FAQs
1) What is LifeSnapz.com?
LifeSnapz.com allows people to easily capture, share and explore life events with friends, family and other trusted groups. LifeSnapz provides a unique way for people to organize photos, videos and descriptions of an event, and enables easy sharing of them with user defined groups. Customizable timelines, interactive maps and tags help users find and explore their events.
2) What can I do with LifeSnapz?
LifeSnapz can be used in a number of different ways:
- Individuals can use the site to build a family history, a collaboratively created digital scrapbook or diary, a secure way to chronicle and share your kids' sporting and/or school happenings, or as an easy way to share specific events and keep in touch with out-of-town relatives and friends.
- Companies, organizations and institutions can use the site to chronicle their histories, and can easily accommodate numerous contributors to the effort.
- Educators can use the site to create groups of students and/or parents to collaborate on and share specific course materials or class events within trusted groups.
- As a creator of groups and events, you can record the initial details of the event and decide who to invite into the group. As an invited group member, you can view the descriptions, photos and videos of an event; with the proper permission level (as established by the group's creator), you can contribute your content to the event and group.
See our blog for other ways people are using LifeSnapz.
3) What's a group?
A group is a set of people with whom you would like to share events. A group can be as big or as small as you like. As the creator of the group, you determine who's in it.
Some examples of group members could be:
- Mom, dad and siblings
- Friends
- Classmates
- Alumni groups
- Teammates
- Colleagues
- ...virtually anybody that you choose
You can even make a group of one – yourself – to record the things that you would like to keep completely private.
4) How do I invite someone to a group?
As the Group Founder or a Full Group Member, you can invite members to a by clicking on "Invite a New Member" when you are on the "Latest Updates" tab. From there you input the invitee's email address and an email will be automatically sent to the invitee. If you wish, you can personalize the message.
5) What's a Full Member?
A Full Group Member has permission to invite other members to the group, remove members from the group, add events to the group and edit events (add photos, videos and descriptions).
6) What's a Read-Only Member
A Read-Only Member can view events in the group and add comments to events, but cannot edit events, add new events or invite other members to the group.
7) What's a Group Founder
A Group Founder is the person who starts the group and is a Full Member of the group. Additionally, the Group Founder can add a group photo and group description, and can delete the group.
8) What is an Event?
An event is something that happened at a certain time and place. Events can be made up of descriptions, photos and videos. They can be viewed individually or on timelines, maps and lists that are instantly customizable by clicking tags for specific people, places or types of events. Events can be anything you want to remember, such as:
- A wedding
- A class reunion
- A vacation
- A sporting event
- ...virtually anything
9) Can I share an event with more than one group?
Full Members can share an event with other groups in which they are a Full Members. You do this by clicking on the "Manage Sharing" link on the Event Page and selecting the groups with whom you would like to share the event. A Read-Only Member of a group cannot share events from that group with another group.
10) What are Tags? Why should I use them?
Tags are short descriptors of an event. They help you find events quickly and easily. For example, a vacation event's tags could be: vacation, beach, minigolf, Florida, seafood, fireworks. You can designate as many or as few tags as you wish for an event.
Tags allow you to quickly connect events together. When you click on a tag (say "beach"), all of the events that have the same tag ("beach") will be quickly sorted and grouped together. If you are in the Events, Timeline or Map tab, clicking on a tag will instanty create a customed list, timeline or map reflecting that tag, allowing you to explore similar events.
11) How does "They Were There" work?
"They Were There" is similar to event Tags, but it is about the people that were at an event. You can add someone's name to an event under the "They Were There" section. Additionally, you can add a person's name to a photo in the Add People section, and "They Were There" links will be automatically created.
When you add a person's name in They Were There or Add People areas, clicking on the name allows you can quickly find and explore all of the events and photos that have that person in them.
Helpful hint: Rather than adding the names of the attendees of an event as Tags, use They Were There on the event Page or Add People on the photo page to capture their names.
12) What do I need to do to join LifeSnapz.com? Does it cost anything?
You only need to provide your name, email address and password to join. LifeSnapz.com is a free service.
13) Will you share my email with anyone?
No, we don't share your email with anyone.
14) What do I need to do to put photos on LifeSnapz? How many photos can I upload to LifeSnapz?
Photos can be uploaded to LifeSnapz from three places: 1) your computer's hard drive; 2) from the photo sharing website Flickr.com (You will need an account at Flickr to use this service); or 3) from the photo sharing site Picasa.com (You will need an account at Picassa to use this service).
After you have created an Event, just click the "Add Photos" button from the event page, select the origin of your photos (your computer, Flickr or Picasa), select the photos you want to include in your event and we will upload them to your LifeSnapz event.
You can upload as many photos as you like to LifeSnapz.
15) How should I get my paper photos on LifeSnapz?
All photos on LifeSnapz need to be digital, either from a digital camera or from scanning a paper photo. You can have your photos digitized at most photo processing outlets or you can find many photo digitizers on the web. Once your photos are digitized, you will be able to upload them to LifeSnapz.
16) What do I need to do to put videos on LifeSnapz?
Videos can be uploaded to LifeSnapz from two places, YouTube.com or Vimeo.com. You will need an account with one of those services before you can upload videos. You can get an account from YouTube.com here and from Vimeo.com here. Once your videos are uploaded to YouTube or Vimeo, all you need to do is click "Add Videos" on LifeSnapz.com and then copy and paste the video's URL or the embed code into the box that appears. The URL will be in the browser's address bar and the embed code will be on the video's page on YouTube or Vimeo.
17) Can I use LifeSnapz to document a future event?
Yes, LifeSnapz can be used to chronicle a future event. You can put as much or as little information about the event as you would like - only an event title and date are required. Once the event date is passed, you can contribute photos, videos and text to the event.
18) How can I provide feedback to LifeSnapz.com?
You can send us an email to feedback@lifesnapz.com. We'd love to hear from you!
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