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About me in 10 seconds: I have a PhD in bacterial genetics from Cambridge University, England, and I'm a Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google.
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Events you might have heard me speak at include:
I'm scheduled to speak at Think Visibility conference in March 2012. Topic still to be announced :)
I'm scheduled to speak at the International Search Summit in London in May 2012 about the expanded Google support for rel-alternate-hreflang annotation for multilingual and multiregional sites.
g|jordan 2.0 was a Google event held in Amman, Jordan in October 2011. I answered webmaster questions, gave demos of Google Webmaster Tools, and also helped answer questions in the Ask a Googler session.

As a Googler, I ran an Open Q&A for webmasters with my colleague Kaspar Szymanksi at a4uexpo London 2011.
I spoke at Media Trust's Think Mobile event in March 2011 giving tips about how to build mobile-friendly websites.
I spoke at the Locate, Collate and Aggregate session at the JISC CETIS Conference 2010 in Nottingham. I will be discussing the experience in building an open educational resources (OER) repository with content from multiple sources.
I helped run the Open Content Studio at the Drumbeat Festival in November 2010. Topics discussed included the future of open educational resources (OER), how to improve the discoverability of OER, particularly OCW, and helping write a Creative Commons-licensed textbook on web development.
The Open Content Studio was a collaboration between Flat World Knowledge, the OpenCourseWare Consortium, Connexions, and me as OCW Search.
I spoke at the MongoUK conference on 18 June 2010 in London about my experience building a full text search engine for MongoDB using Sphinx.
My slides are on Scribd: MongoDB Full Text Search With Sphinx.
I spoke at the Automating Twitter session at Search Engine Strategies 2010 in London on 18 February 2010.
My talk was about analytics for social media marketing. Whenever you launch a marketing campaign, you need to measure it in detail to understand its performance. The presentation covered some of the important actionable metrics you need to track, with code examples of how to track them. Other key topics covered were filtering, automation, and reporting, all of which feed into experimentation to find the most effective marketing messages.
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