Overview: Engagement allows you to create and publish news posts, which are a great way to share information or any news about the company.
Start from: The Engagement Dashboard.
- Select Communication > Publications on the main menu.
- Select Create Publication > News Post.
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Within the News Builder, complete the fields below:
Which employees can see this news?
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- Select Add if you want this article to be visible to the whole company, OR select levels 1, 2 or 3 (which appears when adding an employee) if you want to make a more detailed selection.
- Select Employees by department, if you wish the news post to be sent to a particular department in the company.
- Select Employees by job, if you wish the news post to be sent to employees with a particular job role.
- Select Add more employees that you want to have access to the group, in addition to the selected levels if you want to add any employees in particular that may not be included in the selections above.
- Download a news post audience template list, populate it with the email addresses of your chosen audience and re-upload it using the File upload button, if you wish to bulk add several employees as recipients of the news post.
Where do you want to post it?
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- Select the channel where you want the news article to be published.
What do you want to post?
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- Name your post in the Title field.
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- Enter who you want to be displayed as the sender of the news.
Note: By default, it's the Company, however, you can write down whatever you want to be displayed as sender.
- Add/edit text, drag and drop images, create hyperlinks (click on chains icons) in the body section.
Want to add a cover image to the news article? (Optional)
- Add an image and/or video if you wish. If you add both, the image will be displayed as a thumbnail.
Do you want to add a video to the news? (Optional)
- Upload a video by link or by uploading it directly from your computer, if you wish.
Add attachments (Optional)
- Upload files to your post if you wish.
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Use the dropdown menus (YES/NO) for each of these following questions:
- Can employees add comments?
- Can employees give dislikes?
- Request read confirmation?
Note: this setting displays a “read confirmation” button that employees can select once they’ve seen the news post assigned to them. This button generates a notification to the relevant manager.
Publication (When do you want it posted?)
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- Publish your article immediately or schedule it. Note: You can also keep it as a draft.
- Choose how you want to notify recipients using the email or push dropdown menus (YES/NO).
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- Pin a post if you want it to keep it displayed on top of your channel using the dropdown menu (YES/NO).
- Select Save.
Adding your news post to the homepage carousel in Mapal One
Choose the option to Add to Homepage Carousel on Mapal One to have your post featured across the organisation.
Note: the four latest items will be displayed on the carousel and any earlier news posts will no longer be visible.
Managing completed news posts
Once created (published or pending publication), you have various options available.
- Go to Communication > Publications and click on the ... menu to display available actions.
- Choose from the following:
- See comments
- Edit
- Duplicate
- Remove
- Notify pending
- Preview
