While pottering around online this morning, I decided to see what was happening with SMA UK - originally intended to be a search marketing organisation for the UK - as I'd not heard anything from, or about, them for a while. It appears that the last post to their blog was one year ago today, while the last event listed was 9 months ago. Has SMA gone? Does anyone even know what's happening, or has happened?
There's little doubt that the industry needs representative organisations, and SMA looked originally to be one of the better attempts at creating one so far.
If it's still active, why no public news for a year? If it's not, why no news explaining that? For an organisation that was founded in part in response to SEMPO's problems (SEMPO being another search industry association with a heavy bias towards the American market), and especially SEMPO's lack of meaningful and open communication, they have done remarkably poorly on the same front themselves.
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