Constant Contact
Maestro
Description
Email broadcast service hosted on campus; accommodates nearly any list size. Provides some basic email metrics.
Good customer support from Constant Contact
Strong knowledge base content for self-directed learning
DoIT does not provide support for this product beyond account creation
User-friendly interface
Must manually import and maintain your own email lists
Many email campaign features
Provides meaningful metrics to observe and learn the effectiveness of your communications
LESS user-friendly, but DoIT can provide basic training
Will require knowledge of some basic HTML, so assistance from a web master/developer is needed for creating templates
Can import your own lists
Can use L-Soft listserv lists
On a very limited basis, can interface with our campus identity management system to query for active staff, faculty, and students
Provides some basic metrics for observing and learning the effectiveness of your communications
Must use a standard University Template
Must comply with Web Accessibility standards
By default, your communications include the opt-out option so recipients can elect to stop receiving your messages
DoIT does not use this product so we have limited knowledge of the product; currently, we only manage the “parent” account for creating campus "child" accounts.
Sample of Current Users