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Looking for a joint blog/email blast platform with options

• I indirectly oversee someone who forwards a lot of good emails, but it's a lot of emails. I've asked for this person to start using their organization's blog (run on http://www.wix.com/about/features), but it might not be the best solution. Is there a blog platform that will also automate email blasts, with options for frequency of such emails? Bonus points if it works with the Wix blog platform. The details: my specific role is approving the work of this individual as it relates to being eligible for funding reimbursement, and generally assisting and improving the work efforts of this person as I can. For me, this means I'd prefer to offer a simple solution, rather than telling them "you're doing this wrong, please stop or I might pull your funding." This person, who we'll call Pat, is very fond of forwarding emails, which can be helpful, but it ends up being 5-15 more emails per day, each on a different opportunity or topic, and each with plenty of information. It's not a quick read, it's a flood of information. I'm concerned that recipients are missing important updates and deadlines in the deluge of general information being sent along. My bright idea: Pat can copy the contents of received emails to their organization's blog, which runs on Wix. People can then browse blog posts by tags, and Pat can send out email summaries of the blog posts each week, sorting by key topics. Then any emails from Pat are limited to really important things, or the weekly summary of general information available on the organization's website. The person in their organization who selected it and manages it said it's pretty easy to use, but I haven't spend any time with the software as a platform. I'm fairly tech-savvy, but I'm not sure how comfortable Pat is with website coding/content. Pat seems to not be comfortable with my idea, but I think it's a better option than asking for no more emails unless they're actually critical to the work she facilitates. I don't know if the organization is really tied to the Wix platform - I've heard they used it on the suggestion from another related organization, but Wix has a significant problem in that it doesn't keep the native file names for uploaded files, at least when the file is a PDF. Instead, you get a string of 40 random-seeming characters, and the file extension. And they host a significant number of PDFs, sharing this information with some people who are not great with computers in general. This means I could convince them that another website/blog platform is better for their needs, but if there's a blog to email blast solution within Wix (or that could work beside Wix), then that solution would be preferred. Elaborations on my vision for a blog/email platform: Pat makes new blog posts on the website, tagging the posts with a few items (a few examples I'm envisioning: "free training," "general information," "important updates"). Other people can then sign up for email summaries of the blog posts, selecting the frequency (individual posts, daily summary, weekly summary) and maybe even filter by specific tags. Complication and specific desired feature: most of the forwarded emails include some pretty formatting, meaning they look good, but they are even more information-dense, and not ideal for a casual evaluation of "is this information I need to read now, or should I return to it later?" Additionally, I'm worried it would take time to reformat the text if it copied oddly into a blog. With all that, it would be great if the platform would recognize rich formatting and replicate it when copied and pasted for a new blog post. Does this sort of thing exist? Is there another way to send out blog summaries to groups, without manually writing up summaries each week? Really, this doesn't seem like a terrible option to me, but if there's a technological fix with more flexibility for the email recipients, that would be great. Super deluxe wishlist feature: send an email to get it posted to the website, then the webpage maintains the email formatting, and the sender can select tags before or after sending it to the website.

• Answer:

  What is it you're hoping to accomplish by not being forthright about this? This is someone you deal with in a professional capacity who is conducting themselves completely unprofessionally. (And I hope to GOD this person is sending these mails only to you, but it sounds like that is not the case. In which case it's twice as unprofessional to force 3rd party emails on people with no way to unsubscribe.) In other words, someone does actually need to explain to this person that she can NOT do what she's doing, and needs to stop.