Looking For A Voxer For A Possible Press Story

Sep 18, 2007 at 12:59 PM
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Greetings Voxers,

We've received a press request searching for the following:

I need to interview a spokesperson, very briefly, about parents' use of blogs to keep in touch with almost-grown children. I'm especially interested in young adults who are travelling or living abroad and writing a blog.

If you fit this description or know someone who does, please comment below with a link and if the writer is interested we'll contact you via private message.

Thanks!
- Krissy

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I hide my vox blog from my family but do have an MT blog that we use to keep our family updated as we are spread across several different states - from California to Georgia.

I started my blog three days after Daughter went to University. She has enjoyed the stories about the family as much as finding out some of the stuff I probably would not talk to her about if she were here. My other kids sometimes read my blog, and Husband never does.

Daughter does not blog herself, though I wish she would, so that I could keep up with her!

Potty Mouth replied to Bookmole’s comment:
Sep 18, 2007
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I tried to get my parents to blog but they just won't do it. Our kid is 8 and kept a blog for a little bit on Typepad but got bored with it. We are going to try and get it started again as a video blog. We use MT for our platform and a mac with iSight and i-Movie to edit.

My sister and her husband are working in Japan. When they arrived about a year ago they each set up Vox sites to keep in touch with friends and family. Now both sets of parents have a vox site, as do another sister and I, plus extended friends/family. Parents are more active readers/commenters than posters however. Recently my brother-in-law used his vox blog to update us on a typhoon coming right at them. Fortunately no scary news to report.

I think That Guy fits the bill to a T ...

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I fit this description my link is www.myspace.com/killznorflondon im a young producer very talented :D

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Collegesami.vox.com

Check it out. :)

My sister's abroad w/ a blog. I'm at college w/ a blog. Mom has a blog. All for keeping in touch.

i did that while i was in china for five weeks this past summer...my whole family read it...parents, grandparents, cousins. not a vox blog though, because vox was censored (had originally planned on updating vox and livejournal, then i got there and it was a no go). had to go with blogspot.

http://www.marytrippedout.blogspot.com/

not abroad, but my mom has become quite the blogger to keep up with me and sister.

This was originally our wedding website, but it got transformed into a little blog. My husband's parents read it more than mine.

www.bethundmartin.de

i live in wales but my family lives in south east england, almost the opsite end of the UK. bloging is a good way to keep in touch, expeshaly with my sister.

I kept a blog (blogspot, not Vox) when I was an exchange student in Italy for 9 months...it helped me to keep in touch with my parents and friends stateside and kept them updated on what I was doing. I also found that it worked really well for discussing things with and telling things to my parents that I wouldn't want to directly...

http://pseudoitaliana.blogspot.com/

I'm currently keeping a blog to document my year in Iceland. I'm in Iceland as an exchange student for 11 months and it really helps to keep everyone at home updated, especially my mom. My blog is here: http://dinothesaurus.vox.com

I'm currently an international freshman in the USA, my family lives in Nigeria, and I use my blog to "mass-update" them about my life in university, and other stuff. It's really good because you can only talk for so long on an international call, and this way everyone gets to see/hear/read about everything, and I don't have to tell each person individually. I love it because I can share things with them like videos that I could never express to them otherwise, such as over the phone.

My blog is : http://sugabelly.vox.com

I'm a new Vox parent who is grateful and relieved his daughter put her journals from Indonesia on Vox. Communication was greatly improved and my separation anxiety "empty nest syndrome" has decreased significantly.

I was recently reunited with my daughter that I gave up for adoption and I like to blog to keep her up to date as to what is going on in my life. I also keep up with my sisters near and far, they all have blogs as well.

i'm 23, and just moved away from home for the first time, to texas from michigan, where my entire family lives. my parents have started keeping tabs on me through my vox & flickr (in addition, of course, to phone and e-mail) and they love it! it's very new, because i made an effort to keep them out of my online life before moving.

my blog!

