It's with great pleasure that I introduce our newest SEOmoz team member, the incredibly talented Jane Copland. Jane's tenure at SEOmoz has only been a week, but she's already a valuable addition to our team - poring through tomes of websites, blogs and books to catch up on the fast-moving world of search.

Rebecca & Jane

Jane's first major contribution to the SEOmoz website will be an article on the in-depth practice of Social Media Marketing; an area in which she has shown terrific talent and passion. Jane is already delving into keyword research and sent out her first few link building email requests.

If all goes well, look for Jane to be contributing blog entries to the site within the next 3-4 weeks. I'm hoping she becomes as addicted to the SEO world as the rest of us.

p.s. Since Jane is SEOmoz's first international hire (she's originally from Wellington, NZ), we've taken to asking her to say words like "crikey" and "cheeky" on a daily basis, just to hear the accent, a cross between Maori, Scottish and Colonial British. We'll have to get her on a podcast sometime soon to share the fun :)

Edit from Rebecca: Jane was also an NCAA Division I swimmer, which is what brought her to the United States. (Jeff and I will pretend that she did not swim for Washington State University, so way to go, Jane!)