Celebrate a Loved One

"Celebrate a Loved One" is a central use case of GreatAlbum. This contrasts the challenges "before GreatAlbum" vs the benefits of "with GreatAlbum," and guides you through how you can Celebrate a Loved One - in real-time! 

Personas

• Loved One - The main Individual who is being celebrated for some significant milestone, like graduation, wedding, major birthday, retirement or death
• Host - the person(s) who is organizing the celebration
• Contributors - family and friends who join in the celebration

Goal

• On the occasion of major life milestone of a loved one, enable family & friends to celebrate their shared loved one, by contributing media and stories, organized into events and themes, that highlight the person's journey and impact the loved one has had on these people; in the process, strengthen the community around this loved one as they learn from and appreciate each other

Pain v Gain

• Today there is no easy way for people to come together to share stories and build a “memory book” to celebrate an individual at a major milestone
• Often what happens is one person takes the lead, collecting stories, letters, pictures, etc. from others and manually organizing them into a memory document and a shared photo album

Compare before and with GreatAlbum - examples of the difference

• Get a sense for what you would have to do to Celebrate a Loved One before GreatAlbum
• Then understand how you can Celebrate a Loved One with GreatAlbum and make it fun! 

Get Started! 

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1. Create a Core Family Album, invite family members to join
2. Each time a new significant family event occurs, someone create the event in the Family Album
3. Each family authorizes GreatAlbum to import their photos of that event from their Google Photos account (or eventually Apple Photos - not yet available)
4. Refine events - event type, individuals who participates, locations
5. Add stories/articles to events, to make them "come to life"
6. Watch & enjoy as the family's biography continues grow
7. Create playlists of events over time, watch & enjoy the favorite media from those events