SF.gov newsletter

November 2022, mid-month edition

Hi SF.gov editors,

The holiday season is upon us! Hope you're keeping warm and healthy.

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Monthly shareout

This month's shareout will be Wednesday, November 16 (tomorrow!) at 11 am. You can join the meeting directly from the ADM--SF.gov General channel on Teams or email persis.howe@sfgov.org if you want a meeting invite. 

We'll be looking at what's new on SF.gov, demoing new agency pages, showing you how to bulk upload PDFs, and discussing other upcoming releases. 

GET HELP

Training and support

Office hour appointments

No more waiting to get help during (or after) content office hours! You can now book an appointment ahead of time. Select a date and time that works for you and let us know how we can help!

We are canceling office hours on Wednesday, November 23. 

Our current training schedule

• Understanding content types — Thursday, December 8, 11 am to noon
• PDFs on SF.gov — Thursday, December 15, 11 am to noon
• Publishing on SF.gov (the basics) — First and third Wednesday, 11 am to noon
• Introduction to SF.gov — Second Wednesday, 11 am to noon
• Writing for SF.gov — Fourth Wednesday, 11 am to noon

After you register, you'll get a confirmation email with an .ics file. This email may be in your "Other" inbox.

You'll have to click on the .ics file to add the event to your calendar.

You can always ping us on Teams if you have a question.

NEW FEATURES

What's new for editors

Character limits

SF.gov is introducing character limits for title, description, and alert fields. The field names will now display the suggested character count. It will also display the number of characters you have for the field as you type. When the character count is reached, the counter will turn red.

The screenshot below shows how it displays on the editor interface. 

Coming soon

We're continuing to work on combining department and public body content types, so that public bodies will be easier and more flexible to use.

We’re also improving a handful of accessibility issues, and translation editing.

DID YOU KNOW?

Today's publishing tip

Prevent duplicate content by using filters

Having multiple pages with the same content severely damages the site's ranking in search engine results! Make sure nobody else has published the same content by using search and filters.

Depending on the tab, you can search by any key word from the page title, or filter by content type, published status, author, and department.

Hope to see you on Teams! Happy editing!

Thanks as always for being fantastic partners, getting services and information to all San Franciscans.

Liz, Anita, Persis, Sharon, and the SF.gov team

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