Newsletter
Revision as of 11:24, 2 February 2012 by Dheiber (talk | contribs) (→Updating the Newsletter/Adding Articles)
Email Administration
Prior to newsletter publishing, all emails from the signup sheets at the front desk should be input online.
- Create a list of emails from signup sheets - one per line, no extra information or punctuation
- Go to Newsletter email admin page (if you don't have the password, find someone who does to accomplish this): http://lists.freegeek.org/admin/e-newsletter/general
- Click on "Membership Management" after logging in to the above webpage
- Then click on "Mass Subscription."
- Paste the list of emails into the box below the text "Enter one address per line below..."
- Click the Submit Your Changes button at the bottom of the page.
Updating the Newsletter/Adding Articles
We upload five articles to the newsletter every news cycle (two feature articles and three side articles).
- Sign in at http://www.freegeek.org/newsletter/wp-admin
- Click on "Add New" under "Posts" in the sidebar.
- Add title to post.
- In the right-hand column:
- Click "edit" next to "Publish immediately" under "Publish" on the right-hand side of the page
- Change to the date of publication for the Newsletter (preferably a Thursday). All articles should have the same date.
- Times should be set to the following based on article location on the page:
- First feature-7:15
- Second feature-7:13
- First sub-article (Other/hardware grants spotlight)-7:11
- Second sub-article (Volunteer spotlight) - 7:09
- Third sub-article (Staff spotlight) - 7:07
- Times should be set to the following based on article location on the page:
- Change to the date of publication for the Newsletter (preferably a Thursday). All articles should have the same date.
- Choose only one category under the Categories option that correlates with the article type.
- If this is a featured article, include "featured" under Post Tags.
- Set the "Featured Image" for the article by clicking "Set featured image."
- Featured posts should have a unique image that relates to the article. This may also be included in the article.
- Sub-articles should use the correlating title image, found under the "Media Library" option.
- After uploading or choosing your image, click the "Use as featured image" link near the bottom of the dialogue box then click the "Save all changes" button.
- Click "edit" next to "Publish immediately" under "Publish" on the right-hand side of the page
- Insert (or type) the content of your article under "Upload/Insert"
- Click the blue publish button (or grey preview button) to publish your article (at a future date)