Public Ning Networks Can Now Create Automated Email Newsletters with NutshellMail
If you manage or belong to a network hosted on Ning, you will find this post very relevant. If you are not on Ning, I highly recommend you check it out as it is one of the best platforms for creating and discovering social communities.
One of the most proven ways to re-engage your network’s members is to send them periodic emails highlighting recent activity on your site. Now you can add your own automated email newsletter to your Ning site with the free application from NutshellMail.
The NutshellMail application, recently named a winner of the 2009 Ning Appathon, gives your users the ability to sign up for a newsletter that highlights recent and featured content from your network. The app places an “Email Newsletter” tab on your network that your members can opt-in to receiving on a schedule of their choosing (as seldom as once a week or as often as three times a day). You can see an example of an email newsletter for the Creator’s Network below.
Benefits of the NutshellMail app:
- Increase readership and site visits
- Encourage more participation and comments
- No work for you – its fully automated
- It’s Free
By giving your members the ability to receive periodic updates from your network on their own schedule, the NutshellMail app keeps your members up to date on the latest activity from your network and helps to pull users back into your site. The key is in giving your users 100% of the control. Users choose to sign up and can select how often they want to be notified. In addition, users can choose to add notifications from Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and LinkedIn so that they can monitor activity from all their social networks in single consolidated email digest and will, therefore, open their email newsletter more often.
Click here to learn more about the free NutshellMail app
Click here to install the free NutshellMail app on your network
We would love your feedback! Please respond to this post or email us at support(at)nutshellmail.com
Note: This app is only available for public Ning networks
Sample of an Email Newsletter from the Creator’s Network
This is truly sublime!
I have been wracking my brain over a good (an EASY) way to send out newsletters from my Ning network, and then you boys come along!
Thank you SO much for this.
[In reference to one of your first blog post:] … yes, I too do believe that you two are going to Hollywood. You guys rock.
How did you know? thank you thank you.