JISCMail is a national academic mailing list service in the UK that allows users to create, build, and manage opt-in mailing lists to reduce isolation, share best practices, and engage communities. It provides a newsletter tool called LISTSERV that allows users to easily create professional-looking newsletters without coding through templates and a five-step process. Good aspects of LISTSERV include a ready-made audience, no technical skills required, templates, and customization options, while potential downsides include needing HTML knowledge for customization and storing images externally.

1. JISCMail Newsletters Donna Grant

2. Introduction Brief overview of JISCMail. Newsletter tool Good newsletter experiences. Bad experiences. Questions.

3. JISCMail - Create, build, manage opt-in mailing lists - Build discussions - Announcements/ newsletters - Reduce isolation - Share best practice “ Make new contacts ” “ Grow your community ” “ Aid research ” “ Engage with partners and peers ” National Academic Mailing List Service

4. Brief overview of JISCMail Over 8,000 lists Over 950,000 subscribers For UK HE, FE and research communities Good place to reach a wide audience Advertising on JISCMail http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk

5. LISTSERV – Newsletter Tool Create professional looking newsletters regardless of technical skill level. No coding is required. There are 5 easy steps to create a newsletter: Set up a newsletter profile. Choose a template. Define your content. Fine tune your newsletter. Test and send.

6. LISTSERV - Newsletter Templates

7. LISTSERV - Newsletter

8. LISTSERV - Newsletters

9. www.jiscmail.ac.uk/jiscmail-newsletter

10. Good Points of LISTSERV Newsletters Ready made community to send to. Do not need to be technical. Ready made templates. Add images. Design your own custom templates.

11. Bad points of LISTSERV Newsletters HTML code. Any added HTML links, bullets or images. Images need to be stored elsewhere. Custom templates.

12. Questions Any questions? [email_address] [email_address]