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24dash.com is the best read public sector and housing news site in the UK and we want to make the service even better and put you in control of how your news is delivered and received.

We're offering the ability for you and your organisation to post your own news stories and press releases directly to our homepage.

Through our various subscription levels we're giving you a platform to voice your organisation's latest goals or achievments plus the ability to post vacancies directly to our Job Board.

We're offering a 6 MONTH FREE TRIAL for both Standard and Pro services.

*Offer only available to charity/not for profit, housing, local authorities and public sector organisations.

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"This is just what we've been waiting for - the new 24dash website provides us with the perfect solution to getting our news directly to the people who matter to us. It's a great targeted news portal for the public sector and beyond - and we've already used the site to post our recent vacancies. We'll definitely be spreading the word. Brilliant."

Ben Levinson, Marketing Officer, Groundwork London

"If 24dash could help housing professionals become generators of content for their site and others it would be another step towards the interactions needed between citizen-customers and those providing public services."

David Wilcox, Designing for Civil Society, www.designingforcivilsociety.org

How does it work?

24dashboard

We give you the tools necessary to upload content to our news server for publication directly to 24dash.com.

These tools are all available from your organisation's '24dashboard'.

By using these simple forms you can post your content to the 24dash.com homepage where it can be viewed and picked up by search engines maximising audience and community reach.

Where is it displayed?

It will run in ascending date/time order alongside every other news story posted to 24dash.com within our 'breaking news' section and carry with it your logo/brand mark.

You will have the ability to categorise your content to match 24dash.com's main news categories i.e. Housing, Communities, Environment etc. and have your content show up within these category homepages also.

All your content will be fully archived and searchable within our news database. Your organisation will have its own homepage where all your content and jobs can be viewed in ascending order. Details for your organisation as well as your logo/brand mark are also displayed here.

RSS

Your content will also now be present within the main 24dash.com RSS feeds for the main homepage news as well as individual category RSS feeds.

Your organisations homepage also has its own RSS feed which you can make available to the public or use within your own site as, for example, a 'Latest News' feed.

Jobs

Jobs can be added through your organisation's 24dashboard and appear in ascending date/time order in the right side panel throughout the site. A full listing of jobs can be viewed in our 'jobs' section which also has a full search option.

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Subscribing your organisation

Before you can register an organisation with 24dash.com you MUST hold a basic free membership account with us.

NB: If you are the first to register your organisation you will become the Administrator for that organisation.

Existing members

If you are already an existing member of 24dash.com you can easily sign up your organisation through your '24dashboard'.

  1. Sign into your '24dashboard'
  2. Click 'Register an Organisation'
  3. Select the subscription level you require at the foot of the table
  4. Complete the form and submit

At this stage, after the completed form is submitted to us, we must verify that you are affiliated with your organisation. One of our team will contact you via telephone to confirm your subscription and collect your invoicing details.

Once we've verified your details we will activate your account. Your organisation will then be listed under the organisations tab in your '24dashboard'.

New members

If you are not already a member of 24dash.com and want to register your organisation follow the steps below.

  1. Click the 'Sign Up' tab in the main navigation menu
  2. Select either the 'Standard' or 'Pro' account option at the foot of the table
    (if you wish you can choose to sign up for the 'free' account option and register your organisation via your '24dashboard' at a later date)
  3. Complete the first form with your personal data and click submit
  4. Complete the second form with your organisation's data and click submit
  5. Check your inbox for our verification email and click the link within to activate your individual account.

At this stage, after the completed form is submitted to us, we must verify that you are affiliated with your organisation. One of our team will contact you via telephone to confirm your subscription and collect your invoicing details.

Once we've verified your details we will active your account. Your organisation will then be listed under the organisations tab in your '24dashboard'.

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Publishing content

Once you've registered and had your organisation verified you can begin publishing content to 24dash.com straight away.

  1. Click on the 'Contribute' tab within your organisations dashboard
  2. In the sub-navigation below the now selected 'Contribute' tab click the 'Add New Content' link
  3. Fill the 'Title' field with the title of your content. DO NOT USE UPPERCASE
  4. Fill the 'Post Content' field with the body of your content
  5. Select a category which best represents your content (max of 3)
  6. Provide as accurately as possible the region from the drop down list
  7. Add up to 5 Keywords, seperated by a comma, for your content
  8. Add copyright information if applicable
  9. Click the 'Publish' button to submit

Once you've registered and had your organisation verified you can begin publishing content to 24dash.com straight away.

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Posting Jobs

Posting to our 24dash.com Job Board is as easy as posting a news article and again can all be done through your organisations 24dashboard.

  1. Click on the 'Jobs' tab within your organisation's dashboard
  2. In the sub-navigation below the now selected 'Jobs' tab click the 'Add New Vacancy' link
  3. Fill the 'Title' field with the job title. DO NOT USE UPPERCASE
  4. Fill the 'Reference' field with a unique reference key e.g. MyOrg-001
  5. Provide as accurately as possible the region from the drop down list
  6. Fill in the 'Description' field with the job description
  7. Check the boxes most relevent to the type of field of the job in the 'Category' section
  8. The 'State' drop down menu can be changed to show whether the job is shown online or offline
  9. The 'Job Type' can be altered to show whether the vacancy is a 'Permanent' or 'Contract' position
  10. The 'Advert Life' can be set to show the duration of the advert life
  11. The 'Salary & Dates' section can be filled in with a figure or N/A for the salary and an estimated start date (the 'End Date' and 'Duration' can be left blank if the position is full time
  12. The 'Contact Details' section can be filled in with your details for perspective job seekers to contact or apply for the position

If you have any questions or need advice please feel free to send an email to our support team.

We are always interested in new and innovative ways to work with partners. If you have an inventive idea for getting your message across, whatever the medium, we would like to hear from you. Please feel free to contact us.

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