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Hi,

We utilize the Event App for our incentive trip and want to collect photos from the attendees that they have to share of their experience. In an ideal world, the attendees would upload their photo(s) to the app and others would be able to view them in real-time and have that social media type of connection/feel. The second part of that is that we would like to easily download these images to use at a closing night event. Things have changed over the past couple of years and we haven't figured out the best way to do provide this experience from start to finish. 

Does anyone have any insight or ideas that have worked for them?

Thanks!

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Erin Wonsmos
Sr. Manager - Marketing
IMT InsuranceUnited States
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Hi Erin,

There are a couple ways I can think of to do this:

1. Leverage the Discussions feature in the Event App. Attendees can post photos from their device and you can download all the content. You can assign moderators, if needed. We never downloaded all the content from a discussion thread but I'm sure there's a way to do it so you don't have to download photos individually.
2. Create a Page on the app that instructs attendees to upload their photos into a link Google folder (or any other cloud-based file sharer - just ensure attendees only have contributing rights). This is less like a social feed but you would have all the photos easily accessible in one location for your closing night.

Hope that helps and let us know what you end up doing. Would love to see what's a success.

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Ron Segundo
Project Manager
Orange County Department of Education (OCDE)United States
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Hi! I just did this same thing at an event. 
1. we used Discussions Chat and relabeled it by using Language Management as "Social Wall."  

2. We created a custom card labeled Get Social and scheduled it to appear on the home page. Attendees clicked it and uploaded photos of themselves and comments about the event. 

3. to encourage use we used the Gamification to award points for uploading photos and reacting to others photos on the Social Wall (discussion). 

4. to get the photos you can't run a discussions chat report yourself (hopefully that's on the roadmap for us, Cvent- ahem!) but Cvent support can provide it to you. You just have to open a case and request it. Since you'll want them during your event just open the case a few days ahead to give Cvent a heads up and they can turn it around quickly.  

ProTips: test all of this out ahead of time so you know what to expect and then you can delete everything. Assign yourself as a global moderator so you have ability to quickly delete inappropriate posts by other people (regular attendees can only delete their own posts).

good luck! 

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Maggie Johnson
Event Technology Specialist
Affiliated DistributorsUnited States
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