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and other great features today! Check out the details here.

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We wanted to let you know about some new features we’ve just added to myfamily.com…

Check them out here.

And we wanted to wish you Happy Holidays! We are looking forward to bringing you more cool features in 2010!

-the myfamily.com team

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Blog!

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Of course family groups are the best way to keep your family connected. But we’ve heard from so many myfamily.com users that they are looking for an easier way to keep friends and family not in a family group updated on life’s happenings as well. And many of you want a personal space to chronicle your life events. So today we’re really excited to announce that you can now start your own personal blog on myfamily.com!

To get started, just visit your myfamily.com profile page, click on the blog tab, then click the “Start your blog” button. It’s that simple.

As with your family groups, you can post news, photos and videos. Also, sharing your blog is as easy as sending your blog URL to anyone. They don’t have to be a member of myfamily.com. Very soon, we’ll introduce privacy setting options, the ability to ‘follow’ a blog and much more.

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Email Notifications Updates

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Group activity notification emails have been significantly enhanced. You can receive email notifications when someone comments on content you’ve added or something you’ve previously commented on or ‘loved’. The emails now tell you who in your family group made the comment and/or loved an item, and includes the actual comment in the email. So now when you get your email, but don’t have time to get online, you’ll at least know what’s happening.

And, for each group you belong to, you can decide whether or not to receive a daily email that contains a list of all the new content added to the group.

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Full Screen Slideshows

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You can now view your family group photos in a really cool, much larger slideshow! Whether you’re looking at all the photos on your family group, or just those by one of your members, or those in an album, the slideshow will work. Simply click on the new ‘Play Slideshow’ button at the album view or in the context of the photo stream. You can navigate through photos using previous/next buttons as well as auto-play with the pause/resume button. The title of each photo will also be displayed.

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New Filter/Sorting Options

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The filters and sorting options have been redesigned, improved and added to, making it much easier to find photos, videos, discussions and any other piece of content on your family groups. There are also new options when sorting by member, like the ability to display only the content that you have uploaded or the content that has been uploaded by specific people.

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Tag Search

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Now when you search for multiple tags, the search results will only show items that contain all of the tags you’ve entered into the search box. This makes all of the content on your site easier to find.

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Arrange An Album

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Organizing your family’s photos just became a whole lot easier. Use the new drag-and-drop interface to manually arrange photos within your albums or automatically arrange them based on Title, the date they were uploaded to the group or the date they were taken. You can even put them in random order by clicking the ‘Shuffle’ button.

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“Love This”

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Want to let a family member know that you love a great photo or exciting discussion that they’ve posted to your family group? The new “Love This” feature lets you do so with just one click, either on the homepage activity feed or while viewing the single item. A list of everyone who loves the item is also shown in both these locations.

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Copy To Another Group

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Now you can easily copy any discussion, album, video, photo or file from one family group to another. This can be done immediately after upload or while viewing a single item Just click the ‘Copy to another family group’ link, then choose which family group(s) you want to copy it to.

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Batch Sharing

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After uploading a group of photos or videos, you can now share that entire batch of items even if they’re not all in the same album. All you have to do is click the ‘Share with people…’ icon that appears immediately after upload. You can then share the items via email, by using the provided share link or by sharing out to Facebook, Twitter and other services.

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Other Enhancements

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Share To Multiple Emails
When sharing a photo, video or album, you can now send share emails to multiple email addresses by separating them with a comma.

What’s This?
We’ve added a few ‘What’s This?’ links around the site that help explain some of the features, such as Nicknames, Email Notifications and more.

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Since the 2.5 version of myfamily.com now includes many of the features you have come to love, we will be removing the 2.0 version sometime in the first week of October. If you have been using the 2.5 version exclusively, this change won’t affect you. If you’ve been using the 2.0 version, your links will automatically be redirected to 2.5.

We will continue to add more to the 2.5 version. In the next release, we are bringing you brand new features as well as some of your requested favorites: the ability to arrange photos and copy items to different family groups.

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Family Trees

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We’ve teamed up with Ancestry.com to bring their premier Family Tree tools to you and your family groups on myfamily.com. Ancestry.com Family Trees allow you to organize, preserve and share your family history, as well as search historical records to discover and learn more about your ancestors.

