Broadcast

Four ways to send something out: post to the feed, publish press, send a newsletter, or email a whole membership.

Where this lives: Manage > Broadcast

What this is

Broadcast is for sending something to many people at once, rather than to one conversation.

It offers four channels and a link to a fifth surface.

What you see

The title reads Broadcast. Above it sits the word Manage, and a line asking what you want to send out today.

A card headed Broadcast as stays above everything else. It shows a pill reading Myself, and one pill for each group you steward. Whichever you pick is who the rest of the page acts as. If you steward no groups, the card says the group channels are closed and that you can still post to the feed as yourself.

Below it the page is panels you can rearrange, not tabs.

Planner is the short version of the Feed Planner: what is going out next, what is overdue, and how many of your destinations are connected. It links through to the planner itself, which is where you schedule.

Compose a post publishes to the feed, as whoever the card above names.

Newsletters composes and sends an email newsletter to a group's members, and lists the drafts you have not sent and what you have already sent, with how many people it reached.

Press holds the articles and media pulled in from the group's outside accounts, and the press kit.

Email blast sends a one-off email to every member of the group.

Down the side, Recent designs shows the last few designs you saved in the canvas, each with a control reading Post it.

The last four appear only when you steward a group. If you steward none they are not there at all, rather than sitting empty.

What you can do here

• Set whether you are sending as yourself or as a group. See Choose who you send as.
• Publish to the feed. See Post to the feed.
• Write to your members' inboxes. See Send a newsletter.
• Send a one-off email to everybody. See Send an email blast.

How to

Choose who you send as

1. Open Broadcast under Manage.
2. Read the card headed Broadcast as.
3. Press Myself, or press the pill for the group you want.
4. The channels below update to what that choice allows.

Post to the feed

1. Open Broadcast under Manage.
2. Find the Compose a post panel.
3. Choose who you are sending as.
4. Write the post and publish it.

Posting is always open, with or without a group, because a post can go out as you.

Send a newsletter

1. Open Broadcast under Manage.
2. Press the pill for the group.
3. Find the Newsletters panel.
4. Compose the newsletter and send it.

Send an email blast

1. Open Broadcast under Manage.
2. Press the pill for the group.
3. Find the Email blast panel.
4. Compose the email and send it.

What changes for you

The only groups offered are the ones you created or administer.

Press, Newsletters and Email blast all need a group chosen. Until you choose one, the composer is replaced by a line telling you to choose a group to broadcast from.

Newsletters and Email blast also need you to be an admin of that group. Without that, the composer is replaced by a line saying only group admins can send to the whole membership.

The Press panel shows the group's documents filed under press, news or media, and says so when a group has none.

Where this connects

• Messages is for a conversation rather than a send-out.
• A group's page carries the press section the press channel fills.
• Canvas is the design composer the Recent designs panel draws from.