Wow, it has only been a short 3+ years, but there have been a lot of things that we have shared with you, our friends and families. over the years at the Waldron Family Chronicles…and we are very thankful for all those who have peeked in (over 7,900 visits over that time) to see what we were up to and how Austin was growing up. But all good things must come to an end and the Waldron Family Chronicles is no exception.
In anticipation of having a new baby girl, Keith has been debating in his own mind the virtues of privacy on the internet. To date, all of our stories, videos and pictures are “unlisted” and someone needs to have the physical link to access materials, but Keith has become increasingly weary of posting things online, especially with one child getting older, and another eventually growing older as well. There a lot of sickos out there, and in Keith’s paranoid mind, the system that we were using to share information with our loved ones falls short of Keith’s intentions regarding privacy. As result, the Waldron Family Chronicles will remain “open” as it is as long as blogger.com will host it for us, but it will no longer be updated.
So…where do we go from here? We would like to formally announce the launch of waldronfamily.info, a blog hosted on our own server with content to be controlled and password protected exclusively by us, and us alone. Waldronfamily.info is a little more streamlined than the Waldron Family Chronicles, and will hopefully be more accessible to those who have struggled with some adjustments that have been made to this blog and the albums that go with it. No longer will photos, videos and stories/postings be at different locations. You will be able to find everything “Waldron” with one click of mouse on the front page at waldronfamily.info. In addition, by making the waldronfamily.info (with all of it’s contents) password protected, we will be able to us twitter more effectively by not needing to keep tweets private.
The plan is to use twitter for 2 purposes: (1) To share brief anecdotes that don’t justify a blog posting per-see, but people may find interesting or amusing and (2) to let people know when we have updated the blog. Obviously, with privacy being a chief concern, we will NOT be sharing personally identifiable information on twitter…it is simply a nice way to let you know if something has changed on the blog without making the reader dig through a bunch of different photo albums and video galleries to hunt for potential changes. Besides, sometimes Austin has some really cool things to say that are ideal for twitter too.
I am including a tutorial on waldronfamily.info below for you convenience. Again, we would like to thank all of you for being so interested in our growing family and we look forward to sharing even more with you in the future at waldronfamily.info.