Build your Core Family Biography

Building a "core family biography in real-time" 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 being to build your own family biography - in real-time! 

Personas

• Parents with kids at home - especially teenage kids involved in many activities
• Parents and kids are taking photos all the time, and they’re piling up 

Goal

• Build real-time biographies of the family as a whole and its individual members, capturing key events, with media, stories, individuals & places. Enable them to easily browse, watch and share those "arcs" of their life through different playlists. 

Pain v Gain

• So many photos, most of them never see the light of day
• The ones that do, are occasionally posted on FB, IG, WhatsApp, text

Compare before and with GreatAlbum - examples of the difference

• Get a sense for what you would have to do to Build your Core Family Biography before GreatAlbum
• Then understand how you can Build your Core Family Biography with GreatAlbum and make it fun! 

Get Started! 

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