[Plone-NGOs] Initial thoughts on a "Plone for Nonprofits" bundle

[Jon Stahl]

David Siedband-2 wrote:
> 
> On Jan 7, 2007, at 6:39 PM, David Bain wrote:
>> I have no experience with PloneGazette.
>> Any thoughts?
> 
> PloneGazette has a nice UI for building newsletters from site  
> content, but the default design of the newsletters is pretty, uh,  
> minimalist :)
> 
> Perhaps we should also be thinking about integrating with (optional)  
> tools that provide more sophisticated relationship/subscriber  
> management, bounce processing, etc. like listen, or OneNW's  
> salesforce.com plugin.
> 
> 

I'm not that familiar with PloneGazette, but I do know a lot about email
newsletter work, and it gets pretty complicated pretty quickly.

Here at ONE/Northwest, we've chosen the path of integrating Plone with a
high quality (commercial) email newsletter product called WhatCounts
(www.whatcounts.com).  Not to say that this is right for everyone, but it
works well for our mid-sized, mid-sophistication clients who want a
"full-featured" newsletter experience with bounce tracking, clickthrough
tracking, automatic unsubscribes, HTML + plain-text versions.

I don't think it would be feasible to pack all that functionality into Plone
-- since much of it is pretty orthogonal to what Plone thinks of as "content
management."  I suspect that it's easy to outgrow PloneGazette.

That doesn't mean it doesn't deserve a look, some love, and possible
inclusion in a bundle, though.

Thanks for the suggestion!

best,
jon
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