Collect new stories from your community, or make existing programs more engaging.
Upload old media or capture new stories with our built-in intuitive video tools. Use our testimonial tool to have people submit their stories on their own time.
Bring stories in
Put them to work
Bring stories in
Put them to work
Uses across the organization.
Extract the perfect clip for a marketing campaign, create a digital exhibit for your patrons, or collect stories to fill out your archives. All in one place.
Collect
Grow your collection with your community
Upload the recordings already on your shelves, record new oral histories, or invite people to share their own stories.
Upload legacy audio and video
Record interviews with built-in video tools
Collect community submissions with the testimonial tool
Transcripts, speaker labels, and custom metadata schema
Riverside Historical Society · New stories
Mill workers reunion, 1987Uploaded · legacy video
Transcribing
Interview with a longtime memberRecorded · 42 minTagged
"My first job on Main Street"Community submissionTagged
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Market
Give your marketing real voices
Let the people who lived your organization's history tell it, across your website, exhibitions, and member communications.
Export clips and highlights to use for socials and newsletters
Embeds for the website you already have
First-person stories for anniversaries and campaigns
Story page
Community voices
Main Street, 1962
A former shop owner on the year the river flooded downtown.
▶ Watch storyShare</> Embed
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Exhibits & programs
Make exhibits and programs more engaging
Bring stories to life in exhibits and online, so visitors hear history in the voices of the people who lived it.
Analysis tools to find the key moments
Portals for online exhibits and whole collections
Story collection campaigns your community can join
Voices of the River Valley
Tap a story to listen
The flood of 1962Playing
Life at the mill4 min
Saturday on Main Street6 min
Our family recipes3 min
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Show impact
Show your impact to boards and funders
Thematic analysis surfaces what your community keeps coming back to, so reports carry first-person evidence, not just attendance numbers.
Themes surfaced across your whole collection
Every theme backed by real quotes and clips
Evidence ready for board updates and grant reports
Themes · Community voices project
Belonging31
Local industry23
Family traditions19
A changing downtown14
"The museum was the first place my family's story was treated like it mattered."Belonging · Interview 12, 08:31
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Fundraise
Make every donor ask personal
Put real voices at the center of your appeals, grant applications, and campaigns.
Share relevant stories in an appeal
Bring first-person voices into grant applications and reports
Build a campaign around the stories you've collected
Annual appeal · Draft
Subject: The stories only you can help us keep
Dear friend, this year our members shared more than their memories. They shared what this place means to them.
My grandkids can hear their great-grandfather now.Member since 1994 · 2 min story
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Bring your collections to life.
Whether you're a large archive, a small library, or anything in between, TheirStory can help.
