About
Social Networking Online Since 1984, Building Web Sites since 1994, Blogging Since 2002, Tweeting Since 2007
Kelby Carr is the founder and CEO of Type-A Parent, a social network and multi-author magazine-style blog for digital moms and dads, and Type-A Parent Conference, an annual blogging and social media conference in its third year that attracts major corporations and hundreds of moms and dads who blog. She is the author of Mom Blog SEO.
She’s been geeking it out on computers since she was 10, social networking online since the 1980s, web publishing since the early 1990s, blogging since 2002 and tweeting since 2007. She brings a rarely-found long view and experience level to social media consulting. Her social footprint includes:
- more than 26,000 Twitter followers
- more than 3,500 RSS feed subscribers
- more than 2,000 Facebook friends
- two Facebook fan pages of around 1,500 apiece
- more than 1,500 LinkedIn connections
Kelby Carr provides consulting, speaking and training on social media strategy, blogger outreach, online community building, web usability, SEO, online content and a wide variety of online platforms including Twitter, Facebook, WordPress and Joomla.
Her speaking engagements have included BlogHer, BlogWorldExpo, ConvergeSouth, BlissDom and Social Media Business Forum. She was named one of the 50 Most Influential and Powerful Women in Social Media, featured on Babble’s Top 50 Twitter Moms, was a member of a Nielson advisory board on mom bloggers, was voted Most Social in Social Media and Best Mommy Blogger by Mountain Xpress newspaper/Blog Asheville and was named one of Ten Women to Watch in 2010 by Verve Magazine.
If you are interested in her services, see the Hire Me page. You can also see what people are saying about me, or learn about Kelby 1.0 or Kelby 2.0.
