Kelby Carr

Current

Owner and Publisher at Foodie Mama
Owner and Publisher at Type-A Mom
Family Travel Feature Writer at Suite101.com

France Travel Guide at About.com

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Past

Freelance Writer at ConsumerSearch
Online Content Editor at Asheville Convention and Visitors Bureau
Special Projects Reporter at The Times of Northwest Indiana

Reporter at The Free Lance-Star
reporter at the free lance-star
Police Reporter at Fauquier Times Democrat

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Education

Northern Virginia Community College

Recommended

11 people have recommended Kelby

Connections

225 connections

Industry

Writing and Editing

Websites

Kelby Carr’s Summary

I am a freelance writer, SEO expert, foodie, social networking chick, travel junkie and former biz-cops-political-investigative newspaper journalist turned hardcore mommy blogger. I am the publisher of a network of parenting web sites. I’ve been geeking it out on computers since I was 10 (and you had to use an audio tape to run software), and I’ve been web publishing and networking since the early 1990s (when I had to create pages from code in Notepad).

Kelby Carr’s Specialties:

SEO, web writing, investigative writing, social networking, web 2.0

Kelby Carr’s Experience

Owner and Publisher

Foodie Mama

(Writing and Editing industry)

September 2007 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Owner and Publisher

Type-A Mom

(Writing and Editing industry)

2007 — Present (1 year)

This is a social network and multi-author blog. What makes Type-A Mom unique is that the moms don’t just network here, but the advice here comes directly from real moms. With a revenue share setup, Type-A Mom is like a mom coop. All moms who write for Type-A Mom earn a 50-50 revenue share. The site features about 30 mom editors with various areas of expertise. Moms can also connect with various mom friends, and link to their web sites, blogs and social networking pages on their profiles. I also operate Foodie Mama, Dadosphere and momShare, a Digg for moms.
Family Travel Feature Writer

Suite101.com

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

January 2006 — Present (3 years)
France Travel Guide

About.com

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; NYT; Internet industry)

November 2002 — Present (6 years 2 months)

I have been the guide to France Travel for About.com, a New York Times company, for several years. During this time, I have honed my skills in SEO and in writing for the web.
Freelance Writer

ConsumerSearch

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

2008 — 2008 (less than a year)
Online Content Editor

Asheville Convention and Visitors Bureau

(Writing and Editing industry)

December 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 1 month)

I worked as the online content editor at the Asheville CVB, dramatically improving traffic and boosting content at a time when tourism sites were typically seeing a decline. I continue to do contract work for the CVB, and the tourism office is one of my major clients.
Special Projects Reporter

The Times of Northwest Indiana

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; LEE; Newspapers industry)

September 2004 — March 2006 (1 year 7 months)
Reporter

The Free Lance-Star

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Newspapers industry)

April 1998 — August 2003 (5 years 5 months)

Reporter covering local government initially, and then covering business, technology and consumer issues.
reporter

the free lance-star

(Writing and Editing industry)

1998 — 2003 (5 years)
Police Reporter

Fauquier Times Democrat

(Writing and Editing industry)

1994 — 1996 (2 years)