press releases and stories content for www.ussf2010.org site

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COMM WG would like to develop a form system for organizations/individuals to submit news stories, events, and press info.

For Events and News Stories that will updated (whether COMM WG does that for organizations or organizations do that themselves) on the ussf2010 website we would like the drupal forms expanded to include the following list of text boxes and larger comment boxes.

We would like the Press Release form (don’t know if this can happen within the drupal or just create a separate page which people will have a link to) to send the information to the COMM WG by email; the info could also be stored remotely.

EVENTS: [For updating Upcoming Events on frontpage]

1. Title of the Event*
2. Month, Day, Year, Start Hour, End Hour*
3. Venue*
4. City*
5. State*
6. Address*
7. Directions or cross-streets
8. #Description of Event (including purpose)*
9. #Organizational Sponsors and/or Supporters*
10. Name
11. Phone
12. Email
13. Website

STORY (mostly reporting on past events): [Recent News on frontpage]

1. Headline (catchy statement about the event, project or campaign)*
2. #Description (include outcomes, numbers, etc.)*
3. #Quote
4. #Organizational Sponsors and/or Supporters
5. Website
6. Name
7. Email

PRESS RELEASE [For COMM WG use--email to press staff]

CONTACT 1
1. NAME*
2. CELL PHONE*
3. EMAIL*

CONTACT 2
4. NAME
5. CELL PHONE
6. EMAIL

7. HEADLINE: A CATCHY STATEMENT ABOUT YOUR NEWS*

8. VENUE*
9. CITY*
10. STATE*
11. ADDRESS*

12. DAY*
13. MONTH*
14. YEAR*
15. START HOUR*
16. END HOUR*

17. #YOUR NEWS HOOK*: 1-2 sentences on why this event or issue development is important news, timely and impactful for a large number of people. Put the most important information first, as you would see it in a newspaper story.

18. #DETAILS AND QUOTE*: 2-3 sentences detailing what’s happening, where and when, as well as who’s involved and who’s impacted by the issue or news. Follow this paragraph with a quote from someone directly involved or affected by the issue or news.

19. #BACKGROUND AND SPECIAL FEATURES*: Add important facts, stats and history that help convey the news story. Include anywhere from 1-3 paragraphs that provide deeper context, and conditions, including who is responsible to change the conditions or what is needed to fix the problem. Add information about special features that make your event/news particularly photo-worthy or unique, including key speakers and their organizational affiliations. Try to keep your press release to one-page, two maximum.

20. #VISUALS: if the release is about a media event, include a description of the scene and props good for photos and TV coverage

21. #DESCRIBE GROUP OR HOSTS*: Close with a description of the organization(s), coalitions or individuals involved.

22. %PHOTO

*Required information
#Comment box (at least 4 lines)
%File upload

[https://id.mayfirst.org/jamie]

Re-summarizing to more accurately get the gist of the post.

[https://id.mayfirst.org/jamie]

Hi Scott,

This sounds great. We're excited to see the comm working group jumping on the website features.

My first impression is that we should be encouraging people to submit their own events, stories, and press releases on the organize.ussf2010.org site and then provide a page for everyone that lists these things.

The Comm working group could then pick and choose from all the ones submitted and decide which ones you want to promote to the USSF web site.

This way people could just submit once for everyone, rather than having to fill out a special form to have it posted on the main page.

Does that seem workable?

jamie

[https://me.yahoo.com/a/a9.2svi9tcek2d6llk_owrr1dmwh.xnm#0c7bc]

hey jamie,

i think using the organize site would be great (yes, kill two birds with one stone)--as long as the forms had all these fields (text boxes)--because we are concerned that if they don't include everything then we'll spend a lot of time trying to contact them to get all the info... I think then we could definitely then pull off events/stories and post them to the home page.

i don't think the press release form has much use to the organize site (or does it?)--so maybe it could just be a form (on organize or somewhere else) that we link to the COMM WG wiki--it will mostly be used by the NPC members and various WGs and committees.

scott

[https://id.mayfirst.org/malloryk]

creating a new ticket for events and stories to be handled by the organize site, see #391.

This ticket is now for the discussion about creation of Press Releases as a tool for the communications working group.

[https://id.mayfirst.org/jamie]

Thanks for keeping this ticket on topic Mallory.

What if we added a new content type called press releases on the www site, create a view that displays just press releases, and added a link to that view in multiple places on the web site (like the contact us page).

Then, change the view of "Recent news block on the home page to show both stories and press releases.

That way we get both content types and we don't have to squeeze another block onto the home page.

jamie

[https://id.mayfirst.org/jamie]

I'm going to expand this ticket just a bit - to cover the changes to all three content types on the www site (whereas #391 is for changing the corresponding content types on the organize site).

So - this would mean adding fields to the story and event content types as well as creating a new press release content type.

jamie

[https://id.mayfirst.org/jamie]

Ug! Me again. Ticket #414 covers handling of events across all sites. So again, re-defining this ticket to just cover stories and press releases.

[https://id.mayfirst.org/malloryk]

Fixed the cck for story, need views control. However, I think the view depends on how the new fields' information will be used.

Because the Press Release needs to be emailed to Comm-Media, perhaps it should be a webform. Again, it depends on how the content of the requested form will be used.

Scott, can you elaborate on the Press Release and Story form requests as to how you'd like the fields to be used, i.e. auto-displayed or hidden?

[sbyrd@…]

Replying to https://id.mayfirst.org/malloryk:

Fixed the cck for story, need views control. However, I think the view depends on how the new fields' information will be used.

Because the Press Release needs to be emailed to Comm-Media, perhaps it should be a webform. Again, it depends on how the content of the requested form will be used.

Scott, can you elaborate on the Press Release and Story form requests as to how you'd like the fields to be used, i.e. auto-displayed or hidden?

ok, I'm a little confused but I'll give it a shot... the press release form may not be relevant anymore. this was mostly for NPC folks and other orgs, but now it seems we will have other ways for them to get us the info.

let's just focus on the story form; which I think should be displayed somewhere on the organize site and also emailed to one of us in comm wg. so if it were emailed to us I guess the fields could be displayed, but not if it were on the organize site--does this make sense?

[https://id.mayfirst.org/jamie]

Thanks Mallory for making the changes to the content type. And, Scott, focusing on the story type first sounds like a good idea.

The way I envision this working is:

• People submit stories on organize.ussf2010.org
• Periodically, the communications working group reviews submitted stories and finds ones they want to give prominence to
• The communications working group, by hand, re-enters the stories on the www.ussf2010.org site

I know this is not a easy or simple as somehow automatically getting stores into the www.ussf2010.org site - but I think it's an important starting point. Also - it provides the Communications working group with the ability to have full control over how the story appears (and the ability to add stories that don't appear on the organize site).

Also, this initial step doesn't involve emailing things anywhere.

Toward this initial model....this ticket covers changing the content types on the www.ussf2010.org site. You should see the extra fields Scott when you add or edit a story item (the field changes on the organize site are covered in #391).

As you start using those fields, they will start showing up on the home page of www.ussf2010.org in the news section.

So... for story I think this issue is resolved (although we might want to do some theming once the new fields start appearing on the homepage of the www site).

I'm going to follow up on ticket #391 to deal with the organize side of things.

jamie

[https://id.mayfirst.org/malloryk]

Where are we at with this ticket? Any changes to the 'story' type on www? Has the press release thing been worked out in some other way?