Once your story is published, the next step is to promote and socialize it. There are different options for promoting your story depending on the audience that it was shared with when it was published.
Stories shared with everyone
For stories that are shared with everyone, stories can be promoted and socialized through social sharing, embedding, and search engines.
- Social Sharing—Stories published to Everyone have social
sharing buttons in the story header that you and others can use to
share the story on social networks and other places online. There
are buttons for Facebook and Twitter and a link button for
a short
link that can be shared anywhere. When you or
others share your published story's link on social media, a summary card is created in the social media site with an image and information
about your story.
Note:
If you have a subscription account on ArcGIS Online, you can hide the social sharing icons in the published story's header through an option in Story settings.
- Embedding Stories—Stories published to Everyone can also be embedded in another website or used in a collection. To embed a story in a website, construct an iframe with the story's URL as the HTML <iframe> src attribute.
- Search Engines—When stories are published to Everyone, search engines such as Google and Bing can be used to find and promote your work. People will also be able to find these stories through an ArcGIS Online search.
Stories published to My Organization
Stories published to My Organization are only available to other members of your ArcGIS organization. You can share the story link with other members of your organization, and they will be required to sign in to see it. Other story map authors in your organization can see your published stories on their Shared with Me tab.
Autoplay
Autoplay can be used to automatically scroll through any story. It can be a useful way to showcase a story on a large display monitor in a lobby, at a conference, or in an exhibit kiosk.
Note:
In most cases, it's not recommended to expect observers to read and absorb your story content in autoplay mode. People read at different speeds. What is a comfortable reading speed for one person may be too slow for another yet too fast for someone else. If your observers are able to interact with the story—that is, they can access the controls to start and stop autoplay—that control gives them the ability to read through your story comfortably. Otherwise, consider autoplay as an attention-getting feature rather than a communication feature.
Use the following steps to autoplay a story:
- Open a published story.
- Select Turn autoplay on from the header menu.
The story automatically starts scrolling in autoplay mode.
- Move the pointer over the story to show the autoplay controls.
With these controls, you can restart the story from the beginning, play or pause autoplay, and change the scroll speed. The spacebar can also be used to play or pause the story.