Profile

My name is Michele McGraw a.k.a. Scrap­pin­Michele on most social net­work­ing sites.

I reside in the Wash­ing­ton DC Metro area.

Con­tact Infor­ma­tion:
email: Michele@scrapsofmygeeklife.com
phone: 740-MOM-GEEK

Quick Bio

• a mom, wife, sis­ter, daugh­ter, friend, neigh­bor, etc
• a social media enthusiast,
• a blog­ger, vlog­ger, lifecaster
• a fit­ness seeker and runner
• a Dig­i­tal Soul Hour Tech TV show host
• a geek and a tech goddess
• a dig­i­tal scrap­booker and a some­times paper scrapbooker
• a Yahoo Moth­er­Board member
• a Bit­Mom
• a Blo­ga­li­cious Editorialista
• an Office Max Mom
• an EA SPORTS Active 6 Week Challenger
• a Whrrl Ambassador
• a Mom Blog­gers Club Ambassador
• a Social Net­work­ing Addict

Speak­ing Engagements

Blo­ga­li­cious DC Meet-Up — Women in Social Media: Cre­at­ing Your Dig­i­tal Footprint

Full Bio

I am a 42-year-old stay-at-home mom (SAHM) of four chil­dren (ages 6 through 14, 2 boys & 2 girls). I met my hus­band, Jason, in a chat room on AOL almost 16 years ago and we have been mar­ried for 16 years. We also have 1 adopted cat, Miley and a black lab, Kelsey. As you can imag­ine, it’s a chal­lenge keep­ing our fam­ily and home run­ning smoothly day to day. I can hon­estly say that man­ag­ing our house­hold is more work than I remem­ber as a full time professional.

The Inter­net has been a huge part of my life since I bought my first com­puter after grad­u­at­ing from col­lege. It was through that Mac that I met Jason, moved to Vir­ginia from Wis­con­sin, got mar­ried and started our fam­ily. When I decided to stay at home with my first baby, I looked to the Inter­net for sup­port. With each hobby and inter­est I’ve had through­out the years (from rais­ing a child with ADHD, enhanc­ing my dig­i­tal pho­tog­ra­phy and scrap­book­ing skills, learn­ing Pho­to­shop and HTML to study­ing to become a per­sonal fit­ness trainer), the Inter­net has been a wealth of knowl­edge and at times, a true source of com­fort.  Know­ing that you’re not alone and dis­cov­er­ing women just like me around the coun­try and the world with the same inter­ests, tri­als and tribu­la­tions is uplifting.

For the last 14+ years, I have been help­ing women find sup­port online for their hob­bies and lifestyles by shar­ing my expe­ri­ence and pas­sions.  Here are some of the activ­i­ties I’ve worked on:

• Served as a Direc­tor of Inter­net Ser­vices and board mem­ber of Moth­ers & More pro­vid­ing online sup­port for SAHMs through their national web­site, forum and e-mail sup­port groups.
• Over­saw the Healthy Chicks forum for The DigiChick’s online forum for dig­i­tal scrap­book­ers inter­ested in main­tain­ing a healthy lifestyle
• Cur­rently serv­ing as an Ambas­sador for the Mom Blog­gers Club to pro­vide sup­port and infor­ma­tion for Mom Bloggers
• Work­ing as Com­mu­nity Man­ager and Direc­tor of Social Media for a new start-up com­pany, FormerFatChick.com to help oth­ers use the Inter­net for sup­port in their healthy lifestyles
• Cur­rently serv­ing as a found­ing board mem­ber on the Mom It For­ward board of direc­tors and work­ing to start a local chap­ter in the Wash­ing­ton D.C. area.
• Launch­ing ScrapsofMyGeekLife.com to offer daily com­men­tary, advice, reviews and shared expe­ri­ences of how my real life and the dig­i­tal domain connect.
• CEO of Mom Geek Media, a com­pany I started to over­see all my online endeavors.
• Cur­rently host­ing the Dig­i­tal Soul Hour, a bi-weekly live inter­ac­tive online TV show about all things geek on MomTV.com.
• Actively par­tic­i­pat­ing in the women and mom blog­gers com­mu­nity online through Twit­ter, Face­book and other social net­work­ing sites.

My hob­bies include scrap­book­ing (both paper and dig­i­tal), blog­ging, social media, gad­gets, read­ing fit­ness, women’s and tech mag­a­zines and research­ing new tech prod­ucts. I con­sider myself addicted to my Inter­net con­nec­tion; I can’t imag­ine life with­out it. I carry my iPhone every­where, with my cam­era and video­cam always nearby too.

Scraps of My Geek Life Bio

I cre­ated ScrapsofMyGeekLife.com in 2007 as a way to keep my extended fam­ily and friends up-to-date with our grow­ing family’s busy life.  In the past 3 years, ScrapsofMyGeekLife.com has become much more. It is a place for me to share my life, teach oth­ers about my hob­bies, and share my love of tech­nol­ogy and fit­ness and to return much of the sup­port to the online com­mu­nity that I have received over the years.  It’s a daily chron­i­cle of my life with all of its ups and downs; laugh­ter and dis­ap­point­ment – a win­dow to my dig­i­tal soul – open to share with all.

One Line Bio

Love Social Media, Dig­i­tal Scrap­book­ing, Blog­ging, Vlog­ging, Gad­gets, Mac Geek. Fit­ness Enthu­si­ast, Run­ner, MomTV.com TechShow Host, Mom of 4 & wife to @jmcgraw013, 740-MOM-GEEK

Media

Appeared in Weight Watch­ers mag­a­zine (Mar/Apr 2010, p. 100)

Par­ent­ing Magazine

Arti­cles I’ve Written

Cafe Mom

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Where To Find Me

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