Toronto

With nearly 40 years experience in marketing and public relations, Anne Kennedy founded Beyond Ink in 1997 to bring the fundamental principles of marketing communications to online professionals. A search engine marketer for more than 12 years, she is an industry thought leader and sought after speaker and writer worldwide.

Anne is now launching Joblr.net Self-Service SEO with patent pending Visibility score benchmarking, in partnership with Mikkel deMib Svendsen, Jamie Low, and Beyond Ink partners Shane Borelli and Gene Ehrbar. Joblr's mission is to make the same sound principles of search marketing to a much wider audience of small companies and non-profits.

Currently, Anne represents professional SEO firms on the Search Engine Strategies (SES) Domestic Advisory Board, as well as the Advisory board for SEM-PDX, an professional search association in Portland Oregon. She further serves on the board of directors of Helium.com, a community of writers providing experience-based knowledge, wisdom and creativity to publishers and readers.

After earning a degree in Radio, Television and Film from Northwestern University, Anne was certified an Internet Professional by Novell, Inc. Anne served on the Board of Directors of Mesda, now TechMaine, the state's principal IT trade association for six years, and before that with various PR and marketing organizations in Connecticut and Rochester, New York.

Anne lives in Maine and Oregon, and can always be found at Beyondink.com.