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Posted by Kelby Carr in featured, journalism, mommy blogging on 03 14th, 2010 | View Comments

Newspaper Bias Against Mom Bloggers

The latest New York Times article on mom bloggers, Honey, Don’t Bother Mommy. I’m Too Busy Building My Brand, is yet another of many from the Times that attempts to marginalize our industry. Liz Gumbinner has an amazing post about the snarky New York Times article, and the comments there...

Posted by Kelby Carr in SEO, featured, freelance writing, mommy blogging on 02 24th, 2010 | View Comments

Mom Blog SEO is Published

I am very excited to announce that Mom Blog SEO is published! I have already gotten some great feedback and comments from those who preordered the book. You can find out more at Mom Blog SEO. P.S. You can also make money promoting my book by joining the affiliate program.

Posted by Kelby Carr in consumer BS, featured, twitter on 01 20th, 2010 | View Comments

5 Twitter Customer Service Fails

Twitter customer service can be customer service at its best, what it should be and stopped being years ago. It can be personal, real-time, proactive and, best of all, effective. I see some companies who standout. They not only respond when directly contacted (@ed on Twitter). They monitor Twitter for...

Posted by Kelby Carr in business and pr, featured on 01 1st, 2010 | View Comments

Blogging Queens, a.k.a. My 3 Words for 2010

I was inspired by Chris Brogan’s post today, My 3 Words for 2010. I think it’s a great way to summarize your goals, mission and vision for the coming year. The year 2009 was a wild ride. I spoke at several conferences, and hosted Type-A Mom Conference. I launched Momtent and I am organizing...

Posted by Kelby Carr in featured, social networking on 12 18th, 2009 | View Comments

PR Nightmares: Salvation is in the Reaction

I’ve been pretty disappointed by PETA’s response to the PR nightmare they created when they decided to spam several moms this week. Since my last post, PETA Fail, or How Not to Spread the Word on Twitter, I have learned that they also used email and Facebook fan pages to continue their spam....

Posted by Kelby Carr in featured, pets, twitter, web 2.0 on 12 17th, 2009 | View Comments

PETA Fail, or How Not to Spread the Word on Twitter

It aggravates and saddens me that there are still so many major household names that know Twitter is hip, so they jump in and use it without the slightest thought to how to properly engage on Twitter. Yesterday, PETA did what can only be described as using the same tactic as porn and get-rich-quick spammers...

Posted by Kelby Carr in business and pr, featured, freelance writing on 11 22nd, 2009 | View Comments

Freelance Rates – How Bloggers Can Set Their Rates

Setting freelance rates can be tricky. Often there is little information out there to see what others are charging (especially for bloggers), and even more often there is little guidance for the many variables from client to client. In the comments on Mom Bloggers Deserve to Get Paid, I could see a lot...

Posted by Kelby Carr in featured, journalism, new media, web 2.0 on 11 22nd, 2009 | View Comments

How to Blog Like a Journalist

Blogging is a wonderful medium, but I am also a firm believer that we bloggers can elevate our work by taking the best of new media and the best of old media and combining it. It serves us well, and it serves our readers well. I spent 15 years as a newspaper reporter, and now seven years blogging (with...

Posted by Kelby Carr in featured, freelance writing, mommy blogging on 11 15th, 2009 | View Comments

Mom Bloggers Deserve to Get Paid

I have been talking a lot about the topic of money and pay for mom bloggers lately. There are a few things that have been aggravating me about the mom blogging scene, but one major one is the perception that mom bloggers work for free (or should). Many mom bloggers I know are brilliant. They know the...

Posted by Kelby Carr in featured, freelance writing, mommy blogging on 11 5th, 2009 | View Comments

Mom Bloggers Guild

I am forming a mom bloggers guild, and I think it is far overdue. I think it could serve so many purposes, but primarly I just think this group needs someone advocating for it. Here are a few things I think a mom bloggers guild could do (and if you’d like an idea of what a guild is, see the Writers...

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Kelby Carr is a blogger, freelance writer, SEO expert, foodie, social networking chick, travel junkie, Twitterati and investigative reporter turned new media mom. She is creator of a variety of parenting social networking/multi-author blog sites such as Type-A Mom, Foodie Mama, Dadosphere and momShare, a Digg-like social bookmarking site for moms. She is also uniting her skills as a blogger with her background as a journalist with her newest venture, Investigative Mommy Blogger.