About the CampusGRID email news service

1. What are the main features of your email news service?
2. Many members of our community don't have email. Why should I use this email service?
3. Do I have to maintain the list of email news (email) subscribers?
4. What is the cost of this service?
5. Our school wants to email the email news to all parents in community, is this an option?
6. Does your service keep the old email news?
7. We need an internal staff email news. Can we use your service for that?

About the CampusGRID email news service

1. What are the main features of your email news?
CampusGRID provides schools with the following email news benefits:

• Versatility - Creates and sends email news or newsletters
  1. Email - News is immediately and automatically sent to subscribing members of your community
  2. Online - You may optionally create an online newsletter which is automatically posted to your web site. Old newsletters are archived and remain on the website until you delete them.
• Online Convenience - Everything is accessed through your web browser. There is no software to install, configure or maintain.
• Self-Subscribing - teachers, staff members, parents and students can all subscribe to receive the school email news. They maintain their account and cancel online when they no longer wish to receive the school emails.
• Fast - create and send out a complete news email in minutes.
• Automatic - the news email is instantly emailed to all subscribers and automatically posted to your web site, all with the click of a button!
• Easy to Use - Just follow the online instructions. Contributors have a few simple and easy-to-follow choices. Administrators have more flexibility and can custom configure their email news to fit their needs.
• No limits - There are no limits on the number of subscribers, number of emails or number of times that you send out an email.
• Searchable - The online newsletter is posted to your CampusGRID web site, so its contents as well as all archived newsletters will be searched with the built-in search engine on the site.

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2. Many members of our community don't have email. Why should I use this email email news service?
First of all, you would be surprised how many people have and use email. Its usage is much more widespread than web browsing and according to IDC, it is still the fastest growing use of the internet (138% increase in volume per year). Usage has tripled in volume over the past five years and there is an exponential growth rate in wireless email. There are over 100 million households in the U.S. using email. So, sending your email news by email is both practical and forward-looking.

3. Do I have to maintain the list of email news (email) subscribers myself?
No. Each subscriber registers online and can change their email address or other information themselves. CampusGRID maintains the user database and provides convenient online forms for subscribers to edit their own information. You may also add or edit subscribers yourself. This would be usually be done to enter school staff who will then also receive the email news.

All email subscriptions are confirmed and each email sent out includes an option to unsubscribe from the list.

4. What is the cost of this service?
The email news service is included with the CampusGRID web site. This includes creation and sending of the news emails, automatic posting and archiving of online newsletters onto your web site, internal staff email news, and full collaborative usage by your staff and school members. Back to Top

5. Our school wants to email the email news to all parents in community, is this an option?
Yes, you may either add each parent's email to the subscriber database, or you may add a self-managing online subscribe page to your website where the parents can signup to receive the news emails. They may then return to the website to manage their account or to cancel their subscription.
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6. Does your service keep the old newsletters?
Yes. All previous online newsletters are automatically put into an archive which is kept on the school web site. The archives may be maintained and purged as necessary by you at your convenience. The archived editions are dated and listed on the site. They are automatically included in searches made through the CampusGRID search engine, so they are a valuable source of school information on the web site and serve to keep the web site more up-to-date and useful.
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7. We need an internal staff email news. Can we use this for that?
The email news provides a simple way to have internal staff email news. It uses the same service as the "external" public email news. However any item posted to the email news which is marked as "Staff News" will be sent only to staff members. All other news is included in the public email news which is sent to all subscribers.
This staff email news is included with the standard web site service.
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