Customized Content Engagement Workflows
Announcer is a monday.com app that makes it easy to engage with your audience.
Announcer automatically adds new comments on your content to your Monday boards. From there, you can create custom workflows with Monday's automations to make sure that you never miss important comments, and that you get the most out of your posts!
I've noticed that many teams create great content, but don't maximize its potential because they don't handle comments well. In many ways, comments are more important than the post itself. Consider the fact that many people just read the discussions in the comments, and not the post itself.
The comment section on sites like Reddit and HackerNews can make or break a post. Positive comments drive more clickthroughs to your content, while negative responses can quickly drive people away. Comments are also an opportunity to build personal connections with the community.
Unfortunately, it's hard to stay on top of comments. A single post gets submitted to many different sites and subreddits, so it's easy to miss comment notifications. Plus, the content author is almost always different than the account owner that gets the notifications, so comments can get lost even after receiving a notification.
Announcer was built so that teams could stay on top of their comments and get the most out of every post.
- New comments on posts in the Posts board get automatically added to the comments board.
- The Group organization in the Posts board gets mirrored in the comments board.
- Automatically assign and notify authors of new comments.
Monday's Kanban view works out of the box so that you can quickly see what comments still need to be processed.
The threaded comments view lets you visualize comment threads right from Monday.
Works out of the box with integrations such as Slack. Add any Monday automation to suit your workflow.
Reddit is currently the only supported site, but Announcer was intentionally designed to make it easy to add plugins for other sites.
Contributions to support sites like HackerNews, Medium, and Stackoverflow are most welcome!
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Install the Announcer app. This contains the comments tracker integration, the threaded comments view, and a workspace template.
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Create the Announcer boards by clicking on "New from template" and searching for "Social Media Comment Tracker".
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Add the Announcer comment tracker integration by searching for "Announcer" in the Monday integrations center. Point the "posts board" and "comments board" settings to boards created by the template in the previous step.
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That's it! Add a post to the Posts board, and watch as comments are automatically added to the Comments board.
This repo contains the source code for the comment watcher integration and the threaded comments view.
The threaded comments view is a React app that's loaded as an iframe by Monday.
The comment watcher integration polls the posts intermittently. It stores subscriber information in a Mongo database, and caches requests to Monday to avoid rate limits.
