Lucretia M Pruitt

Lucretia M. Pruitt (aka GeekMommy) is the founder of Social Media Matters - a social media consulting agency that helps companies and individuals to harness the power of social media, networking and Web 2.0 technologies to better define their Internet Footprint and to interact with their customers.

Prior to establishing Social Media Matters, Lucretia worked primarily in the computer and technology field - having worked as a programmer, in tech support, and in database architecture and design.  In 2000, she began teaching Computer Information Science at the University level as an Assistant Professor. She left teaching full-time to spend the past 6 years as a stay at home mom to her daughter, while occasionally accepting contracts to teach as an adjunct professor or to do Source Code Review for the Certification of Electronic Voting Systems.  She's maintained an active presence in & on Social Networking platforms since the early 1980's when she spent her spare time on BBSes - to present day, where she can be found on just about any Social Networking platform you can think of. Lucretia now offers a wide range of Social Media Consulting services – including complete social media solutions, development of long-range strategies, training, public speaking, and project-based implementations.  She's currently collaborating with Walmart as one of the Eleven Moms (http://www.elevenmoms.com) helping them to move authentically and genuinely  into the Social Media space.  If you want to find her most days she's on Twitter - where she presently has a following of over 10,000 people.