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CoveritLive Enterprise is live and completely self-serve. It layers on strong administration tools to help you manage your live events better and organize the CiL users in your organization. This page will help you understand how to:
- Create and maintain a Group of CiL user accounts
- Create and publish a Group Homepage which will be the centerpiece for all your live events on your site
Tip! See how Philly.com, WWE, and the Sacramento Bee are using Enterprise Group Homepages to to attract readers.
Enterprise Groups
Groups are a key administrative benefit to our larger media organizations as CiL continues to become a larger part of their core reporting. When you create a Group of CiL users, it allows you to: a) set a common default Template for all their events; and, b) include them in your Group Homepage so all of their Upcoming, Live and Completed events can be displayed in one area. In the coming months, we will provide: a) content control; b) live event statistics; c) common Media Libraries; and, d) billing and feature access set at the Group level.
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Philly.com - Group Homepage
| You can create as many Groups as you like. Some organizations will create different Groups for sports, politics and breaking news. Blog networks with hundreds or thousands of users can create large groups and use the Group Homepage (see below) to aggregate all the live events from their users in one place. Some media organizations are using Groups to create citizen journalism pages where they allow select readers to run their live events for them.
Group Homepages
Once your Group is set up, the real power of Enterprise starts to show with Group Homepages. Imagine a page that brings all your events into one place automatically from ALL your CiL users. Now add an up to date listing of Upcoming, Live and Completed events (tip: the average number of Replays watched is 50% of the Live number) so your readers can set reminders for what’s coming next or read archived content. Now imagine how excited your sales force will get about selling that page to a sponsor.
Group Homepages are all custom built by you online and then placed on your site. Your Group Homepage is made up of the Viewer Window (which looks just like the CiL Viewer Windows you are familiar with), and the event Listings - a menu of Live, Upcoming, and Completed events for all writers in your Enterprise Group.
The events on your Group Homepage are always ready to go at a moment’s notice. Your writers don’t ever need to copy/paste an embed code, they simply give the event a title and launch it live. You and your readers have access to all events – past, present, and future – all on one convenient page on your site. This allows you to create a dynamic “go to” destination with the potential for significant readership. For maximum impact, set a main navigation tab so all your readers can start to get involved in your live events.
Recommended Users
Enterprise delivers benefits that are most important to CoveritLive users who have:
- high levels of readership
- multiple writers within an organization
- a frequent need to deliver live information
- the need to maintain content control
Getting Started
- Each Enterprise Group you create will have a corresponding Group Homepage, which will automatically update with all of your members' events.
- To start using the Enterprise features as an Administrator, sign in to your CiL account and go to “My Account”. Click on the “Enterprise” menu link to go to the Enterprise admin page. Follow the directions provided below.
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Go to My Account > Enterprise
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Creating Groups
- Add a new Group by entering the Group name, URL and language preference. The URL is the location of your Group Homepage.
Tip! If you are not sure where your Group Homepage will be, then enter your website homepage. You can update this later.
- Select a Template to apply to the events in this Enterprise Group.
Templates allow you to brand the Viewer Window for your events. The selected template will become the default for your Group, but can be changed on an event-by-event basis. Click "edit" to create or modify your existing Templates.
- Save your Group, by scrolling down and clicking the “Save” button. You must save your new Group before you can add Group Members.
- Invite Group Members by entering their CiL username or an email address, and then clicking “Send Invite”. Add additional members to your Group as needed. Users must accept your invite before they can join a Group. To delete a member select the member from the Invited Member list and click the
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Group members’ events are gathered and displayed on the Group Homepage. To set up an Enterprise Group Homepage without inviting other Members simply enter your own username.
- Adding Multiple Groups: Repeat the steps above to create as many Groups as you need. Remember that each Group will have their own Group Homepage.
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Add a New Group
Select a Template
Save your Group
Invite Group Members
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Tip! No CiL Account? No problem. Simply enter the users email address and we will send them an invite explaining how to sign up to CoveritLive!
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Setting up a Group Homepage
- Customize your Group Homepage: Select a Group from the Group list. Customize your page design by selecting the window orientation and listing styles. These options help integrate the Group Homepage into your own website.
- Preview & Save: Use the Preview button to view your Group Homepage BEFORE going live. Click "Save" to apply your Group Homepage settings. If your preview looks good, copy and paste the embed code into a test page on your website to view how it looks within your website design.
Note! If you have already posted the Embed code, clicking Save will affect your live Group Homepage settings.
- Post the Group Homepage: To integrate the Group Homepage into your own site simply build a new permanent page on your website, leaving space in your design for the Group Homepage. Once you are happy with how your Group Homepage looks, copy the embed code and post it into your own webpage code. For more information:
 Read the Enterprise PDF
You only need to post your Enterprise embed code once. Once it's posted, the Group Homepage will automatically update with your Group member's events!
View the live Philly.com, WWE and Sacramento Bee Group Homepages.
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Customize your Group Homepage
Post the Embed Code
View Your Live Group Homepage!
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Enterprise Success Tips
How to get more out of your Enterprise experience:
| Work as a Group: |
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Your Group Homepage is always on, and always ready. Communicate with your Group members and encourage them to showcase their events on this critical new page. |
| Help Readers find your Page: |
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The power of the Enterprise page is that it’s a permanent place for your readers to view the events of all of your writers. Add a button so your readers can find it. Name your button something descriptive like Live Events, Live Coverage, or <Your Company Name> Live. |
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Use your own sales force or advertising engine to promote your page. It will drive significant readership and you can demand premium pricing for it. |
| Publicize certain events: |
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Select “CoveritLive Search” to include them in our searchable database of Live events. |
| Keep certain events private: |
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Uncheck the “Publish in My Enterprise Group” checkbox when setting up a private event |
| Brand your Events: |
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Have your administrator create a branded Group Viewer Window Template so that all of your events can have the same look and feel. |
| Set up your events in advance: |
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As soon as you set up an event, it shows up in your Upcoming Events listing, making it simple for readers to set reminders so they never miss an event. |
| Use the Practice Session tool: |
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Test your events using the Practice Session (found on the My Account page) so that “test” events don’t show up in your Upcoming Events listing. |
| Use your Completed Events listing as an archive: |
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You and your readers have access to all events – past, present, and future – on one convenient page on your site. |
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