Yes, we need a better way ...or ways.

Within the pushpage system, we should be able to see who is getting that communication and DESELECT people as needed. This would avoid the need to make a distribution list for every one-time specific need.

There also needs to be an EMAIL system that is dynamic and allows us to personalize and select the parents we choose to include/exclude. This should also connect to saved templates that we send out. (Official Notes does not serve.) This would really help the re-enrollment process as there are specific sets of people that need communications that you don't want to send to everyone (people who have one signature but not the other, people who still need to pay, people on hold, etc).

We also need the ability to filter out and suppress addresses when a job is created. We send out emails to "All Parents" but need to exclude a handful of recipients based upon fluid circumstances.

Please implement this. We have "one off" emails we'd like to add to our pushpage distros. Thanks.

We need to be able to send our pushpage issues to people that are not in our system! As of right now this has to happen outside of they system because we cannot just send to a list of people that don't have an account.

Instead of a pushpage, have a general EMAIL button. Make it easier for us to email parents. FACTS had a great way to email our students and families.

Yes, yes, to all of this—I also echo the comment that this needs to be cross-functional with Raiser's Edge. This is where I really hit a roadblock with the lack of integration and communication between different parts of the software.

It is astounding to me that while the new Event Management system is definitely an upgrade to what I was working with before (I am not exaggerating when I say that I have been manually pulling each and every parent-of-registrant into Pushpage distribution groups!). But I find it really surprising that in spite of the EMS system having multiple ways of contacting users (Pushpages, Notifications, Messages, Official Notes, etc.), the best way to pull a list of registrants for emailing is to copy and paste their email addresses into a third party system. I can’t paste those email addresses into a Pushpage, and at least until recently, the capability to send a branded email via Notifications has been minimal at best.

We want to establish a "friends" of our school list. They just want to stay up to date and it would be nice to just have a manual input for pushpages that did not need to asspciate with an exstablished account.

When we are sending out a pushpage we want to also send it to a few email addresses that are not users in core - a college admissions officer, a potential donor, an alumni from before 1999 that isn't in core yet. We have a few email addresses we want to add just for this one pushpage. What would be nice is if we could just add an email address as a static user -- much like how enotify works in other systems like FinalSite.

This is one of the major drawbacks of the Blackbaud communication system. Anytime we need to email a specific group or a list of people outside of our constituent list, we use MailChimp... frustrating and limits our reporting ability across these tools.

Bless you for posting this! This is a very limiting "feature" to not be able to quickly email to a specific list of people by uploading an excel doc. It is going to force us to use a secondary system like mailchimp etc.

We have many situations where we need to send a one time bulk e-mail to a list of parents.  Are old system allow you to use a tool like a student list, but then select by clicking a number of individuals in the list, and then send a bulk e-mail.

This idea would be one way to solve it, although the idea of having the option to send a Pushpage or Send Communications would be nice.

Ultimately, we will need to also bridge distribution lists across into Raisers Edge data, or build out Pushpage to act more like Mailchimp, where we can upload distribution lists more easily.

The inability to send pushpages to specific groups has been an ongoing frustration for us. Need this enhancement ASAP!

The system should be able to create distribution groups based on user role, school division, grade, teachers of student, all parents of grade level, graduation year, etc. The distribution lists should be accessible to faculty and staff according to their roles. The distribution lists should be available for users in a central location so they can be found easily by staff. The distribution lists should be links that open your default email client (Outlook for example) and populate the emails in the BCC box. Other SIS have distribution lists similar to what I just described.

We found a work around... We get the user IDs of everyone we want to email and then do a "Distribution Group - Static Users" import in Core: Settings > Data. If we only have their email addresses (e.g., from event registration) then we download everyone in the database's user IDs and email addresses and then do a VLoopUp in Excel. It takes about 15 minutes.

It would be better if this was easier and faster.

 Definitely needed!