Guidepost submission – Girl Guides of Canada-Guides du Canada

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Guidepost publishes weekly on Tuesdays at 3 p.m. EST

Submission deadline: End of day (in your time zone) the Tuesday before publication. Guidepost is published every Tuesday (publication dates are listed in the form below).

Complete one form for each story. Do not repeat content (see ICYMI option below).

Need more time? email us at guidepost@girlguides.ca to discuss a deadline extension.

There is a Save and Continue Later feature, found at the bottom of the form. If you're not quite ready to submit the form, simply click the link and you can return to your submission at a later date. Note, we do not have access to partial submissions.

Note: Guidepost will not be published on May 13 due to a department-wide retreat scheduled for that date. Please book your Guidepost story for May 6 or May 20. Email questions to guidepost@girlguides.ca.

Which edition are you booking?*

You are submitting past deadline. Only complete this form if you have approval from Guidepost@girlguides.ca to submit a late story.

Department*

Please select your department below
Note: Senior volunteer and Provincial Operations precedes an alphabetical list of departments.

Content Owner*

First Last

Content owner's email address*

Please enter a girlguides.ca or guidescanada.ca email address.

Enter Email Confirm Email

This form only accepts submissions from girlguides.ca or guidescanada.ca email addresses. Please reach out to your PC or POTL if you are not staff or a senior volunteer and want to submit a Guidepost story

Substitute Approver*

New:This field is now required. In your absence, who can approve content on your behalf?

First Last

Substitute approver's email address*

New: This field is now required. Please enter a girlguides.ca or guidescanada.ca email address.

Enter Email Confirm Email

Second approver's email address

This field is optional. Volunteers - please use this field to include a staff email address if you have not done so above. Do not include a non-GGC email address. Only girlguides.ca and guidescanada.ca email addresses please.

Enter Email Confirm Email

How to choose a section

Nationwide stories can be targeted to specific audiences, including select provinces.
Provincial Council targeted stories will appear in the provincial council section below the nationwide content.
In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) stories will appear at the bottom of the newsletter and are for all repeats.

Section*

Nationwide

Provincial council targeted

ICYMI repeat story

The Provincial Operations Team Lead will get a copy of this submission.

Provincial council*

How to select a target

Guidepost recipients: all adult members and Rangers (active members, members in screening, honorary members, Rangers and bridging members).
If you selected Nationwide above, then your story will be targeted to all Guidepost recipients across Canada.
If you selected a provincial council, your story will be targeted to all Guidepost recipients in that council.

You may request a different target group below, including targeting members by branch, multiple provincial council(s), area/admin community district or position. Email guidepost@girlguides.ca with any questions about custom targeting.

Target group

What type of story are you booking?*

Important: Please select the correct story type below. This selection helps us build the newsletter.

Announcement

Event with registration

Event save the date

Volunteer opportunities

Message from a senior volunteer

Do you want to book an ICYMI story for this submission in advance?*

Yes

Select the editions for the ICYMI story*

You do not need to complete the form again for the ICYMI edition(s) you select below.
Note: Guidepost will not be published on May 13 due to a department-wide retreat scheduled for that date. Please book your ICYMI story for the following week. Email questions to guidepost@girlguides.ca.

Read More web pages
Stories longer than 1,000 characters (around 160 words with spaces, or over two paragraphs) may be posted to the website on a dedicated, dated, Read More page. If your content can be edited to fit in the email body, it will not be converted into a Read More page. Consider making your content concise before requesting a Read More. Read more content should not be requested if the information already exists on a web page or registration form. Read More web pages are dated and remain published on the appropriate website for no longer than one year unless removed by request.

Do you need a Read More web page?*

Yes

Headline*

This section has a character limit. Please do not exceed that limit.

Event name and date*

Please follow the format in the cell below

Event registration link or email address*

If your link is not ready yet, please leave a note here telling us when it will be ready.

Save the date event name and date*

Please follow the format in the cell below.

All volunteer opportunities in your department/provincial council will be amalgamated into one story. Please only submit one volunteer opportunities story per edition by combining all open positions into one story.

There is a character limit in this section. Volunteer position descriptions, application information and a full outline of the position(s) should be available to members on a permanent web page, linked from this story. Information provided here should be a teaser only - what positions are available and where to find more information.

Position(s)*

Please enter the available position titles

Where to find information about the position(s)*

Enter links to more information on the website. If you do not have the information listed on a web page, please complete a MarComm request form ASAP to have it added.

Blurb*

This section has a character limit. If your story exceeds the character limit, please select Read More Web Page above or if you selected volunteer opportunities, provide a link to where the information already exists on the website.

Full name and title of the volunteer*

Message*

The message will be posted to the website on a dedicated page with a Read More link in the story.
Note: MarComm will create the headline and blurb that appear in Guidepost. This space is for the message content.

For all repeat stories. The In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) section of Guidepost will appear at the end of the newsletter. This section will included a simple headline and link to the previous edition where the full story appeared. Stories will be targeted as they were in the original version.

Note - this process may change over time. We are still developing the best way to provide repeat stories to our readers and are open to feedback. Please provide feedback to macbetha@girlguides.ca.

Previous Guidepost where ICYMI story appeared*

Please provide the section, date and URL of the archived edition of Guidepost where your full story last appeared using the Guidepost archive page.

Headline of ICYMI story as it appeared in previous Guidepost*

New: We will no longer be sourcing images for Guidepost stories.
Provide an image only if it is directly related to the story, such as an icon, crest or picture of a specific person.

Suitable for 100x100 pixels – square ratio and simple for the small space. For example:

Graphic*

no graphic required

Use the image you have on file

I have a graphic to submit

Describe the image that we have used before*

Help us find it in our files by briefly describing your image below.
Examples: picture of the PC, Tip of the Hat crest, Sisterhood Challenge logo, image of member used in the November 23 edition, etc.

Upload your graphic*

Single file upload
In case of error on submission - re-submit your form without the image and email the image to guidepost@girlguides.ca

Accepted file types: png, jpg, jpeg, gif, Max. file size: 8 MB.

Do you have another file to upload?*

i.e. PDF files or other documents to link from your story

Yes

Additional file upload*

Depending on your browser, a red X will appear next to the file name once it is uploaded. This is not an error message - you can click it to remove the upload if you chose the wrong file in error.
In case of error on submission - re-submit your form without the images/documents and email them to to guidepost@girlguides.ca.

Drop files here or

Accepted file types: jpg, png, gif, pdf, doc, docx, xls, xlsx, Max. file size: 8 MB.

Comments/additional instructions

This form only accepts submissions from girlguides.ca or guidescanada.ca email addresses. There is a non-GGC email address (or blank) listed in the substitute approver email field above. This field is now required.

This form only accepts submissions from girlguides.ca or guidescanada.ca email addresses. There is a non-GGC email address (or blank) listed in the Content Owner's email field above.

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