Newsletters and parent emails

If you want to create an email newsletter for parents, community members, students, or anybody else, we have instructions for how to do it at http://sites.google.com/a/oregonsd.net/technology/support/creating-a-public-email-newsletter

The "parent mass mailer" will be used only for high priority, non-optional communication to parents. Why? Some parents have complained about the number of emails they get from the district, and ask to be removed, or to have us send to a different address. Our mass mailer doesn't allow us to do that because it pulls information directly from PowerSchool.

Making a new, second system, gives us lots more features, like the ability for anybody to subscribe, change their email address, and unsubscribe on their own. It also provides ways for you to get statistics on your publications, and you can include pictures, formatting, and links. It will even generate an archive of your letters and let people subscribe to an RSS feed.