Start a Medium blog publication for DoIT

[taitcha]

This blog can start off as the blog for the 311 alpha site, and then transition to a general Chicago civic design/DoIT blog.

• [x] Clean up login access

What do we need to do to ensure a positive cutover from the existing wordpress CMS to medium?

Immediate changes to content

• [x] Kill videos below the livestream
• [ ] Kill digital hub section if possible (stretch goal, not necessarily needed)
• [ ] We need to host the list of social media accounts on coc.org directly.

Mayor's Office & Web team Considerations

• [ ] The list of SM accounts needs a page, url, and links from the footer.
• [ ] Content managers should review the list of accounts to make sure their individual pages are updated.
• [ ] Grace will build a new page in the press room section of the Mayor's Office to host the livestream, the italic text below the livestream, and the twitter feed.
• [ ] Grace will then update her bit.ly link to point to the new coc.org/livestream page.

DoIT considerations

• [ ] http://dev.cityofchicago.org/blog/ is a Jekyll site hosted on Github. Content is tagged, but the CMS does not display it due to technical limitations.
• [ ] http://data.cityofchicago.org/ shows a list of titles and links at the bottom of the page that pulls data through an ETL job
• [ ] The dev site autopublishes to the CDO's twitter account, possibly through an ifttt account nobody knows who owns.
• [ ] Data & dev posts are tagged with datasets, bug, and other things, so we'd either need to change those tags or figure out a way for them to actually be surfaced.
• [x] Use this blog to power the 311 alpha site's blog feature as well

to do's

• [x] research how medium handles content syndication

[taitcha]

Login Admin status

[jdkunesh]

A last comment from Tom Schenk: This tweet reminded me that MO uses the digital Chicago website to embed the livestream of his events. Just a heads up as the future of the site evolves.

https://twitter.com/ChicagosMayor/status/1006304937721126912?s=19

[jdkunesh]

This is the list of social media accounts. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BqUmJqpyLO0jVe72CYd9EMgG8bENjH9X6jze_N1mYMI/edit?usp=sharing

[dekdekdek]

Any news on when the Medium blog will go live?

[jdkunesh]

@dekdekdek when the work above has been completed.

[taitcha]

Here's a post on how to quickly export a jekyll blog to Medium (this one's for the dev.cityofchicago.org blog): https://mythoughts.io/migrating-from-jekyll-to-medium-98f83bad1619

[taitcha]

And migrating a wordpress site to Medium (this one's for the current digital.cityofchicago.org blog): https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/218445047-Import-Wordpress-archive

[taitcha]

Interesting article on embedding Medium posts on an external site (for embedding posts on data.cityofchicago.org): https://medium.jasonmdesign.com/display-medium-articles-on-your-site-d772b3b05779

Should be able to filter out to just Open Data posts, as well.

[jdkunesh]

@taitcha I killed the videos. yay!

[jdkunesh]

We could migrate these pages as well:

https://digital.cityofchicago.org/index.php/open-data-applications/

[jdkunesh]

https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/doit.html

[tomschenkjr]

That applications page is super out-of-date. May be a good time to kill it.

On Tue, Aug 21, 2018, 1:58 PM Jason Kunesh notifications@github.com wrote:

We could migrate these pages as well:

https://digital.cityofchicago.org/index.php/open-data-applications/

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[jdkunesh]

The blog is available at: https://medium.com/chicago-digital-services This project will now be tracked internally, and is focused on content migration only.