Social Networking Ideas

Here are some of the options I've found for web sites available for families to stay in touch:

Travellerspoint is one option - that's what I set up this blog for. It is primarily geared for travel, but I don't think they'll evict us if we write an entry about something else (and besides, a lot of our entries just may be about places we visit or such things).

Advantages: We've already been using it for the recent RV trip, so has some familiarity and several folks are already set up with user ID's.
Travellerspoint is one of the highest rated travel blog sites.
Has both photo and video capability (as do others)

Disadvantages: Public forum, we can't post anything up here we don't want others to see.
Photo's should be edited before uploading (or risk very limited uploading).
Uploading photos is limited by bandwidth.
Photo's displayed are low resolution (might also be an advantage if you don't want your photo's being misused).
Format may not be optimal for some of the things we might want to share (event calendar?)

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Other Sites:

I don't have much on these yet, other then from a cursory review they look the most promising. There are others. Most sites can be accessed by www.{sitename}.com

MySpace - this was the highest rated social networking site in at least one review I found. Also, it's probably the biggest and least likely to go away.

LiveJournal

Facebook

Gather

MyHeritage

WebBiographies

famoodle

cingo

aol people connection

Windows Live Spaces (formerly MSN)

Ourstory (interesting - uses a timeline approach)

custom web site (Charlie tried this approach, requires development & maintenance time)

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This is just a first cut folks! Let's get a dialog started!