Collaborating on newsletters, personal profiles

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Hello, my organization is considering Ghost for community membership and newsletters among other things. It appears robust for our purposes. The self-hosted option with unlimited staff would be ideal.

My main question is about the newsletter publication process. Hypothetically, we can have a combination of roles and permissions from our association (internal) and other individuals, organizations, and local city government (external). An Author and/or Editor can prepare and publish a public newsletter selectively from all the contributor’s content.

Am I understanding this particular configuration correctly?

Additionally, Authors can individually post and have personal profiles? Can contributors also do the same with the approval of an Author/Editor?

Thanks in advance.

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The staff permissions are documented here: What permissions do staff users have?

An Author and/or Editor can prepare and publish a public newsletter selectively from all the contributor’s content.

Not 100% sure what you mean here.

Authors/Editors/Admins can publish their own posts. Admins and Editors can manage other folks’ posts. Contributors can draft a post, but need an Admin or Editor to publish them.

Specifically not sure what you mean by “selectively from all the contributor’s content”. The posting function is for a whole post. Admin/Editor can choose which posts are published.

If you mean the Admin/Editor is going to take a little from post 1, a little from post 2… they can, but there’s no special feature. Just copy and paste from one thing to the other.

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Thanks for the help clarifying.

I think you’re answering my question. When a staff member is preparing a newsletter, they’re potentially copying/pasting from individual posts. They are not selecting posts (ie. in some list of checkboxes) that get included into a newsletter. Right?

Maybe a headless solution could do it, I’m guessing.

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That’s right. There’s an option to include the three most recent posts, but that’s it.

I’ve previously set up an integration for a client that pulls posts together to auto-send a digest newsletter. Saves her a lot of time copying and pasting. But most folks I know who send a digest just put it together manually.

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Interesting. So, with the option to include the three most recent posts, it would be from that specific staff user, not from others?

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I don’t think so - I think it just pulls the three most recent from the site.

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Ok, thank you @jonhickman and @Cathy_Sarisky for the responses.

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My pleasure! And by the way I forgot to say welcome to Ghost and the Forum :slightly_smiling_face:

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