Fatherhood Friday is both a day and a growing community of dads and moms sharing stories, ideas, photos and movies with one topic in mind - fatherhood. In a world that seems happy to deliver a message that dads are incapable buffoons, Dad Blogs is committed to changing that perception. The reality is, as we see it, parents today are more aware of parenting and the impact it has on their children and dads everywhere are becoming more active caregivers. If you don't believe me--check out the posts in our archives.
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Happy Fatherhood Friday! I know, I know--you want to get straight to the links, but chill! Check this out. So, we have been tinkering with the site over the last week or so-some of you may have noticed. You are probably asking yourself, "Why would they mess with the best site ever?" You have a point. Dad Blogs is completely awesome. But, we did see some opportunities for improvement and like a drunken ninja we stumbled into the complex coding world. What did we fix or change? A lot. If you noticed, Joeprah was a bit AWOL this week and that was largely due to the fact that he was toiling behind the scenes on building a better DB. Pete, I think he fell down a well. We were happy to see the site kept on ticking even though we were largely in disposed for the better part of the last week and for that we all of you a virtual pat on the back. Well done.
So, here are the recent updates made at Dad Blogs.
Recent Updates:
- Fancy System announcement tool in all profiles to keep you abreast of changes & updates
- abreast is a great word
- Profiles have been stream lined for efficiency
- Easy to see your points
- Easy to see your points
- New Theme for Community pages (videos, photos, groups, etc.)
- Looks like the main theme at Dad Blogs
- Kinda like feng shui
- You get a peaceful feeling just being here now
- All Video Uploads work
- Before only the linking to external providers worked, now you can upload your videos directly to Dad Blogs and set your privacy preferences as you see fit
- Before only the linking to external providers worked, now you can upload your videos directly to Dad Blogs and set your privacy preferences as you see fit
- Customized video player for uploaded videos
- For serious real it rules, just check it out
- Karma/Points Tweaked to include comments, voting on comments and favoriting of articles
- done for all you Karma Krazies
- Menu item exclusive to members for favorite articles
- Keep tabs of your favorite content
- Add YouTube videos and other 3rd party videos in Wall posts, group discussions--whatever
- simply paste link to video (not embed code) and you are good to go
- We landed a sponsor
- The fine folks from Sillycone placed an ad here, I won't say where, but it's blue
- Click through to see what there all about
- I will give anyone that does a virtual high-file (promise)
- Improved SEO so articles are indexed better with search engines (more for us than, but still cool)
Coming Soon:
- Embed options for Dad Blogs videos (think YouTube)
- Convention Details
- More Awesome Columnists
The Daddy Yak III is coming along now. We have three participants and that's pretty good. If we get any more submissions before noon today we can include them also. Look for the Daddy Yak III post to come out this afternoon.
With all that being said, remembering how to be a good steward of Fatherhood Friday is easy and very cool. Just follow these simple guidelines:
- Do post a Dad Blogs badge on your blog and watch your popularity grow exponentially
- Do link to awesome posts on your blog (link directly to the post, not the homepage)
- Do link back to Dad Blogs and Fatherhood Friday
- Do not link to something unrelated like the differences between viral and bacterial pathogens
- Do visit as many other contributors as possible
- Do tweet about your post and add the hashtag "#FatherhoodFriday" to the end of the tweet
- Are you a Twitter Dad? Add your Twitter ID and link to the list.
- Do subscribe to the Dad Blogs feed
Remember, dads AND moms can participate just post your links below. Also, sorry to Ciara for last week--Blenza kind of rained on her "I'm going to be first this week parade." So, to make up for it we are manually adding her to list in the #1 spot.
| 1. Ciara 2. whatnowdad 3. The Devoted Dad 4. Rian 5. MileHighDad 6. Smallprint 7. Busy-Dad-E 8. Guns 1306 9. Jason 10. Out-Numbered | 11. Daddy Files 12. Morrisquads 13. Nena 14. Jesus has 2 Daddies 15. Apok 16. AMR 17. Piper 18. Life of a New Dad 19. SurprisedMom 20. RMDM | 21. BuckDaddy- Roku Digitial Player (7/28) 22. BellaDaddy 23. Howefitz 24. seashore 25. Spiny 'dead laptop' Norman 26. HeirApparent 27. Daddy Diaries 28. aaroncrall 29. MereMortalDad |
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written by DevotedDad, July 23, 2009
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written by PC Nena, July 24, 2009
I'm new to this.
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written by morrisquads, July 24, 2009
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written by BellaDaddy, July 24, 2009
http://belladaddy.blogspot.com/2009/07/just-shake-your-uh-uh.html
HFF!
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written by howefitz, July 24, 2009
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written by Spiny 'dead laptop' Norman, July 24, 2009
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