How to Use SocialPoint’s Post-A-Pic Feature in Your Scavenger Hunt

Photos capture the magic of team building in scavenger hunts. Our photo gallery displays bring together all of those individual moments and turn them into a shared experience. 

SocialPoint’s new and improved Post-a-Pic feature makes it easy to capture those photos and turn them into a shared experience during your scavenger hunt recap and awards ceremony. 

Share the photos on a monitor or projection screen, or put them on your website. Or do both!

SocialPoint offers two different types of photo gallery displays to showcase your event’s pictures:

1. Website Photo Gallery: Photos can be displayed on a website with SocialPoint’s website photo gallery. The gallery shows the first 20 images and then allows the user to click on the show more button to keep adding photos to the screen. 

2. Scrolling Photo Player: The scrolling photo player was designed for monitors, projectors and screens that are shown to people. The photos can be shown in one- or three-row scrolling mode. You can attach a header and photo image on the screen to provide branding or highlight sponsorship. The scrolling photo player is web-based and can be embedded into a PowerPoint player or another option. 

• Photos Are Fun. Everyone loves to see the photo gallery from user-generated content at an event. Photos with people are a lot more fun for team building than landscape photos or photos of inanimate objects. 
• Simplify Your Life. Most platforms make you download the photos and create your own photo collage. With SocialPoint, once a photo is submitted you can approve the photo and display it in real time on screens around your venue or on a website. No downloading. No uploading. No fussing.
• Branding and Sponsorship. Your photo gallery displays can be branded with your colors, themes and logos, or the content of a sponsor. 
• Moderation Capabilities.  If you are going to show the pictures, you want to make sure they are (A) appropriate and (B) make sure that you don’t have 62 of the same picture. With SocialPoint you have four moderation options:

1. 1. Auto-Approve: Allows you to automatically approve all images as they come in. Then, you can go through and hide the bad photos. 
   2. Moderate Pictures: Hides all the photos until you approve them. This is perfect if you don’t trust the people submitting photos OR if you believe that you will get many of the same pictures. 
   3. Moderate Captions: Guests can caption their photos for the web display. Sometimes it’s nice to edit the captions in case of a misspelling or other error. 
   4. Build a Playlist: Create a playlist of pictures and order the best pictures first.

With these moderation options, you are in full control of your content and can make sure the best content rises to the top.

The Post a Pic-a-Pic can be set up in 5 simple steps:

Step 1: Define Your Photo Gallery Themes 

Your gallery templates will be created by default when your game is created. Go back and check the look and feel and make sure they match your game design.  If not, change them or create additional galleries.

Step 2: Create The Challenge

Create a Post-a-Pic challenge in your SocialPoint Scavenger Hunt game and activate the challenge. Now you are ready to go! Check to make sure that your gallery links were created and show your content.

Step 3: Complete The Challenge

When players see the challenge they will be able to submit a photo to earn points for completing the challenge.

Step 4: Moderate The Photos

You can moderate the photos and curate a playlist of photos to show either on a website or a large screen. Go to the challenge, click on the moderate button, and then go approve the photos and create your playlist. 

Step 5: Display Your Gallery 

Show the photos at the end of the event with either the website photo gallery or the scrolling photo gallery. Both displays allow you to showcase the captured (and approved) photos to the other game players.