News Centre 1.1 Logging into the News Centre and creating your release

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News Centre 1.1Logging into the News Centre
and creating your release
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1. Open Internet Explorer and type in the
following URL
https//edit.rnli.org
2. Select Windows Authentication from the
dropdown menu
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3. When the Windows Security box appears, please
enter your full username and password and click ok
You need to enter the full username so it should
look like this Joe_Bloggs_at_rnli.live Please note
your login is case sensitive
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This is the News Centre dashboard
You can set your preferences this saves you
work later. The system remembers some key data,
including your location, station or beach name
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Set your preferences and click Save at the
bottom. You can change these at any point or
tailor them to individual news stories if you
need to
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Type in your headline 80 characters max and
click Continue
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The spellchecker reviews all text on the form
The first sentence is automatically formatted in
bold and is limited to 255 characters, around
three lines in Word on the standard template
Use the blue ? help buttons for handy tips
Type in your news release. Alternatively, you can
copy-paste from Word, etc, by clicking on the
Paste button top left or by right clicking on
your mouse and pasting. You can use bold, italics
and bulletpoints from the menu above
To get links to work, re-type the address in
full. Dont worry if the font appears bigger it
will correct itself when published
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Click on blue Select Location link.
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Type in the location of the event or incident and
click Zoom to place then OK, below
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The lat-long coordinates will appear next to
Select Location this allows the RNLI website
to tailor news stories to the readers location
Select regions and topic fields
Start adding photos at this point the primary
photograph appears at the top of your news
release. If you plan to add a video, your first
photo will appear below the news release
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Complete the fields and click Upload. A
progress bar will appear. Then click OK at the
bottom of the pop-up box
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You can add up to six photos
You can add up to two videos the primary video
will appear at the top of the news release, the
second video at the bottom. Insert the link from
the video player (see next page)
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Click on the Link symbol on the video player in
the News Centre. This displays the full link -
copy this and paste it into the video box. You
can also use the Copy to clipboard button
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Paste the video link into this box. Add a second
video if necessary
Put an interesting quote or fact into the Key
quote field copy it from your text, above.
There is no need to use quotation marks
If applicable, select lifeboat stations and
beaches
You can add a photo of yourself - a small JPEG is
best, cropped to a square. Warning the photo
should be appropriate a smiley face linked with
a tragic story will be offensive. You can also
upload for other people and overwrite names
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Next steps choose when your story is published
either immediately or at a point in the future
once it has been checked and approved by
Communications
Save your work!
Then click Save as draft
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News Centre 1.1Publishing your news release
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Save as draft puts your news release into your
own work basket but you still have to send it
to Communications
You can check how your news release will look by
simply clicking on the headline this throws up
a full preview version. You can also print this
version
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Find the dropdown menu with your mouse and click
on Publish/Send for approval. (The status will
change to Pending as Communications reads your
story)
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Dont worry if the headline has added a 1 or
2, etc. This will not appear on the published
version
Once Communications has approved and published
your news release you will see the status change
to Approved
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News Centre 1.1Making changes to your
published news release
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To change, remove or delete an approved and
published news release, click on the dropdown
menu
Unpublish removes the news release from the
website and changes the status back to draft
this is useful if there is suddenly a question
mark over the contents
Edit leaves the news release on the website but
allows you to make changes. But remember you will
need to resend it for approval again
Unlock can be used if the system says the news
release is locked for editing. Sometimes this
occurs as a technical glitch but it may also mean
somebody else is editing the document proceed
with care!
Delete destroys the news release entirely
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News Centre 1.1Sending your news releaseto
journalists
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Method 1 copy paste your news release into an
email Warning this may not work with all email
and browser combinations. See Method 2
First create a new email and write an
introduction to the journalist and add a link to
the press release.
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Go to your published news release and click on
Print this page
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Press Ctrl and A to mark the entire text.
Then press Ctrl and C
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Press Ctrl and V to paste your news release
into the body of the email
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Method 2 if copy paste does not work
First create a new email and write an
introduction to the journalist and add a link to
the press release.
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Go to your published news release and click on
Print this page
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Tip enlarge or reduce the size of the screen
with Ctrl and - or . Tip remove the
webpage header with F11
Then press Ctrl and PrintScreen to
effectively take a snapshot of the screen
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Press Ctrl and V to paste your news release
into the body of the email