A little over a year ago we announced that we were building a new version of myfamily.com (dubbed “myfamily.com 2.0″). We talked about why we were doing this and outlined our goals. And while we have been building 2.0, we have learned some very important things from you about the value of 1.0, and why [...]
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Well, January is here already and we haven’t migrated all sites yet. However, we have made some really good progress and, thanks to those of you who have had a chance to review and use a migrated site, we’ve gotten a lot of good feedback and insights into how to we can improve the migration [...]
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Today we sent an email to myfamily.com members announcing our subscription options and early 2008 availability. In case you didn’t get the email (spam filter or whatever), here it is:– — –Dear myfamily.com Member,We’re pleased to announce our new myfamily.com 2.0 subscription packages, available early 2008. While we will still provide free family websites, paid [...]
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Last week we sent out an email to all Administrators of 1.0 sites with a brief update about migration. If you received the email, this is simply redundant. If not, well, here’s the scoop:
Since we first announced migration, we’ve received thousands of requests from folks who want to move their sites to the new 2.0 [...]
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Whew!
We just released an update to 2.0 that’s chock full of great new features and enhancements. We hope you’re as excited about them as we are. There’s so much yet to come over the coming months, but for September, here’s our list:
Themes!
One of our most requested features is for the ability to change the design [...]
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If you’re a newer reader of this blog, here’s a link to our first post about why we’re building a new myfamily.com 2.0 and migrating our loyal 1.0 members’ sites and content to this new experience.
Back in March, Dave Quick posted the 1.0 to 2.0 site migration plan. It’s a great post that give high-level [...]
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Before I start filling you in on the migration story, let me say hello to all of the MyFamily.com v1.0 customers out there that are reading this. I’m Dave Quick, a member of the MyFamily.com team hard at work on the MyFamily.com v2.0 Beta site.
A significant amount of my time has recently been dedicated to [...]
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After nearly 8 years, myfamily.com is about to go through a complete overhaul.Very soon, we’ll be launching the first of many releases. An all new myfamily.com service — which we’re calling (if you can believe it) myfamily.com 2.0 beta. I know, original.
by the way, we’re calling the current site “original myfamily.com” or ”myfamily.com 1.0″
What does beta mean? The [...]
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