Bio — Kristen Havens
I am a creative strategist and content developer with a background in writing, publishing and television commercial production. Prior to starting 563, I worked for five years in editorial and marketing for a small publisher, Tallfellow Press of Los Angeles. Before that, I wrote and oversaw digital media for the non-profit sector and edited and produced television commercials for political candidates, casinos, sports teams, and the shipbuilding industry.

I have written for a variety of sites including AOL/FamilyEdge, PopPolitics, and The Houston Chronicle TV blog. As a professional blogger, I’ve been featured by MSNBC Small Business, The Washington Post, The Hartford Courant, and Slate.

Expertise

• Copywriting
• SEO
• Typepad
• Public Relations

Why the Name, “563″?
563 is the telephone exchange where I lived when I first discovered call-waiting, and its amazing ability to gather an endless string of people on the same phone call. To me, that’s the epitome of old-school social media.

563 Community
Twitter: follow me
LinkedIn profile: add me to your contacts
The Post Pub: my blog about authors, social media and online P.R.
My Back Pages: my personal blog
GoodReads profile: what I’m reading

563 Likes:
books, dogs, rainy days, shopping, chili chocolate sauce, gelato, simplicity of design, bloggers