I'm 33 and my parents read my blog. I live in Germany working for the U.S. Army. I believe that a few of my relatives read it and a bunch of my friends. Maybe nobody reads it, but I believe that they do. :-)

I'm keeping my blog while I am abroad in Kyoto for a year so that my parents/siblings/friends can see what' going on when I don't have time to email them.

http://okunohosomichi.vox.com

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That's me to a tee!

I have an online blog as I moved from Melbourne, Australia to London, UK back in May 2007. I am returning to Melbourne in December, but I am considering coming back to the UK permanently.

I set up the blog because basically it's too hard with the time difference to be calling my family back home, as my parents have separated and basically repeat the same story. Vox has been great as I can write and post pictures and I don't need to constantly repeat myself.

So take a look at 'Sarah In London: Almost British' http://seratori.vox.com

I have two blogs. One I've had for a number of years that I use to update my friends on my life. The other blog (on vox) is one that I used last year when I was studying abroad that I gave to my family so they could keep up with what I was up to. It was a lot easier because I didn't have to worry about the time difference, my parents could catch up on my life at their own leisure, and I didn't have to tell the same story five times

When I traveled abroad the summer after my junior year of college (last summer), I created a blog solely devoted to that travel. The blog was actually a deal my parents and I struck - as long as I updated very regularly, I didn't have to spend mega-bucks to call home.

My mom passed the blog info around to my entire family and some friends and a ton of people I knew ended up reading it which was really strange. The group included my grandparents who are not the most tech-savvy ever.

http://summer-adventures-in-prague.blogspot.com/ --> my prague blog

I also have a blog that I've had for six or seven years now that is totally separate and way more personal.

I kept a blog when my 16-year-old daughter was an exchange student in Spain. I'm using it as the basis for a guide book about being the family of an exchange student. She also kept one, but didn't write as much.

http://blogs.emelton.com/awholeyear (mom's)
http://blogs.emelton.com/chloespain (daughter's)

I recently spent six weeks in South Africa on a volunteer program, and I used my blog to keep friends and family informed. I posted detailed accounts of my actions every day for the duration of the trip, which took me about 2 hours per posting to write! But I certainly enjoyed it and I am told the family did too.

Only thing is that it was on LiveJournal not Vox... but you can check it out, starting at:

http://jon-a-thon.livejournal.com/2007/03/12/

I didn't use a vox, but I did use one from Blogger while I was traveling with my boyfriend in Nicaragua. Phone calls were expensive and a hassle, so they checked out my blog to see what I was up to. The link is www.nicatrip.blogspot.com. They were always bothering me to write more often!

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My blog is at http://www.yakv.net
I don't keep a Vox blog because I find Vox too confusing, and because I like hosting my own stuff.
I lived in Israel for two years and kept in touch with family primarily via long emails which I later posted on my blog with illustrations and videos

I do do vox to keep updated on my son's activities and interests in his young adult life - just out of college and now working f/t remotely from me. I enjoy and like being kept up to date. Alot of these things aren't discussed in detail in our phone calls so it is great to read up on all ! I enjoy the pictures and movies also.

Hi!

I am Julie from France, I've been abroad in Australia for 11 monthes and I set up a vox blog to let my family and my friends aware of my life overseas. everyone told me when i've been back that they've folowed my life through it and realy enjoyed it. I am sure that someone from my family could talk about it for you.

here is my blog: www.juliedetoulouse.vox.com

My son and 3 friends who were finished with their sophmore college year went to Europe backpacking and eurail/hostels and all kept a rotating livejournal blog between them for the parents' peace of mind. As they were away during the bombing of the London Subways and consequent airline new regulations, this was the only way we could inform them of inportant heads up details.

I live in Germany and blog about my travels. I've only had the blog for a short while, but you can read all about Djibouti! I know that all my family reads it, prints it, takes it to church, etc. The feedback has been so incredibly positive. I'm really thankful for all my experiences and for this excellent forum to share them on!

My bf and I use our blogspot blog to share our stories of our travels and daily life with our friends and families. We have both spent time abroad in a country which allowed very few Americans, so it was great to be able to share stories and pictures from those travels!

