Page B11 December 2022 FUNERAL HOME & CEMETERY NEWS Se c t i on B 2022 NFDA Convention Highlights The 2023 CFSA Annual Conference is an investment in your company’s future – gaining you access to thought leaders, allowing you to collaborate on best practices, and providing you with the opportunity to develop leadership innovations.When we gather in Indianapolis we honor our history while networking with the future. Spark Connections SEEYOU in indy Registration opens soon! Head to cfsaa.org/annualconference to learn more! NFDA Convention Highlights and Photos continue on Page B12 As expected, Trigard’s Healing Tree and the Serenity casket vaults brought in a lot of traffic. Many visitors stayed for a while to check out other products we were highlighting and to try out Trigard Connect for the first time. The Bones coffee and Trigard tumbler giveaway was also a big hit – so big that we ran out early! And Tara Taylor won the drawing for the JBL speaker and case. In addition Trigard and the Darby family presented a check to the Funeral Service Foundation. Continued from Page B10 Because Everything After believes every family should have access to amazingly helpful aftercare, the core platform is free to funeral homes and families. Funeral homes that want to make online reviews and multichannel touchpoints part of the experience can also add industryleading 5-star review generation, a text communications platform, and live responders who connect with families. For funeral homes interested in adding this helpful aftercare, please visit www.everythingafter.com KeepTrack™ is a proprietary two-part system (hardware and software) designed by Gather of Boise, ID, to maintain a seamless chainof-custody and provides funeral homes with the industry’s most accurate and secure body tracking solution. Additionally, keeping the family’s experience at the heart of its design, after final disposition, loved ones can scan a QR code on a keepsake medallion to visit their loved one’s permanent Remember Page. While visiting this page, family members and friends can upload their favorite photos, light a candle, send flowers, or share stories. “Our team wanted to focus on building a chain of custody solution that truly helps funeral directors get more sleep at night,” says 2022 NFDA Innovation Award Zach Chatterton, CEO of Gather. “We believe that KeepTrack™ is the difference-maker that safeguards reputations and builds more trust for every funeral home out there.” For information on KeepTrack™ visit https:// gather.app/product/keeptrack/. Ecorial by The Living Urn, a division of Biolife, LLC of Greenwood, CO is the first and only global community focused on honoring and memorializing loved ones when their ashes are scattered, interred or buried in nature. Ecorial makes it simple and easy for family and friends to permanently record the time, date, and GPS coordinates of any final resting place outdoors, whether it’s in the mountains, a forest, an ocean, a yard or beyond. Mark Brewer, company President commented, “The Ecorial® app is a highly unique technology solution that caters to families interested in doing a memorial for a loved one outdoors. With the tap of a button, families can now quickly and easily record the exact GPS coordinates, date and time of a loved one’s memorial in nature. With this app, you no longer have to guess where a loved one’s scattering in the ocean took place or where in the mountains you buried their cremated remains. It is all recorded and stored on the Memory Map® within the app. This can give you peace-of-mind knowing that you know your loved one’s exact resting place (or places). Their resting place can be a special location where you, family and friends can visit whenever you wish and pay your respects to your loved one.” Brewer continues, “We’re excited to make the app available to families throughout the U.S. and worldwide. While cemeteries keep records of where people are buried, there has been no centralized record of people who choose to Rest in Nature®. Ecorial® is a solution that records the exact GPS coordinates and provides a date and time stamp of each memorial marked on the app, among many other great features.” Continued on page B12
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