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Below, you'll find general recommendations and information in English and Spanish to help you prepare and carry out your role as a community partner (for stop-specific flyers and timelines, please visit the page for your location)
Below, you'll find general recommendations and information in English and Spanish to help you prepare and carry out your role as a community partner (for stop-specific flyers and timelines, please visit the page for your location)
Once your community members agree to participate, the StoryCorps’ Mobile team will attempt to call each participant in every pair to go over the details of the recording process. But, how do you get to that stage? Here are some tips and tools to help you recruit participants to record.
Familiarize yourself with this information to be able to answer specific questions your potential participants might want addressed before they agree to sign-up.
RECRUITING RECOMMENDATIONS
When Recruiting Participants...
- A conversation is the best way to go when inviting and preparing participants. Often a face-to-face meeting is the most effective to share the information
- Be clear and thoughtful when sharing information about the project by using the information on this platform and the flyer
- Use and distribute your priority flyer and ask staff members if they know of anyone who might be interested
- Attend community events to share information about the
- Share audio clips from this site and on the StoryCorps archive to have a better understanding about the interview process and to give participants an idea of what they may want to talk about
- When providing potential participants with information about StoryCorps, allow them time to digest the information and consider participation, give them a date by which you'll need to hear back and then discuss the scheduling on a subsequent conversation
- Think of stories potential participants have told you, and refer to the stories as you try to engage them in deciding to record. Many people think think they don't have interesting things to share.
- Use the fact that that the Mobile stop is time-limited to encourage interested parties not to procrastinate recording their stories
- Keep a list of “backup” interviewees who are willing and could be available to record almost anytime. The list might include staff and/or volunteers. If an interviewee drops out at the last minute, a back-up can then be asked to be their conversation partner
PRINTABLE MATERIALS FOR PARTICIPANTS
- Flyers (please visit your stop's page)
- Click on our What to Expect page ( or Paso a paso for the document in Spanish) for a look into the day of the appointment and how a recording is structured.
- Click and read through our list of Great Questions (or download Preguntas Sugeridas in Spanish) for ideas on what participants could talk about during their recording. Our Great Questions list is split into categories of how participants know one another, which can be helpful to think about when selecting participants to match up for a recording.
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