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

[michael nt milne]

PloneGazette is pretty good and does HTML, plain text and automatic
unsubscribes. You need a developer to create a template for the design but
from there on it is good. Once you hook it up to a mail transfer agent (MTA)
to handle the sending then it's even better. Bulk sends are no problem

However no it doesn't do bounce tracking or click through tracking on the
emails sent. An organisation that I am involved with used to compose their
email newsletters in word and then email them out. The beauty of composing
in Plone is that all the content is there to be included and linked to. It
brings a more 'web based' mentality and communication. However I agree Jon
that it's not really a core Plone function when you get into bounce tracking
etc and click throughs. I know that Salesforce does this and it maybe an
idea to gather subscriptions in Plone and pass them through to Salesforce?

Meanwhile I'm going to have a look at WhatCounts.

You wouldn't have an version of your connector available at all?

On 1/15/07, Jon Stahl <jon at onenw.org> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> 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
> --
> View this message in context:
> http://www.nabble.com/-Plone-NGOs--Initial-thoughts-on-a-%22Plone-for-Nonprofits%22-bundle-tf2891153.html#a8366349
> Sent from the Plone NGO mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> NGO mailing list
> NGO at lists.plone.org
> http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/ngo
>



-- 
michael
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.plone.org/pipermail/plone-ngo/attachments/20070115/85f2757f/attachment-0002.html>