If you are one of the many groups sending out bulk-emails to your members and wonder why your open rates continue to decline, there are two likely reasons.
The first is list fatigue. After receiving the same information on a regular schedule again and again, users begin to lose their enthusiasm. The more messages you send, [...]

InfoWorld, a tech magazine that provides specialized IT coverage for company executives, ceases printing its weekly publication, opting instead to focus on events business and online coverage on InfoWorld.com.
“In the past decade, magazines and newspapers with both print and online components clung to processes that were designed around the rigid requirements of print publication, rather [...]

A few times a month, staff or members come to Lambda Chi Alpha’s IT department asking about our spam filters and why their message was blocked. Those questions aren’t easy to answer, but I did try to break the message into smaller pieces and offer them an executive summary.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Within a 20 hour time frame, [...]

I know Lambda Chi Alpha and Beta Theta Pi will be sending some of their IT staff to the SXSW Interactive Conference, March 9-13, 2007, in Austin. Anyone else going? It would be fun to have a FraternIT meetup/mashup. Some of the after-hours events look cool. Here are the SXSW after-hours events I’m thinking about [...]

Microsoft published two articles describing the support for HTML and CSS in Outlook 2007. The news isn’t good. Instead of using Internet Explorer 7 to render Outlook 2007 emails, Microsoft decided to switch to the Word 2007 engine:
“Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 uses the HTML parsing and rendering engine from Microsoft Office Word 2007 [...]