Best solution for shared photo album?

I’ve haven’t dipped much into the Photo ecosystem of iOS (mainly because my original iPad never had a camera, I don’t have an iPhone, and on the laptop my workflow doesn’t rely on iPhoto).    As such, I’m not sure what the best solutions are for the following:
Some elderly family members will soon be getting an iPad.  I’d like them to be able to, with mimimal clicks, open an app, open an album, and then see all the new/current photos that have been added to a shared album. Photos would be added to the album mainly by a few other people elsewhere (via email or the web).    Specifically, those people likely would be sending photos from either an iPad or an iPhone. 
Are there any best ways to do this?    I don’t want it to involve Facebook.   It sounds like the Web Albums HD for Picasa app may be what I want to make use of on their side, but can people contribute to the album without having a picasa/google account?  Are there downsides to that app? 
Thanks,

If I understand you right then you want all users to have "read" access to all folders/files on your shared disk but "read" and "write" access to their own folders/files.
If this is the setup you are looking for then it is not possible with either an Airport Extreme disk or any of the LaCie Ethernet mini disks (NAS).
Basically what you can do it to have a shared folder where everybody has "read" access and then private folders for each user, where the specific user has "read" and "write" access.
I will suggest that you go to www.lacie.com and download a user manual for one of the NAS drives and you can here at the Apple site download the user guide for the Airport Extreme.
Karsten

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