Saxo Training How to publish an article

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Saxo TrainingHow to publish an article

• The Power Point Presentation

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What are we going to learn? Most likely by
attending class and reviewing this presentation a
few times you should be able to

• Create a new article
• Add a photo and factbox
• Add keywords and themes
• Determine where on the Web site a story appears
• Edit/update a current story on the site
• Re-order stories appearing on the front page
• Re-cache the frontpage to update it with newly
  published articles

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Saxo Basics

• All stories appearing on the Web site are edited
  and published through Saxo Online.
• Stories are passed to the web by two different
  methods via ATS when stories are typeset at
  night and manually by producers, editors and
  other staff during the day.
• The appearance of stories on the Web is dictated
  by three primary factors category
  (Local/Regional, Sports) priority (1,2,3)
  keyword (Nashua, Hollis, Crime) and theme
  (juliaearl, vote2006.)
• Many of these fields are imported automatically
  from ATS overnight, but it is necessary to enter
  them manually when creating a new story manually
  during the day.

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Cat Local/Regional Priority 1
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Cat Local/Regional Priority 2
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Cat AV Room KW frontvideo Priority 1
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Cat Local/Regional Priority 3 - 10
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Cat Opinion02 Priority 1-5
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Login
http//nsedit.us.publicus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/red

• Your default login/password will be your email
  user name e.g dkiesow
• You may change your password later if you wish

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Home

• The homepage contains
• A menu for all administrative functions
• A list of recent stories you have edited
• Contact info for the Saxo helpdesk for
  emergencies

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Story List

• Click on storylist to see published and
  unpublished articles
• You can sort or filter the list by date, date
  range, category or keywords

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Story List

• The orange bar indicates someone else is editing
  the article you can still access/edit after
  acknowledging the warning notice.

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New Story

• Click on new story to start
• Always check the pub date and change it to
  todays date in most cases.

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New Story

• The main editing screen also controls the
  publication of photos factboxes within the
  article
• Check those now if you intend to have either item
  in the article, or want have a photo to appear on
  the frontpage

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New Story

• Category and priority are the last steps on this
  page
• For breaking news these will almost always be
  Local/Regional and 1
• On busy news days use your judgment to
  determine where new or breaking stories should
  appear on the page.

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Edit

• Click on the edit tab
• We will primarily be using the Title, Summary,
  Byline, Tagline and Paragraph(1) fields

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Edit

• Title Headline
• Byline staff or other credit (same as in print)
• Tagline contact information (same as in print)

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Edit

• Summary The promo text that appears on the
  frontpage
• If you do not use the summary field, Saxo will
  pull the first paragraph from the body of the
  story which is often fine.
• Use summary when you want breaking news or
  other messaging in the text promo on front.

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Edit

• Paragraph(1) the main body of the article.
• If you want to use subheads, or plan to embed
  multiple photos or factboxes in the article
  then spread the story out over multiple paragraph
  fields paragraph(2), paragraph(3) etc.

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Fact Box

• Main facts is used typically for links to related
  assets such as PDFs, external videos or
  information such as event schedules etc.
• It is helpful to know some basic HTML to use the
  factboxes abc.com or
  bold etc.

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Photos

• Click on the photo icon button to add/edit a
  photo
• In the edit window, browse on your local
  computer, or a server (Qlocalhold) to locate the
  image.
• Click on use IPTC to import the raw caption

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Photos

• Find the image
• Click on open to begin the upload

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Photos

• A preview should appear
• Click on save to complete the upload

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Photos

• If there was a caption in the original file, it
  should appear
• You will need to copy/paste the photographers
  name into the Photo credit field Staff Photo by
  Don Himsel is the style

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Keyword Theme

• Click on the keywords tab
• We will always use keywords, and frequently use
  themes to dictate where stories appear on the
  site.

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Keyword Theme

• Keywords can be added via the dropdown menu or by
  free text typing. Town names are the most
  frequently used keywords.
• Themes are used less frequently, but are useful
  for long-running coverage issues such as
  juliaearl

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Close

• Click on Save Close when you are finished.
• This will publish/republish the story and return
  you to the current storylist
• You can also hit Save at anytime during the
  publishing process to assure you do not lose any
  work as you go.

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Recache

• A small window should appear indicating the story
  has been cached (published)
• Bookmark these two links and open each after
  publishing content that will appear on the
  frontpage
• http//nsedit.us.publicus.com/apps/pbcs.dl
  l/frontpage?nocache1
• http//nsedit.us.publicus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/sect
  ion?categoryhomepagenocache1

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Done
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More help

• This presentation is available as a movie with
  audio narration http//media.nashuatelegraph.com/
  train/saxo_tutorial.mov
• A one-page handout tutorial is available at
  http//media.nashuatelegraph.com/train/saxo-publi
  sh.pdf
• This exact presentation is available as a PDF at
• http//media.nashuatelegraph.com/train/saxo-ppt.pd
  f
• Or if you prefer PowerPoint
• http//media.nashuatelegraph.com/train/saxo-
  train.ppt
• Ask one of the online producers
• Jon is our other current Newsroom expert

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Advanced topics for later discussion

• Creating related links in stories
• Publishing the multimedia promo on front
• Embedding multimedia in stories
• Using multiedit to apply kw/themes to multiple
  stories at once
• Recaching any page/article as needed.
• Recaching articles that give this error Error
  Invalid story key(NS,20061204,SPORTS,212040351,AR)