[ale] mass email for school and school web site

[Geoffrey]

dhhoward at comcast.net wrote:
> My daughter's school wants to send 700+ (up to 1000) email blasts to 
> parents (school newsletter, etc.), and we may be looking at a new web 
> site (and could integrate the email blasts into the web site, or just 
> blast summaries and put the whole thing on the web site, e.g.).  They've 
> used Constant Contact, and another school uses Pommo.  Any suggestions?  
> I personally don't want to manage a server and would worry that Comcast 
> might block it from my home, e.g

We set something up like this for my daughter's high school marching 
band.  Most providers will block that large a number of emails.  The way 
we got around it was to create a mail list and subscribe all the parents 
to that.  We are currently using a limited cms for the website, but I'm 
trying to push them in a better direction, wordpress or some such.  I 
don't have as much pull there now as I'm no longer on the executive 
board and my daughter has graduated.

> Also, if anyone has done school web site development and would like to 
> do some consulting with us, let me know off line.  Thanks to the work of 
> my colleague William Fragakis, my gold standard is the Morris Brandon 
> web site.

I like their new mascot. ;)

> 
> Best, Daniel
> 
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