The Society of Digital Agencies (SoDA) today announces the global expansion of SoDA with new member agencies in Brazil, Russia, Australia, France and the UK. The current round of organization expansion wasn’t just limited to international firms, with many well-known U.S. digital agencies joining forces with SoDA also. In total SoDA has welcomed 18 new digital agencies maturing the organization with a representation of over 30 top agencies worldwide.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) August 19, 2009 — The Society of Digital Agencies (SoDA) today announces the global expansion of SoDA with new member agencies in Brazil, Russia, Australia, France and the UK. The current round of organization expansion wasn’t just limited to international firms, with many well-known U.S. digital agencies joining forces with SoDA as well. In total SoDA has welcomed 18 new digital agencies maturing the organization with a representation of over 30 top agencies worldwide.

Additional new members include: Bloc, Colossal Squid, Deep Focus, Evolution Bureau (EVB), GRAPE, Great Fridays, Gringo, IE, Mekanism, Obscura Digital, Profero, Rain, R/GA, SOAP Creative, Soleil Noir, Terralever, and Unit 9. The new members have been invited for their industry leadership and expertise to join an already elite group of SoDA members that includes: 360i, AgencyNet, Big Spaceship, Blitz, Domani Studios, Exopolis, Firstborn, GrupoW, IQ Interactive, Odopod, Schematic, Struck, WDDG and WhittmanHart.

SoDA has grown from its inception in 2006 when 13 agency executives got together in South Beach Miami for Mojitos and engaging conversation about the various aspects of the digital marketing business. SoDA members meet several times a year to discuss and propose initiatives for the business of digital marketing related to best practices, education, and advocacy. In addition to the annual members-only conference, SoDA hosts their signature “unConference” at key industry events each year, including Adobe’s MAX Conference, SXSW, and the OneShow.

While SoDA has had an international following since its inception, it began to see more and more international agencies attending industry events in the U.S., and in many cases solely to attend the SoDA unConferences. The result was an engaging dialog on the similarities and sometimes, great differences in the digital business overseas. These valuable conversations led to an acceleration of our membership expansion plans to bring a global perspective to our business.

About SoDA:
The Society of Digital Agencies is the voice of digital marketing professionals with a mission to advance the industry through best practices, education, and advocacy. SoDA is a non-profit industry organization with Adobe Systems as its founding sponsor.

For more information about SoDA visit www.societyofdigitalagencies.org or join the conversation at www.sodaspeaks.ning.com.

Entrepreneurs Week is a week long program of workshops and presentations for aspiring entrepreneurs. The focus is on social and sustainable entrepreneurship as well as innovation and commercialisation. The NICTA Forum will feature presentations from: Rhys Hayes; Founder and Managing Director, IE; Ahyud Nagara, Xilo Online; Bradley Birchill, Founder, Asatori and Stuart Cole, Business Development Manager, NICTA.

NICTA Start-ups Panel to be held Monday 10 August, at 4.30pm, this is a free event, full details can be found at www.eweek.org.au

Mitre 10 has re-appointed digital agency IE to handle its digital media account for a further two years. The new contract will begin in early July. Mitre 10’s National Online and Private Label Manager Katrina Joseski said, “We are delighted to be continuing and strengthening our relationship with IE. Mitre 10 has started to invest a lot more time and funds into this channel and IE will continue to provide new insight and thinking to the task.

Out of thousands of enquirers for SoDA membership, IE were the first Australian digital agency to be invited to become a member. SoDA was formed in March, 2007 by 14 well-respected digital agencies, who enjoyed the immediate value of coming together with so-called competitors and well-respected peers to learn how to better run their businesses.  SoDA membership includes AgencyNet, Big Spaceship, Blitz, Domani Studios, Exopolis, Firstborn, Grupo W, IQ Interactive, Juxt, MindComet, Odopod, Schematic, Struck Design, 360i, and Whitman Hart.

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