The Viral Story Project: Community Storytelling During The COVID Crisis

AVP has partnered our platform Aviary with TheirStory and Peremanent.org for a new project that creates an avenue for accessible storytelling with the technology partners to record, share and archive everyday people’s experiences…..

Got something to say? Jump over to the Viral Story Project website here and then click record. The website will prompt you to give you name and offer a question for you to answer or you can riff on your own. 

Call to action is to sign up and record these stories. 

capture what thise means to their membership

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need technological solution for public participation is key– museums fail at that part. 

capture- corporate stories

focus is more on how to share- with aviary and not just collecting

Once your story is told (do you get to decide anything about how it’s used? what’s the copyright and privacy issues? 

The Viral Story Project is in support of museums, libraries, historical societies, and universities. The goal is to make it easy for organizations to chronicle this moment for generations to come by collecting, sharing, and preserving how people are living, thinking, and feeling during the Coronavirus pandemic.

The project combines TheirStory for recording interviews from anywhere, with the Aviary for publishing and searching audio and video content, and Permanent.org for preservation all in one package at a deeply discounted rate. 

The goal is to make it easy for organizations to chronicle this moment for generations to come by collecting, sharing, and preserving how people are living, thinking, and feeling during the Coronavirus pandemic.