Photos are Fun!!

Are any of you Scotts users of the photography service Flickr? If so...then you could write a post on this Scott Spot blog and link to your Flickr page so we can browse all the images! Hooray!

Or...if you're like me and you don't take good enough pictures to warrant having a Flickr account...then you can just upload a photo into the body of your posting....like this:

Aidan loves his Heffalump, which he got from his Uncle Cool (that's me).

Isn't that sweet?!

So you can post similar pictures of your own kids, or your brother's kids, or just random kids you saw at Disney World. Whose kids are in the photos are not as important at this point as the fact that you can upload your own photos into this Scott Spot blog for sharing with the rest of the family!!

Awww. Look at Ashlyn. She wants presents too! (Man, does this Uncle Cool guy ever stop sending presents? He must be the world's greatest uncle or something!)


Again, just trying to show off some of the functionality here...so you guys get a feel for how powerful a communication tool this could be for us. When Amy and I are married next summer, we can upload photos to this site so that Scotts who couldn’t make the trip to the wedding will still be able to share in all the fun by browsing the photos. You can see who was there…what Amy’s dress looked like…and how ridiculous I look in a tuxedo.

Stay tuned for more demonstrations!

PS-this site is set up so that only authorized persons can write articles and post pictures. To be one of those authorized persons…simply send me an e-mail. Then I can send you the official Scott Spot invitation and you can become a fellow “author.”

Scott Spot Goes Live

Soon you will find all sorts of Scott-family related information here. Family photos, letters and notes to each other, new baby announcements, jokes at the expense of other Scotts...all kinds of fun.

For now, I just wanted to get it set up. Over the next few weeks, I'll customize the design a bit. I'll also post some "getting started" tips for those of you who want to participate and use this site to share information with the family, but maybe don't have much internet or blogging experience.

For the newbies: a "blog" is short for "weblog." It's a virtual journal, hosted on the world wide web instead of a paper journal book that you keep between the matresses. We can post messages and announcements to each other ("Jeremy no longer works at the Sock Factory") and we can post photographs ("here's a shot of the latest reunion at Steve's"), etc.

Think of it like this: this is an online version of those Christmas newsletters you all send each other. Some of you are funny, some not so much. Some have photos...some just have text. Here on this blog you have the same sort of information being shared...only much more frequently.

Best of all, this site is free. Using it is free. Registering as a member is free (I'll walk you through that as well). So we can keep tabs on each other and make fun of each other's goofy haircuts in real time, instead of only getting updates once a year.