Creating a COVID-19 impact story

To understand how COVID-19 has impacted your community in their daily lives - this could come in multiple different forms...

Choose an example for this guide

Tips for staying productive while working at home

To talk openly about mental health during COVID-19

Talk about the positives

1. Story title

This should be a clear, easy-to-understand summary of the Story.

Story title - Tips for staying productive while working at home

How To Stay Productive When Working From Home

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Story title - To talk openly about mental health during COVID-19

Our message of support to the community

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Story title - Talk about the positives

Quirks from Home

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2. Story introduction video

What’s more authentic than a video message to contributors explaining what they need to do? This is the time to really hammer home what the purpose of the Story is, and get the contributors excited to be a part of it.

Story introduction video - Tips for staying productive while working at home

Story introduction video - To talk openly about mental health during COVID-19

Story introduction video - Talk about the positives

Video introductions allow for a more personal touch to a Story, and puts contributors at ease. Lead by example and explain how they should participate!

3. Story introduction

Contributors are more likely to take part in a Story if the introduction is simple, with a clear instruction as to what they need to do, and how the footage is going to be used.

Story introduction - Tips for staying productive while working at home

Hello everyone and welcome to our Seenit project about WORKING FROM HOME! 🙌
Thank you so much for joining!

Please watch my introduction video for more context and upload your ideas, opinions and points of view on the specific topics we've pointed out.

First up: How do you stay productive while working from home?

Share your top tips and tricks on how to keep productivity and engagement up when working from home

We will be bringing all your ideas together in short video episodes, which we will share back to you and with the outside world! Let's share our knowledge and support each other through this.

Submission deadline is Monday 23rd of March!
Good luck!

Happy Filming and thank you so much for your support!

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Story introduction - To talk openly about mental health during COVID-19

Hello everyone and welcome to our Seenit project about WORKING FROM HOME! 🙌
Thank you so much for joining!

Please watch my introduction video for more context and upload your ideas, opinions and points of view on the specific topics we've pointed out.

We're living through turbulent times, so mutual support is more important than ever. Any message you'd like to share with the community? Share your message of support to the community on how to lift your spirits, stay positive and spread kindness.

It is so important to take care of our mental health and keep a feeling of togetherness during such a challenging time and I am so excited to see all your ideas and thoughts on this.

We will be bringing all your ideas together in short video episodes, which we will share back to you and with the outside world! Let's share our knowledge and support each other through this.

Submission deadline is Monday 23rd of March!
Good luck!

Happy Filming and thank you so much for your support!

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Story introduction - Talk about the positives

Hello everyone and welcome to our Seenit project about WORKING FROM HOME! 🙌
Thank you so much for joining!

Please watch my introduction video for more context and upload your ideas, opinions and points of view on the specific topics we've pointed out.

This time, we'd like to spread some positivity and focus on more of the fun things we've been up to lately. Please share any of the funny or quirky things you've been doing while working at home.

We will be bringing all your ideas together in short video episodes, which we will share back to you and with the outside world! Let's share our knowledge and support each other through this.

Submission deadline is Monday 23rd of March!
Good luck!

Happy Filming and thank you so much for your support!

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Here's what our very own Tiziana had to say about how she encouraged contributions across the series.

As it was a long-running series it was important to keep up momentum by sending regular reminders. I sent calendar reminders for filming deadlines, group messages, and personal messages to the Seenit team. The personal messages on Slack (our internal messenger) always worked the best.
We opened up this series to those outside of Seenit, so we promoted the project on social media, and our CEO Emily's LinkedIn. This generated a lot of signups to the story, and I made sure I messaged the joiners regularly.
I asked each Seenit employee to get a friend to film, which unfortunately didn't work as well as I'd hoped.

Take a look at the first episode below, which we created using Seenit. 👇

Final video - Tips for staying productive while working at home

Final video - To talk openly about mental health during COVID-19

Final video - Talk about the positives

All videos were posted across LinkedIn and the Seenit blog, each focusing on a different topic as life in the pandemic threw different challenges our way.

Thanks for reading 🤗

Creating a COVID-19 impact story

Purpose of Story 🤔

Setting the Story up ✍️

1. Story title

2. Story introduction video

3. Story introduction

Getting contributions ✅

The Final Video 🎬

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