The Press is important to us from a publicity point of view - improving our visible stature in the community and beyond. The website of course allows for a much wider reach and is accessed by considerably greater numbers than those that might cast their eye over the local press back pages!
The match report section is - importantly - a means of reporting our activities in way that actually helps our friends in the Press. Carry on sending direct to Kentish Gazette's Mark Stokes if you do so already but copy me into the email “loop” so I can keep the web site stuff up to date until YOUR TEAM enters stuff directly using the system here on the new site!!
Anything posted here will also get to the KG sports desk (separate from Mark I think) and other press especially AdScene who also provide generous coverage.. BBC Radio Kent have expressed interest in certain big match items used for their sports web pages.
- click on Author login on right side menu
- enter the username and pass you have been given by your skipper - contact Creech direct if it's easier!
(after logging in a list of reports and publish progress on these will then be displayed)
- click Submit article on right side menu
- enter title in the fixture date opp format YYYY-MM-DD - Oppo
eg (2004-10-09 - St Albans)!! This is quite important actually for ordering entries - note the dashes.
- enter report in the Summary panel
(DO MAKE SURE THIS IS TEXT and NOT WORD DOC if cut 'n pasting ... if you're working from Word, copy and cut 'n past to Notepad to remove hidden Word doc formatting crap and then cut 'n paste from Notebook). Include team list please. Make sure there are no chevrons like > and < in the text. Please add author details and contact phone number/email.
-Select correct team from the Category list !!!!!!
-Change Type to Summary unless also submitting a picture/doc
-SUBMIT the damn thing!!!
Actually all this is much quicker in the doing than the reading! Any probs, contact me. But it really doesn't get much easier than this.
Viewing reports
The new site's match reports section is accessible by bookmarking the page you arrive by clicking from the right menu :
View Authors/Teams > Team Reports
(This is the combined list of all team submissions, latest reports at the end, which will be tidied up in due course to show just the very latest selection plus a list of previous reports. The press can simply cut and paste directly from here if required.)
Or for individual reports, look under the 'Categories' menu on the left panel ...
Categories > Match Reports > required team > required match
Picture, docs, comments may be added on first submission or later, and reports amended at any time (ask!).
Any problems please contact Creech at creech@polofarm.org or call 01227 766423.