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How do I create a community?

Once you have an archive.storycorps.org account, you can create a community. While communities can be accessed in the StoryCorps App, they can only be created and managed from archive.storycorps.org. To create a new community:

  1. Log into your archive.storycorps.org account via a web browser.
    • The account you are logged into will become the owner of the community.
  2. Click on your profile photo in the upper right corner of the screen and select Create A Community from the drop-down menu.
  3. On the community creation page, you will be prompted to fill in the following fields:
    • Give your community a title.
    • Give your community a 3-4 word tagline.
    • Upload a photo or image for your community.
    • (optional) Add a longer description to your community.
    • Select a group category.
    • (optional) Link to your website or social media.
  4. Select your community’s Interview Moderation settings.
    • Decide if you want to moderate prospective members and interviews, or leave your community unmoderated. You can find more information about moderated communities in the Help Center article below:

How do I moderate my community? Are there different moderation options?

  1. Select your community’s Privacy and Visibility settings.
    • Choose between creating a public or private community. You can find more information about community visibility options in the Help Center article below:

What is the difference between a public community and a private community?

Please note: Once a community has been made private, it cannot be changed to public.
  1. (optional) Set up Instant member sign-up for the StoryCorps App.
    • Create a unique community code so people can seamlessly join your community from the StoryCorps App.
  2. (optional) Enable Podcast Feed and add Podcast Subscription button.
    • When enabled, interviews from your community can be fetched by feed readers, like iTunes and Google Play.
  3. Once you have filled in all the required fields and chosen your community’s privacy and moderation settings, select Create Community from the sidebar on the left side of the page.

Need some extra help? Try this step-by-step walkthrough. Use the icon in the top-right corner to make it full-screen!

19 STEPS

1 The first step is to log in to archive.storycorps.org and click your profile image

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2 Click Create a community

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3 Click title

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4 Type the name you'd like to give your community

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5 Click tagline

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6 Type a short tagline to help people understand your community

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7 Now you need to select an image.
Scroll down and click Select an image
You will then upload an image from your computer

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8 Scroll down and click description

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9 Type a longer description of your community. This field is optional, but a great opportunity to go in-depth when describing your community and project.

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10 Click description

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11 Scroll down to Select A Group Category and click the drop-down menu

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12 click the option that best describes your group

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13 Click Facebook URL

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14 Type the URL of your group/organization's Facebook page.
This is optional, but you can provide links to your facebook, twitter, instagram, or other website to help others learn more about your group/organization.

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15 Scroll down and select whether you'd like your community to have Unmoderated membership or Moderated membership

Moderating membership means that any new members must be approved before joining the community and submitting interviews.

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16 Scroll down and select whether you'd like your community to have Unmoderated interviews or Moderated interviews

Moderating interviews means that any interviews submitted to your community must be approved before they are added to the community.

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17 Advanced features are also an option, but for this example, we won't opt to add advanced features.

Scroll down and click Create Community

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18 You did it! Your community is created.
To view the community Click Visit

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19 Once members join your community and submit interviews they'll appear here.

Now it's time to tell others about your community so they can join and submit their interviews!

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Here's an interactive tutorial for the visual learners

https://www.iorad.com/player/1566174/Archive-storycorps-org---How-to-create-a-community