Weekly bulletins/newsletter automation to community

Purpose

1. Automate the creation, scheduling, and delivery of weekly bulletins or newsletters to the Parsi temple community, ensuring timely, consistent, and accessible sharing of religious events, announcements, festival details, member updates, community initiatives, and important notices across multiple channels.

2. Automating reduces manual effort, standardizes communication, strengthens community engagement, increases awareness, and provides a structured method for disseminating information, reminders, and outreach content.

Trigger Conditions

1. New event or announcement added to the temple calendar or CMS.

2. On a specific weekday/time (e.g., every Monday at 10:00 AM).

3. Submission of content from authorized personnel via Google Form or internal portal.

4. Update in member list requiring distribution list refresh.

5. Approvals or content marked "ready" by an editor.

Platform Variants

1. Mailchimp

• Feature/Setting: Automate "Campaign Scheduler" via API; sample configuration: POST /campaigns, set "schedule_time" for weekly delivery.
  

2. SendGrid

• Feature/Setting: Automate "Marketing Campaigns" with scheduled_send endpoint; sample: POST /marketing/singlesends with weekly recurrence.
  

3. Twilio SendGrid

• Feature/Setting: Event Webhook to trigger on new content and Email API for batch delivery; configure schedule automator.
  

4. Constant Contact

• Feature/Setting: Create "Email Automation Series" with workflow API; set sendDate property for weekly recurrence.
  

5. ActiveCampaign

• Feature/Setting: Automate "Campaigns" using automations endpoint; configure trigger on tag or time event.
  

6. AWeber

• Feature/Setting: Automatable "Broadcast Campaign" scheduling via Create Broadcast API; set frequency to weekly.
  

7. HubSpot

• Feature/Setting: Use "Workflow Automation" module, trigger with new blog/email content; POST schedule_email API.
  

8. Zoho Campaigns

• Feature/Setting: Automate scheduling with "Autoresponder" and "Campaigns" API; set recurrenceRule to weekly.
  

9. Salesforce Marketing Cloud

• Feature/Setting: Trigger "Journey Builder" automation on newsletter_ready event; configure Send Email Activity for weekly recurrence.
  

10. Google Workspace (Gmail & Sheets)

• Feature/Setting: Automate draft & bulk send via Apps Script trigger (Clock-set) with MailApp.sendEmail().
  

11. Microsoft Outlook/Office 365

• Feature/Setting: Power Automate flow on schedule; use "Send an email (V2)" action with Excel as distribution source.
  

12. Slack

• Feature/Setting: Automate bulletin posting via "Scheduled Messages" API or Workflow Builder; schedule with chat.scheduleMessage.
  

13. WhatsApp Business API

• Feature/Setting: Automate weekly broadcast using /messages endpoint; content inserted from template variable.
  

14. Telegram

• Feature/Setting: Automate bulletin via Bot API sendMessage method; schedule with cron or third-party scheduler.
  

15. Facebook Messenger

• Feature/Setting: Automate bulletin delivery via Send API and use Handover Protocol for routing to groups.
  

16. Discord

• Feature/Setting: Automate weekly bulletin via Bot API POST /channels/{channel.id}/messages, scheduled via CRON.
  

17. Wix Ascend

• Feature/Setting: Automation on new blog post or manual trigger; schedule Group Email via Wix API.
  

18. Shopify

• Feature/Setting: Email automation using "Marketing Campaigns" API for weekly newsletters to segment/tagged customers.
  

19. WordPress + WP Mail SMTP

• Feature/Setting: Automate bulletins via newsletter plugins supporting CRON scheduling and API triggers.
  

20. Brevo (ex-Sendinblue)

• Feature/Setting: Automate "Email Campaigns" via Transactional Email API and schedule with automation workflows.
  

Benefits

1. Automates repetitive tasks for efficiency and error reduction.

2. Automatedly ensures all community members receive consistent, timely updates.

3. Improves engagement by automating personalized communication at scale.

4. Centralizes bulletin management and tracking using automatable dashboards.

5. Reduces dependency on manual reminders with automated scheduling and delivery.

6. Strengthens information flow, enabling automated outreach and feedback collection options.

7. Automating analytics capture for continuous improvement of communication effectiveness.