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Community Server Quickly

By : Anand Narayanaswamy
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Community Server Quickly

By: Anand Narayanaswamy

Overview of this book

Community Server is Telligent System's award-winning solution for quickly and easily enabling online communities. It includes a suite of integrated applications, such as blogs, discussion forums, photo sharing, file sharing, email lists, newsgroups, and more, which together can help you create your community presence. Community Server is the trusted solution for many organizations ranging from Microsoft and Dell to Conde Nast and Match.com, and powers massive communities like the Microsoft ASP.NET forums (www.asp.net/forums) and the XBOX forums (forums.xbox.com). You can learn more about Community Server, and see it in action, at http://www.communityserver.org. Written in a clear and concise manner, this book will guide you through the installation, administration, customization, and deployment of a Community Server solution. With the help of this book you will be able to start using your Community Server site within minutes of its installation. The book kicks off with a brief overview of Community Server, its various editions and licensing options, and installation procedures and then delves deep into the creation and management of blogs, forums, photo galleries, file galleries, and more. The book also explores the different ways you can customize your Community Server site along with coverage of various add-ons and modules. You will also learn how to manage your Community Server license and other related settings. Towards the end, the book provides an overview of the various steps required to deploy Community Server to a hosting server.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Community Server Quickly
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
Preface

Handling Mass Emails


Occasionally, you may wish to send general purpose emails to your members. The content of these emails can be related to maintenance issues, monthly newsletters, or any updates to the products you sell. As your site grows, the number of members who register on the site also increases. Hence, it will be cumbersome to send separate emails to all members.

Community Server includes a module for handling bulk emails and it can be accessed by clicking the Send Mass Email link. You will see a page that enables you to select a group to distribute the email to, from the Recipient(s) drop‑down box, and compose the required content by supplying the required Subject and Message appropriately. You can take advantage of the rich features of the content editor as well.

Click the Send button to deliver the message to the concerned recipients after entering the required information.