Creating Your Own Family Web Site

While many of us have a circle of friends and coworkers that we interact with regularly, for most people, the family is where people connect most deeply. But families are growing increasingly apart in this day and age with immediate family members busy with their own schedules and extended family being separated by many miles. Increasingly, many families are creating family websites to help increase communication, plan events like a reunion and have fun. We’re going to talk about creating your own family website using Qlubb, an easy to use group website that takes less than a minute to set up.

Create your Own Family Email Address
One of the most convenient first steps in improving family communication is creating a group email. With a group email list, you can send one email to smithfamily@qlubb.com and every person in the family gets the email. You don’t have to type in everybody’s email address every time and in addition, you can let the family members manage their email addresses themselves – like for instance if they change their email address.

Create Your Own Family Website
Creating your own family’s space is a great way to centralize information. If you use just email, you will soon find that information gets fragmented and it’s hard to know who has the latest information. More useless emails tend to flow around when there isn’t a central place for people to disseminate information. With a central website you can publish a family calendar so everyone knows what everyone else is doing and also what the future events are. By creating a central website, like http://smithfamily.qlubb.com everyone knows where to get on the same page.

What’s key is to have a secure site that has an open administration model. By enabling family members to contribute easily and frequently – otherwise the most tech person is stuck with making all of the edits.

Shared To Do List
Whether planning who has what chores to do, or who is doing what for the upcoming family reunion, shared to-do lists (or shared sign up sheets) are a great way to do the planning up front and to assign responsibilities. With shared sign up sheets, all of the tasks can be laid out for everyone to see and for people to sign up or assign others as needed. Reminders can “nag” people to get things done. Shared to-do lists help coordinate activities much better than traditional paper and pen or even email.

Photo Sharing
Sharing the photos from the latest vacation trip or graduation is a great way to keep the family engaged and excited. Being able to tie photos to specific events help people find the photo albums quickly and easily that they want to view. Slideshows help make photo viewing interesting. Comments on photos add to the fun.

File Sharing
When coordinating, it’s hard to know who has the latest version of the file. By keeping it in a central location everyone knows where the latest is. Also, putting backups of important files on the Web, in a secure location is a good idea in general.

It's Easy
There are dozens of other Web features that are helpful to families but these are the very basics. By starting a Website on Qlubb, you can quickly and easily get your family online, communicating, coordinating and sharing as never before. One family said before using Qlubb that they used to do all of their reunion planning last minute or worse, once they all got there. Qlubb has helped them get organized much more easily and quickly and has helped them strengthen their extended family bonds. Try out Qlubb for getting your family online. It's quick, it's easy and it's great for the family.