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Hi Helen,
 
I don't use Mailchimp but I thought you might be interested by Yahoogroups considering your concerns.
 
Yahoogroups and I suspect Googlegroups (I haven't had one so I'm not as familiar) gives you various options that may help with the issue relating to privacy and sharing customer data which is your concern in this instance.
 
Firstly individuals generally are invited to join a yahoo group, (although people can also be added manually) and agree or refuse to join as they have decided if they want to join or not this means they have taken responsibility for being added to the Yahoo website database.
 
You can also adjust the privacy settings so that group members can choose to hide their email addresses from each other as they wish which also means that this issue is between them rather than on you, although you'd probably want to highlight these features to them.
 
If you wanted Mailchimp for the newletter functions, well that depends on how techie you are, as their basic templates appear to be freely available and could be edited if you know anything much or have the right software at work.
 
Anyway, just a thought!
 
best wishes

Gaby Koenig
Slough Library
 
From: lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Helen Leech [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 10 December 2010 15:15
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Subject: Are you using Mailchimp?


Is anybody using Mailchimp (www.mailchimp.com)?  It looks ideal for what we want to do - send out an e-newsletter to our members - but I have a horrible foreboding that my employer will take a dim view of me cutting and pasting library members' email addresses into a commercial website.  It would be useful to find out if anybody's explored the legal and security issues, so that I don't have to!

Apologies for cross posting.
Many thanks
Helen Leech
Surrey Library Service 

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