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  • Apr 30, 2008
    Plug In Gives You the Best of Both Email and Web Forum Features
    "Reply ABOVE this LINE to POST a COMMENT." This is how automatic email notifications from the teams' intranet blog posts look these days. And it's true! Now I can just reply to any email notification I receive and my comment will appear on our...
  • Nov 1, 2007
    Well Written, Unique Emails Stand Out in Crowded Inboxes
    I’m still deciding which candidate to support in the primaries. This means I get a lot of email every day from the several candidates I’m following. I don’t pour over every message that hits my inbox. Usually I delete most without a thought and only...
  • Sep 5, 2007
    How You Can Fix It
    In my last post, I took a quick spin through some email deliverability stats and explained how to judge how much deliverability should matter to you. Today I'd like to share some quick ideas about exposure to deliverability issues and what you can...
  • Aug 31, 2007
    In a World Where ISPs Hate Your Email Campaigns...
    I was at an open house for Nonprofit Tech Geeks last week and had a great discussion with Charles from Wired for Change about email deliverability. Since we know and have worked with a lot of nonprofits that don't use a full-service email provider...
  • Jul 15, 2007
    Bring People to Your Portal Painlessly
    There’s one website I read nearly every day, and that's MIT Technology Review. The site emails me between 3:00 and 4:00 am, usually well after I’ve shut down my computer for the evening, with a list and brief summary of interesting stories. This is...
  • Jul 24, 2006
    Simplenews is a Drupal module that lets you send a newsletter to registered users and non-users alike from your Drupal-powered website. It’s really quite easy to use and blends well with the rest of Drupal. The basics of Simplenews let you...
  • Eric and Ian have been looking for a better “email this page to a friend" module for a while. Drupal currently has two modules with this kind of functionality, but for various reason neither really did what we wanted. A few months back Ian swapped...
  • Nov 7, 2005
    I think what the new contributed Drupal subscriptions module does, if I understand it right, is brilliant: essentially whatever you subscribe to on the site, from your user page you can merge your individual subscriptions as one subscription....