#SignsforStartups: Adoptee Rights

March 14, 2012

So this is one of those Social Media Bandwagons that I end up jumping on.

You know, how I pay attention to all this stuff at my job and then apply it to Adoptionland. Or really, it happened the other way around, I learned all this stuff in Adoptionland, and it turned into the job? They all blur sometimes!

Anyway, we get home from dinner tonight to find that my boss, @RicDragon, had tagged a bunch of #usDragons on Facebook with this link to this feel good challenge on another SMM industry blog.

It’s SUPPOSE to be for new “social media and geeky” words that have not been translated to American Sign Language yet..like Twitter, etc.

I went Adoption, of course.
I, um, also, cannot sign. At all.

So I went to Fb and demanded help and was sent here. ( thank you Linda!) Not surprisingly, I could find “adoption” and “adopted” but no Adoptee. Spell check doesn’t like “Adoptee” either.

I Have No Idea if There is ASL for Adoptee Rights

So we made it up. Scarlett and I did it together. This is our cheesy video. I don’t know what’s with the green screen under her. She’s asleep now, so I am not redoing this!

Now, you are all supposed to IMPRESS the SOCIAL MEDIA people with the AWESOME SHARING POWER OF ADOPTIONLAND!!! Go my Adoption Peeps, share my embarrassing video!

You can Play with the Geeks too: #SignsforStartups

  • You create a sign for a “Startup”, like I did for Adoptee Rights!
  • Make a video and upload to youtube
  • Add it to this list on Listly
  • Write a blog post
  • Embed your video on you post
  • Embed this same list in your post
  • Share these rules on your post
  • Contact the startup you feature so they can see the video – (via Twitter, Email, FB, phone)
  • Challenge them to pay it forward
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About the Author

Claudia Corrigan DArcy
Claudia Corrigan DArcy
Claudia Corrigan D’Arcy has been online and involved in the adoption community since early in 2001. Blogging since 2005, her website Musings of the Lame has become a much needed road map for many mothers who relinquished, adoptees who long to be heard, and adoptive parents who seek understanding. She is also an activist and avid supporter of Adoptee Rights and fights for nationwide birth certificate access for all adoptees with the Adoptee Rights Coalition. Besides here on Musings of the Lame, her writings on adoption issue have been published in The New York Times, BlogHer, Divine Caroline, Adoption Today Magazine, Adoption Constellation Magazine, Adopt-a-tude.com, Lost Mothers, Grown in my Heart, Adoption Voice Magazine, and many others. She has been interviewed by Dan Rather, Montel Williams and appeared on Huffington Post regarding adoption as well as presented at various adoption conferences, other radio and print interviews over the years. She resides in New York’s Hudson Valley with her husband, Rye, children, and various pets.