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title: "Methods of Communication"
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description: "Review communication methods and transactional, system, and marketing message types in Slate."
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# Methods of Communication for Advancement

Slate Deliver is a mass communication tool. It is used to create and manage outreach campaigns.

## Methods

Send communications through a variety of methods, including:

- **Email**, including
  - Individual and Ad-Hoc
  - Blast and Recurring
  - Drip Campaigns
  - Inbound Communications
- **Text Messaging**
- **Print Mailings,** including
  - Postcards
  - Letters
- **Social Media**, including:
  - Facebook
  - Twitter
- Telecom (Voice Calling)

## Types of messages

These types of communication methods can be utilized in three primary categories of messages in Slate:

- **Transactional:** communications associated with a form or event. These types of messages are triggered in relation to an action taken by an end user, such as a form submission or hours before/after an event
- **System:** automatic emails that are sent when certain actions occur such as: password reset, payment refunded, and recurring credit card payment failure
- **Marketing**: programmatic, stewardship, and engagement messages