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Victoria's Press: Part 1 — Let's Get Started - Presenting and sharing a family tree

A four-part series presented by Ponga member Victoria MacGregor. With step-by-step care, Victoria shares how to present and share a family tree using digital storytelling with Ponga using tools like Permanent.org for cloud storage and Canva for easy graphic design.

How-To

Victoria's Press: Part 2 — It's Ponga time - Presenting and sharing a family tree

Part 2 of a four-part series presented by Ponga member Victoria MacGregor. With step-by-step care, Victoria shares how to present and share a family tree using digital storytelling with Ponga using tools like Permanent.org for cloud storage and Canva for easy graphic design.

How-To

Victoria's Press: Part 3 — Presenting and Sharing a Family Tree

Part three of 4. In this 4 part series, I am going to show you how to create an online family tree using a handful of programs, https://HouseElvesAnonymous.com, https://Canva.com, https://Ponga.com, and https://Permanent.org, that will give you a permanent place to track, attach sources and memories, and share with others in a format that is easy to create and understand—secure and private.

How-To

Victoria's Press: Part 4 — Expectations and Examples - Presenting and sharing a family tree

Final episode - Part 4 - Expectations and Examples: In this 4 part series, I am going to show you how to create an online family tree using a handful of programs, House Elves Anonymous, Canva.com, Ponga.com and Permanent.org, that will give you a permanent place to track, attach sources and memories, and share with others in a format that is easy to create and understand—secure and private.

How-To

RootsTech 2022 Recordings

Ponga at RootsTech

Fireside Chat with Lisa Lisson & Tami Mize at RootsTech 2022

Lisa Lisson of Are you My Cousin? Tami Mize of Conferencekeeper.org in conversation with Cameron Crowe of Ponga. Watch to learn about fueling an interest in family history and inspiring a new generation of storytellers.

RootsTech Connect-2022 (Live)

Family History

Innovators' Showcase: Ponga at RootsTech 2022

When we research genealogy, we are filling out our family trees with facts like births, marriages, and locations. This important work is even more exciting when you have old photographs of ancestors to explore at the same time. At Ponga, we started with the latest technologies to organize photographs by the faces of the people in each photo. We then created a way to add stories and memories.Powerful zoom features let you get into details, add comments with a few words, or a story in your own voice, drop in a snapshot, or paste a link to embed a home movie or oral history interview. Rich with stories and memories, your pictures become platters that can be privately shared, collecting anecdotes and revealing details. The connective tissue of these stories engages generations young and old with the family they share.

RootsTech Connect-2022 (Live)

About Ponga

Porch Swing at RootsTech 2022

Ponga members, their guests, and those new to Ponga sat down at the RootsTech event in March 2022 to share ideas, stories, product feedback and generally build on the Ponga community. This event was held over Zoom, bring your own lemonade and watch. Join us for the PorchSwing at the next RootsTech event at Ponga.com/Rootstech.

RootsTech Connect-2022 (Live)

Porch Swing

Learn How to Use Ponga In Family History and Genealogy

Ponga runs in your browser and gives you a way to organize your photos so that you can use them to privately connect family and friends as you collect research, crowdsource stories, and curate your family legacy.

RootsTech Connect 2022

Getting Started

Ponga Tip | Making Corrections to Faces & Names, plus Best Practices

Ponga’s face detection and collection features stand out for not only accuracy but also simplicity. This quick tip shows you how to update names everywhere in a few keystrokes.

RootsTech Connect 2022

Video Tips

Ponga Tip | Best practices for organizing pictures quickly and easily

Highlights of some of the best practices for using Ponga to magically organize your pictures for you by the people photographed. Put names to faces in a gallery and Ponga applies labels in every picture, sorting them all into neat albums.

RootsTech Connect 2022

Video Tips

RootsTech 2021 Recordings

Ponga at RootsTech

Ponga Quick Tips | Blogs + Websites

Ponga creates a new way to use pictures to bring everyone together with stories. Ponga lets you lure your guests into your story with pictures, then pull them along with stories and media-rich details showing associations. This video shows you how to add blogs and websites to pictures to your Ponga pictures. For more tips, see https://ponga.com/videotips. And to learn more about Ponga, see https://ponga.com.

RootsTech Connect 2021

Video Tips

Ponga Quick Tips | NickNames

How to use nicknames in Ponga to make it super fast and easy to put names to faces. Ponga uses face detection and collection automatically organize your pictures for you by person. When automation can’t be sure, use nicknames to make it quick and easy put a name to the right person. Once organized, Ponga pictures tell stories louder than words, enriched with own voice, documents, video, and more. For more tips, see https://ponga.com/videotips. And to learn more about Ponga, see https://ponga.com.

RootsTech Connect 2021

Video Tips

Ponga Quick Tips | Close-ups

Ponga creates a new way to use pictures to bring everyone together with stories. Ponga lets you lure your guests into your story with pictures, then pull them along with stories and media-rich details showing associations. This video shows you how to add close-up pictures to your Ponga pictures. For more tips, see https://ponga.com/videotips. And to learn more about Ponga, see https://ponga.com.

RootsTech Connect 2021

Video Tips

Conversations: Storytellers & The Photo

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Betty Marton of In Your Own Words Publishing

The first in our Ponga series of conversations about Storytellers and the Photo for SaveYourPhotos.org Month. I'm Barbara, one of the co-founders at Ponga, and in this episode, I'm speaking with Betty Marton of In Your Own Words Publishing (www.iyowpublishing.com/) about some of the core principles of storytelling and how they apply to stories told in pictures.

Storytellers and the Photo

Storytelling

Kathy Stone of Calgary Photo Solutions

We're thrilled to welcome Kathy Stone of CalgaryPhotoSolutions.ca to our SaveYourPhotos.org Month interview series "Storytellers & the Photo."You can also watch the full 30-min video on our YouTube channel.

Storytellers and the Photo

Storytelling

Martie McNabb of Show & Tales

This is the second in our #saveyourphotos series "Storytellers & the Photo," a conversation series with storytellers who've thought very deeply about the role of memory, objects, and photos. In this episode, we're talking with Martie McNabb of ShowandTales.com about her remarkable story share events. This preview gives you a taste of the inspiring joy and enthusiasm of our conversation. In commemoration of September 11, Martie's Show & Tales will be hosted a virtual salon in coordination with https://LetsReimagine.com to touch on remembrances of that fateful day.

Storytellers and the Photo

Storytelling