How-to use Discourse for managing a collaborative newsletter?

[commercial (Laurent J.V. Dubois)]

Looking for a new way to engage our community and highlight our best members? Consider using Discourse to create a weekly collaborative newsletter!

Our community is looking to do just that. We have a LinkedIn group and an associated forum, forum.salesty.com and we want to use the newsletter linkedin feature to showcase our top members and keep the community engaged with weekly topics.

We’re looking for advice on how to best use Discourse for this project and what plugins could help. Do you have any experience with this? Share your insights in the comments below!

[Lilly]

Are you looking for something like this?

Discourse Newsletter Integration

Summary Discourse Newsletter Integration adds customizable newsletter subscription services to your instance. Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-newsletter-integration Install Guide How to install plugins in Discourse Features Admins can configure a global newsletter that will be synced with a mailing list in the newsletter provider. Users are able to subscribe to the newsletter from a sit…

[commercial (Laurent J.V. Dubois)]

I’ve seen this plugin, thank you.
My question is more about writing, a solution for the collaborative creation of content. To avoid using an external tool like google doc or PublishWithMe

[Lilly]

We also have this one, but it is document management.

Discourse Docs (Documentation Management)

Summary Discourse Docs provides the ability to find and filter knowledge base topics Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-docs Install Guide How to install plugins in Discourse Features The Discourse Docs plugin is a powerful tool that transforms your Discourse forum into a community-powered knowledge base. It provides a dedicated Docs section where users can create, update, and curate documentation. This plugin fe…

We use discourse docs with shared drafts

Shared Drafts: Allow staff to collaborate on posts before publishing

I’ve recently merged a new feature into Discourse called Shared Drafts. The feature is meant for forums where staff members want to work on drafts together before publishing them. How to Enable Go into your site’s settings and designate a category as shared drafts category: [Screenshot 2023-07-17 at 7.29.25 PM] You can use the staff category that comes with Discourse to do this, or you can use a new category if you prefer. Make sure that the category is restricted to those who want to view a…

[commercial (Laurent J.V. Dubois)]

Thanks Lillian, that’s probably the closest I’ve come to what I need. I’m going to try it out with my team

[Lilly]

You may also want to check out the Page Publishing feature as well, if you haven’t already.

[mattdm (Matthew Miller)]

The Scheduled Post feature might help — have a restricted category for newsletter-writing and draft posts there. When they are ready, schedule them to publish.