In this day and age, many a social networking site has sprung up. A few of the most popular are Twitter, Facebook and Flickr. There’s a new player in town though that brings us elements of all three with a touch of blog thrown in, wee-web.com.
   Wee-web is all about your creating a social site centered around your family, more specifically your children. Wee-web focuses on sharing about your children through pictures, stories, and periodic updates.  Your family and immediate friends though become the network.  This is a big change from other social networks were you join conversations in progress and have to acquire connections and find groups.
    Peter Kamali and Matt Meeker, both formerly of Meetup.com, decided to come up with a way of keeping family and friends updated about children.  Peter’s desire to keep his family updated about his young children really inspired this.
   Some of their other reasons they’ve shared:
- Maintaining a baby blog or online scrapbook takes a lot of time, and most people, between full time jobs and taking care of their young kids don’t have time to do justice to these comprehensive online projects.
- Cute little moments can be caught in a short sentence or two, so we encourage parents to update like that when it happens, more Twitter-style than long form blog or scrapbook postings.
- We also encourage parents to invite family and close friends upfront and let us take care of keeping them updated. Each loved one controls how often they are updated, so they aren’t overwhelmed with too much information, but are still kept abreast of any important happenings. We save parents time from wondering about who to update when. We also save them from all those phone calls and emails.
   Wee-web might be in it’s infancy, but it’s already showing the benefits of Peter and Matt’s experience.  The site allows you to jump right in adding your children, their pictures, and immediate family.
   You can add multiple entries for grand parents, uncles and aunts, a nice option.  One the same screen you can add other friends, either manually or from your Plaxo contacts list.
   Sharing photos is the typical upload screen from many sites. No manipulation is allowed on the site however.  This feature though is incorporated in Share a Story option.
   The parent can enter a date, upload the photo, provide the title and go to town on the story.  This is in addition to allowing simple updates via the Share a Blurb box.
   One important feature is that folks included in the network can control the updates they receive. I’ve not had a chance to test that feature out personally, but the goal is to allow busy family members to get updates at their own pace.  This is especially helpful I’d imagine with parents that feel the need to update about each new diaper of their young ones.
   All in all, I’d say this is an easy to use and get started on site for parents. There is no background skill required either with the web in general or Web 2.0 social networking sites.  I’d recommend this site especially for new parents with big families or families that are far flung.
   Again, that’s
wee-web.com. See your kids there!
Todd ‘tojosan’ Jordan is the father of two men, Randall(18), and Steven(29). He’s also grandfather to three beautiful girls, Angelina, Alexia, and Danielle.ÂÂ
Besides being a contributing blogger for Dad-o-matic, he also writes his own blog, The Broad Brush. He has also contributed to other blogs such as Successful Blog and Remarkable Parents. Todd can be found on Twitter as tojosan.
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What a great idea and a great write up. I’d heard of the service but hadn’t really checked it out. Now, I will. Thanks for letting us know. Nice to see you writing here.
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What a great idea and a great write up. I’d heard of the service but hadn’t really checked it out. Now, I will. Thanks for letting us know. Nice to see you writing here.
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This sounds like a great idea. There’s been so much talk about families being divided because of technology, it’s great to see it actually being put to use to encourage the relationship.
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This sounds like a great idea. There’s been so much talk about families being divided because of technology, it’s great to see it actually being put to use to encourage the relationship.
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Another ‘family friendly’ site is HopOnThis.com. As a HopOnThis member stay connected with your family and friends, share pictures and videos, meet new people, and much more. HopOnThis.com members are rewarded just for being social, and earning cash, prizes, or entering raffles and auctions is easy. Virtually every activity on the site generates points; sending a message, inviting a friend, and adding a blog post are some ways to earn points. Once you accumulate points you can redeem them for cash, prizes raffles or auctions. The more social you are, the more points you generate, which means more incentives for you. While building your online identity, HopOnThis.com adds functionality and fun while enabling you to establish professional affiliations, stay connected with family and friends, and take part in productive conversations all while building points. You can also become a member for free.
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Another ‘family friendly’ site is HopOnThis.com. As a HopOnThis member stay connected with your family and friends, share pictures and videos, meet new people, and much more. HopOnThis.com members are rewarded just for being social, and earning cash, prizes, or entering raffles and auctions is easy. Virtually every activity on the site generates points; sending a message, inviting a friend, and adding a blog post are some ways to earn points. Once you accumulate points you can redeem them for cash, prizes raffles or auctions. The more social you are, the more points you generate, which means more incentives for you. While building your online identity, HopOnThis.com adds functionality and fun while enabling you to establish professional affiliations, stay connected with family and friends, and take part in productive conversations all while building points. You can also become a member for free.
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Wee Web is not only off to a great start with a valuable service for parents and families, they’re also an agile team who are dedicated to their customers. The speed with which they’ve continued to improve the site is pretty remarkable, and it’s largely based on user feedback.
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Wee Web is not only off to a great start with a valuable service for parents and families, they’re also an agile team who are dedicated to their customers. The speed with which they’ve continued to improve the site is pretty remarkable, and it’s largely based on user feedback.
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I should have read this a couple of months ago. Our family has set up a meeting place on ning.com which works quite well and it is really fun to see the family “get together” online.
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I should have read this a couple of months ago. Our family has set up a meeting place on ning.com which works quite well and it is really fun to see the family “get together” online.
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