Geni - Social Network for your Family
Your friends and family can certainly be part of your traffic-building strategy for your blogs, especially in your early days. StumbleUpon, BlueDot, MySpace, etc. are all great ways for you to be able to connect your online friends with your new blogs (don’t have accounts & networks with these services yet? Spend some time and do it now!).
But what about your family? Chances are you only know the email addresses for your immediate family, or don’t even know how large your extended family is.
That’s where a new company that launched in January of this year comes in. Geni is an easy-to-use online tool to map your family tree, and is extremely viral. Within one week, my tree (initially populated with my immediate family), has grown to 203 people - 39 blood relatives and 163 in-laws. My wife is now also able to track her mother’s side of the family back to 1510!
In addition to being able to finally understand the complicated relationships in my wife’s family, I also hope that this will serve to to open up the lines of online communication with my extended family once again and get some of them interested in maintaining online sites. Trading links with existing personal blogs among your family is also a great way to increase your SEO and Technorati rank.
You can find out about new updates about the product on the Geni blog, or be able to ask questions and interact with other Geni users on the Geni Forums.
