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Ponga pictures can reference comments, recorded stories or linked content. These are best practices for referencing sources.

Best Practices for Citations and Evidence

Telling stories is great fun. Great storytellers have a knack for rounding out the details to make a story especially dramatic, suspenseful and even silly. Stories told to entertain may not be entirely truthful, which is fine because they’re just fun. Stories told to document history, are another matter entirely.

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What’s the best way to manage access to family members. We think the best way is to “set it and forget it.”

Best Practices for Managing Family Access to Ponga Stories

What’s the best way to manage access to family members. We think the best way is to “set it and forget it.”

Best Practices
Ponga creates a compelling way to crowdsource stories using pictures inviting family involves introducing them to a new platform.

Best Practices for Privately Sharing Pictures Using Ponga

Ponga creates a compelling way to crowdsource stories using pictures but inviting family involves introducing them to a new platform. Here are some best practices for setting expectations so that they have fun too.

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You can capture precious memories with a click.

Capturing Oral History

Formal oral histories take considerable skill to do well, but you can capture precious memories in a click.

Family History
Framing a story by a single image is as familiar as the slide show. Albums, however, can also frame a story

Do Your Albums Tell Stories?

It could become a narrative, for example, built on familiar characteristics like red hair or height that can be recognized across generations. Collecting the “intergenerational doppelgängers” into a single album can create a fun story to families to share.

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Disconnected from images, memoirs rarely invite engagement

Flash Stories and a Personal Legacy

What does matter is that they are created in a safe, private environment where they can be shared with discretion. When pictures are shared everyone included gets an email notification and the flexibility to respond at their own pace.

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