[Web4lib] easy e-newsletter option? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Dyer, Renata]

Jenny, when you say "an easy e- newsletter service for our patrons" do you mean easy to subscribe? Or manage; or read online? 
We use MS publisher to create newsletters and then we send them out via the File - Send Email and then Send this page as message. 
You can design quite good looking newsletters. Subscribing and unsubscribing can be done via web page or email link ... There are many ways but they are not automated I am afraid. You could add the names into your Outlook group list. You can also create email template which could have all the recipients already saved in bcc field if you need to hide them which you probably do. 
You just make changes to the email template .oft file as needed.

Hope this helps.
Renata Dyer
Treasury Library
www.treasury.gov.au  


-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Jenny Spiker
Sent: Tuesday, 5 May 2009 1:23 AM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] easy e-newsletter option?

I am looking for suggestions on a way to implement an easy e- newsletter service for our patrons.  I am most interested in free 'third party' services that don't require any additional software to be downloaded to our web server.  Any help would be appreciated.

thanks,

Jenny Novalis
Technology Librarian
Bedford Public Library System
540-586-8911 x1114
techlibrarian at bplsonline.org






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