Search committee, firm named to select Beloit College’s next president
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Enter your events into the Calendar on the web to promote them.
Adding Events
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From the Dashboard, click the Events tab.
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If you are creating a new event, click the blue + Add new. Or you can click on the name of an existing event to edit.
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Fill out the form with the relevant information for your event. A title and start date are required. Note: Not all event types are available to every user.
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Click Save when finished. You can also click Save and Go to Event for a preview that will open in a new tab.
MAKING EVENTS LIVE
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Unless changed, the default for events is hidden.
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Click Hidden and change to Live, or when creating your event, you have the option to make the event Live as well.
IMAGES
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It’s best practice to add an image to an event.
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You can always check for shared images in the CMS if you don’t have one in your group.
SUMMARIES
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Content entered into the summary appears under the title when widgets pull events on to a page
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Keep summaries brief and do not repeat them in the body copy, this will duplicate on the event page.
Description
- Descriptions are where to put full details for your event.
SHARING
- Get the most out of your event by sharing your event with other groups.
- Enter other groups who might want to post or link to your event as well.
- You can always suggest to the Homepage group as well!
- Note that content shared with other groups will be approved by that group’s content manager.
WIDGETS
Events will appear in the my events widgets when added to the page.
On office homepages, events appear at the bottom of the page, in the bulletin bar.
Events Widgets
To show events on your page, go to the red plus button in the toolbar and add a widget to the page. Then choose an events widget from the list of global widgets:
My Event (Top Event): soonest upcoming event with an image in this group
My Events: up to three other upcoming events in this group, excludes top event if shown on the same page
News and Events
To combine news stories with events in one feed, use My News & Events Stream:
Baseball Historian John Thorn’68 Applauds Inclusion of the Negro Leagues
The St. Paul Gophers, shown in 1909, preceded what were called the “Negro Leagues” by about a decade. They and other Black barnstorming teams played at an undeniably high level, but in the shadow of the white major leagues.
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