The Type-A Mom Conference speakers come from all aspects of the social media spectrum. There are marketing masterminds, and dazzling weavers of the written word. There are movers and shakers, Twitterati and social media mavens. Some know how to make cash blogging, some know how to build a fiercely loyal community of readers and followers, and some can craft a killer blogger brand. They all have one thing in common: these are the influencers on the cutting edge of this brave new world of blogging and social media. The call for speaker proposals is now closed.
Keynote Speakers
Aliza Sherman
@alizasherman
Aliza Sherman started the first woman-owned full-service Internet company, Cybergrrl, Inc., and the first global women’s Internet organization, Webgrrls International, that boasted over 100 chapters worldwide and over 30,000 online participants in the 90s. She launched the first three general interest web sites for women – Cybergrrl.com, Webgrrls.com, and Femina.com – predating all other major women’s web sites. Her pioneering work on the Web was recognized early on when Newsweek named her one of the “Top People Who Matter Most on the Internet.” More recently, Fast Company named her one of the “Most Influential Women in Technology.”
Aliza is the author of seven books including The Everything Blogging Book, Streetwise Ecommerce, and PowerTools for Women in Business. She is recognized as a thought leader in the ever-evolving landscape of Internet media, marketing, and communications, specializing in social media marketing with Conversify, the agency she co-founded in 2005. She is a frequent podcaster and blogger and has had a mommy blog since 2003 when she began sharing her experiences with multiple miscarriages and post partum depression.
She is an avid RVer and loves Karaoke.
Closing Keynote – Looking Back, Looking Forward: Women’s Journeys Across the Web
Her latest blog posts:
- Show #10: Are you overwhelmed by status updates?
- Show #9: Zen of Being Digital Podcast: Do more followers make you happy?
- Show #8: Zen of Being Digital Podcast: Are You a Spammer?
Maxine Clark
@chiefexecbear
Maxine Clark is one of the true innovators in the retail industry. During her 30+-year career, her ability to spot emerging retail and merchandising trends and her insight into the desires of the American consumer have generated growth for retail leaders, including department store, discount and specialty stores. In 1997, she founded Build-A-Bear Workshop, a teddy-bear themed retail-entertainment experience. Today there are more than 400 Build-A-Bear Workshop stores worldwide, including company-owned stores in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland and France, and franchise stores in Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Middle East. The company extends its in-store interactive experience online with its award winning virtual world at buildabearville.com®. In 2010 Build-A-Bear Workshop was named to the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for the second year in a row. Maxine’s first book “The Bear Necessities of Business: Building a Company with Heart” was published in 2006.
Morning Keynote – Finding and Building Success
Her latest blog posts:
Heather Solos
@heathersolos
Heather Solos is a writer and founder of Home Ec 101. She began lifeblogging in late 2003 and began blogging professionally for the /Post and Courier/ in December of 2006. She is a self-professed lover of all forms of geekery, but especially enjoys the nascent world of social media.Relax, guru will never appear on her resume. She lives in the Lowcountry of South Carolina with her husband and three children and is anxiously looking forward to the launch of her book Home Ec 101 in the spring of 2011.
Keynote Panel – It’s About Respect: Professionalism in Blogging
Her latest blog posts:
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Kelby Carr
@typeamom
Kelby Carr is the founder and host of Type-A Mom Conference. She is a writer, a pioneer of the social mom blog, SEO and social media consultant, and former investigative newspaper reporter turned new media mom. She is the publisher of a network of parenting social sites, including Type-A Mom and Foodie Mama. She operates a service to connect mom bloggers and companies in an ethical way, Momtent, and another service to break down the walls between companies and mom blogger, Mom Reach. She is the author of Mom Blog SEO, and she blogs about social media, blogging and business at Kelby Carr. She’s been geeking it out on computers since she was 10, social networking online since the 1980s, web publishing since the early 1990s, and blogging since 2002.
Keynote Panel – It’s About Respect: Professionalism in Blogging
Her latest blog posts:
- Disney Social Media Moms Celebration – My Experience Plus a Blog Post Roundup
- How to Help the Oklahoma Tornado Victims
- Call for Paid Blog Post Ideas (Special Edition through Summer)
Deb Ng
@debng
Deb Ng has been working online as a professional blogger, freelance writer and social media consultant since 2000. In addition to blogging for such clients as Oxygen Media and About.com, Deb grew her freelance writing blog into the number one online community for freelance writers before selling it to Splashpress Media in 2010.
Currently Deb is the Conference Director for the BlogWorld & New Media Expo and blogs about blogging and social media at Kommein.
Keynote Panel – It’s About Respect: Professionalism in Blogging
Her latest blog posts:
- When Community Managers Cross the Line
- 24 Places to Find Social Media Jobs – Updated for 2013
- Engaging With Your Community So You Actually Learn From Them
David Griner
@griner
David Griner is the social media strategist for Luckie & Company, a full-service marketing agency with a wide range of clients including Little Debbie, Regions Bank and Asheville Tourism. In addition, he writes about social media trends on TheSocialPath.com and is a contributing editor of Adweek magazine’s blog, AdFreak.com. He is a frequent presenter and has been interviewed about marketing and technology by national news sources such as CNN.com, ABCNews.com and Brandweek.
Keynote Panel – It’s About Respect: Professionalism in Blogging
His latest blog posts:
- Amazing content isn't always created or curated. It's also discovered.
- Three reasons LinkedIn should stop showing who viewed your profile.
- How to cure your iPhone's Facebook infection.
