Pitching content in WebSked
Use WebSked's Pitching feature to suggest content for inclusion in your organization's platforms, publications, and collections.
Pitching allows content creators to advocate for their work and helps content and homepage editors to curate their pages, sections, and destinations.
WebSked has three main destinations for pitches: platforms, publications, and collections:
Platforms are content destinations that showcase the best and newest content. Examples include your organization's homepage or social media channels.
Publications - are time-dependent content destinations with fixed edition dates and times. Examples include daily newspapers or weekly email newsletters.
Collections - are content feeds usable in PageBuilder Editor and the Collections API. Users can add, order, and share content as targeted groupings without approval.
As a content creator, you want to pitch your latest story to the Sunday newsletter publication.
You access WebSked, locate your story —planned for publishing on the weekend— and pitch it to the Sunday newsletter publication.
The weekend newsletter editor receives a notification and accesses the WebSked Publications tab to evaluate content pitches. They preview and select your story. When they finalize the edition, your story appears in the weekend newsletter.
Procedures
To pitch content to a platform, complete the following:
Navigate to the WebSked application. The WebSked page opens.
Click the Planning tab. The Planning List View page opens.
Navigate to the desired content card and click the kebab icon
> Pitches. The detailed view opens, showing the Pitches' right pane.Under PLATFORMS, click Pitch to platform. The Pitch story to Platforms window opens.
Select and fill in the following details:
Website - select a website to display a list of its configured platforms.
Selected platforms - gets automatically populated with the platforms you select.
Note - add a note for your pitch. You can explain the reason to pitch the content to that platform.
Breaking news - when enabled, this option allows you to flag a story as breaking news, triggering associated alerts, such as Slack notifications.
Click Confirm.
You return to the detailed view of your content piece, which displays the Pitches right pane and the platforms where you pitched your content.
To pitch content to a publication, complete the following:
Navigate to the WebSked application. The WebSked page opens.
Click the Planning tab. The Planning List View page opens.
Navigate to the desired content card and click the kebab icon
> Pitches. The detailed view opens, showing the Pitches' right pane.Under PUBLICATIONS, click Pitch to publication. The Pitch story to Publications window opens.
Select and fill in the following details:
Filter by - select if you want to filter publications by Website or Publication set.
Your selection shows a checklist with the available options for each category.
Selected publications - gets automatically populated with the publications you select.
Can hold until - select a due date for the publication to hold the content.
Note - add a note for your pitch.
Click Confirm.
You return to the detailed view of your content piece, which displays the Pitches right pane and the publications where you pitched your content.
To pitch content to a collection, complete the following:
Navigate to the WebSked application. The WebSked page opens.
Click the Planning tab. The Planning List View page opens.
Navigate to the desired content card and click the kebab icon
> Pitches. The detailed view opens, showing the Pitches' right pane.Under COLLECTIONS, click Add to collection. The Add to collection window opens.
Click the + icon next to the collection to which you want to add the content. A white checkmark and a confirmation message appear next to the collection name.
If you want to remove the content from the collection, hover over the white checkmark and click on the
Click Close.
You return to the detailed view of your content piece, with the Pitches right pane and the collections where you added your content.