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JISCMailNewsletters

Donna Grant

Introduction

• Brief overview of JISCMail.

• Newsletter tool

• Good newsletter experiences.

• Bad experiences.

• Questions.

JISCMail

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- Create, build, manage opt-in mailing lists - Build discussions- Announcements/

newsletters- Reduce isolation

- Share best practice

“Make new contacts”

“Grow your community”

“Aid research”

“Engage with partners and peers”

• National Academic Mailing List Service

Brief overview of JISCMail

• Over 8,000 lists

• Over 950,000 subscribers

• For UK HE, FE and research communities

• Good place to reach a wide audience

• Advertising on JISCMail

• http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk

LISTSERV – Newsletter Tool

• Create professional looking newsletters regardless of technical skill level.

• No coding is required.

• There are 5 easy steps to create a newsletter:• Set up a newsletter profile.• Choose a template. • Define your content.• Fine tune your newsletter.• Test and send.

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LISTSERV - Newsletter Templates

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LISTSERV - Newsletter

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LISTSERV - Newsletters

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www.jiscmail.ac.uk/jiscmail-newsletter

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Good Points of LISTSERV Newsletters

• Ready made community to send to.

• Do not need to be technical.

• Ready made templates.

• Add images.

• Design your own custom templates.

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Bad points of LISTSERV Newsletters

• HTML code.

• Any added HTML links, bullets or images.

• Images need to be stored elsewhere.

• Custom templates.

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Questions

• Any questions?

• Donna.Grant@STFC.AC.UK

• helpline@jiscmail.ac.uk