An Interview with Barbara Tien Co-Founder of PONGA
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
We are honored to have had the privilege to welcome Barbara Tien the Co-Founder of PONGA to All Home Care Matters.
Ponga is a fast, easy, and fun way to organize your pictures and explore the stories. Your stories come to life with words, voice, video, and other media. Your stories are personal, engaging, and accessible. With Ponga, you circulate them privately—free of the prying eyes of social media!
Barbara also helped to establish a Family Council (one of the first of its kind in her community) for families who have loved ones in facilities to help create accountability and to create a voice for the residents/patients and their families.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care with discussions |
| 0:06.6 | on important age-related matters and topics. Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, |
| 0:13.2 | the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top Rated Local. |
| 0:24.0 | Hello and welcome back to All Home Care Matters. |
| 0:26.6 | If this is your first time joining us here at the show, we want to say thank you for taking |
| 0:30.3 | time out to be with us today. |
| 0:32.0 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each |
| 0:36.0 | episode here at All Home Care Matters, something that hopefully matters we try and make each episode here at all home care matters, |
| 0:37.8 | something that hopefully matters to you. Today we are welcoming a very special guest, |
| 0:43.0 | the co-founder of Ponga, Barbara Tien. Thank you so much for being here, Barbara. |
| 0:49.1 | Thank you so much. It's a pleasure to be here. It's a real honor. |
| 0:53.2 | Thank you for being here. So, Barbara, |
| 0:56.3 | tell us what is panga? Ponga is software that gives you an ability to take your family |
| 1:04.0 | pictures, your treasured digital photographs and artifacts and share them with, organize them quickly and simply so that you can |
| 1:14.6 | use them to tell stories. We think of them as a vehicle to put old stories back into circulation |
| 1:21.7 | the same way you sit down and let me tell you about what this, what was happening right here. |
| 1:26.0 | Pictures are special that way. |
| 1:31.2 | So panga is a really neat name. |
| 1:32.1 | It's a fun name. |
| 1:35.0 | Is there a story behind the name panga? Oh, absolutely. |
| 1:35.5 | You know, there's a story behind everything. |
| 1:38.0 | Ponga comes from the Spanish word ponere, which means to put and is in the form of, you know, put it right here. And we thought that |
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