Scheduling and publishing event calendars to website/social media

Purpose

1. Automate scheduling, updating, and publishing Go club events, tournaments, and meetings online.

2. Centralizes event management and automates distribution to website and social platforms.

3. Ensures real-time visibility and automated notifications for members and the public.

4. Standardizes processes, reduces manual errors, and ensures event calendar consistency.

5. Provides automated reminders and updates as event details change or registration opens/closes.

Trigger Conditions

1. New event added or modified in internal Go club calendar (e.g., Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar).

2. Tournament results are finalized and ready for publishing.

3. Scheduled timepoints for event announcement or reminders (e.g., 7 days before event).

4. Manual admin input via a submission form or club portal triggers automated workflow.

5. External event sync (e.g., from affiliate Go associations, leagues).

Platform variants

1. Google Calendar

• Function: Calendar API — automate creation/editing of events, publish with automated triggers, retrieve for website embedding.
  

2. Microsoft Outlook Calendar

• Function: Graph API — automate calendar item sync for club members, automate sending invites.
  

3. Facebook Pages

• Feature: Page Publishing API — automate event creation and posting to Go club Facebook page.
  

4. Twitter (X)

• Feature: Tweets API — automate tweet with event date, time, and registration links.
  

5. Instagram

• Feature: Content Publishing API — automate carousel post with event banners/schedules.
  

6. LinkedIn

• Feature: Page Posts API — automate announcement posts to Go club and group pages.
  

7. WordPress

• Plugin/API: REST API — automate creation of event posts and update event calendar widgets.
  

8. Eventbrite

• API: Event Management — automate event creation and ticket links for tournaments via API.
  

9. Meetup

• API: Events — automate creating new Go night or tournament events to group calendar.
  

10. Slack

• Feature: Incoming Webhooks — automate event reminders/alerts to #events channel.
  

11. Discord

• Feature: Bots/Webhooks — automate event notifications to club server announcement channels.
  

12. Trello

• Feature: Card Creation API — automate board cards for each event, assign roles/tasks.
  

13. Notion

• Feature: Databases API — automate new row creation for each scheduled event.
  

14. Google Sheets

• Feature: Sheets API — automate updating shared event spreadsheet for club management.
  

15. Zapier

• Feature: Automator Triggers — automate multi-platform publishing from central calendar feed.
  

16. Mailchimp

• API: Campaigns — automate event emails/newsletters scheduling and announcement.
  

17. Microsoft Teams

• Feature: Channel Posts — automate event messages in club Teams workspace.
  

18. Telegram

• Feature: Bot API — automate posting of calendar events into member group chat.
  

19. YouTube

• Feature: Live Stream API — automate scheduled live event announcements.
  

20. Tumblr

• Feature: Blog Posting API — automate event blog post for Go club followers.
  

21. Wix

• Feature: Event API — automate updating embedded calendar and event pages.
  

22. Squarespace

• Feature: Events Block/JSON API — automate insertion of new events and changes to site’s event page.
  

Benefits

1. Automates repetitive calendar publishing and event updating for Go clubs.

2. Minimizes manual data entry, reducing errors and duplication through automation.

3. Ensures automated real-time dissemination across all social channels and the Go club website.

4. Streamlines the process for recurring tournaments/events with consistent, automated workflows.

5. Enhances audience reach and engagement through automatable, scheduled updates and reminders.

6. Supports scalable, multi-channel event automation―one input updates all platforms.

7. Automated archiving and analytics for future event planning and optimization.