We just see things a little differently
I've been doing just a little bit of work with AdoptBlogs over the last few weeks, trying to get the site working the way that I would hope. The idea behind AdoptBlogs is to give adoptive families for the thousands of kids adopted in the U.S. every year a place to blog and tell their stories. It has been a little slower getting started than I would like, but what I'm trying to do is offer some great features that you couldn't get elsewhere in addition to the obvious aspects of being able to blog within a community of people who share your life experiences as adoptive families.
So I've been adding a few features and was telling Gina about it:
Me: Honey, you can put a YouTube video on your blog now.
Gina: Yeah, I guess that's something that we probably should have had before now. OK, so she's right about that...
Me: I made it possible for you to connect to Google Analytics so you can see your statistics on your site.
Gina: Yeah, that would help, I guess. I thought this was pretty cool since you have to get outside stats counters on other sites, but at least it was a better response than the last one.
Me: I also set it up so you can tie your own domain to your blog for free!
Gina: Oh, well, I guess I thought you could already do that. (Letdown... you pay a pretty fair penny for that with other blogs!)
Gina: You know, I think all I really want is to just be able to list other people's posts on the sidebar on my blog.
Me: Yeah, you've had that one since the beginning. I showed her how to do that and now she's starting to do that on her blog (see the left side).
Being the gearhead in our family has taught me that we definitely see things differently. The stuff that I think is pretty cool is old hat to her, and I'm assuming others. I'll just have to keep working to see if I can impress her!
