Jim Carr (US)

Infobox Person
name = Jim Carr
birth_date = birth date and age|1965|12|20


image_size =
birth_place = Rochester, Michigan,
U.S. Flagicon|USA
occupation = Digital strategist, Editor,
Online producer

Jim Carr (born December 20, 1965) is a Digital strategist, Online producer, writer and lecturer. An advocate for digital literacy, Carr serves on the Board of Directors for the Digital Literacy Institute, a non-profit organization that works to bridge the digital divide and promote access to Internet technologies for under-served populations. During the Tech boom of the 1990s Carr was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of [http://www.techtrain.com TechTrain, Inc.] ; an Atlanta-based Microsoft partner with technology training centers throughout the Southeastern United States.

Carr has served as a guest instructor and consultant for a number of academic institutions including Queens College, Guilford College, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and the College of Charleston. Since selling his interest in TechTrain to a Silicon Valley-based venture capitalist in 2000, Carr has been a strategist, consultant, and Managing editor to Internet startups and established dot com companies, including America Online where he was a City Editor and Sage Software where was Senior Web Managing Editor overseeing Web publishing efforts for the popular CRM software package ACT! by Sage.

Working with the Maricopa Community College District from 2003 to 2006, Carr served as Director of Instructional Technology & New Media and taught Business & Technology courses in Phoenix, Arizona, where he currently resides. In 2007, Carr was named Director of Digital Media for Belo Corporation's Arizona television stations KTVK and KASW, which are part of Belo's New media consortium known as [http://www.belointeractive.com Belo Interactive Media] .

Carr is a Microsoft Certified Professional, Certified Internet Specialist, and an evangelist for open source software issues. He is a regular contributor to a number of print an online magazines and lectures on popular Web concepts including information architecture, Web usability, search engine optimization, social networking and Internet marketing. He is active in a number of professional organizations, including the [http://www.webinnovatorsgroup.com/ Web Innovator's Group] , the Information Architecture Institute, and [http://www.aipa.org Arizona Internet Professionals Association] . In April 2006 Carr was named a [http://www.roundtablegroup.com/scholars/who.cfm Roundtable Scholar] by the [http://www.roundtablegroup.com/about/ The Roundtable Group] , an academic think-tank and speakers bureau.

ee also

* Digital Media
* Information architecture
* Web usability
* Search engine optimization
* Social networking
* Customer Relationship Management

External links

* [http://www.nngroup.com/reports/intranet/ Internet Usability Issues]
* [http://www.belointeractive.com/ Belo Interactive Media]
* [http://www.aztechcouncil.org/ Arizona Technology Council]
* [http://www.azfamily.com/ AZFamily.com]