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 [...]
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 [...]
Upcoming Social Marketing Webinar
I am very excited to be co-hosting a webinar on social marketing via popular sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as via blogging and social bookmarking. I am partnering up with the ever knowledgable and sharp marketing expert, Peggy Dolane a.k.a. @freerangemom, for our first Work at Home Bootcamp. If you happen to [...]
Google Analytics Trap
Google Analytics is a great stats service, especially for the price tag (free). It has some options not seen in a few great paid stats providers, such as a nice tie-in to Adwords and cool map-clicking to get some geo data (although that data isn’t comprehensive or totally reliable). There’s one major problem though, especially [...]
Using LinkedIn to Build a Testimonials Page
A couple weeks ago, as I prepared to go speak at BlissDom Conference, I took a hard look at this site. I knew that I would be passing out my funky mini Moocards, and I wanted to be sure people who came to KelbyCarr.com had a good experience. That is when it dawned on me [...]
Blog Talk Radio on Social Networking
Just a couple days ago, I was honored to be a guest on the Blog Talk Radio show, Parenting for Humanity, for their show, Online Social Networking for Parents. The hosts were wonderful. My fellow guest, Lisa Hoover, was wonderful and extremely insightful on this subject.
Social Networking Resolutions
Yes, New Year resolutions are lame. But the fact is, this time of year it’s just natural we reflect on changes we want to make and where we want to be in the coming year. So for all of us who do the whole social networking thing, I thought I would throw out some important [...]
My Airing of Festivus Grievances
Oh, how I love Festivus. It’s perfect for people like me just itching for a reason to complain (not that I need one). So last night, in honor of Festivus, I aired a few grievances on Twitter. You can find other grievances aired by searching the tag #festivus. Did you do a blog post of [...]
We’re Going to Disney World
In two days, we hit the road to experience the holidays at Disney World. This was kind of an impromptu thing. It started with my previous post on the Mom Panel. I wrote about all the holiday happenings there for my Suite101 Family Adventures site. What really clinched it, for me, was when I heard [...]
Independent Blogger Conference Greensboro
Hello. I am organizing the first half of the day of the Independent Blogger Conference in Greensboro (or whatever name you’d care to call it… I kind of like Blogger Fringe Fest, but clearly we aren’t that formal). Here is an agenda for the morning session. The afternoon session, being run by Dave Slusher, will [...]
