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The WebDirect WebMailer system allows for the targeted distribution of email notifications, newsletters and announcements via email to members and users based on their profile and message subscription selections. The WebMailer system simplifies list management by automatically reporting and unsubscribing of bounced emails. View and Click-thru statistics allow the performance of a mailer to be measured.

The Calendar and Scheduling system provides a facility for presenting all organization-wide event information such as conferences, seminars, meetings, exhibitions and holidays.

The Forum module allows you to build an online "bulletin board" and provide your customers with an area of public discussion online. An online forum makes it easy to build relationships with your visitors. If you post regularly and actively discuss different topics with your forum members, you'll gradually get to know them and, more importantly, they'll get to know you as an expert on the topic of your website. People are much more likely to buy a product or service when someone they know and trust sells or recommends it.

Forums also enable users of a website to interact with each other by exchanging tips and discussing hot topics related to a website's theme. Forums save information posted on a particular topic for other people to see at any time, creating a discussion environment. Visitors will return again and again to see replies to their posts, read other posts, and see if anything has changed. And as new members join your forum, your traffic will gradually grow week after week. This creates a sticky website which is what every website owner wants.

News and Announcements allows the timely creation, dissemination and management of topical news stories and articles. News items can be created and configured for publishing on a daily, or "as needed" basis. News Content Managers have the ability to bring site visitors the latest news items of interest, organizational changes, announcements, press releases, bulletins and alerts. Articles and stories can be automatically archived in a linked news repository, which will grow in size and value over time. The system works by providing a set of publishing tools that are accessible to authorized Content Managers, which are setup by your own site administrator. These tools are used to post news items to your WebDirect news database. The details of each item appear within the input form allowing the administrator to create, modify and delete stories as needed. News module also alllows users to make an outgoing RSS feed of their news articles.