I have to admit I haven't put any work into a blog here... :( I mainly joined to be able to comment on blogs of friends of mine....

www.carolinaregion.blogspot.com

I am German and my husband is American. 2 years ago we moved from Germany to Hawaii, became parents to a beautiful son and with my blog I keep my family and friends in Germany up to date about our life on the island. It is just a wonderful tool. Hubby just started his blog on Vox.

My son blogged throughout his college career, and I enjoyed reading the posts. Even those he "thought" were tagged "private", resulting in anxious phone calls. He began a blog on Vox this summer , and I followed suit.

Now I am trying to set up a group blog with the members of a class I teach .

I have enjoyed my son's photographs and hearing about his plans via his blog.
An entire new world for me

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Vox is a natural answer to keeping in touch!
I relocated from Arizona to London and have been getting family and friends adjusted to checking my vox blog - they get to see pictures and I update what books I am reading and places I am visiting. It's great! My great aunt who is in her 80's even checks it!

Facebook, Blogs and VOX are brand new to me. Before my daughter (22 years old) left for B.C., she started a Blog and insisted on signing me up to Facebook. I gotta say, I didn't think I'd use it, simply because, although I'm somewhat computer literate, I rarely spent time on the computer. She left Sept. 1st and since then, I spend more and more time at night on the computer, not only going to her Blog and commenting, but also familiarizing myself with these new sites. My daughter, Jess, is very concientious with her daily stories, reports and photos that I feel like she's right around the corner. I couldn't ask for a better way to keep in touch.

i'm living in France as an au pair while my family is in the States and communicating mostly via e-mail and my vox blog.

I listen to Net@Nite with Leo Laport and Amber Macdonald. Amber always talks about how her mother keeps up on her by reading her blog. She lives in Canada and her mother and father travel alot and I think her parents live in Canada technically but are on opposite sides of the country from each other...

http://ambermac.typepad.com/

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Hey everyone, sorry im so late haha, anyway i hope to see you all in my neighboorhood soon!

I write my blog in part for myself and in part to keep in touch with, share ideas and creative insights, music, films, etc. with my 2 university student daughters. I know that a friend does this same sort of thing, at:

http://andreaelizabeth.vox.com/

I began 3 years ago (2004) with a MSN group when I went to Germany during 6 months for my studies.
Then, I created later a MSN blog. And I now have got my own blog with my personal domain name www.cajulitoon.com.
I'm French but living in Spain for 2 years, and my blog permits me to get in touch with all my family and my friends, even if we are far.
My parents, uncles, aunts and cousins are reading it very regularly, even if they don't really comment it.
I try to speak about my life, difficulties I can meet, discoveries I do, culture of the country, etc.
My sister did the same when she went to Finland and USA. But she used to write on it only when she wasn't in France. http://pseudopotes.free.fr/dotclear/

But our 2 blogs are only in French for the moment.
I was thinking to translate mine in English and Spanish, but I didn't begin yet.

hope you'll find a very good one :)

My oldest 2 kids are out of the house. My son is 24 and has lived in Florida, Italy, and is now in Iraq. I totally use not just his entries on places like vox to keep up with him, but just the fact that I see him online to know he's ok to sublimate my motherly fears. My daughter is 21, out of the house and on her own for the first time. Not so far away but yes, when I haven't heard from her, I check all her sites and if her mood or situation seems to need a "mom", I casually call and it works out nicely. I don't spy on them but it's a nice way to keep up with them.

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I have a very big family back home and home is 8000 miles away. I can't possibly call each and everyone in my family during the weekends. And I don't think I'll be able to update them with everything that goes on in my life, even if I wanted to. That's why I started a blog. I'm new to vox, but I've always been blogging since I came here.With this blog though, I know they'll feel closer to me, and I'll be able to share with them the good things I experience here.

http://jannah.vox.com

mother in washington state, father in florida. they both read it every day and it's a part of our nearly daily communication...since starting this blog i've lived in thailand, canada, and argentina (i'm a writer) so in terms of helping to stay "in touch," it's one of the most important avenues into my daily life. my parents (and siblings and cousins and friends) all say it's like they talk to me every day since the read my blog so frequently and i write very much with that in mind...

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