Watch Your Audience Grow

Suzy Pratt suggests:
1. move away from the ‘once in a lifetime experience’ approach. Make
it feel like a process that can become more of a ‘routine’ than a
‘treat’ event.
2. get people making stories using accessible tools. E.g. free
web-based editing tools they’ll be able to continue using after you’ve
moved on.
3.reduce the resources participants need to take part. If people don’t
have an archive of their own photos, help them take bespoke
contemporary ones; if people don’t have much time, offer a form they
can create in less time; meet people where they already gather; etc.
4. scale up activities. E.g. hold training the trainers workshops so
you get a snowball effect as skills are transferred.
5. foster connections with other digital storytelling operations.
 
My summary of five suggestions made by Susie Pratt of University of
Glamorgan at a presentation of BBC AHRC Knowledge Exchange
Partnerships in Cardiff on 4 November 2008. More at
http://www.aberth.com/blog/five-ways-to-make-your-digital-storytelling-project-more-sustainable.html