We just set up a Yahoo group for our HSA. It has the entire year's calendar of HSA events, copies of the school's bi-weekly newsletter, HSA meeting minutes, HSA budget reports, the by-laws, and copies of all HSA flyers so parents can download them if they lose the one that comes home in the backpack. So far 10% of our families have signed up but it's only been a week! We will keep promoting it, and keep adding info. Some people won't sign up until they need something specific.
As the secretary of a middle school PTO, I am using Yahoo! mail to keep track of members.
I don't like that I can only have so many names in the TO: field and have to send out the same message multiple times. But, cut and paste.
Its free and gets the job done. :cool:
Hi! I just recently added a mailing list to our website. Thus far we are happy with its success.
When I was setting it up I looked at all the free mailing list services (including Yahoo). I wanted the most "idiot proof" system so that no one would be intimidated or confused by it. After looking at all of them I decided to go with Google Groups groups-beta.google.com/
I will say that I am not thrilled about the way they archive the posts on the groups home page, but that was not my objective as I did not created it for people to go and read over old posts. I wanted it solely for the mailing list.
Again, as far as the mailing lists go I found theirs the easiest to run, maintain, and for people to use.
