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Katherine's review for a retirement memory book

October 18, 2021

Retirement memory book from Katherine


Video Transcript


Speakers: Katherine, Retirement Memory Book

Katherine: I discovered Newlywords when I was looking for the perfect surprise gift for my husband, Ray, to celebrate his retirement from a large technology software provider, I asked current and former colleagues, friends and family to contribute messages, stories and photos as a tribute to celebrate his retirement.

Katherine: what I like most about Newlywords was how easy the project was to set up and the features provided. For example, contributors could use one of many templates to design picture collages, add a funny meme or respond to a few questions to highlight, raise impact on their lives, personally and professionally. These templates gave contributors an easy format to stimulate ideas, express their own personalities and have a lot of fun along the way. My favorite template was the questionnaire because it provided a simple way to engage contributors who maybe didn't know what they wanted to say and help them with a way to describe their relationship, share a story about Ray and even suggestions for his retirement as the project owner. I also really loved the administrative features, notifications, reminders, preview and auto format features, the new word cloud feature was a culmination of words emphasizing raised many amazing qualities um from the actual word contributions. It was the perfect final page to the retirement book that he was given

Katherine: When the project was complete, we ordered a 12 by 12 book had almost 120 unique contributors, and the book itself was almost 200 pages that were of a nice thick quality. I think the best part of the book was at the back and front covers used images. They were... it was very well constructed in a sturdy book that we will have for years to come.

Katherine: I would absolutely recommend Newlywords. I can foresee many other collaborative uses, such as perhaps a family cookbook, Mother's Day, Father's Day gifts and celebrating any milestone life events such as retirement anniversaries, um, major birthdays or even in memoriam. There are a few times in life that we tell someone the impact that they have made in our lives and knew the words made it easy and possible to pull together for our own use for my husband's retirement. When we gave the book to him, my husband was overwhelmed with emotion and spent hours reading, laughing and rereading the tributes that he received in a few days since, he has already reconnected with many other contributors and is now enjoying a very full bucket list of things to do in retirement. My husband's retirement memory book will be enjoyed for many years to come. It will also certainly be a family heirloom for our son.



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