Mass mailings generally have two primary purposes, and LTS can assist with a few different tools for each.
- Announcements:
- University Communications and Public Affairs (UCPA) publishes a daily digest of "Upcoming Lehigh Events and Announcements", which links to their Events calendar service. This daily message outlines events happening around campus over the next couple of weeks and is sorted into categories such as "AnnoucementsAnnouncements", "Academics", "Arts", "Athletics", "Student Life", etc.
- Hawkwatch is Lehigh's emergency notification system and may be used to life safety announcements out including closures for weather events.
- Large mailings
- A third party tool, Digital Inspiration's Mail Merge, is available in Gmail and allows to the campus on a pilot basis and with "best effort" support. It allows you to send customized form letters to groups of people.
- Several cloud based tools from various Some Lehigh departments use third party vendors (including imodulesiModules, mailchimpMailChimp, and constantcontactConstantContact) are also available for mass mailings. Please contact the LTS Help Desk or your LTS Computing Consultant to discuss the options.Hawkwatch is Lehigh's emergency notification system and may be used to life safety announcements out including closures for weather events.
- Surveys
- To send out email requesting information via a web-based survey, LTS offers the Qualtrics system.
- Google Forms are also used to do ad-hoc surveys.
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