Understanding Community Stories & QR Plaques
Learn about how QR Plaques enable Digital Stories to be told in the physical world.
What are QR Plaques and Digital Stories?
Stories belong in the real world - QR Plaques achieve this - they are anodized aluminum plaques that link to a Digital Story through a QR code. These plaques are typically installed directly on items and objects in your community.
Digital Stories help capture your Community's shared legacy - they empower the Stories of your people and organizations to be told and shared in a simple digital format that operates like a scrapbook with photos, captions, and links.
Stories allow donors to share the Story behind their gift, beyond what is possible on a physical plaque.
Preserving your Community's Legacy: The Importance of Digital Stories
QR Plaques enable Digital Stories, which are beautiful interactive and editable web pages that don't require any set up - just purchase and start sharing your Community's legacy through SeeMyLegacy.
Interact with Community Members in your Community's Spaces
QR Plaques are typically installed in public spaces and areas where your community members can scan to read the Digital Story and learn more about the purpose or meaning behind the Item.
Honor Loved Ones & Celebrate Special Events
Traditional plaques only allow someone to share a few words about the dedication. Digital Stories enable beautiful stories to be told through photos, text, and links and connect the digital world and the physical world.
Thank Donors and Volunteers
QR Plaques enable you to thank your donors and volunteers in a meaningful way - Digital Stories told through QR Plaques are a lasting and meaningful way to thank those who have given back in your Community.
Types of Digital Stories
Because Digital Stories are easy-to-use interactive webpages, they can be customized to tell many types of Stories, from memorial dedication stories to educational stories and anything in between.
Types of QR Plaques
QR Plaques make saying thank you simple and powerful - SeeMyLegacy offers three types of QR Plaques, designed for your use case. All are anodized aluminum plaques with a QR code that links to a customizable Digital Story.
Story Dedications
Story Dedications are similar to your traditional plaque with a custom message - these are typically installed on memorial items or on a recognition wall.
Story Tags
Story Tags are a smaller plaque with just the QR code - these are best used to enhance and share information about physical objects, landmarks, or dedications that have an existing plaque.
Story Boards
Story Boards are larger plaques, designed to highlight a successful initiative or event and all of its donors and/or volunteers. These are best used when you would rather celebrate the entirety of a successful initiative than gift to each individual donor or volunteer.
Understanding How Items Power Stories
Stories belong in the real world.
Items represent a physical asset that are geotagged on a map - these Items can become story-enabled and allow your community members to tell beautiful Digital Stories with a QR Plaque. Our Plaques include a QR Code that links out to a Digital Story, which is similar to a scrapbook but with images, text, and links!
Items and Stories work together to showcase the giving in your community and the purpose behind the gift - both physically and digitally through SeeMyLegacy.
Items Power Stories - Physically and Digitally
Physical World
Items represent an asset or object that exists in your Community and can be placed on a map. Appending one of our aluminum QR Plaque to an Item physically means that anyone who sees the plaque can scan the QR code to learn more about the Item and its Story. This is likely already a familiar practice with memorial items, signage, donor walls - you want to recognize the donor with a physical marker.
Digital World - in SeeMyLegacy
In the same way that Plaques are appended to Items in the physical world, you need to digitally connect them first. Attaching a QR Plaque to an Item in SeeMyLegacy means that the Item will also show the Digital Story, which is how you can showcase your amazing Community Stories! A Storytelling Item can be created to attach one of your Available Plaques to enable the Digital Story, or a Campaign Item can be updated to attach one of your Available Plaques.
Viewing Community Stories
Physical: Digital Stories are always placed on Items in the physical world so that community members can scan the QR code to explore the Story.
Digital: They are also accessed from the 'Community Stories' tab of your Profile so that the Digital Story is still accessible to anyone who can't visit the actual QR plaque. (If a Campaign Item has been attached to a QR Plaque, the Digital Story can also be seen from that Campaign.)
