The power of integration

A couple of weeks ago I took a look at our district's twitter feed and it said that "school would be closed today". That was a post put up 2 weeks before because of a snow day. Our facebook page had the same news. If I was still in school I would have totally shown that to my parents to stay home.

It got me thinking about what would be the best information to post to our social network sites in a timely fashion. I ended up with events because we have stuff going on across the district all the time, which could provide a steady stream of status updates and tweets.

The problem is: "how do you get this stuff posted without handing out login credentials to everyone?"

So this is what I came up with to solve the problem:
Google Form
To
Google Spreadsheet
To
Google Calendar
Via
Google Script
To
Gmail
Via
Google Calendar Reminders
To
Facebook
Via
Gmail Filters and Forwarding
To
Twitter
Via
Facebook

It actually works and now we just have to provide access to a Google form and in a couple of seconds and event can be on a district calendar and 8 hours before that event a reminder goes out on Twitter and Facebook.





I think this type of integration illustrates the power of getting products to work together. It took more time to make the tutorial than to actually piece it together the first time.

Let me know what you think.

Comments

  1. Nice! Now, just re-invent eduphoria! facilities&events registration :-)

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  2. IMPRESSIVE - I've been using http://ifttt.com/ the past few days that works well for the layman.

    ~Herschell

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  3. Impressive! I've been using http://ifttt.com/ the past few days which takes all that info and reroutes it with tasks and actions.

    :)

    ~Herschell

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  4. So impressive article, i enjoyed to read it..

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