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How Can An Object Tell a Story?

How Can An Object Tell a Story?

Here’s how and why it matters that their stories are told
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Barbara Tien
Your own “Explore Features Here” picture

Your own “Explore Features Here” picture

This picture is your playground where anyone can explore features with some examples.
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Barbara Tien
Preserve Your Family Legacy Through Photos | guest post by Cathi Nelson, The Photo Managers

Preserve Your Family Legacy Through Photos | guest post by Cathi Ne...

Your story matters. It matters to you, it matters to your family, and it will matter to generations to come.
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Ponga
Can I get my stuff back?

Can I get my stuff back?

A really good and honest question. Short answer: Absolutely! Longer answer: Yes, and here’s why…
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Barbara Tien
Weave your stories in Ponga artifacts and documents

Weave your stories in Ponga artifacts and documents

Tips for connecting images and documents like scanned certificates, digital books, and home movies to your stories in your Ponga pictures.
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Barbara Tien
Let go of the stuff, keep the stories!

Let go of the stuff, keep the stories!

Downsizing? Consider digitizing to cut through the clutter.
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Barbara Tien
When you save your photos, don’t forget to save your stories too!

When you save your photos, don’t forget to save your stories too!

Ponga lets you digitally archive the files, organize the images & crowdsource the stories so your stories can connect you.
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Barbara Tien
Using Ponga to Share Travel Stories

Using Ponga to Share Travel Stories

If you’ve ever heard that distinctive sound of the photo slides moving in a slide projector, read on…
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Victoria's Press
Learning about Zoom to capture family history in Ponga

Learning about Zoom to capture family history in Ponga

Recordings of Zoom sessions can easily be added to Ponga pictures so you can retell stories in context.
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Barbara Tien
Learn how to include a picture when recording stories in Ponga

Learn how to include a picture when recording stories in Ponga

Recording your loved ones’ stories in Ponga? Why not include a picture, too?
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Barbara Tien
Searching for Lost Stories Together

Searching for Lost Stories Together

Connecting the dots and joining generations in pictures using Ponga.
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Victoria's Press
Telling family stories is complicated

Telling family stories is complicated

There’s a story in every photograph. Family photos can be chock full of them. The occasion, the place, who was there, who wasn’t there…
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Barbara Tien
I found all my Family Photos during the Pandemic. Now What?

I found all my Family Photos during the Pandemic. Now What?

Professional Advice: Organize before you scan
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Kathy Stone
Best practices for citations and evidence

Best practices for citations and evidence

Ponga pictures can reference comments, recorded stories or linked content. These are best practices for referencing sources.
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Malia B. Lee
Hidden memories in pictures can ignite a spark

Hidden memories in pictures can ignite a spark

Using Ponga to capture and share the stories that spark connection with family.
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Victoria's Press
Use albums like a distribution list for pictures

Use albums like a distribution list for pictures

Instead of bothering with individually inviting family to contribute to pictures, create an album and add them all as contributors!
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Malia B. Lee
Best practices for sharing when personally identifiable information (or PII) is involved

Best practices for sharing when personally identifiable information...

Ponga pictures and albums you create are private, only you can share them. These are collected best practices for inviting contributors.
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Malia B. Lee
Moments are easier than memoirs

Moments are easier than memoirs

Capture the moments and the memoir will write itself
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Barbara Tien
Storytelling bounds over borders

Storytelling bounds over borders

If you have extended family across international borders, you’ll appreciate the power of digital pictures to share connections. They often…
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Barbara Tien
To explore the details in old family pictures, ask specific questions

To explore the details in old family pictures, ask specific questions

Ponga creates a new way to get into the details of your own pictures, bringing family together around a shared past.
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Barbara Tien
A Storyteller’s Voice Found in Decades-old Letters and Diaries

A Storyteller’s Voice Found in Decades-old Letters and Diaries

An old, yellowed, type written letter resurfaces, and creates context to family photographs
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Victoria's Press
3 Great Benefits of Crowdsourcing Family Stories from Old Photos

3 Great Benefits of Crowdsourcing Family Stories from Old Photos

Crowdsourcing family stories hidden in old family photos creates connections with family. See how Ponga helps you bring the stories to…
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Lisa Lisson
Flash stories to complement a memorialized legacy

Flash stories to complement a memorialized legacy

Memoirs can take years to pull together a legacy. Ponga complements a memorialized legacy with “flash stories” that tell a story in a…
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Barbara Tien
“Pongaporting” an Album: How to bring a physical album into Ponga and use it to crowd-source…

“Pongaporting” an Album: How to bring a physical album into Ponga a...

Cleaning out a relative’s closet, you discover a treasure chest of old family photographs, what’s next? Time to Pongaport!
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Victoria's Press
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