Communication and OutreachPurpose
1.2. Enhance regular engagement by automating outreach, ensuring no milestone, liturgical event, or news is missed.
1.3. Allow clergy and staff to focus more on spiritual leadership than manual email campaigns by employing automated content aggregation, design, scheduling, and delivery tools.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Data update triggers: run automation when new event, bulletin content, or parish message is posted in CMS or collaborative doc.
2.3. Manual approval: option to automate only after designated staff gives content approval signal in a project management app.
Platform Variants
• Feature/Setting: Automate campaign creation via the /campaigns API; configure triggers for recurring send-outs from contact lists.
3.2. Constant Contact
• Feature/Setting: Use v3 API for automating contact segmentation and campaign sends, scheduling via automation workflows.
3.3. SendGrid
• Feature/Setting: Automate transactional and marketing emails using /mail/send endpoint, dynamic templates for newsletters.
3.4. ActiveCampaign
• Feature/Setting: Automate newsletter series creation and distribution using Automations, triggered by contact list updates.
3.5. HubSpot
• Feature/Setting: Automate with Marketing Email API to schedule sends, use Workflows to automate content personalization.
3.6. Campaign Monitor
• Feature/Setting: Integrate via Transactional Email API for automating recurring email sends and template insertion.
3.7. Zoho Campaigns
• Feature/Setting: Automate email campaign creation and distribution using Workflows and Dynamic Content settings.
3.8. Salesforce Marketing Cloud
• Feature/Setting: Use Email Studio’s automation tools to schedule and automate multi-list sends.
3.9. Microsoft Outlook 365
• Feature/Setting: Automate email scheduling and distribution using Power Automate with Recurrence and Email actions.
3.10. Google Workspace (Gmail)
• Feature/Setting: Automate draft creation and scheduled send using Gmail API, with Google Apps Script for content ingest.
3.11. Klaviyo
• Feature/Setting: Automate campaign flows, triggers on subscriber list change, automates email template deployment.
3.12. Moosend
• Feature/Setting: Automate recurring campaigns with Automation Editor, triggers for calendar dates or data updates in RSS.
3.13. AWeber
• Feature/Setting: Automate newsletter scheduling via Campaign Automations, triggers for blog-to-email notifications.
3.14. Brevo (formerly Sendinblue)
• Feature/Setting: Automate emails using Transactional Email API and Marketing Automation scenarios for event-based triggers.
3.15. MailerLite
• Feature/Setting: Automate recurring campaigns from RSS, trigger content import and send with Scheduler.
3.16. Elastic Email
• Feature/Setting: Automate using Campaigns API, with scheduled sending and contact segmentation.
3.17. Postmark
• Feature/Setting: Automate transactional and newsletter sends using the Email API, with pre-defined templates and triggers.
3.18. GetResponse
• Feature/Setting: Automate sending sequences and newsletters using Automation Workflows and Event Triggers.
3.19. Amazon SES
• Feature/Setting: Automate with SendEmail API, Lambda scheduled triggers for compilation and distribution.
3.20. Oracle Eloqua
• Feature/Setting: Automate campaign deployment, trigger-based emails via Program Canvas and API integration.
Benefits
4.2. Reduces manual workloads, automating repetitive content assembly, formatting, and dispatch.
4.3. Automatedly ensures timely delivery and improved consistency of communication.
4.4. Facilitates segment-specific automatable messaging, personalizing parishioner interactions.
4.5. Provides analytics for future automation optimization and community outreach decisions.