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Steegle News
The News gadget for Google Sites
The News gadget for Google Sites
Background
Background
Google Sites does not offer any kind of news tool or the announcement pages, and Google Currents has also now been deprecated. This means there's no succinct way of highlighting news snippets on your site or allowing users to discuss internal news so your teams at Steegle Build one!
How the news gadget works
How the news gadget works
A user enters the story, comprising of a headline, story content, and optionally a picture and a link. If the user is a news admin the story will appear right away. For a general use of the story will lodged and then an email will go out to the news administrators to accept or decline the story.
Stories can also be set from a set of specified RSS feeds, and our Apps Script reads this data and displays a filterable news feed on your Google Site, as a stream or in channels. On your site your visitors will see a filterable news feed of the articles you enter in the form, sorted by the latest published date first or with pinned articles at the top of the feed.
Client Testimonial
Client Testimonial
"Steegle News transformed our internal communications, enhancing engagement and information sharing.”
"Steegle News transformed our internal communications, enhancing engagement and information sharing.”
– Brian Doerr SVP of IT, Security & Privacy, Community Hospital Corporation, Plano, Texas
Features of Steegle News
Features of Steegle News
We've developed an easy-to-use tool that displays:
headline with link
snippet
thumbnail with link or impactful background cover photo
attachment with link or as embedded video
metadata that includes date published, author, tags and source
comments, reactions and share via Gmail
news from multiple RSS feeds
Taken from your news or blog articles or favourite RSS feeds.
Steegle News for Google Sites:Video Demo
Steegle News for Google Sites:Video Demo
Live Demo - Steegle News for Google Sites
Live Demo - Steegle News for Google Sites
All News - Mosaic View - #start - Full Width
All News - Mosaic View - #start - Full Width
Channel: #releaes - Medium Width
Channel: #releaes - Medium Width
Channel: #start - Narrow Width
Channel: #start - Narrow Width
News Case study
News Case study
Optimizing Internal Communications with Steegle News
Optimizing Internal Communications with Steegle News
Community Hospital Corporation (CHC), headquartered in Plano, Texas, stands as a beacon of efficiency and innovation in healthcare management. Renowned for its proficiency in optimizing the operations of community hospitals, CHC leverages progressive strategies and a commitment to healthcare excellence. Their focus on effective internal communications, crucial for their expansive and dynamic network, reflects their pioneering approach to overcoming healthcare industry challenges. CHC's integration of advanced communication tools underscores their commitment to delivering top-tier healthcare management and services in each community they serve.
Challenges
Challenges
In an organization as extensive and dynamic as CHC, ensuring timely and efficient communication with staff is imperative. The pre-existing intranet system presented challenges in engagingly and dynamically presenting news, leading to information gaps and sub-optimal staff engagement levels.
Outcome
Outcome
Integrating Steegle News into their Google Workspace intranet marked a significant transformation for CHC. This innovative tool provided an engaging, user-friendly platform for sharing updates and essential information, ensuring comprehensive connectivity throughout the organization.
Revolutionizing CHC’s Intranet with Steegle News
Revolutionizing CHC’s Intranet with Steegle News
Brian Doerr, SVP of IT, Security & Privacy at CHC, recognized the necessity for an efficient method to manage and disseminate internal communications. Steegle News emerged as the ideal solution, offering not only an engaging interface but also seamless integration with CHC’s established Google Workspace infrastructure, thus enhancing the overall intranet experience.
Results
Results
The implementation of Steegle News led to:
More effective dissemination of critical updates and news across the organization.
Improved staff engagement and accessibility of information.
Seamless integration with Google Workspace, ensuring consistency with CHC’s IT framework.
Enhanced communication efficiency, fostering a well-informed and cohesive healthcare community.
Testimonial
Testimonial
“Adopting Steegle News was a crucial step in transforming our internal communications strategy. Its integration with Google Workspace has streamlined our processes, significantly boosting staff engagement and awareness. This tool has been essential in breaking down communication barriers, fostering a more interconnected healthcare community. Its user-friendly interface and dynamic presentation capabilities have established Steegle News as an invaluable component of our communication toolkit, saving time and effort in compliance and security efforts within our Google Workspace environment.”
