Herding cats

I've started a little experiment here on Vox. I've created a group for my family and I'm trying to get everyone to join and participate.

I'm not just talking about my wife, parents, sister and brother-in-law. I'm talking about the whole gang -- all my aunts and uncles and cousins over the age of 13. My mother has a large family (she's the 3rd of 8 kids) and everyone still lives in the Bay Area but we don't see each other as often as we did when I was a kid. My hope is that we can all share what's going on in our lives on Vox.

We had a family party yesterday and I collected email addresses. Last night I sent out 20 invitations, and I still need a few more email addresses before I'm finished inviting.

I decided to use Vox instead of LiveJournal for a couple of reasons: 1) I wanted to keep my LiveJournal separate and 2) I thought Vox would have a smaller learning curve for new users.

So far 7 people have joined and I'm hoping to get the rest in and posting soon. I'm going to try to document this experiment on my Vox blog so stay tuned!