I’m so glad it helped you, Mili. That’s great! Your blog post is wonderful — I’m sure that it, in turn, will help others.
Thanks!
Sandy
]]>This post was such an interesting resource. You have helped me streamline my research process, and in the end I decided to go with MailChimp.
Here is a link to my post, featuring you and my reasons for going with MailChimp if you are interested: http://mili-fay-art-publishing.blogspot.ca/2014/07/part-07-mili-fay-wonders-gmail-or-email.html
Thank you again!
M
]]>Sara, I believe the e-mail list management services work with just about any type of website infrastructure. The companies don’t put the address collection form on your site — you do. They provide everything you need to do that, including instructions. To make sure this was done the right way on my site, I outsourced it to my web person. You might want to do that, too.
Sandy
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]]>The type of computer you have doesn’t make any difference for either of these. If you want help setting up a message board or listsev let me know. You can go through yahoogroups and join several and see how they work. Some groups keep archives of old messages. If you go to my Welcome to Oz, I have kept archives for a dozen years.
]]>There are two easy ways to create a community. If you go to yahoogroups (and I think google plus too though I have never used it) and you create a group, it can be seen in a directory for everyone to notice. Then you can promote it on your own. Essentially, it is group email with everyone being able to subscribe and unsubscribe using certain commands like sending an email to unsubscribe-welcome to oz. It’s a community of people who want to talk to each other about certain topics.
BPDFamily.com offers another kind of community, a message board model. You can go take a look. Technically this is harder. But they both involve oversight. You want to find a few volunteers to help you out.
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