1. Department of Information Technology e-Michigan Web Development

2. 1 www.michigan.gov Guidelines for MI NewsWire content Method called Category to Category association used for press release content Use the Press Release template Press Release category must be used for the primary category for agency site Use default font, Arial, 10 point Content is left justified, single spaced with no paragraph indentation. Use one line between paragraphs Do not use subhead in the body First item in body should ALWAYS be the date, in bold No need to use FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE No need for any type of end demarcation (### or -30-) Attachments should be converted to PDFs and included as associated assets Do not use a dateline, unless it is somewhere other than Lansing

3. Department of Information Technology e-Michigan Web Development 2 www.michigan.gov How does MI NewsWire work? How to get a press release piece of content to appear on the MI NewsWire web site. First, you need to have a Press Release category with a cat-to-cat association to the Mi NewsWire site.  A cat-to-cat association is when a category is associated to a another category like in Figure 1. Figure 1 (Associated categories to the DNR-FORMS_PUBS_MAPS-PRESS_RELEASES.)

4. Department of Information Technology e-Michigan Web Development 3 www.michigan.gov Press Release Content Your Press Release piece of content must be added to the Press Release category as its Primary Category. Figure 2 (Associated Categories of an existing piece of content.)

5. Department of Information Technology e-Michigan Web Development 4 www.michigan.gov Problems You May Encounter If you create a press release and add it to a category that does not have a cat-to-cat association to MI NewsWire, the content will not show on MI NewsWire site. If you associate a piece of content to a Press Release category that is associated to MI NewsWire after it has already been added to the system, it will not appear on MI NewWire site. Site Administrators can contact their assigned CMA Expert to have content manually added to the MI NewsWire site.

6. Department of Information Technology e-Michigan Web Development 5 www.michigan.gov Questions http://www.michigan.gov/minewswire/