Posts Tagged ‘Features’

Some Small, But Important, Updates

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

We’ve been pretty quiet the last couple of weeks as we have been working on a new, very exciting feature for Lil’Grams that we can’t just yet announce. Stay tuned until next week for that news.

In the meantime, we’ve made a couple of small changes worth noting.

Add More Babies!

While we focused on adding in and updating a number of features over the past couple of months, we also moved some out. We’ve had several requests to be able to add more than one baby to your account and that option is now back.

Whenever you add a new baby, your address book is automatically copied over to the new baby’s account.

Preferences Panel

A few of our parents have let us know that they’re taking advantage of our email gram posting. This is great and we hope to see even more of you going this right. One small issue that occurred, though, was that grams weren’t getting sent out to loved ones – our default security setting was that only parents could see a gram.

You can now change your default sharing preferences from within your Baby’s Details page. You’ll also notice some new options which will be coming very soon!

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Tell Your Story with Full-Length Grams

Monday, June 21st, 2010

When we first conceived of Lil’Grams, our first goal was to make sure that busy parents had a way to track all the small details that happened to their little one.  The funny thing about little moments, of course, is that they often have great little stories that go with them.

After a great deal of input and feedback from our parents, we’ve come up with just the solution you’ve been looking for.

With every gram, you can now add in a long or short story to accompany your memory. Stay tuned as we continue to improve this feature.

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Remembering, Simplified

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

We’re always looking for ways to make your life easier and we’re happy to highlight a new feature that goes a long way towards helping you the perfect historian.

Lil’Grams has 2 great ways to assist in remembering when things happen:

1. Magic Dates

With our Magic Dates, all you have to do is upload a photo for your gram and we’ll do our best to determine when your photo was taken. After they’re uploaded, we’ll give you a list of possible dates to choose from.

2. Guesstimates

Sometimes, you have a vague idea when something happened. If we can’t guess for you, you can make your own guess. Just choose how old your child was and we’ll put in the right approximate date.

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Import Albums from Facebook, Flickr, or Picasa with One Click

Monday, May 24th, 2010

We’ve found that more and more of our parents would like to share and manage their media in a number of different ways. For many, this means having better ways to utilize the services you’ve already been using like Facebook, Flickr and Picasa.

We’re happy to let you know that we’ve added one-click importing for your remote albums. It’s very simple to use and will help you share hard-to-link-to albums from any service with ease while keeping them a part of your baby’s timeline.

To import new albums, simply click the New Album tab in your Dashboard:

New Album Tab

As soon as you click “Import” we’ll:

1. Create a new Media Gram
2. Link the photos to your baby’s timeline
3. Send out notifications to anyone who’s waiting

Here’s a sample of what gets mailed out:

Sample Media Gram from Imported Album

That’s it, a few clicks and hundreds of photos can be imported and delivered to your loved ones!

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Better Invitations for All

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

We’ve been busy working over the past few weeks to improve the way that invitations are sent out to loved ones. This was initially prompted by some changes in the way Facebook allows notifications to happen, but we’ve made improvements overall now that we think will be better for everyone.

Here’s a quick video overview:

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Feature: Address Book Refresh

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

The Address Book is one of the most important parts of every Lil’Grams account – it handles routing the right updates to the right people at the right time.

Managing contacts from multiple services is no small feat, though we’ve done our best to make that as simple as possible.  We’re happy to report that, with the help of Kimberly (one of our valued customers), we’ve made some great improvements.

Last week, Kimberly started her new account and was busy inviting friends and family to share in the fun. Quickly, however, some things were just not as intuitive as they needed to be.  She reached out to us via email and asked:

1. Who has been invited and who hasn’t?
2. Who’s accepted their invitation and who hasn’t?
3. Which service was someone invited from?
4. How do I re-send an invite to someone?

I thought these were all great questions and that lead to a flash round of inspiration and development.  Later that night, I had the chance to consider all of the questions and came up with a new solution.  Six hours after that, we had already implemented it and were testing it on our staging server.  A day later – it was live and now it’s there for everyone to enjoy.

Here’s what your new Address Book looks like:

addressbook-1.5

We’re happy with the results, but, more importantly, we’re happy that Kimberly reached out to us to let us know how we can make things better.  We can’t always make changes this fast, but we certainly do our best to address your concerns immediately.

Do you have an idea or wish something worked differently?  Send your notes to hello@lifegrams.com or call us during Office Hours (or any other time!).

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