Brian Doerr -SVP of IT, Security & Privacy
FAQ's about Steegle News for Google Sites
FAQ's about Steegle News for Google Sites
Can we search the news feed?
Can we search the news feed?
Yes! The Steegle News Gadget offers a search functionality that allows you to search all of the text fields, including the hashtags and date.
Alternatively you can make a specific channel for a tag or source to pre-filter the news to only that tag or source and display it separately.
Can we embargo the news items?
Can we embargo the news items?
Yes! When you enter the news articles you pick a published date: if this date is in the future the news gadget will not display that article until that date.
Can we change the colours Steegle News?
Can we change the colours Steegle News?
Yes! Colours can be changed by administrators.
Can we use Steegle News like Announcement pages.
Can we use Steegle News like Announcement pages.
Yes! Many customers buy Steegle News for this reason, as new Google Sites does not provide the Announcement page and recent posts gadgets that classic Google Sites offered.
Can Steegle News replace Currents Communities?
Can Steegle News replace Currents Communities?
Yes! Many customers buy Steegle News for this reason, as Google replaces Currents Community with Google Chat Spaces, which you cannot embed in Google Sites, we gave Steegle News several features similar to Google Currents Communities, e.g.:
Thumbnails, images and attachments
Comments
Reactions
Embeddable in Google Sites
Do you have email news bulletins?
Do you have email news bulletins?
Yes we can configure our tool to send out news bulletins daily, weekly or monthly
Do we need to add a photo or an attachment?
Do we need to add a photo or an attachment?
No: photos and attachments are optional and will only display on articles you have added one to.
Can we hide the author name?
Can we hide the author name?
Yes: adding who the article was published by is optional.
What sources can we use for news
What sources can we use for news
Steegle News provides its own user interface to provide your news stories. You can also add RSS feeds, both Atom and RSS XML files to be a source of news.
Can we keep our news private for an Intranet
Can we keep our news private for an Intranet
Yes! Steegle News works entirely within your Google Workspace account and does not need to be public. You can set different levels of who can add news and set group visibility to each news item if required.
Does the news gadget adapt to mobile displays?
Does the news gadget adapt to mobile displays?
Yes the Steegle news gadget is fully mobile responsive, see the examples above.
Where is all the news data stored?
Where is all the news data stored?
The text content for the news article and the likes data is stored in a Google Sheet that you create and own that we don't have access to. The photos and attachments are stored in a Google Drive folder that you create and own.
What is the pricing of Steegle News; what does it cost?
What is the pricing of Steegle News; what does it cost?
Steegle News has an annual license as well as install & training fee fee. Minimum license fees start at US $1,500 and depend on teh number of users.
Big discounts available for genuine education and not-for-profit organisations.
Can we show news from one department/tag/source?
Can we show news from one department/tag/source?
Yes you can make a channel for news item from a particular source (e.g. just the form or an RSS feed) or choose only one hashtag (#tag) to display. This means if your departments contribute news via the form that department can add a tag to identify its news and then the channel can show just that tag.
Can I resell Steegle News? I am a Google Cloud Partner
Can I resell Steegle News? I am a Google Cloud Partner
If you are a Google Cloud Partner - we are happy to discuss reselling options for all of our products.
We are Web Developers - Can we resell Steegle News?
We are Web Developers - Can we resell Steegle News?
If you are a bona fide web development agency we offer reseller agreements. Please contact us via the form.
Is Steegle News Free?
Is Steegle News Free?
No it is a chargeable product. The license fee will depend on the number of users and type of organisation.
Does Steegle News Support RSS/Atom Feeds?
Does Steegle News Support RSS/Atom Feeds?
Yes: you can provide the URL to your Atom or RSS feed and Steegle News will periodically get the latest articles from the feed, including any tags added to the feed, and display in teh gadget.
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