Integration of announcements across website, email, and social media

**Purpose**

1.1. Automating the distribution of faculty-wide chemistry announcements across website, email lists, and social media to ensure timely and consistent communication to students, staff, and external partners.
1.2. Unifies outreach by automating post creation, scheduling, and multi-platform dissemination, reducing manual errors and improving information accessibility.
1.3. Automates compliance through standardized message templates for event notices, new publications, safety alerts, and policy updates across all relevant mediums.

**Trigger Conditions**

2.1. Announcement submission via faculty portal or department admin form.
2.2. Scheduled chemical symposiums or event reminders requiring automated notification.
2.3. Change in safety protocols or academic calendar triggers automated message cascade.
2.4. Urgent response automation for emergency communications.
2.5. External API calls from event management or learning management systems.

**Platform Variants**

3.1. **WordPress**
- Feature: REST API / XML-RPC
- Setting: Automate new post creation and updates on faculty site.
- Sample: Configure POST request to `/wp-json/wp/v2/posts` with announcement content.

3.2. **Drupal**
- Feature: Services/RESTful API
- Setting: Automates node creation for chemistry news posts.
- Sample: POST announcement JSON to `/entity/node?_format=hal_json`.

3.3. **Gmail API**
- Feature: Send/Automate templated emails
- Setting: Automating announcements to department mailing lists.
- Sample: Configure message endpoint for mail.send with prefilled subject and body.

3.4. **Outlook 365 API**
- Feature: Automated Mail & Calendar Integration
- Setting: Automates broadcasting via faculty exchange groups.
- Sample: Use `/me/sendMail` endpoint for automating messages.

3.5. **Mailchimp**
- Feature: Campaign Creation API
- Setting: Automating announcement newsletter campaigns.
- Sample: POST to `/campaigns` with announcement segment.

3.6. **Slack**
- Feature: Webhooks/Chat.PostMessage API
- Setting: Automates announcements in department-wide channels.
- Sample: Trigger webhook POST with formatted text and attachments.

3.7. **Microsoft Teams**
- Feature: Incoming Webhook
- Setting: Automates announcement posts to chemistry faculty channels.
- Sample: Configure message cards via webhook URL trigger.

3.8. **Facebook Pages API**
- Feature: Automated Page Post
- Setting: Automates posting science news to official faculty social pages.
- Sample: POST text/photo to `/page-id/feed`.

3.9. **Twitter/X API**
- Feature: Status Update Endpoint
- Setting: Automates tweet/post of updates using verified faculty handle.
- Sample: POST status message to `/statuses/update.json`.

3.10. **LinkedIn Organization API**
- Feature: Share Content
- Setting: Automates professional event or publication announcements.
- Sample: POST structured content to `/organizationalEntityShare`.

3.11. **Telegram Bots**
- Feature: SendMessage API
- Setting: Automates push to student/department discussion groups.
- Sample: POST message body to `/bot/sendMessage`.

3.12. **Discord Webhooks**
- Feature: Webhook Automation
- Setting: Automates posting of key alerts in chemistry-focused servers.
- Sample: Configure webhook URL and push announcement data.

3.13. **Instagram Graph API**
- Feature: Media Automation
- Setting: Automates photo/video post of events, labs, and news.
- Sample: Automate photo upload to `/user-id/media`.

3.14. **Yammer API**
- Feature: Messages Endpoint
- Setting: Automates broadcast to faculty Yammer networks.
- Sample: POST to `/messages.json` with thread and group IDs.

3.15. **Google Calendar API**
- Feature: Event Creation
- Setting: Automates event announcements with RSVP tracking.
- Sample: POST event details to `/calendars/calendarId/events`.

3.16. **Hootsuite**
- Feature: Bulk Composer API
- Setting: Automator for multi-channel social post scheduling.
- Sample: Add announcement as scheduled post for all connected accounts.

3.17. **Buffer**
- Feature: Update API
- Setting: Automates queuing and posting to all managed social profiles.
- Sample: POST update to `/updates/create`.

3.18. **Zapier Webhooks**
- Feature: Multi-platform Trigger/Action
- Setting: Triggers any workflow based on specific faculty form submission.
- Sample: Link webhook to announcement trigger field.

3.19. **Zoho CRM**
- Feature: Automation Rules/Workflow API
- Setting: Automates outreach to alumni/industry contacts for updates.
- Sample: POST to workflow endpoint with announcement details.

3.20. **RSS Feed Automation**
- Feature: Automated Feed Update
- Setting: Powers subscriptions and syndication of announcements.
- Sample: Generate and update .xml feed on trigger.

3.21. **Trello API**
- Feature: Card Creation Automation
- Setting: Automates creating announcement tasks for communications staff.
- Sample: POST card to appropriate board on each new announcement.

3.22. **Notion API**
- Feature: Database Row Automation
- Setting: Automate tracking of all sent communications as database entries.
- Sample: Add row via `/v1/pages` with announcement meta-data.

**Benefits**

4.1. Automated, consistent, and timely communication improves faculty engagement and information dissemination.
4.2. Centralizes and standardizes announcement workflows, reducing manual repetitive work for staff.
4.3. Ensures rapid, automatedly triggered alerts for critical news and emergent situations.
4.4. Automates compliance with institutional guidelines for messaging and record-keeping.
4.5. Increases reach and impact of academic events, achievements, and departmental news.
4.6. Frees up faculty and administrative time for higher-value tasks by automating multi-platform publishing.
4.7. Enables detailed tracking and auditing of all automated communications.