Jim Carr (born December 20, 1969) is vice president and head of digital media for

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Group LLC, a broadcast and digital media company headquartered in

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. Carr was previously vice president of digital media for

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, Inc., a

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broadcast and digital media company headquartered in

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. An advocate for

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, Carr serves on the board of directors for the Digital Literacy Institute, a non-profit organization that works to bridge the

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and promote access to

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for under-served populations.

Life and career

During the Tech boom of the 1990s Carr was

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and Chief Technologist o
TechTrain, Inc.
an

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-based

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partner with technology training centers throughout the

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. Carr has been an adjunct instructor, guest

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and

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for a number of academic institutions including

Queens College Queens College (QC) is a public college in the New York City borough of Queens. Part of the City University of New York system, Queens College occupies an campus primarily located in Flushing. Queens College was established in 1937 and offe ...

Guilford College Guilford College is a private liberal arts college in Greensboro, North Carolina. It was founded in 1837 by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Guilford has both traditional students and students who attend its Center for ...

, the

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, the

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, and the

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. He was also an

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for

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and Senior Managing Editor of act.com. Working with the

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from 2003 to 2006, Carr was director of

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& new media and taught

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courses at their GateWay campus. In 2007, he was named director of

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for

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's Arizona television group where he oversaw digital operations for 3TV Phoenix an
azfamily.com
In 2012 Carr joined

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which now operates as Media General, Inc. after a reverse acquisition in November 2013. Carr is a

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, Certified Internet Specialist, and an evangelist for

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issues. He is a regular contributor to a number of print an online magazines and lectures on popular Web concepts including

information architecture Information architecture (IA) is the structural design of shared information environments; the art and science of organizing and labelling websites, intranets, online communities and software to support usability and findability; and an emerging ...

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and

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. In April 2006 Carr was named a Roundtable Scholar by The Roundtable Group, an academic think-tank and speakers bureau. He is active in a number of professional organizations, including the Web Innovator's Group, the

Information Architecture Institute Information is an abstract concept that refers to something which has the power to inform. At the most fundamental level, it pertains to the interpretation (perhaps formally) of that which may be sensed, or their abstractions. Any natur ...

, and Arizona Internet Professionals Association.

References

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