About Martin

Martin Kelley is a web designer in the Philadelphia area. Here's the story of his evolution from activist book editor to social media marketer to a magazine editor!

THESE PICTURES

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Many of the pages on MartinKelley.com show pictures of me with various members of family. If you're curious, they're all collected on the "mkprofiles" tag of my Flickr account and along the right. Most of the photos are annotated and include the story behind the photos.

EDITING/TYPESETTING
I began my career as a book designer and editor for New Society Publishers, an alternative press publisher then based in Philadelphia. We were a small enough shop that we switched jobs from time to time and I also served a year as marketing manager, a job that put me in charge of our popular catalog.

JUMPING TO THE INTERNET

In the mid-90s rising costs led to the closing of hundreds of independent bookstores and publishing houses. I responded by teaching myself web publishing. I loved the idea of message out far and wide with such minimal investment (more on the economics and idealism of the era from this 1995 post). I put together the first websites for a who's-who of American peace groups. The most important part of that job was education: teaching activist how to use their new tools. After a few years I began working as a professional webmaster for a couple of Philadelphia Quaker organizations.

CONSULTANT AND FREELANCER

I'm now focusing on freelance projects, specializing in sites for people with a message to get out. I've put together sites for independent journalists, musicians and historians and various small businesses in South Jersey and beyond. I have lots of tricks to make it easy to keep calendars and photos fresh and updated. I think like a publicist and would also provide ways to build email lists to let you keep in close touch with customers. As always, I love teaching people how to use the internet to get their story out.

PERSONAL

I grew up in Philadelphia but fell in love with a South Jersey girl and crossed the mighty Delaware River. We got a little house along a train line to Philadelphia, which we share with our two cute as can be kids, Theo and Francis. My hobbies revolve mostly around Quaker ministry and organizing; I'm known online as the Quaker Ranter and publish Quakerquaker.org, a blog index and community-building site.