I'm joining Odadeo!

September 6 2008, 1:42pm

I've agreed to become community manager at Odadeo - a great new web app / social network for Dads.

I sat down yesterday with Stef Lewandowski, the founder and lead programmer to discuss the future of the site.

I'll be available to anyone if they need any help with using the site and I'll be helping the community to grow and Stef to get the site working right for its users.

Odadeo is currently in private beta and you need an invite to join - contact me. We need dads to help us test the system to make sure it's really nailed before it goes public.

It's a very clever site with a big aim - to enable us to answer the question - "how am I going to be a better dad?". I've been using the site for a while now and I really think it works!

What we do at Odadeo is to make Pledges. You can make your own, or you can join in with Pledges others have made. The most popular pledges on the site currently are:

  • Learn some songs
  • Read more stories
  • Learn some cool tricks to impress the kids

When you do something towards one of your pledges, you can 'pip' it - and your progress on each is shown on a 'DADSDAQ" graph so you can track your progress. Here's mine:

dadsdaq

There's lots of great things about Odadeo but one I like the best is that you can create a profile for your child and add photos - with complete privacy control over who gets to see your child - and the defaults are 'private'. We're very serious about building a site that dads can feel confident about.

There are loads of exciting development coming soon as the site moves closer towards an open public beta, but we want to work with Beta testers to get the site right before it does.

If you're an Odadeo beta tester with something to say about the site, why not meet us at Diigo, where we can share notes and thoughts on the pages?

I'm really looking forward to work with Stef and the Odadeo dads - he's a top notch programmer with a great idea and dads deserve something this good!