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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 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.
MATERIALS FOR PARTICIPANTS
Flyers (please visit your stop's page)
This video provides a summary of our work
Our Participant Packet describes our recording model and guides participants through planning their conversation.
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.
RECRUITING RECOMMENDATIONS
When Recruiting Participants...
Reach out to potential participants in whatever way they are most comfortable with to gauge their interest and availability.
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 StoryCorps and the recording process.
Share audio clips from this site and from the StoryCorps archive to give potential participants a better understanding of the interview process and to help them develop ideas for conversation topics.
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 scheduling during a subsequent conversation.
Think of stories potential participants have told you and refer to those stories as you try to engage them in deciding to record. Many people think think they don't have interesting things to share, which couldn't be further from the truth.
Use the fact that that the Mobile stop is time-limited to encourage interested parties not to procrastinate scheduling and 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 a conversation partner.
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