Social media post scheduling and cross-channel automation

Purpose

1.1. Enables Armenian Apostolic churches to automate scheduling, publishing, and cross-posting of social media content for community engagement, outreach, event promotion, and real-time updates across multiple channels.
1.2. Automates dissemination of spiritual messages, service reminders, event invitations, and charity appeals for broader audience reach.
1.3. Centralizes content planning and automates syndication, reducing manual effort and ensuring consistent messaging.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. New community event created in church calendar system.
2.2. Approval of a new social media post draft by church communications volunteer.
2.3. Automated recurrence on date/time (e.g., weekly liturgy reminders).
2.4. Upload of new photo/video from a church event folder.
2.5. Receipt of pre-defined keyword or hashtag in social listening system.

Platform Variants

3.1. Facebook Pages API
• Feature/Setting: /{page-id}/feed endpoint; automates scheduled posts with images and text.
3.2. Instagram Graph API
• Feature/Setting: /media_publish API; automates photo, carousel, and story postings.
3.3. Twitter API v2
• Feature/Setting: POST /tweets; automates scheduled tweet delivery with hashtags and images.
3.4. YouTube Data API
• Feature/Setting: videos.insert; automates video uploads and scheduled premieres for sermons/events.
3.5. LinkedIn Marketing Developer API
• Feature/Setting: /ugcPosts; automates ministry updates and event sharing with tagging.
3.6. Telegram Bot API
• Feature/Setting: sendMessage/sendPhoto; automates blast messages to parishioner groups.
3.7. WhatsApp Business API
• Feature/Setting: /messages endpoint; automates church announcements to broadcast lists.
3.8. Pinterest API
• Feature/Setting: /pins endpoint; automates scheduling of inspiration board posts or event fliers.
3.9. Slack API
• Feature/Setting: chat.postMessage; automates community engagement through #announcements.
3.10. Discord Webhooks
• Feature/Setting: Webhook POST URL; automates event update pushes to parish channels.
3.11. TikTok for Developers
• Feature/Setting: /post/uploadVideo; automates posting of church event highlight videos.
3.12. Buffer API
• Feature/Setting: /updates/create; automates multi-channel posting for all linked accounts.
3.13. Hootsuite API
• Feature/Setting: /messages endpoint; automates campaign scheduling and analytics feedback.
3.14. Mailchimp API
• Feature/Setting: /campaigns/send; automates distribution of post content to email subscribers.
3.15. WordPress REST API
• Feature/Setting: /wp/v2/posts; automates blog post publishing alongside social posts.
3.16. Medium API
• Feature/Setting: /posts endpoint; automates religious article and sermon publication.
3.17. Reddit API
• Feature/Setting: /api/submit; automates community outreach on relevant subreddits.
3.18. Vimeo API
• Feature/Setting: POST /me/videos; automates scheduled sermon or charity event video uploads.
3.19. Google My Business API
• Feature/Setting: /locations/{locationId}/localPosts; automates posting church news and updates.
3.20. Sprout Social API
• Feature/Setting: /messages/create; automates cross-channel post scheduling and approval workflows.

Benefits

4.1. Automates content distribution, saving time for church volunteers and leaders.
4.2. Ensures omnichannel, automated reach across platforms, enhancing parish and community engagement.
4.3. Automates content approval, compliance, and consistency with central scheduling.
4.4. Allows parish to automate event awareness, maximizing attendance and outreach.
4.5. Delivers automated analytics for engagement optimization and strategy refinement.