Brainy Girls | Fuzzy Undertones

I’m sad to report that my digital scrapbooking momentum has all but disappeared. However, because of the law of conservation of energy, my Brainy Girls project has been thriving. So, I just wanted to give you a brief update on how it’s going.

Running the Brainy Girls website and keeping up with its associated social media promotion actually takes quite a bit of time. However, I’m finding that it’s finally paying off in terms of interactions with the public. It’s starting to get some attention in several STEM communities, which is really fun. I’ve printed up bookmarks and sent them out to those who’ve requested them, and will probably need to have more printed up soon. Every two months I completely change all the material on the website (except for March, which is a special one-month issue) and that’s quite a bit of work to come up with new stuff related to a theme, archive the old material, and promote promote promote. But that’s ok – I really like writing and it’s the most rewarding thing in the world when I get comments on my website.

Want to see some numbers about public interaction? Here they are:

Total page visits since Oct. 2012 (returning visitors included): 3033
Facebook followers: 181
Google+ followers: 255
Twitter followers: 52 (I just started Twitter this past month – it’s fun!)

Anyway, I look forward to my site growing and gaining more exposure. I also have a Pinterest account and YouTube channel for Brainy Girls, which are kind of secondary to the other forums above. I’m starting to get into guest blogging and have a couple of requests out there for people to write on my site – we’ll see what happens. I have to get the kids involved somehow, which is what I’m hoping to do with guest bloggers! And, if you have any ideas on growing Brainy Girls, let me know!

Good day, gentle readers. For the past 15 years I’ve had the idea of doing a magazine, aimed at girls between the ages of 11 and 17 or so, that focuses on subject matter that doesn’t reduce our girls and young women to sexual objects who only need to look cute and pick the right shade of lipstick to be successful in life. I wanted a magazine that would foster a love of creativity, intellect, and curiosity in girls and young women so that they might someday have the confidence to achieve any dream they have. Why do boys have magazines geared towards adventure, the outdoors, technology and science, while girls have so few, if any, equivalents?

Well, starting a magazine was going to be pretty difficult for someone who has a background 180 degrees from what she should have to do so. Someone suggested I do a blog, and the more I thought about it, the more it made sense – it’s up to date, I have complete control of the content and format, it’s free to everyone, and more and more people are getting away from print media and looking towards electronic sources for their news and entertainment. So, hello Brainy Girls blog – it’s VERY nice to finally meet you!

Please take a few minutes to read my new blog, Brainy Girls, by clicking here. It will change monthly, and I’ll add things throughout the month, too. The main message of this blog is to let our girls and young women know that it’s ok, and even awesome, to use their brains. Don’t be scared of being smart – embrace it! And you don’t have to choose between being brainy and anything else. You can be everything you want to be all at once, as long as it is truly you. Be who you are – the world WILL benefit!

Additionally, the Brainy Girls facebook page is complimentary to the Brainy Girls blog. I hope it will be a forum where women and girls of ALL ages can interact to ask questions, give advice, serve as role models and mentors to others, and offer opinions and feedback on this blog. So take a look and “like” our Brainy Girls facebook page, too! And if you’re so willing, please share our Brainy Girls blog and facebook page with your friends, daughters, and daughters’ friends.

And don’t worry, I’ll still sporadically update this blog with all things Marcilicious, just as I’ve been doing since 2005. Enjoy my new side project! Toodles!