Kelby Carr

I am a bit of a jane-of-all-trades when it comes to the web. That’s pretty much based on doing web writing, web editing, web site building and web socializing since the early 1990s. (Find out more about me and you can contact me at kelby at typeamom dot net). Here are some of the areas in which I can be hired if you sweet talk me and cough up some cold cash:

• Web site creation - I created all by my little lonesome all of the sites you see listed under “My Sites” to the right. I did all the geeky stuff from programming, design, tweaking templates, tweaking code, and so on.
• Web content - I have been writing web content for longer than most people who offer their services of web content writing. If you need samples, you can find dozens of my latest web articles in that cool red widget to the left under the header “My Feeds.”
• SEO - You don’t have to pay some firm thousands of dollars to, quite frankly, probably do very little for you. And please, I’m begging you, don’t pay one of those shady web site submission services. Ugh! I can do everything from reviewing your site to make SEO recommendations (or seeing whether your current firm is really optimizing your site for search engines) to writing SEO-friendly copy to rewriting your current copy so it’s optimized to creating a search-engine friendly web site.
• Social networking and Web 2.0 - If you want to dabble in this area, be sure you know what you’re doing first (especially if it’s for marketing or PR purposes). If you don’t, you’ll be like that over-eager dork in the class that no one likes, but who thinks he is popular. Just don’t. I can tell you how to be less of a social networking dork, advise you on handling the UGC/ blogging/networking/bookmarking situations out there.
• Blogging set up and consultation - If you want to start a blog, I can set you up with one and/or advise you on how best to approach blogging either for personal, business, non-profit or corporate blogs.
• Consultation on approaching bloggers - OK, here’s a freebie. They don’t want your lame press release. Want to find out what does work? Ask me.
• Whatever other super geeky web thing you can think of. If I don’t know about it, I’m sure I can either (a) figure it out, (b) BS my way through it or (c) already know way more than you ever wanted to know about it.

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Wow, I didn’t expect evidence one day later after I argued social networks are here to stay despite some burn-out. I had cited gapingvoid’s decision to ditch Twitter because it was too time consuming. Well, he’s back on Twitter already. I decided I just had to follow.

Why is he back? His reason:

Too many people I do business with are also on Twitter. Being off it was impossible. My bad.

So this just shows how integral social networking has become. Even if it levels off a little, it is here to stay. This is how many of us communicate now.

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I’m seeing a pretty sudden and pretty prominent trend in social networking: social networking burn-out. As great as Web 2.0 is, it isn’t that surprising that people are burning out on it. There was a ton of attention when gapingvoid posted a funny cartoon about time being consumed tweeting in the post, “ Why I Deleted my Twitter Account.”

Here’s why:

• Something new happens. Everyone thinks it’s cool. Reports say you simply MUST be doing it. So people and companies and organizations jump on board.
• Then they realize something: you need to actually socialize to do social networking. So it’s manpower intensive if you’re an organization, and it’s a time-sucker if you’re a human.
• People want to be cool online, and they think they can do that by being friends with everyone. But it’s hard to be in EVERY clique. That’s why cliques exist. So you can focus.
• They try to connect on several levels and several locations, and just can’t stand to spend another minute socializing.

So here’s what I expect to happen next. Companies who were nervous about dabbling in this realm to begin with will see this emerging trend as a sign they were right all along, and this whole social web/ Web 2.0 thing was just a passing fad.

They will be wrong.

What will happen is that social networking will settle in. People will find their social niches and favorite sites, and they will ignore the other “cliques.”

Then some of the big guys will level off on traffic, slow down or be bought out by other sites. The smaller, niche social networks will become even more popular.

People will keep socializing because that’s how the web has evolved. How and where they will socialize is what will change.

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