[nfbcs] looking for web based way to email newsletter

[Graham Mehl]

Hi all,

Thank you for everyone's reply. They have been helpful. I am from Maryland
and I am not a webmaster for anyone including a NFB affiliate. I was leaning
towards building a PhP and MySQL solution, but my problem was what mail tool
to use. Now that I have gotten your responses I really leaning toward
mailchimp. This solution is significantly more than the two groups I was
investigating for need, but why reinvent and the people interacting with the
solution are and do not have to be technical savvy.  The funny thing is the
group that uses WordPress had someone looking into possible solutions other
than me and they came up with and were testing the mailchimp solution too.
The same group also uses an application called Planning center and mailchimp
apparently can be integrated with the planning center. The other group I was
working with is familiar with mailman, and that might be the best solution
for them. I am going to look at the mailchimp solution for a component of a
significantly large project I am designing. 

 

Thank you. 

 

 

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Graham Mehl

 <mailto:blind at trailstone.com> blind at trailstone.com

NFB Central Maryland Chapter, Vice President

LCB graduate, 2016

 

 <http://www.freedomscientific.com/Certification> 

 

From: Graham Mehl [mailto:blind at trailstone.com] 
Sent: Saturday, January 7, 2017 4:45 PM
To: blind at trailstone.com
Subject: looking for web based way to email newsletter

 

 

Hi all,

I have some experience with websites. However it has been some time since I
have administered one. I have had two different groups ask me for advice on
how they can email there membership a newsletter on a periodic or weekly
bases. They both would like to use their website to send the newsletter if
they can. Group 1  has a wordpress website. Group 2 uses HTML 5 / Php. Both
groups want to send the emails to a list of undisclosed recipients. Also
each group have 100+ members. I am still trying to do some of my own
research, but I am not getting many solutions that work. The only
reoccurring suggestion is to use the BCC field. Wordpress solutions indicate
to use a plugin, but I hear there are some security issues with some, so I
do not know which to choose. One group have multiple people on staff that
might have a need to send a newsletter from the wordpress site, but do not
have the wordpress admin access. I am not sure if the plugins require that
sort of level of access to use it.

 

Any suggestions or pointers in a direction to look would be most
appreciative. Thank you.

--

Graham Mehl

 <mailto:blind at trailstone.com> blind at trailstone.com

NFB Central Maryland Chapter, Vice President

LCB graduate, 2016

 

 <http://www.freedomscientific.com/Certification> 

 

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