From: Mike Tatum <mike.tatum@gmail.com>
To: barriticus@gmail.com

Mike: yes
me: yep, get my questions on data talk?
Mike: there?
Mike: let's go back there so everyone can see how to do this
me: word
Mike: cool?
Mike: still there?
me: wanna do this in data talk, right?
me: yep
me: media group?
Mike: see the field area?
me: k
Mike: ok, see the Create a New Page area, and the Add a new Group
me: done
me: o, k
Mike: Political Base
Mike: of the site
me: of what?
Mike: top right hand corner
Mike: Go to Staff Tools
me: okay
Mike: let's just do it here
me: could see them earlier
Mike: ok
Mike: weird
me: nope
Mike: can you see my messages on Data Talk?
me: soitanly
Mike: you
Mike: if that works for yu
Mike: once you have it on your HD, click the browse button to upload it
Mike: will worry about IP issues later
Mike: i usually do a Google Images search
Mike: now, open a new tab and grab a "Newsweek" image and save it to your hd
me: k
Mike: Then do the drop down to "Media Group"
me: k
Mike: Type in "Newsweek" into the Name field
me: ok
Mike: I want to walk you through an example
Mike: Group Display Name?
me: getting sources squared away, etc.
me: on Biden's resolution
Mike: perfect
Mike: nice
me: also doing a test post
me: yeah, watching debates and drinking
Mike: having fun?
Mike: right on
me: thanks
me: yep
Mike: make sense?
Mike: this also comes in helpful if you right about a non-profit or advocacy group and want to link them, but they are not in the database
me: ok, groovy
Mike: but if you run across one that is not there, now you know how to add a group
Mike: i'll add about 50 blogs, 50 papers, 20 news programs, etc
Mike: just so you know, i'll be spending most of the next two days prepopulating this for you
Mike: you will see Newsweek in the tool
Mike: now go back to your blogging editor
Mike: then, click submit changes
me: ok
Mike: don't worry about the "Main Article" as the users can fill this in
Mike: Quickie description sentence
Mike: in the four fields
Mike: now type in Aliases, Acronyms or obvious misspellings
Mike: for this one, not so much because it's national
Mike: if you relevant
me: gotcha
Mike: Now do the "attach a location"
Mike: if you're in a hurry, don't worry about it as we can add it later
me: ok
Mike: you ONLY need to do this when you know there is a parent company
me: k
Mike: add + close
Mike: Search for "Washington Post Company"
Mike: now click the button "Set a parent group above this one"
Mike: ok
me: got it
Mike: cool
me: but will get on that now
me: yeah, got some negative/positive posts for it, just didn't know how to post them
Mike: biden post looks great
me: oh shit, Gravel is talking
me: so, I'll be on at 6ish tomorrow with morning's stories, definitely have one on debates
Mike: perfect
Mike: site down for a few hours