newsletter integration

[Sarah Allen]

I've set up a MailChimp account for Bridge Foundry and was going to experiment with adding segments or groups or whatever for each bridge (exploring what it would take to have a single newsletter, customized for each Bridge).  

Is something already written up about how MailChimp integration would work?  if it would be helpful for me to mock something up and write down some of how I think it would work, I can do that... just let me know if that should be via a github issue or wiki page or...?

I realized I kind of hijacked the discussion on issue #479, which is about giving access to a list of people who subscribe to a newsletter, but I didn't find info on how people actually subscribe to the newsletter, and assume that is still TBD.

Thanks!

Sarah

[Sarah Allen]

Looking at this more, I see that I can sign up for a newsletter on the user edit page. 

 I will take a look at the code to understand the implementation better before asking more questions.

Sarah

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[Lillie Chilen]

Hi Sarah!

That feature is definitely half-done — people can opt in to those lists in the app, but we haven't asked people to opt-in yet, so not a ton of people have so far (36 people have opted in to RailsBridge announcements). We also haven't made it possible yet to opt in to receiving emails from Bridge Foundry itself. 

I've updated that issue with a checklist of all the things we need to do before we can send people emails from MailChimp: https://github.com/railsbridge/bridge_troll/issues/479

In terms of *integrating* with MailChimp, I think we'd probably want to stick with exporting CSVs from Bridge Troll and uploading them to our MailChimp account. I don't think we'd want to start with anything more complicated than that. Were you thinking of something more complex? I think a wiki page describing the process for Bridge leaders would make sense; we could link to it from the place you download the list (the org show page).

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[Sarah Allen]

I'd like to define a process (or at least think about a future design) where we can manage a newsletter without manually importing and resolving preferences every time a newsletter is published.  

I've written up a doc sketching out design trade-offs with two approaches: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PYORxYkxeNGXHASQHP0rPB26C7tUKSx3WMFrjYdVDB8/edit#

and experimented with the MailChimp API here (a totally not ready for merging PR that only implements reading from the API, but I think adding writing would be straightforward):

https://github.com/railsbridge/bridge_troll/pull/517

Interested in what folks think about this alternate approach.

Sarah

On Sunday, December 18, 2016 at 6:19:58 PM UTC-8, Lillie Chilen wrote:

Hi Sarah!

That feature is definitely half-done — people can opt in to those lists in the app, but we haven't asked people to opt-in yet, so not a ton of people have so far (36 people have opted in to RailsBridge announcements). We also haven't made it possible yet to opt in to receiving emails from Bridge Foundry itself. 

I've updated that issue with a checklist of all the things we need to do before we can send people emails from MailChimp: https://github.com/railsbridge/bridge_troll/issues/479

In terms of *integrating* with MailChimp, I think we'd probably want to stick with exporting CSVs from Bridge Troll and uploading them to our MailChimp account. I don't think we'd want to start with anything more complicated than that. Were you thinking of something more complex? I think a wiki page describing the process for Bridge leaders would make sense; we could link to it from the place you download the list (the org show page).

On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 6:51 AM, Sarah Allen <sa...@ultrasaurus.com> wrote:

Looking at this more, I see that I can sign up for a newsletter on the user edit page. 

 I will take a look at the code to understand the implementation better before asking more questions.

Sarah

On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Sarah Allen <sa...@ultrasaurus.com> wrote:

I've set up a MailChimp account for Bridge Foundry and was going to experiment with adding segments or groups or whatever for each bridge (exploring what it would take to have a single newsletter, customized for each Bridge).  

Is something already written up about how MailChimp integration would work?  if it would be helpful for me to mock something up and write down some of how I think it would work, I can do that... just let me know if that should be via a github issue or wiki page or...?

I realized I kind of hijacked the discussion on issue #479, which is about giving access to a list of people who subscribe to a newsletter, but I didn't find info on how people actually subscribe to the newsletter, and assume that is still TBD.

Thanks!

Sarah

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[Lillie Chilen]

My one concern with starting with an integration is that we don't know much the newsletter project is going to take off. I can definitely imagine a world where we send out a few awesome newsletters, but then things get busy and other projects get prioritized, and we end up having to support an integration that isn't necessary.

For me, that's the main selling point of a manual export / import process — let's prove that we're up for all the other work of sending a regular email newsletter (content generation, editing, etc.), then automate and make things more flexible.

I think your proposed setup is definitely better than manual export/import, but given limited resources and the ongoing maintenance/onboarding costs of external integrations, I think waiting could be wise.

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