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Using E-mail

Disconnected: The First Nonprofit Email Survey Michael C. Gilbert provides the results of Gilbert Research's, a project of the Gilbert Center, first Nonprofit Email Survey.

The Email Savvy Organization A new feature by Michael C. Gilbert at Nonprofit Online News on the subject of email practices by nonprofit organizations.

Ezine-tips.com provides a wealth of information about e-mail newsletters.

Netaction offers a detailed training course in the effective use of advocacy e-mail, including a checklist to determine if your message is ready to send into cyberspace.

Using E-Mail as an Advocacy Tool: Sometimes it's spam, sometimes it gets things accomplished. Tech Soup's Hilary Naylor reviews effective ways to use e-mail get your message out.

Gilbert Research, a project of the Gilbert Center, invites consultants and nonprofit organizations to apply to participate in the Nonprofit Email Study. The Nonprofit Email Study is a large scale examination of the role that electronic mail can play in advancing a nonprofit organization's relationship with its stakeholders. The study will partner leading consultants with nonprofit organizations in a number of trials to assess the effectiveness of email based relationship development and management approaches.

An Activists' Strategy for Effective Online Networking: This article from ONE/Northwest offers a step-by-step process for developing effective e-mail lists and web sites.

E-Mail List Hosting

These organizations offer hosting for your e-mail list:

If you need a more substantial e-mail list hosting service, Talklist offers web based listservers using the Lyris listserver software.

Topica provides free basic e-mail list hosting service.

One/Northwest hosts lists for environmental activists working predominantly within the region bound by Alaska, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington.

 

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