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That Jenna is powerful!! Over 600 new visitors over at Open Adoption Support but not many new users. They’re all rubber-neckers. But I have hope!

Hope and an earache! Well, the earache isn’t a good thing. I need to go lie down. And so I shall.

That my Open Adoption, Broken Heart essay is in the new issue of Adoptive Families (here’s hoping they changed the name!). If you stop by here because you read it, please go register to Open Adoption Support!

Thanks to Hingly (no blog, alas) I’m going to start thinking about incentives to get y’all over there filling it up with your helpful thoughts and pointed yet insightful commentary! Remember — you don’t have to be in an open adoption to share your wisdom and if you are in an open adoption, why you owe it to yourself to be a part of our about-to-be powerful open adoption movement! (Seriously — I would have loved to find something like this 3+ years ago!)

I need to create it to drum up more work. The content part is pretty easy since, you know, I’m a writer. The design part is a whole ‘nother can of worms. I’m playing with some software that I’ll likely spring for next blogads pay out. I really want to get a handle on how to do it myself since that’ll make more sense later on. But I’m antsy now when it’s all prep and no running ahead with things. That’s why I was killing time with Open Adoption Support. Plus I just got a bee in my bonnet about it. (Two clichéd phrases in one paragraph — I’m on a roll. Three!)

I’d love for you to go check it out, register (if you so choose) and play around then send me any bug reports. Drupal does not love IE so if it LOOKS funky on there, I’m not going to worry about it. Let me know about actual errors though or if you try to do something and it won’t let you.

OpenAdoptionSupport.com is now a full scope social networking site with:
–Live chats (one chat is always up and you can create your own to have with buddies);
–Forums (I’ll be adding to those but you can build private forums although you will then be responsible for modding ‘em yourself);
–Blogs, Guestbooks, PrivateMessaging;
–An event calendar to post conferences, adoption show airings, chats you’ve scheduled, etc. etc.;
–A news aggregator so you can see what google and yahoo stories on open adoption have recently gone live.

You can make your own groups — public or private — about anything that interests you. When you post something you can either have it public or private (like friends-only on LJ) and you can post it directly to whatever groups you’re part of. When you create a group you can make it open to everyone or invite-only so I’m hoping it’s a place where reformists, radical adoption-ites or just regular folks can find their people and spread their good word.

It’s supposed to be a one-stop resource and I may add some more mods as we go but now it looks pretty good. I just need testers (that means YOU!) and I did dump the old database so I’ll pull content from that (and email addresses so I can send invites once we’re out of beta) to add later.