Once your story is published, the next step is to promote and socialize it. There are different options for promoting your story depending on the audience that it was shared with when it was published.
Stories shared with everyone
Stories that are shared with everyone can be promoted and socialized through social sharing, embedding, and search engines.
- Social sharing—Stories published to Everyone have social
sharing buttons in the story header that you and others can use to
share the story on social networks and other places online. There
are buttons for Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, and a link button for
a short
link that can be shared anywhere. When you or
others share your published story's link on social media, a summary card is created on the social media site with an image and information
about your story.
Note:
If you have an ArcGIS Online subscription account, you can hide the social sharing buttons in the published story's header through an option in Story settings. To enable social sharing icons for stories published to Everyone in ArcGIS Enterprise accounts, the portal administrator must select Show social media and sharing icons from Organization settings.
- Embedding—Stories published to Everyone can also be embedded in another website or used in a collection. For more information about embedding, see the Embed a story or collection in a website section below.
- Search engines—When stories are published to Everyone, search engines, such as Google and Bing, can be used to find and promote your work. People can also find these stories through an ArcGIS Online search.
Stories published to My Organization
Stories published to My Organization are only available to other members of your ArcGIS organization. You can share the story link with other members of your organization, and they must sign in to see it. Other story map authors in your organization can see your published stories on their My Organization tab. Stories published to groups are available to members of the group on their My Groups tab.
Embed a story or collection in a website
Stories and collections can be embedded in a web page or blog.
Use the following steps to embed a story or collection:
- In the story or collection viewer, click the menu button
. - Click Embed this story to open the Embed this story menu, or click Embed this collection to open the Embed this collection menu.
- Show or hide the story header or the story cover from Embed options.
- Click Copy to copy the embed code, and click Done.
- Paste the embed code into the embed option in your website or blog creation tool, or share the embed code with your website administrator. The web administrator can paste the embed code in the HTML code of the website.
The story or collection is embedded in the web page or blog.
Note:
You may notice some differences in a story when it is embedded. Content may appear in a different layout if the iframe is less than 960 pixels wide.
Note:
While embedding works well in many situations, it is not always the best way to present your content. The reader experience depends on the amount of space available. If a reader visits your website on a small screen, such as a tablet or smartphone, there is less space devoted to the story. Be sure to test your website on different screen sizes to confirm that they provide the desired reader experience. In many cases, it is a good practice to also provide a link to open the story in a new tab to provide the best possible viewing experience for your readers.
Enable autoplay mode
Autoplay can be used to automatically scroll through a story. It can be useful to showcase a story on a large monitor in a lobby, at a conference, or in an exhibit kiosk.
Note:
You should not expect readers to read and absorb your story content in autoplay mode. People read at different speeds. What is a comfortable reading speed for one person may be too slow for another or too fast for someone else. If your readers can interact with the story—in other words, they can access the controls to start and stop autoplay mode—that control allows them to read your story at a comfortable pace. Otherwise, consider autoplay mode as an attention-getting feature rather than a communication feature.
Use the following steps to enable autoplay mode in a story:
- Open a published story.
- Select Turn autoplay on from the header menu.
The story automatically starts scrolling in autoplay mode.
- Move the pointer over the story to see the autoplay controls.
With these controls, you can restart the story from the beginning, play or pause autoplay mode, and change the scroll speed. You can also press the Spacebar to play or pause the story.
Copy links to headings and subheadings
Readers can copy the link to a specific section heading or subheading and jump directly to it in the story. If a story contains a link that takes a reader to a heading or subheading in a different story, that story will open in a new tab and jump to the linked section. If the link points to a heading or subheading in the same story, it will jump to the linked section in the same browser tab. Section heading and subheading links are available in narrative sections and in sidecars.
Use the following steps to copy a link to a section heading or a subheading in a story:
- Open a published story.
- Hover over a section heading or subheading and click Copy section link
.The heading link is copied to your clipboard.
- Use the copied link to hyperlink text or add it to a button in any story.
On clicking the link, it jumps directly to the linked section.