There are a host of different offerings from free to quite dear, but the for a moderate volume the emerging consensus is that MailChimp takes some beating. It helps with everything:

Content creation – using snappy templates and no coding required

Distribution – including easy up load of email addresses, extensive monitoring of take-up, easy opt out

Integration – links with facebook et al, survey monkey, eventbrite  

Accessibility - you can distribute the full glossy or a plain text version of your newsletter

Customization – covering emails and the newsletters themselves can hold the equivalent of mail merge fields (tags). It’s not as extensive as the direct hooks into the database you’d see in an Infoworks Action-Message Module, but hey... it’s pretty powerful in its own right

Best of all – it’s free if for up to 2K subscribers and 12K mailings per month! Check it out at mailchimp.com



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Need to specify requirements for 3rd sector CRM system?  Writing an invitation to tender? 
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Extract from Lasa event publicity: "Is your current database up to the job?  Are you thinking about moving to a new database system?  What are the key things you should think about in evaluating database systems? The varying demands made on organisations to gather, hold, utilise and report on data, and the exciting moves to cloud-based systems makes this a rapidly changing area - and this free Lasa London Riders event will look at three leading database systems and give you the tools to help evaluate them. In this event we will be looking in depth at the merits of three leading customer relationship management (CRM) systems - CiviCRM, Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics in the non-profit sector.  Under the watchful gaze of Stuart Lunn, our chair for the afternoon, our presenters Stony Grunow, Michael McAndrew, David Moreton and Bill Padmore will be making the case for their chosen systems and answering questions in a panel discussion. After a networking break, you'll be able to see more intimate demos of...