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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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