The Famundo Blog: Category Family 2.0

Family-friendly Social Networking

richard.kuhlenschmidt@famundo.com (Richard Kuhlenschmidt) — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:48:00 -0500

When we set out to design Famundo Social, we surveyed our users for ideas on what would make Famundo work better for them. Many of their suggestions are incorporated in this new release.

One of the things we heard over and over again was the need for families to be able to interact with their extended family and friends in a manner, similar to Facebook or Myspace, but in a family-friendly, safe and secure environment. With parents having control over who their children can or cannot be friends with. With grandkids and grandparents having the ability to communicate with each other without having to set up an e-mail account.

The result is the “Social” part of Famundo Social. Here is a short flash movie that gives a overview on how this works.

Families are busy today. We tend to get caught up in our own lives and let our relationships with friends and our extended families fall through the cracks. We hope Famundo Social can help bring you together again.

Important Notice for our existing Famudo users

richard.kuhlenschmidt@famundo.com (Richard Kuhlenschmidt) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:23:00 -0500

We will begin migrating our current Famundo users’ accounts to Famundo Social over the next few weeks. You will receive an e-mail from us with more information as we get closer.

We are also offering our current users a special upgrade promotion. Upgrade to Famundo Plus before the end of the year and pay only $2.95/month or $29/year for the first year.

Upgraded users will be the first to have their accounts migrated to Famundo Social and will enjoy 2GB of document and photo storage, enhanced security, additional family vaults and many more enhancements planned for the future.

To upgrade your account, please log into Famundo account and click on Upgrade on the top banner. This offer will expire on December 31, 2008.

Again, please expect to hear from us within the next few weeks about the migration process.

Famundo Social: -1 day and counting!

richard.kuhlenschmidt@famundo.com (Richard Kuhlenschmidt) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:36:00 -0400

Famundo Social: -1 day and counting!

Yeah, I know, we’re a day late. You know how those things go. But here are some more screen shots to pique your interest.

Our beautiful new Calendar page

This is where you will find your Famundo Friends.

And where you will send and receive messages with your Famundo Friends.

Our new Photo Albums with slide shows

And a cool new look and feel for the Family Vaults

Famundo Social: 1 day and counting!

richard.kuhlenschmidt@famundo.com (Richard Kuhlenschmidt) — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:23:00 -0400

Here is a sneak peak at Famundo Social’s beautiful new look and feel. More later …

Famundo Social: 2 days and counting!

richard.kuhlenschmidt@famundo.com (Richard Kuhlenschmidt) — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:03:00 -0400

We are counting down the hours until we release the next generation of Famundo.

We are calling this new version Famundo Social, because we have added new family social networking features that will allow you to connect, communicate and share with your friends and family in a safe and secure environment. This is in addition to our existing scheduling and organization features, which are now faster and easier to use.

Stay tuned!!!

Famundo mentioned on SavvySugar

richard.kuhlenschmidt@famundo.com (Richard Kuhlenschmidt) — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:56:00 -0400

We got a nice mention on SavvySugar in a feature titled 10 Ways to Save Time and Be More Productive

Online calendaring makes your schedule easily accessible and will help you keep track of birthdays, special dates and appointments.

Famundo in Canadian Family

richard.kuhlenschmidt@famundo.com (Richard Kuhlenschmidt) — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:01:00 -0400

Famundo is featured in the print edition of Canadian Family Magazine!

It is fantastic! I now say if it’s not in Famundo, then it’s not happening

Kristina Lee, mom of Dannielle, 3 and Acadia, 1, Winnepeg

Famundo.com, a management and calendaring service, lets family members merge their personal schedules with the rest of the family’s. You’ll know who is free to take Marcus to trumpet lessons on Thursday night, and when everyone can sit down for a family dinner.

PERKS- Message boards so your notes aren’t thrown out, list managers to keep track of when the milk is out or who’s on garbage duty, and a family vault to store important documents and photos.

It is on the newsstands now! Check it out, page 28!

True Stories - Keeping our distributed family in touch

richard.kuhlenschmidt@famundo.com (Richard Kuhlenschmidt) — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:33:00 -0400

We are a very close family of seven adult children and our dad and are spread out all over the globe. We are using Famundo to keep our family in touch with each other and have found a lot of creative ways to use it.

Naturally we use the calendar to let everyone know if and when we are traveling. The Address Book is great for keeping the address and phone numbers of our mutual friends and family. We use the lists for projects that we are working on together and plan to use it for gift exchange help this Christmas. The photos albums are a real treat, each one of us uploads recent photos of our respective families. Thanks for making it easily for our family to stay closer!

True Stories - Managing our carpool

richard.kuhlenschmidt@famundo.com (Richard Kuhlenschmidt) — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:14:00 -0400

We have been using Famundo to manage our carpool. There are four families involved and in the past we would get daily calls with questions about who is picking up in the morning or who is picking up after school.

We solved this problem by adding a carpool calendar to our Famundo site, with View access set to Public. Since the View access on the other items on our calendars is set to Family, only the carpool schedule is viewable by the public.

Now we set the carpool schedule over the weekend and enter the events for the upcoming week. If the schedule is the same, it is very easy to use Famundo’s Copy feature to copy events from one week to another.

Everyone else in the carpool has our public URL so they can pull up the calendar anytime they wish. We even have the phone numbers available in the events so if you need to call a driver, it is right there at your fingertips.

Here is a screen shot of our carpool calendar.

Upgrade to Famundo for Families Plus!

richard.kuhlenschmidt@famundo.com (Richard Kuhlenschmidt) — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:25:00 -0400

Users of our free standard version of Famundo for Families can now upgrade to Famundo for Families Plus and enjoy no ads, more file and photo storage and much more. For a complete list of features, please visit our features page.

To upgrade, click on the Upgrade link on the Famundo banner. You have the option of paying a monthly fee of $9.95 or an annual subscription of $99. And, for a limited time, annual subscribers receive 14 months for the cost of 12!