Company announcement broadcasts

Purpose

1. Distribute company-wide announcements efficiently to all acoustical consultants and staff.

2. Ensure compliance with internal policies by timely delivery of critical updates, policy changes, safety alerts, or HR messages.

3. Facilitate transparent, unified communications across remote and onsite employees.

4. Archive broadcast messages for audit trails and retrieval in case of disputes or follow-up.

Trigger Conditions

1. Manual initiation by HR, management, or internal communications staff.

2. Automated based on new document upload or update related to company policy.

3. Triggered at scheduled intervals for routine announcements.

4. Initiated from integration with event platforms (calendar entries, crisis notifications).

Platform variants

1. Microsoft Teams

• Feature/Setting: Send message to all via Teams API (`/v1.0/teams/{team-id}/channels/{channel-id}/messages`)
  
• Sample: Post to #company-announcements channel, @mentioning all members
  

2. Slack

• Feature/Setting: chat.postMessage API for broadcast to specific channels
  
• Sample: Send update to #general channel, mark as announcement
  

3. Twilio SMS

• Feature/Setting: Messaging API to send mass SMS (`/Messages`)
  
• Sample: Compose and send message to all staff phone numbers
  

4. SendGrid

• Feature/Setting: Mail Send API for email blasts (`/mail/send`)
  
• Sample: Dispatch HTML email to @companygroup list
  

5. Outlook 365

• Feature/Setting: SendMail API for group broadcast
  
• Sample: Use collective HR group email for distribution
  

6. Google Workspace (Gmail)

• Feature/Setting: Gmail API batch send
  
• Sample: Send an announcement email to all user accounts
  

7. Zoom Chat

• Feature/Setting: SendChatMessage endpoint
  
• Sample: Broadcast to company-wide group chat
  

8. Workplace by Meta

• Feature/Setting: Group message post via Graph API
  
• Sample: Publish to “All Employees” group
  

9. Cisco Webex

• Feature/Setting: Messages API for space-wide alerts
  
• Sample: Push info to “Acoustical Team” space
  

10. Signal Messenger

• Feature/Setting: Signal API via bot for group alerts
  
• Sample: Automate message to the “Acoustics Alerts” group
  

11. Telegram

• Feature/Setting: Bot API sendMessage to broadcast channels
  
• Sample: Notify via public or private company Telegram channels
  

12. WhatsApp Business

• Feature/Setting: Cloud API `messages/send` for notifications
  
• Sample: Distribute important updates to WhatsApp contact list
  

13. Mailchimp

• Feature/Setting: Campaigns API to create/send to audience
  
• Sample: Launch a campaign to “Internal Announcements” audience
  

14. Asana

• Feature/Setting: Stories API to comment/tag on central project
  
• Sample: Tag @all in “Internal Updates” project
  

15. Monday.com

• Feature/Setting: Updates API for company board
  
• Sample: Post announcement to the “HR Announcements” board
  

16. Salesforce Chatter

• Feature/Setting: FeedItem (Chatter Post) API
  
• Sample: Post update in “All Staff” group feed
  

17. Yammer

• Feature/Setting: Messages API for all-company group posts
  
• Sample: Broadcast via “All Network” group
  

18. ZoomInfo InboxAI

• Feature/Setting: Send company news via API to monitored inboxes
  
• Sample: Direct push to manager/employee inbox
  

19. Discord

• Feature/Setting: Bot message API in announcement channel
  
• Sample: Auto-post to “Company Updates” server channel
  

20. Zoho Cliq

• Feature/Setting: Send message API to organization-wide channels
  
• Sample: Notify via “Company News” channel
  

Benefits

1. Uniform, immediate reach across all employees including field engineers and remote staff.

2. Reduces risk of missed important updates with multi-channel redundancy.

3. Streamlines compliance by documenting delivery and readership.

4. Saves HR/management manual time in recurring or crisis communication.

5. Optimizes internal operations with regular, automated communications.