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A Question for You of the Web World

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Do you know anything about online groups and emailing lists?

I’m trying to find an online group application that keeps track of several emailing lists.

I want one main list, and then several sub-lists that the user can sign up for.

Here’s a hypothetical example:

There is a group of people who really like basketball. They start a group online (like Yahoo! groups or Google groups) as a way of sharing their passion for the sport. The admin of that group wants to email the whole group about an upcoming tournament.

The admin then wants to email all the Point Guards *only* and tell them information about a Point Guard practice happening next week. The admin also wants to email all the Centers to tell them about their own practice that will happen this week.

When a new basketball player joins the group, she wants to sign up for the main emailing list as well as the Point Guard list. She adds herself to both groups.

Is there a web app out there that does this? I’m not even sure where to look. So I’m asking YOU! (yeah, YOU!)

Posted by on 02/27 at 05:00 PM

  1. Can’t you set up ExpressionEngine’s Member rules to do this? Ask Leslie.

    Posted by laura  on  02/27  at  06:05 PM

  2. You can do this a couple ways with EE, just depends on if you’re talking about this site or a site for another project.

    In EE you could create a Member Group for each type but that’s probably a bit cumbersome for something as low-key as what you’re describing.

    In EE you can also setup multiple mailing lists. You could have a “master list” for everybody and then individual mailing lists for each position (center, guard, decoy, etc...). From the admin panel you can chose which list to email and people can belong to multiple lists.

    Anyway, if you send me an email with more details I can let you know if EE works for what you want or not, but based on what you posted here it should do just fine.

    Posted by  on  02/27  at  06:50 PM

  3. I’m not actually using EE because it’s not for my own personal use. I want to use it for the Hollywood church. I’m not sure why I chose to go with a hypothetical when the real situation would be just as easy to explain.

    So I’m looking for something that is not run from my site. Something that others could be the admin on as well.

    Posted by  on  02/27  at  11:14 PM

  4. Ah, okay. It sounds like you maybe a calendar type application fits what you want to do better. You might check out:

    http://30boxes.com/welcome.php

    http://calendar.google.com/

    Posted by  on  02/28  at  08:39 AM

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