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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.

How a non-profit uses Trovebox as a whitelabeled photo and video management service

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 sat down with Robert Kirk from Open Source Ecology and asked him how Trovebox has helped them save time and enabled their team to collaborate more effectively around photos of their projects.

Visit Open Source Ecology’s whitelabeled Trovebox site.

Trovebox: Tell us about Open Source Ecology.

Open Source Ecology: Open Source Ecology (see the founder’s TED Talk) is an exciting non-profit located in Maysville, Missouri. We have identified 50 modern industrial machines needed to sustain modern civilization and are re-designing them and publishing the blueprints open source. These high-performance, modular, do-it-yourself, low-cost platforms allow for easy fabrication. We plan to make available these plans to assist the developing world by providing access to technology that is currently cost prohibitive. These blueprints will also lower the barriers of entry to people everywhere in many businesses involving farming and construction.

OSE is building new machines regularly and it’s very important to video and photograph these events and create short documentaries and “how to” guides related to the machines.

Trovebox: How does Trovebox fit into your workflow?

Open Source Ecology: Trovebox has become an invaluable tool for our documentation efforts. First of all, it’s a great repository for anyone who wants to view and/or download photos related to our work. But Trovebox has also become a critical first step in creating our How-To Guides for building our machines.

As builders construct the machines they are uploading photos to Trovebox during each step as they go along. They are also recording a “diary” of their work. Then remote collaborators can download the photos and match the diary entries to the visuals for our How-To guides in a program called Dozuki.

Trovebox: Any advice or tips for people considering Trovebox?

Open Source Ecology: My advice would be for people to definitely look at Trovebox before committing to another platform. We are very happy with how it operates, and, of course, we are thrilled to be using an open source solution.

Trovebox: How do you see your use of Trovebox evolving in the future?

Open Source Ecology: We hope to have all our people equipped with the Trovebox App installed on their phones so they can regularly upload photos making our documentation as complete as possible. We also hope to be able to configure the site so it’s an attractive and easy to navigate repository for all our photographs. (we’d like to discuss this with Trovebox)

Trovebox: Anything else you’d like to share?

Open Source Ecology: We’re glad we found you!