Rosendale Heart & Soul Interviews
Central to Rosendale Heart & Souls’ mission is to gather stories and ideas about Rosendale for the community to better understand itself. Our goal is to have collected 1,000 interviews by September 2024!
Click here to read some of the interviews in our blog!
The Interview questions are close to what we ask on our postcard (or virtual postcard as the case may be), but of course, live interviews have much more space for ideas and back-and-forth.
I’d like to be interviewed!
That’s great! R H&S can often be found in our tent at the Rosendale Farmer’s market, in front of Stewarts and My Town at Fann’s Plaza, and at various other events. We also put on events that are fun, often includes some snacks, and also have an interview possibility available. But if you’d like to schedule an interview, you can use this scheduler to check when we can meet with you.
This Looks Like Fun! Can I Be An Interviewer Too?
Great idea! Contact us at interviews@rosendaleheartsoul.org so you can get into our intrepid pool of interviewers and get a little training on the best ways to elicit the best quality responses! You can record the interviews with your phone and send them to us.
What’s our post-interview process?
- Recordings and photographs from interviews are sent from phones to our Data Team.
- Data Team runs the recordings through a transcriber ap.
- Data Team does a light editing for extraneous noise and conversation.
- Listening Team reads each interview and lightly edits, with an eye to making an interview more understandable. The only things we might remove from interviews are
- reflexive repetition (you know, like, I think…..),
- people’s last names,
- words that the speaker immediately corrects (“what I really mean is….”).
- Interview transcriptions and any photos are posted on our website to share with the community.
The interviews are not perfectly grammatical because they are conversational so no corrections needed.
The next project phase will involve analyzing the interviews and focusing on 1) what matters most, 2) hopes and concerns, and 3) ideas for action.