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    I was thinking of having a very mild blog for my family so that I can post pictures and updates. It would need to be easy to access for them, somewhat secure (like, a you have to be my friend type of thing), free would be nice...

    My dad is internet savvy for shopping, ebay, and email. My mom, not at all, but if my dad has the blog up she could read it. My grandma gets confused easily, so within 1 or 2 links would be better. (Sometimes she gives up at the password level. :huh: ) All our other friends/family are internet savvy-- much more than I am, which isn't saying a whole lot...

    Any suggestions? Or should we buy a website and just do that?
    I know a website wouldn't be secure, but it would be easy for family to get to... I don't really want to pay $8 a month or whatever for a website, tho.

    Suggestions?
    Peggy

    Aloha from paradise! And the other side of training!
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    If your grandma gets confused easily and quits at the password level, and you want her to be able to see it, you don't want it to be "friends only", because she would have to type in a password.

    For free public blogs, there are all sorts of options. LiveJournal is one that springs to mind, but I know there are more "blog" like blog programs out there. Looking through the list of blogs I follow, it looks like blogspot and typepad are the two big popular ones. I don't know anything about them, but I'd check them out first.
    Sandy
    Wife of EM Attending, Web Programmer, mom to one older lady scaredy-cat and one sweet-but-dumb younger boy kitty

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    • #3
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      I use blogger. Very easy to use. Uploading pictures and video is snap. Mine is private. Doesn't have to be tho.

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        I have a LiveJournal blog that I used to use...it was set to private so you had to log in and friend me....my MIL is really not good with computers/internet (she's had trouble viewing links I send her in an email!!) and she can handle the LiveJournal....basically what I did was create the account for her, friended myself, and sent her the link with all the password info. Somehow she figured it out.
        Mom of 3, Veterinarian

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          We use blogspot as well and ours is not private however you can remove it from their search feature so really the only person that would be able to find it is people who have the link or people who stumble across it.

          You can also set it up to send up to 10 e-mails when you make a new posting. We do that with siblings, grandparents and great grandparents so the entry shows up in their inbox and they don't actually have to go to the blog if they can't figure that out - that works great for DH's grandparents.

          You can also set up your blogspot to be friends only, I see a couple of friends' blogs that way but it does take some e-mail entry, etc. that your grandmother may not be able to handle. But I'm guessing you could set it as friends' only and then put her on the e-mail list and she wouldn't have to actually visit the blog.
          Wife to NSG out of training, mom to 2, 10 & 8, and a beagle with wings.

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            If you have a Mac, you can create a webpage (including blog, pics etc.) for $99 a year through Mobile Me account. You can restrict it or open it up. I love it and can also house all of my pictures on a separate site that links from my iphoto folder. It's much easier than I am making it sound...Our family really likes the immediate access to our pics and all it requires is uploading them from camera to computer.
            Danielle
            Wife of a sexy Radiologist and mom to TWO adorable little boys!

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            • #7
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              Thanks! I knew you guys would have tips...


              Peggy

              Aloha from paradise! And the other side of training!

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              • #8
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                Facebook!!!!
                Married to a peds surgeon attending

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                • #9
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                  What I like about LiveJournal is that you can have different privacy settings for everything you post, which is nice. So if you had some really basic news or pictures you didn't mind having out there, you could just write and publish a regular entry and anyone who had the URL could go and see the update. (They don't need an account or to log in or anything, it would just be like going to a normal website, and if you have anonymous comments enabled then they could very easily post a comment and then just sign it "Grandma" so that you'd know who it was from). Leaving a comment on an LJ is probably slightly more straightforward than on a Blogger/Blogspot account. I don't think you have to do any of that word-verification stuff. (At least, you don't when you're logged in - not 100% sure that you don't as anonymous).

                  However, if you had a more sensitive entry or picture of your family partying or whatever, you could publish the entry as "Friends only," and then only people you've actually added as friends can see that particular post. Your more tech savvy family members will have no problem setting themselves up with LJ accounts, and you could probably make an account for your grandmother. If she doesn't clear her cache/cookies often, she can even click a little box that says "stay logged in" or "remember me" (can't remember exactly what it is) so that she will only have to log in the one time to get started, and then every time she goes to livejournal it will know that it's her.

                  So yeah, I like it because every time you post you can decide "who do I want to see this?", it's not one decision you have to make about the blog as a whole. That way if some of your own friends are on there, you can blog about stuff you don't necessarily want your family to see, etc. (you can make custom friend groups and then just choose which group you want to publish to).

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