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Using Trovebox Collect To Easily Get Photos From Events

Trovebox is an online photo and video management service for businesses that is used by small businesses, non-profits and enterprises. We offer secure photo sharing, group photo collaboration features, multi-user accounts and whitelabeling. Learn more about Trovebox and see our pricing plans.


We’ve been working with Eagle Eye Ministries to help make it easier for them to utilize photos taken at their events. EEM works with young people of the Christian faith to provide them with authentic encounters to deepen their faith. We talked with Connie from Eagle Eye Ministries to get an idea of how Trovebox has helped them utilize photos within their organization.

Visit Eagle Eye Ministries’ Trovebox site.

Trovebox: Why are photos an important part of your ministry/organization?.

Eagle Eye Ministries: Ages 22-35 is the time of a person’s life when they have the greatest capacity for Life and they’re putting all of that energy to things outside of the Church. If we can figure out how to get them to give that energy to the Church, we would grow in amazing ways. We use retreats and excursions as two of our significant venues for engaging young people with EEM. We have found that, by embracing nature and pushing young people to face the challenges of nature, they learn to go deeper in their faith and to embrace God’s creation.

We have made a strategic decision to use, almost exclusively, EEM photos from past events for our promotional materials. In other words, we don’t use photos that we have to buy or that are generically available to anyone on the internet. This allows us to avoid any legal issues but more importantly, we find that our photos do the best job of communicating the culture and spirit of EEM. In order to stay fresh, we have to have access to a significant portfolio of photos from which to chose for our promotional materials. Trovebox, then, becomes critical to our success in this endeavor.

If we don’t have a good place to easily acquire photos from our constituents, store those, organize them for easy retrieval and use, and then download them, we wouldn’t be able to get our job done as effectively.

Trovebox: How do you use Trovebox at Eagle Eye Ministries?

Eagle Eye Ministries: We have a library of photos from our past events and we’ve moved many of those photos into albums into Trovebox. Additionally, when we have new events, we create an album and make it available to those who attended the event and took pictures. In that way, we can capture those photos in a central location from multiple contributors and make them available to our teams such as the EEM Promotions team. The Promotions team uses Trovebox to access photos for all promotional materials, including Facebook, emails, printed materials, etc.

Trovebox: Did you try other services before deciding on Trovebox?

Eagle Eye Ministries: We were using Sugar Sync previously . We were unable to let content contributors upload pictures to Sugar Sync like we are now able to do with Trovebox.


Trovebox:
Prior to Trovebox, how were you letting content contributors send you photos?

Eagle Eye Ministries: We frankly didn’t do a good job of capturing photos from our events. We passed around thumb drives with pictures or got someone to email us a single picture that we could use.


Trovebox:
What’s the biggest benefit Eagle Eye Ministries gets from Trovebox?

Eagle Eye Ministries: Multiple contributors to our albums.

 


Trovebox:
Which features of Trovebox are the most valuable to you?

Eagle Eye Ministries: Having the ability to create an album and get others to contribute to that album.

 

Trovebox: Any words for other organizations that are considering using Trovebox?

Eagle Eye Ministries: By the very nature of our organization, with limited funds and a deep reliance upon volunteers who are scattered across the globe, we rely heavily on tools to enable collaborative work that is not complicated or expensive to use.

Trovebox has enabled our organization to effectively grow our collection of photos which are key to our strategy of promoting our organization. We have found the folks at Trovebox to be easy to work with and extremely customer focused.

Thanks to Trovebox for the excellent support.

Meet Desmond, Our Newest Team Member Via Watsi

Trovebox is an online photo and video management service for businesses that is used by small businesses, non-profits and enterprises. We offer secure photo sharing, group photo collaboration features, multi-user accounts and whitelabeling. Learn more about Trovebox and see our pricing plans.


We’d like to give a big thanks to our users for helping fund medical treatment last month for a gentleman named Samoeun. As previously mentioned in June, 33% of all proceeds from accounts are being used to provide treatment for patients on Watsi. Watsi provides low-cost, high impact medical treatments for people in need.

Once again, we’re excited to have the opportunity to sponsor one of Watsi’s patients.

Meet Desmond

Desmond is a two-year old suffering from bilateral inguinal hernias which, if untreated, could be fatal. Desmond’s father dreams of the day that his first born will lead a normal life, but he cannot afford the cost of his child’s surgery. Desmond lives with his mother and grandfather while his father travels hundreds of kilometers away to work as a casual laborer along the Kenya-Tanzania border.

Thanks to our users, Desmond received a surgery costing $750 to alleviate the pain and potential malignancy of his hernias.

We’re funding the treatment with your help

33% of all Trovebox accounts proceeds goes to Watsi and we cover 100% of the cost for Desmond up front. Once enough accounts are purchased to cover her treatment we’ll select another patient on Watsi.

Needless to say, we can’t do this without you.

A big thanks from Desmond and the teams at Trovebox and Watsi.

Meet Samoeun, Our Next Team Member Via Watsi

We’d like to give a big thanks to our PRO users for helping fund medical treatment last month for a lady named Everlyne. As we mentioned in June, 33% of all proceeds from PRO accounts are being used to provide treatment for patients on Watsi. Watsi provides low-cost, high impact medical treatments for people in need.

Once again, we’re excited to have the opportunity to sponsor one of Watsi’s patients.

Meet Samoeun

In May of this year, Samoeun was in a motorbike accident and he broke his leg. He sought treatment from a village healer, but continues to have a lot of pain and difficulty walking. His injuries have also made it difficult for him to continue his job at the wood factory.

As a husband and father of two, Samoeun enjoys spending time with his family and wants to be able to support them again. The surgery to pin his femur (upper leg bone) back in place and restore his mobility costs $300.

With your help, we can help this family man get back on his feet and be pain free!

We’re funding the treatment with your help

33% of all Pro Trovebox accounts goes to Watsi and we cover 100% of the cost for Everlyne up front. Once enough Pro accounts are purchased to cover her treatment we’ll select another patient on Watsi.

Needless to say, we can’t do this without you.

A big thanks from Samoeun and the teams at Trovebox and Watsi.

Meet Everlyne, Our Newest Team Member Via Watsi

I met Chase, co-founder of Watsi, when we both served on a panel discussing open business models. I had heard of Watsi prior to the panel and knew I wanted to learn more about the amazing work they’re doing. For those that don’t know about Watsi; they provide low-cost, high impact medical treatments for people in need.

Since then I’ve had the chance to talk more with the team at Watsi and have been impressed each time. No one will argue that it’s among the most worthiest of causes. But the team’s passion and dedication is infectious.

We’re excited to have the opportunity to sponsor one of Watsi’s patients.

Meet Everlyne

Everlyne is a hardworking woman from Kenya. She comes from a family of farmers and has continued working long hours in the fields throughout her pregnancy, despite suffering from lower back and abdominal pains.

With the help of the Lwala Community Alliance, Everlyne has learned important things about preparing for the birth of her child and keeping herself and her baby healthy. Still, on a farmer’s wage, she cannot afford to deliver her baby in the safety of a hospital. That’s where we come in.

For $215, Everlyne can deliver her baby in the Lwala Community Hospital and in the critical days after the birth access postnatal health care for herself and her child. Let’s help Everlyne give birth safely!

We’re funding the treatment with your help

33% of all Pro Trovebox accounts goes to Watsi and we cover 100% of the cost for Everlyne up front. Once enough Pro accounts are purchased to cover her treatment we’ll select another patient on Watsi.

Needless to say, we can’t do this without you.

A big thanks from Everlyne and the teams at Trovebox and Watsi.