Import Family Trees:
If you’ve already got Family Trees built on Ancestry.com, you can easily share them with your family groups by importing them to myfamily.com. Just go to the ‘Family Trees’ tab, click on the ‘Import’ button, log in to Ancestry.com and select the Family Trees you’d like to import.

Create A New Family Tree:
If you’ve never used Ancestry.com before, why not build your first family tree today? Just go to Ancestry.com and get started for free. Once you’re finished, import it to your family groups by following the steps mentioned above.

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New Photo Features

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Rotate:
You can now rotate photos directly within myfamily.com. Just click on the ‘Rotate Left’ or ‘Rotate Right’ button until the photo displays correctly, then click the ‘Save Rotate’ button. Only group administrators and the person who added the photo are able to rotate it.

Pin To Homepage:
In addition to being able to feature album slideshows on the homepage, you can now feature a single photo by clicking ‘Pin Photo to Homepage.’

Add To Another Album:
You can also add the photo directly to an album by clicking ‘Add To Another Album.’ This will bring up all of the albums that exist on that group, and you can then select which ones you’d like to add it to. This feature also works for videos.

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More Enhancements

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New Uploader
Adding photos, videos and files to your family groups is now easier thanks to a more simplified uploader, which now displays how much of your monthly upload allowance you have left.

Upcoming Events Module
The Upcoming Events module on the group homepage has been redesigned, and now also displays the location of the event.

Photo Stories & Voice
Photo Stories that were created on the old version of myfamily.com are now accessible by clicking on the ‘Photos & Videos’ tab and then the ‘Show Only: Slideshows’ button. Voice Discussions and Voice Comments that were created on the old version are also now accessible on the new version.

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Non-Member Sharing

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You can now share all the photos, videos and albums on your family groups with anyone online. Just go to the item that you want to share and click the ‘Share this…’ link. Here are all the different ways you can share:

Email:
Type in the email address of the person you want to share with and click the ‘Send’ button. We’ll then send that person an email containing a link to the item you’ve shared.

Link:
Just copy the URL and paste it in an email, on your blog or anywhere else online. Anyone who clicks on it will be taken directly to the item you’ve shared.

Embed HTML:
Copy this HTML and place it in your own code to embed photos and videos into your group discussions and comments, or anywhere else online. This option is not available when sharing albums.

Post to Service:
You can quickly and easily post your shared items to other popular online services such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Blogger, Wordpress and MySpace. All you have to do is click on the icon and then log into the service you want to use.

When someone clicks on a link to your shared photo, video or album, they will see the item, its title and description, who shared it, and when. Example of a shared photo is picture below.

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Group Privacy Options

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Group privacy options have been added to the ‘Details’ tab under Group Settings. This allows administrators to choose who can view the group and whether or not other members can request to join it (more info on Membership Requests further below). The different privacy options are:

Public:

• Anyone can access your group and see all of its contents. However, they will not be able to add content or comment on anything.
• Anyone who views your profile page will see the group in the Family Groups module, and it will be labeled ‘Public.’
• Anyone can request to join the group.

Private:

• Only members of the group will be able to see its contents.
• Non-members will be shown a public landing page, which includes the group picture and description.
• Anyone who views your profile page will see the group in the Family Groups module.
• Anyone can request to join the group.

Secret:

• Only members of the group will be able to see its contents.
• Non-members cannot access the group or the public landing page.
• Anyone who views your profile page will not see the group in the Family Groups module (unless it’s being viewed by another member of that group).
• People cannot request to join the group.

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Public Landing Page

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If a group has a ‘Private’ privacy setting, a new tab called ‘Public Landing Page’ will appear under Group Settings. Here, administrators can add a group description that will display on the public landing page. They can also preview what the page will look like (example pictured below).

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Membership Requests

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Once someone requests to join a public or private group, all administrators will receive an email informing them that the request has been made. Requests can be approved or denied in the ‘Memberships’ tab of Group Settings. If a request is approved, an email will be sent to the requestor to notify them that they are now a member of the group.

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Download Photos & Videos

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You can now download photos (in their original size) and videos directly from your family groups to your computer. Simply go to the photo or video you want to download and click the ‘Download this…’ link on the right side of the screen.

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