANT to do it.

I’m excited to get our community together and hope the other SEMs in Austin agree.

The web is getting inundated with request for votes on their proposed panels for SXSW Interactive. In true fashion, I have one as well. If you have a few seconds I’d like to tell you where to vote for ours and most importantly, why.

VOTE HERE

Title: Rock Your Video Marketing Like a P*rn Star (With More Clothes On)

• It’s an all girl panel including myself, Laura Alter and Nadia King. Three hot women talking about video marketing and SEO.
• Taking a page from the top industry on the internet to feed your business model can’t be a bad idea.
• Video marketing is one of the newest topics that few understand and utilize in business.
• It’s going to be so much FUN!!

VOTE HERE

Okay, a post I was writing for here I gave to Bruce Clay as a guest post. I think it was a good topic, and Bruce Clay gets many more readers than I, so I sent it that direction.

The Adolescence of SEO

Next up, someone on twitter asked me to keep everyone up to date on my schooling and it’s progress. So I will attempt to be better about updating everyone on what I’m learning and how it applies to SEM. I just got done with a class called “Organizational Behavior” which explored everything from personality types, to teams, to Maslow. Speaking of Maslow, Dana Larson just wrote a post on Maslow and applying the Hierarchy of Needs to Social Marketing. Pretty good. It’s not the theory organizational behaviorists use much anymore but the parallels she draws are awesome.

I did get an A in that class after some hard work, lots of studying (much to Todd Friesen’s annoyance), and a few times praying. I’m a third the way done (4/12) and holding onto my 4.0. So far so good.