 Hi there my name is Martin Anderson and I'm the digital communications team leader at CFA. I'm just going to show you quickly how to submit a news article to the public news and media site or the members online member news section. To submit to either site you go to the news.cafa.vic.gov.au site or you can go to the public website and click on the news and media tab. You click to log in you click the member login button up here and you'll be taken to your CFA login page. Once you're logged in you can either from the drop-down menu of news media click submit a news article or click on the submit a news article on the dashboard page. On the submit a news page you'll be able to access this video to remind yourself if you need any reminders of how to submit an article. The headline of the article obviously very important to try and encourage people to read the articles. You need to make it as interesting as possible. The author will automatically be populated with your name although you can't change that if required if you're submitting an article for somebody else enter the start date here if you just want it to be published as soon as possible select today's date. You can choose the featured image now if the featured image needs to be a minimum of 1600 pixels by 1200 pixels and it needs to have the the main subject area within this sort of red lines when the center of the image depending on what device size and mobile or tablet or desktop computer the edges of the images can't be hidden so you need to make sure that people's heads and any text or anything important is within the central area of the image as you can see in this pop-up window you just choose a file select your image and that will pop in there and the image needs to be a sort of four by four four by three ratio so um yeah 1600 pixels by 1200 pixels that sort of size landscape size you can enter a caption for your image the intro the first paragraph the article again after the headline the most important part of the story that's really the most interesting thing you need to have in the intro to encourage people to actually take the time and read further into the news article so you enter that here here in the main content you enter the rest of your your article you can add a youtube video in your article so you can basically select this button and you go to the the video that you want to share click on the share button click this embed code from the youtube video and then you can select that in there and that will automatically embed a youtube video wherever you want it within your article there's some tips here and inserting videos you can add up to five additional images in your slide so just by selecting them for the slideshow at the bottom of your article the category of your article it's basically the the main topic that it falls under so if you're writing about a house fire you would maybe select in this incident structure if you're writing about an event that your brigade is having select events the people category is really only for people profiles obviously there's inversely every news article we upload there are people involved in the the news article but unless it's specifically a profile or a specific piece about a particular person like a an honors piece or something like that you might select people where did it happen so most news most articles happened in a particular place we're talking about a specific event or incident or something like that so you just if the if it was an incident that happened in district 11 just select district 11 some articles are just general announcements especially the ones we did headquarters so maybe statements or general sort of announcements of things that are happening in cfa and obviously don't happen in a specific location so we would select no specific location for this the audience so this is whether if you just want the news article to appear on members online for cfa members only you would select this checkbox or if you want it to be public and on members online select this one at this point it's really good idea to preview your article to see how it will appear so here you can see the image as it appears in your caption your intro you can see a video if you've embedded it and just make sure everything looks good if that's all good you just close that window and I'll take you back to your submit a news article page you can save it as a draft if you need to get more information or need to get you know we need to wait until something's approved or if you're ready to go you can submit the news article when you submit the news article if you haven't filled in any mandatory fields you'll get these warnings so I haven't filled in the headlines so I need to fill that in I need to fill in the category and location so the category we'll say community safety location we'll choose bird with east and we'll try that again and if you have successfully submitted your article you'll end up in this page you'll be able to see the article on your dashboard under my articles you can see this test headline is the one I've just submitted and a member of the news and media team will get a notification that you've submitted your article and somebody will approve it or get in touch with you if there's any issues so we try to approve articles within within one or two business days of them being submitted if it's something that needs urgently submitted you can contact the digital media team you get the contacts on member news you can email digital-media-team at cfa.vic.gov.au just to let us know that you've there's some time pressures on the article you've submitted otherwise once the article is approved you should also get an email telling you it's approved with a link to the article on the members news site if you want to get the article on the news media site just go to the news and media latest news and you can get the public version of the article there if you uploaded the article to the public site as well so I hope that helps if you have any questions or any issues you can contact us via the members online side or at digital-media-team at cfa.vic.gov.au thanks bye