Parent Panel

Our Mediaegg Parent Panel helps review our original app ideas as we develop them. We’re honored to have such an illustrious group of talented individuals on board!

Meet Leticia Barr

Leticia Barr is the founder of Tech Savvy Mama, a site that assists parents in finding the best technology products, websites, and resources for children of all ages. Tech Savvy Mama was started because of Leticia’s personal experience of bringing a computer into her home for their now elementary-aged daughter. With a background in teaching and a career as a technology specialist who spent years selecting software and online resources for one of the top 15 largest school systems in the country, she figured that if she had concerns about issues like computers vs. free play, finding the best educational sites and software, and internet safety for children, that other parents did too.

Leticia uses her knowledge to evaluate the many different kinds of technology that come through her door and loves sharing honest feedback to make recommendations to her readers. Leticia splits her day between serving as a family internet safety and security expert (aka Chief BitMom) for BitDefender and being a mom and her nights between blogging at her own site, writing for The LeapFrog Community, consulting for PBS Teachers, working behind the scenes on the MyBlogalicious site, and Tweeting. Frequently asked how she does it all, she replies that she doesn’t sleep much!

Meet C.C. Chapman

C.C. Chapman is a modern day renaissance man who lives every day to inspire others to be their best. He is the author of the book Content Rules (Wiley 2010) and the Founder of Digital Dads, where a dad can be a guy. As a consultant, C.C. has helped a variety of clients embrace all forms of new media and online marketing to take their campaigns to the next level. His work has won awards and clients have included HBO, American Eagle Outfitters, Verizon FiOS and The Coca-Cola Company.

C.C. lives outside of Boston with his loving wife and family and technology plays a major role in their lives. With two tweens living under his roof, they each have their own iPod Touches and can be found a lot of the time kicking back with one of their parent’s iPads playing games or consuming content.  Find out more at CC-Chapman.com.

Meet Christie Crowder

Christie is a mother, author, blogger, life-caster, influential social media junkie, geeky-girl, and certified multitasking maniac. She ditched corporate America and her own successful project management firm to become a full time author/blogger, certified life coach, and now, certified social media consultant. Through writing and coaching, she helps others discover their true passions and entrepreneurial spirit. The success of her coaching, blogs, online shows, and her passion for social media has caught the eye of big brands, and she creates digital marketing programs where women are the primary target market.

Her first published book, “Your Big Sister’s Guide to Surviving College,” debuted the Spring of 2007 and “A Book Is Born” (co-authored) was released in the Fall of that same year. Christie contributes to other online and print publications and hopes to publish her two fiction manuscripts in 2011.

She has a 6-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son and both of them know how to use the iPhone/iPad as if they were born knowing. There was very little instruction given to them before they began sliding screens, touch-opening apps, and finger-writing or typing.

Meet Lem Fillyaw

Ninjagrapher, Techie, Clown, Corporate Trainer, Husband, Daddy, Human. All of these words can be used to describe Lem or roles that he has held within the past 17 years. He has led sales teams for one of the biggest electronics retailers in the world as well as traveled with a one ring circus. It all comes back to one thing though…people. Specifically young people. That is why when he and his wife had kids of their own, he was overjoyed at sharing experiences with them. His kids are fairly tech savvy (especially his 11 yr old). So when they say “Dad can I use your iPod Touch?” he knows he’d better have a full battery so that they can play games, check out photos, and watch videos till it goes waaaay dead.

Meet Angie Gerken

Angie Gerken is an entrepreneur and founder of a successful In-Home Personal Care agency for aging and disabled Alaskans. Raised in a small Native village in southwest Alaska, Angie helped her family run their renowned remote fly-fishing lodge. She went on to university in the Lower 48 and spent a number of years in tech and e-commerce jobs on the West Coast.

She returned to Alaska and eventually started her business with her cousin and another partner. She is the single mom of a 7-year-old boy who loves the story/spelling games but begs for any games involving swords or guns!

Meet Maricris Guadagna

Maricris Guadagna is the Founder and editor of ZensibleMama.com. Born and raised in Asia, poverty and strife is a part of life. A challenge that has molded her to be a strong person and gave her a unique ability to see the best in any unfavorable situation and find creative ways to get through them. Having survived a killer earthquake that killed thousands of people in her country and almost sunk her city, the 2nd war between Iraq and Kuwait in 2003, and most of all the peril of motherhood has taught her the value of life and to put her best in everything.

Maricris is a working mom and has a 6 year old daughter who is every bit a geek as her and a skilled user of the iPad and Nexus One phone and a big Skype-r.

Meet Laura P. Thomas

Laura Pevehouse Thomas was profiled as one of five “social media mavens” in the March 2009 issue of Austin Woman Magazine and named an AdWeek’s TweetFreak Five to Follow.

She has worked in and around the Dell family for 10 years, primarily in the areas of corporate communications, employee communications, public relations, community affairs, branding and online communication.

Laura has an 8-year-old daughter who used to always ask for her iPhone to play Doodle Jump, but after discovering virtual prizes in Skee-Ball, that’s all she wants to play.

Meet Karla Trotman

Karla Trotman is a wife, mother and full-time employee at her family’s electronics contract manufacturing firm Electro Soft, Incorporated.  She is also the owner and creator of BellyButtonBoutique.com, an online boutique that offers products of comfort and support for pre- and postnatal women.  Utilizing her background in supply chain logistics and interests in social media and blogging, she left her corporate job to focus on being a “present” mom and to build both her and her family’s businesses.  Most often, you will find Karla fighting over her iPhone and laptap with her two sons, ages 4 and 2, as they have grown proficient in every new technology she happens to introduce to them.

A 2010 Startup Nation “Leading Moms in Business” winner, Karla is also a regular on Philadelphia-based television show, “Sandwich Moms”, which highlights area moms who do it all.