Our friend Lev Tsypin at ThinkShout has just put the finishing touches on a complete rewrite of the Drupal module for MailChimp. It has a completely redesigned interface with a lot of fundamental changes under the hood to make use of some of the new goodies that Drupal 7 provides.
Everyone and their mother knows that Tumblr is where all the "cool" people hang out. It’s also growing in popularity in leaps and bounds. We recently built a small integration to get you Tumblr folk a much cleaner and easier way for your readers to sign up for your email list.
The integration works by using a tool we created called Chimplr that generates some JavaScript and HTML that you paste into your Tumblr Theme’s "HTML Widget" section. The code puts a "Newsletter" button next to the other Tumblr controls. Don’t worry, it’s really easy to use!
Around the office, we love taking new services for a test run. You never know when you’re going to find the next “must have” feature for our users. When Facebook began rolling out @facebook.com addresses, we had to take a look.
There’s been a lot of good commentary on the scope and impact Facebook Messages will have on the email using community. That’s a big community, by the way, and it happens to include my mom. Bless her heart, she signed up for Facebook last week, and now I have to explain that email, chats, and text messages aren’t separate things anymore. It was difficult enough explaining the difference to begin with! For our MailChimp users, I thought I’d go into a little more detail.
At first glance “webinar” is a funny word. Webinar could easily be French for “deep philosophical pondering atop a spider’s web” or ancient Greek for “weapon fashioned from a webi”. But to the modern person, Homo Tecnologicus E-mailienci, webinars are a way of learning at 2 am while sipping on chamomile tea in their jammies. Specifically, it’s training that you would normally travel for, delivered directly to your comfort zone.
This “training in your comfort zone” maxim has been the guiding star for all of our endeavors here at MailChimp’s webinar team. We stay up nights (ok that may be an exaggeration…although not by much) thinking up new ways to teach people how to get the most out of their MailChimp account.
As some readers may remember from earlier posts our webinars have been an ever-evolving process. From the early days of twice a week to its current format, we are perpetually looking for new and better ways to deliver useful information in a concise, fun and dare I say professional manner. Read More
MailChimp has some pretty special users, and Portland band The Decemberists is one of my favorites. Their music is awesome, their newsletters are beautiful, and look! They’re responsible email marketers! Yesterday the band’s lead singer tweeted this:
We couldn’t agree more.
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