Listen now | Starting a podcast to share your stories with your extended family — privately. You'll engage your family in the stories that matter without the performative distortions of social media.
In an update to the WeAre [Archived] platform I'm using in this recipe, they've added a simple mechanism to remove the complexity of creating individual accounts for each extended family member. This is huge.
Let's face it: EVERY time you need to rely on a platform to invite family members, you introduce friction that slows them down. Finally, YOUR email to your own family members will get them past that hurdle in a click.
Oh... here's an interesting idea triggered in a conversation with @Ollie - if Only i. Once you get this "private podcast" set up, what you're really doing is creating a private newsletter publishing channel with your grown siblings, cousins, and extended family. You can use that for anything.
I'm now thinking about using it with a nifty new timeline of events in my family history (created based on insight from @Robin Stewart using the KnightLab JS tool.) The idea is to create tiny little posts for my cousins about "this day in history" for our shared ancestors. 2024 is the bicentennial of the Marquis de Lafayette's return to the United Stats 50 years after its founding. Where the tour went and our ancestors' possible connections is fun all by itself, eh? 🤔
The ah-ha I got from this is separating the archiving function from the communication function, and being deliberate with each. Good tips on tech choices for each too!
In an update to the WeAre [Archived] platform I'm using in this recipe, they've added a simple mechanism to remove the complexity of creating individual accounts for each extended family member. This is huge.
Let's face it: EVERY time you need to rely on a platform to invite family members, you introduce friction that slows them down. Finally, YOUR email to your own family members will get them past that hurdle in a click.
Here's a video from Simon Davies, the WeAre founder, active here on Substack: youtu.be/ZPdoAjyFTmU?si=-BcAE-HX3b6GJvRt
Oh... here's an interesting idea triggered in a conversation with @Ollie - if Only i. Once you get this "private podcast" set up, what you're really doing is creating a private newsletter publishing channel with your grown siblings, cousins, and extended family. You can use that for anything.
I'm now thinking about using it with a nifty new timeline of events in my family history (created based on insight from @Robin Stewart using the KnightLab JS tool.) The idea is to create tiny little posts for my cousins about "this day in history" for our shared ancestors. 2024 is the bicentennial of the Marquis de Lafayette's return to the United Stats 50 years after its founding. Where the tour went and our ancestors' possible connections is fun all by itself, eh? 🤔
(Don't tell my cousins this is coming 🤫)
The ah-ha I got from this is separating the archiving function from the communication function, and being deliberate with each. Good tips on tech choices for each too!