Stories is a concept originating from the app that almost everyone in today's world uses - Instagram. Learn how to create an engaging and easy-to-use method of communicating with your attendees - either by providing them with the event-related and/or sponsored content.
How to Set Up Stories
Navigate to the Admin Panel (manager.brella.io)
Click on the Storylines tab within 'Communications' in the left menu, and click on the 'Create storyline' button.
Add a title and the image for your storyline (recommended parameters for the image are a ratio of 1:1 (200x200px), JPEG and PNG formats are preferred).
You can also decide whether this storyline should be visible to all groups or only specific ones. You can also make a story sponsored, which will make anyone who clicks on the "story publisher" go to the booth (see below).
You can select the states.
Active- The stories will be active when created.
Schedule - Can schedule the time it will be active in the app.
Hidden- Can hide the story if it's irrelevant.
Once done, you can create stories within the storyline.
You can create either text or image-based stories. You can add a link to every story and name the hyperlink button accordingly. Pressing the button will open the in-app browser for the app users.
You can name any story, but note that only the text-based stories will show the title of the story on the attendees' apps. Text-based stories also allow the addition of a body of text with max 600 characters.
For the image-based stories, we can add the title, but that title will only be visible on the Brella Admin Panel, as the title is not necessary on the apps for the image-based stories. You can then upload an image (the recommended ratio is 9:17 (1080x2040px) with JPEG and PNG as preferred formats).
Bulk Upload Stories
You can now upload multiple images at once to create stories.
How to bulk upload
Select the created Storyline from the event.
Drag and drop images onto the Stories page – a dashed overlay appears while dragging.
Images are uploaded one by one.
The Bulk Stories Progress Modal shows:
Stepped progress barThumbnail list for each file
Status icons: pending, uploading, success, failed
The images will be uploaded as "Hidden."
Enable the story by navigating to "Edit."
Note that the first storyline on your apps is always the announcements. Read more about the announcements: click here.
Note that stories are only a mobile app feature.
Now that you have successfully created stories, you can see how they appear to attendees by viewing the event through your mobile app. Feel free to create as many stories as you need to include all the details in one place for the event attendees.
How result looks
Best practices for creating stories
Let's look at some best practices of how you can be creative with your stories and for your audience to get the most out of them.