Easily Collect Photos From Others Using Trovebox Collect

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If you’re like us then you’ve felt the pain of trying to Collect photos from others after an event. It might be a company Christmas party or a fund raising event. In any case you’ve probably found yourself emailing around asking others to send you the photos they took.

Sometimes they send you the photos by attaching them to an email. Other times you’re not so lucky and get the photos sent to you on a DVD. Even sending around a shared Dropbox folder requires others to have a Dropbox account, the client software installed and enough space to upload all of their photos.

It’s a hassle, we get it. That’s why we made Trovebox Collect. It’s a simple feature of Trovebox that makes it easy to collect photos from others without requiring them to attach them in an email, sign up for an account, install any software or burn a DVD.

Just how easy is it? It’s as simple as emailing or text messaging a link to the people you want to send you photos. Let’s see how it works using an example.

Acme Widgets is a non-profit foundation that holds fundraisers several times a year. Maggie, the Communications Coordinator, is responsible for marketing and publication. Naturally she wants to get a copy of the photos that their volunteer photographers and co-workers took.

After the Christmas fundraising event Maggie creates an album named ‘Acme Widgets Christmas Fundraiser’ and clicks the link to collect photos from others. She copies that link and emails it to her volunteer photographers. She also sends it as a text message to her colleagues.

Scott, one of the photographers, clicks the link from his laptop. This opens up a webpage with a form where he can select all of the photos he took at the event. He selects the photos, clicks upload and lets his laptop send all the photos to Acme Widgets’ Trovebox account. He didn’t have to install any software or sign up for an account. Once he’s finished uploading photos Maggie will get an email notifying her that Scott’s photos have been sent to her.

Andy, one of Maggie’s colleagues, gets the link as a text message on his phone. All the photos he took were from his phone so clicking the link brings him to a website where he can upload photos directly from his phone or install the Trovebox Collect app to make it even easier. Once his photos have been uploaded Maggie gets another email letting her know that Andy’s photos have been sent.

Back at the office Maggie goes to Trovebox and opens the ‘Acme Widgets Christmas Fundraiser’ album and sees all of the photos from the event. She can even filter the photos to see just Scott’s photos and has the ability to download any of the original high resolution photos.

Maggie is happy to have received all the photos in one place. She’s even happier that the photos aren’t scattered across emails,  Dropbox links and DVDs.

Scott and Andy are happy because sending Maggie the photos wasn’t a hassle. They didn’t have to attach photos to an email, sign up for an account, install software or give them to her on a DVD.

Maggie spends the rest of her day with a giant smile on her face because she can spend her time doing more important things; like going home early.

Learn more about Trovebox Collect.

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