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Information on Organization Pages

Basics

Organizations are a free option for companies, collectives, teams, and anyone else that wants to participate in the community as part of a broader content creating group. For some examples, check out the Ops Community Team and Blink Ops' company page.

To create or join an organization, simply head to your settings page.

Benefits

  • Dedicated Landing Page: Your organization will now have a page to display key information, a list of organization members, posts you've shared, and more.
  • Organization Branding on Posts: Your team will have the ability to enable organization branding on new posts, which will show up in the header, sidebar, and footer.
  • Call-to-Action on Posts: Drive readers towards your products and services with a call-to-action unit alongside your posts.
  • Enhanced Analytics: Measure performance by keeping track of view counts, reactions, and CTA clicks on each post via your organization dashboard.
  • Build a Following: As community members follow your organization, they’ll receive notifications of new posts, and your content will show up more prominently in their feed.

To get started, head to your settings page to create or join an organization.

FAQ

1. I publish articles both as an individual, and as part of an organization. Will I need two separate accounts?

Not at all! You can continue to use your account as normal. When you are a member or admin of an organization page, you will see an option to select your target publication page at the top of every new post. Your default value for this menu will always be Personal, but you can change that with just a couple of clicks.

2. How do I find my Organization Dashboard and analytics?

If you're an organization admin you'll be able to find your organization dashboard from your personal dashboard, by selecting your organization name from the drop-down menu on the right-hand side of the page (just like the Post Editor, the default value for this menu is always Personal).

  • As an organization admin, you should notice an additional item on the left-hand side menu of your personal dashboard (even without switching dashboards), titled Analytics for organization-name
  • When viewing the organization dashboard, you'll be able to pull up stats for the individual post by clicking on the three dots to the far right of each post title.

3. I want to cross-post content, do you support Canonical URLs?

Absolutely! You can set the canonical_url in the Front Matter of each post. We also have an RSS Import tool to make importing blog posts a bit easier.

  • Content will be imported into the Dashboard of whichever user set up the RSS import.
  • To publish under a different author's name, first ensure that the intended author is a member of your organization and you have admin access.
  • Edit the post to change the publication target from your personal page to your organization page (see Q1 above).
  • Then, from your organization dashboard (see Q2 above), click on the three dots to the far right of the post title to access another drop-down menu.
  • Change the author name from the drop-down menu to attribute the appropriate author of the article, and click Publish to go live!

4. How can I invite more people to my organization?

You’ll see an invite token at the top of your settings page. To add someone to your organization, simply provide them with that token. They’ll enter it at the top of the same page to join the organization.

Note: if your invited user is already part of another organization, they'll need to use the drop-down menu to select "New Organization" in order to see the input box for entering the code.

5. Can I join multiple organizations?

Yes, you can join as many as you like! You can do so in your settings. For example, you may want to be a part of a work organization and also part of a content creation collective.

6. If I create an organization, do I have to do all the admin work?

Admins of an organization are able to promote other members of their organization into that same Admin role. There can be any number of admins per organization. Feel free to share the load or pass your responsibilities on.

If you are the creator of an organization you'll automatically be made an admin, and any other organization admins you invite will have the same capabilities as you. To be clear, there is no separate organization creator role at the moment.

7. Can you talk about about organization roles?

There are only two organization roles: organization admin & organization member.

Members can publish to the organization as a contributing author but can't access the organization dashboard (which includes analytics and content management functions).

Admins can publish to the organization, edit organization settings from their own Settings Page, and access the organization dashboard (including analytics and content management functions). Note that all organization admins have the same abilities for the moment.

8. How do I delete my organization?

You can delete your organization if you:

  • are the only member in the organization
  • are an admin of the organization
  • the organization has no posts
  • and the organization has no credits

If you'd like to delete your organization, first make sure you're logged into The Ops Community as yourself. Navigate to organization settings, use the drop-down menu to select the correct organization, and scroll down to the bottom of the page where it says Danger Zone. You should now be able to delete your organization.

9. How do I remove myself from an organization?

If you are an organization member, you can remove yourself by navigating to organization settings, use the drop-down menu to select the correct organization, and scroll down to the bottom of the page where it says Danger Zone. You should see an option to "Leave Organization".

If you are an admin for the organization, you will need to have another organization admin remove your admin status, before following the guidance above to remove yourself from the organization.

10. How do I transfer organization ownership to another user?

The best way to transfer an organization to another user is to use the invitation secret code available from organization settings to invite the user as an organization member. Once they've joined, then you can give them admin status for the organization by changing their role. After making the user an admin, they have all of the same privileges as you.

If you wish to leave the organization, just follow the steps listed above in the question "How do I remove myself from an organization?".

11. I have a question and/or comments?

Contact us anytime!